Monday morning arrives and you’re excited. Today is the first day of your new diet! Heading to work, you feel confident with high energy. But within just a few hours… your colleague walks by and offers you a plate of delicious sugary doughnuts!! What do you do?! We all know how this familiar story will
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3 Life-Changing Dietary Tips to Live Your Best Self Mentally and Physically
It took me years to realize that the quality of my life, my health, and my productivity were directly related to the relationship I had with food. Controlling my diet has been an essential step to controlling my life. I grew up a very average Muslim American kid: middle-class family, the middle child, chubby cheeks. In
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2 Powerful Tips that Can Really Transform Your Prayer When Busy
You snatch yourself out of a meeting, rush to make wudu, find an empty conference room, then hurriedly start performing dhuhr (noon) prayer. By the time you say “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is Greater), all sorts of distractions flood your mind ironically: the email you must send, the phone call you need to make, the report
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9 Easy Tips to Maintain your Health after Ramadan
Every year, the Holy month of Ramadan provides us with the opportunity to improve our health by eliminating unhealthy eating patterns and giving our overburdened digestive systems a much needed break. During this sacred month, the rituals of fasting, night prayer and reading the Holy Qur’an on a daily basis can have a transformational effect
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Sleep Secrets to Boost your Energy for the Last 10 Nights of Ramadan
As we reach the middle of Ramadan, a vicious struggle begins for many Muslims. On one hand, we feel the month of Ramadan is slowly passing us by, and we hope to maximize the benefits of this blessed month. However, on the other, many Muslims also feel their energy, focus, and motivation plummeting. For many Muslims,
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Are You Slumped Out Yet? Here’s How to Master Your Mind in Ramadan – Part 2
You did it! Seriously, you should pat yourself on the back. Those first few days of fasting in Ramadan couldn’t have been easy (especially if you haven’t been introduced to the ‘Letting Go’ technique and had to fast the ‘old-fashioned’ way, oh dear Lord, then pat yourself twice!). Anyway, here we are closing in on
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