Blog - Lean and Healthy

Mindful Meditation 101: A Muslim’s Guide to Mindful Meditation

We have messed up priorities. We spend less time pursuing the things that matter most to us and more time pursuing the things that matter least to our success in this world or the Hereafter. Throughout the day, we function in a never-ending distracted mode. However, if we want to ...
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Category: Mental Health
4 Easy Principles to a Solid and Lasting Relationship

We all want strong and tranquil relationships, but do we know what the steps are to achieving this goal? In this week’s article, my guest writer Sister Takwa Sharif talks about four steps to stronger bonds. Using examples from the Quran, Sunnah, and science, she shows you that secure, long-lasting ...
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Category: Psychology
How Social And Digital News Media Ruin Your Life (Part 2)

Is the technology you are using extending your mind and expanding your abilities? Or is it breaking up your mind and being an obstacle to achieving the best version of you? In other words, are you the master of your devices, or its slave? In part one of this article, ...
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Category: Mental Health Productivity
How Social And Digital News Media Ruin Your Life

We live in a world of perpetual consumption. We consume more food and more resources than any other generation in human history. In that process of overconsuming things, we ruin our body. However, our bodies aren’t the only thing that we’ve ruined; we’ve also fogged and burdened our brains with ...
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Category: Mental Health Productivity
3 Common Misconceptions Preventing You from Practicing Gratitude

Gratitude is essential to a balanced, fulfilling, and spiritually positive life. In this article, I talk about three common misconceptions that might be preventing you from practising gratitude. Specifically, I talk about why you should keep a gratitude journal and how to maintain this journal throughout the year. The Greek ...
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Category: Mental Health Psychology
3 Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Willpower

Willpower. It’s something that many of us wish that we had more of. Willpower is the thing that helps you turn down the cake, go for a walk when you’d rather sit, and give up smoking. In this article, I’ll talk about 3 ways that you can strengthen your willpower. ...
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Category: Mental Health Psychology
How to Become Smarter, Think Better and Achieve a Healthy Brain (Part 2)

Movement is truly a magical pill. It’s great for anyone, and it improves every area of your life, but most importantly movement can help you become smarter and achieve a healthy brain. We discussed this in detail in part one. In today’s article, we’ll continue to look at the benefits ...
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Category: Exercise General Health
How to Become Smarter, Think Better And Achieve a Healthy Brain

Your brain is perhaps the most fascinating thing in the universe! Its ability to do good, innovate and create is the most amazing thing any creation of Allah can do! Nevertheless, the brain is also the most neglected and the least taken care of organ in our body. My sincere ...
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Category: Exercise General Health
Should You Take A Multivitamin Supplement?

The topic of multivitamin supplementation is quite controversial. The proponents of multivitamin supplement swear its efficacy and deem it necessary for every individual to take a multivitamin supplement daily. The opponents, on the other hand, vehemently deny any benefits to these supplements and believe it’s a strategy to become rich ...
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Category: Supplement