16 Incredible and Helpful Body Hacks That You Should Know To Live A Better Life

By Nitin Bhatnagar, 25 May 2018

The human body is a very complex mechanism and it’s pretty difficult to understand its working style. However, the functioning of our bodies is getting harmed because of our hectic lifestyles, irregular and unhealthy eating habits, drinking habits and lack of physical activities.

This calls for a quick action as our body is the only place for our soul to live-in and everyone needs to follow healthy lifestyle if we want our body to remain free from illness. Having said that, we also know that we can’t change our lifestyle completely within few hours, we will need a considerable amount of time for changing gears but till then, some awesome body hacks can be followed which can improve the situation for us:

1Get rid of hiccups

Hiccups can be very inconvenient as they come in quick successions and they may make us feel embarrassed, if we are with other people, especially from our workplace. To get rid of hiccups, first inhale deep, hold our breath and then exhale through your nose and you will see that hiccups are gone. Another method of getting rid of hiccups is to drink a glass of water quickly. 

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2Prevent acidity

There should be at least 3 hours of difference between the time you take dinner and the time when you go to sleep and also try not to have very heavy and spicy meals in the night. However, if any day you get late in having dinner and the meal is also spicy, lie down on your left side to prevent acidity. 

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3Improvement in hearing

Now this one is quite surprising and we are sure you will try to use it as soon as possible. You should use your right ear for listening conversations as it can hear and understand the rhythms of speech better than the left ear but then the left one is better in recognizing musical tones. So remember right ear for hearing conversations while left one for hearing music. 

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4To decrease the stress and anxiety

Stress and anxiety have become parts of our lives despite the fact that we all know that they are very harmful for us. If you want to reduce the stress and anxiety, put your thumb in your mouth but don’t suck it. Instead, blow it and let the cheeks puff out too. With this method, you can get rid of stress for some time at least. 

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5Remove the song from brain

There are times when we listen to a song and then that song is played continuously in our mind and all our attempts to forget it or letting it go, fail. In order to get rid of that song which is continuously getting played in our brain, we need to do one thing and that is chewing a gum. 

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6Getting relief from migraine

Migraine is a severe headache which mostly happens with sensitivity to sound, smell or light. One easy way of getting rid of migraine is putting hands in ice water completely submerged for a long duration. While keeping hands in ice water, also flex them regularly in order to get rid of migraine.

 

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7Read speech at night to remember it

You need to give a speech at an event but you are facing problem in remembering it, there is no need to get tensed as by following a simple hack you can remember the whole speech. Read the speech in the night before you go to bed and you will notice in the morning that you have remembered the speech. 

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8How to stop yourself from laughing unnecessarily

Laughing is good for a person’s health, but there are moments when you start laughing at a wrong time and it seems absolutely inappropriate. What is more embarrassing it that how much you try, you can’t stop yourself from laughing. At this moment, pinch yourself to stop from laughing. This is a pretty effective technique so next time, pinch yourself if you start laughing at a wrong place, wrong time. 

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9Are you afraid of syringe, try this technique

Many people are afraid of syringe and the pain that it inflicts but it is something that a person can’t avoid. The pain of getting an injection can be avoided if the person coughs while being injected. The pressure in the chest and spinal canal increases as the person coughs which in turn stops the pain receptors in the spinal cord from receiving the pain and the person doesn’t feel when the injection pierced into his body. 

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10When in bad mood, hold a pencil between your teeth

As per a research, if you are in a bad mood and feeling sad, a fake smile on your face can also lift your mood. So next time, when you feel awful just hold a pencil between your teeth, it will bring your muscles into the same position as they are while you laugh. It will put the happy hormones to work and your mood will get lifted. 

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11Wake up your sleeping arm or leg

This is a situation which must have been faced by each of us. If the arm has fallen asleep, move your head from one side to another side. It will increase the sensation in the hand while if the leg has gone to sleep, walking slowly is the best option to wake it. So you know now what to do when your limbs go to sleep. 

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12This is how to deal with brain freeze

Brain freeze happens when a person eats ice cream too fast and it causes a headache. The nerves which are in the roof of the mouth get very cold and body feels that the brain is freezing so it starts overheating and the person suffers severe headache. To counter this situation, a person needs to press his tongue on the roof of his mouth and more the pressure exerted on the roof of the mouth by the tongue; more are the chances of a headache going sooner. 

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13Feeling sleepy at the wrong time

Sometimes it happens that you feel sleepy at the workplace or in the classroom which doesn’t seems appropriate and you can land in a bit of trouble if your boss or teacher notices it. So to get rid of this sleepiness, hold your breath for as long as you can and release it, it will increase your heart rate resulting in waking you up. 

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14How to stop yawning

Just like hiccups, yawns can also trouble us a lot as they come in quick successions and make us feel embarrassed if we are in a workplace, class or with other people. To stop yawning, you can have a cold drink or cold water as cooling down the body suppresses the yawn. However, we don’t recommend soda and other carbonated drinks as they can cause gas and other stomach problems, so cold water it the best option. 

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15Video games are not a waste of time

Usually, we have heard that playing video games is a waste of time but as per a research, video games improve hand-eye coordination, reflexes, memory, a field of vision, fine motor skills, etc. So happy gaming, fellow gamers but make sure that you don’t spend all the time in gaming, play only for a reasonable time as excess of everything is harmful.

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Do let us know how you found these body hacks!

16Cut out the unnecessary noises

Have you ever felt that you are not able to listen properly the person with whom you are talking to because of the other noises that are unnecessary for you? We are going to tell you a superb hack which will enable you to listen to that person more clearly. What you need to do is press down the tragus (the ear flap); this way you will be able to cut out the unnecessary noises and hear more clearly what the other person wants to convey.

 


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