Four Reasons to Challenge Your Comfort Zone

It is no secret that one of the key ingredients of success is evolution. Whether it is in your professional or personal life, there is always room for improvement and the first step towards making headway is to step outside your comfort zone. As the famous founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, correctly stated “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking any risks.” Whilst change could indeed be tough and even scary, here are four reasons why you should accept the challenge. Continue reading Four Reasons to Challenge Your Comfort Zone

Behind The Brand: SHA Wellness Clinic

SHA is a worldwide pioneering clinic that is dedicated to significantly improving and prolonging the health and well-being of people by using natural therapies, that mostly derive from ancestral oriental knowledge and the most advanced western techniques. SHA does not simply view health as the absence of illness, rather, it is an optimum state of complete physical and mental well-being, with an ideal weight and vitality. Continue reading Behind The Brand: SHA Wellness Clinic

Gold’s Gym Launches the Next Generation of Fitness Clubs

Gold’s Gym, a subsidiary of the Al Ahli Holding Group, is set to become the first gym chain in the UAE to offer cloud-based technology to consumers for fitness tracking and lifestyle management. With the relaunch of five of its fitness clubs in the UAE to include state-of-the-art TechnoGym equipment and a complete revamp of the indoor cycling studio, they now offer a complete digital solution to consumers and brings fitness into the digital age. Continue reading Gold’s Gym Launches the Next Generation of Fitness Clubs

Emotional Acceptance: Not Feeling OK is Perfectly OK

For as long as I can remember, we have been indirectly taught by our social construction NOT to feel negative emotions. From a very young age, we get emotionally invalidated in so many ways until that becomes our norm. We get told not to cry or not to get angry, which teaches us to avoid unpleasant feelings at any cost. With continuous practice, following what we have been taught to be the right thing, we get programmed to send our negative emotions to the subconscious mind where they get manifested into other forms. Continue reading Emotional Acceptance: Not Feeling OK is Perfectly OK

Middle East’s First Virtual Reality Cycle Studio Comes to the UAE Les Mills ‘THE TRIP’ Opens in Business Bay

GFX, a premier fitness studio in Business Bay, has launched the Middle East’s first completely immersive cycling studio. Developed by global fitness brand, Les Mills, THE TRIP is a completely new workout experience that combines a 40-minute multi-peak cycling workout with a journey through digitally-created worlds. With its cinema-scale screen and sound system, THE TRIP takes motivation and energy output to the next level, burning … Continue reading Middle East’s First Virtual Reality Cycle Studio Comes to the UAE Les Mills ‘THE TRIP’ Opens in Business Bay

The Power of Invalidation

We all exhibit some kind of invalidation onto our loved ones without realizing the dangerous effects of such an act on their psychological formation and well-being. Verbal communication is the key method through which we humans interact with one another but what happens when this mode becomes a medium for manipulation and emotional abuse?! In fact, invalidation is nothing but a type of rejection that can lead to the latter. Well, having that said, most of us do it out of mere disagreement with no intention to harm the other person’s feelings yet, it can be the most damaging type of disagreement. Continue reading The Power of Invalidation

Stop Existing, Start Living!

We get so swept away by life and its responsibilities to the extent that we forget to embrace the little wonderful things that we have in it. We get so busy that we forget to live the life we hoped to have for so long and this is why we look for different ways to escape the reality of our life, without realizing that our escapism is the actual life we wanted to live. We get so busy with our day-to-day work that we leave no time for ourselves to enjoy the opportunities that we have and others don’t. Yet, even worse, these day-to-day necessities become routine-like activities that we eventually lose interest in because of its repetitive nature. Continue reading Stop Existing, Start Living!