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Mental Wellbeing through Visual Arts
	

	

		


Friends, 


MAKE CREATIVITY PART OF YOUR LIFE..


EXPRESS THE UNSPEAKABLE 


UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS..


RELEASE YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS.


EXPERIMENT WITH COLOURS.


DISCOVER YOUR ARTISTIC VOICE..


EXPERIENCE THE HEALING POWER OF ART 


ENTER  INTO  A NEW LEVEL OF 


EQUILIBRIUM, CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE.  


All life is experience and art is the involvement of human experience. Art is the basis of human expression! Both help us to grow, evolve, and become the best version of ourselves. We are like a white canvas when we enter this world and life writes its story. We have a choice of how to create our own canvas of life by exploring various dimensions and possibilities. I am passionate about doing my bit to make the world a better, more peaceful place.


I constantly believe in sharing if it is my resources, time, knowledge, or experience. I am interested in creating awareness on mental health through visual art and having positive conversations about emotional well-being through art. We all know the importance of physical immunity, the body’s ability to fight diseases. In the same way, emotional & mental health is important to develop psychological immunity. Mental health is important because it’s a vital part of your life and impacts your thoughts, behaviours, and emotions. We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can control how we react to events. When you are connecting with art, you are ultimately connecting with your inner self & you can easily identify your emotions on a deeper level. If you engage with art you can reshape your thoughts and develop emotional resilience. Creating art and admiring art stimulates the brain and helps you to release stress.


For psychological immunity, you have to cultivate a meditative mind and you can achieve it through engaging with art. Your brain gets into a mental flow when creating art, worries are set aside as you focus on the work you are creating. The benefits of this mental relief are one reason why creating art is used as a therapy for Stress. Art therapy improves the mental health of people who are dealing with addictions, anxiety, attention disorders, grief and loss, depression, eating disorders, emotional and relationship issues, and much more. Artistic activities like drawing, colouring, and painting are very useful to reduce your stress levels. Deep engagement with art reduces anxiety, increases self-esteem, facilitates the ability to develop self-compassion, courage, emotional intelligence, and opens your heart to possibilities. Creativity blocks out worries and you get lost in the process, it suppresses your excess cortisol and boosts your immunity.


Feeling stressed ? Do some colouring to calm yourself down and let your problems evaporate in the air. Colour is the key that reflects our physical, emotional, and spiritual world. Life is colourful if we learn the fascinating and secret language of colours. Colour has a deeper meaning in painting. It is for us to interpret, understand and appreciate the power of colour as a language. I am fascinated with colours, to me, colours are things of beauty, each like a magical powder that could be mixed with each other to create a powerful spell. My art practice has helped me to heal my fragmented senses and reclaim aliveness in the body, mind, and spirit. My creative process helps me to embrace active stillness. Anything you do with full focus is called meditation. For me, painting is my meditation. Fully I concentrate on one thing, so it works as a therapy and helps to maintain the balance of emotions. You don’t have to sit in a corner and close your eyes for doing meditation. Just do what you like, even doodling will work. Regardless of whether you have the skills of a professional artist or not, you can just paint your emotions and make a simple greeting card. 


Displaying art in the workplace is stimulating. In today’s time, we’re forced to stare at a screen all day long. Having a reason to look away and to re-focus may reduce fatigue. Artwork is the perfect reason to look away for a second and allow your eyes to readjust. Looking at a beautiful painting gives the same pleasure as being in love. Art is healing because it forces you to build a connection between your mind and body. And also help you to see things from a new perspective. I encourage people to start small with something like colouring. The complex patterns of the art you are colouring can actually induce you into a semi-hypnotic state. When thoughts are focused on a simple activity, your brain tends to relax. The difficulties of life evaporate from your awareness. With all the crisis in the world today, maintaining a positive and hopeful outlook can be challenging. It is during times of darkness that we need to switch our internal light of rainbow back. A rainbow reminds us of the endless possibilities in this uncertain Journey.  We have to remember that a rainbow is sunshine mixed with tears.





	


	

			






	

			

	

		
“What can you expect from your favourite restaurant in the future?”
	

	

		






Food is a human requirement and restaurants have been fulfilling this need over hundreds of years and generations. While restaurants, food trends, and service formats have changed, customers’ preferences and taste palates have also evolved over the years. To understand the food establishment of the future, it is first important to understand changing consumer behaviors. For this, we need to look into the different tiers of the F&B industry and their target customer bases. Broadly, one can classify the sector into the following segments :


    

  • The high-end, fine-dine experience
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  • The high-end, lounge & bar experience
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  • The mid to high-end, casual-dine & lounge experience
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  • The mid-level, bar & pub experience
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  • The mid-level, gourmet & artisanal cuisine experience
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  • The mid-level, cuisine dine-in/take-away/delivery experience
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  • The mid-level, café experience
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  • The lower mid-level, cuisine dine-in/take-away/delivery experience
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Each of these segments caters to a different set of customers but also sees a shifting in consumer behavior amongst the categories within the tiers. The same customer is likely to dine-in / order from a mid-level cuisine restaurant during the working week and indulges in dining at a high-end lounge restaurant over the weekend or while entertaining, thus seeing a transition in preferences within the same consumer set.


Today’s consumers are well-traveled, well-educated, and exposed to the nuances of different world cuisines, thus expecting superior cuisine quality coupled with great service. With this being established as the baseline, F&B operators & venues vie and compete to offer their best at valued prices thereby hoping to attract the customer pool to their restaurants, ahead of competitors.


Customers, while being not so loyal, do however yet tend to frequent certain establishments owing to location and convenience, such as in the case of visiting a neighborhood café to grab their morning fix of coffee or to visit a restaurant at the office complex for lunch. The clear preference in these cases is pricing, convenience, familiarity, and cuisine acceptability.


Restaurants of the Future will need to be Disrupters and Create change


To keep pace and stay ahead of the competition, restaurants must innovate and disrupt by deploying a few tactics & strategies, as below:


    

  • Disruption by Need

      

    • This can be clearly identified by the need for a particular cuisine or venue format and experience. It is a must for F&B operators to cater to the different taste palates thereby satisfying the cuisine needs of customers and adding to the existing variety within the existing F&B landscape
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  • Disruption by Choice of Eating

      

    • Eating choices are evolving and emerging owing to customers either having certain preferences or compulsions owing to health reasons or allergens.
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    • Restaurants must create new menu forms and newer food spaces within the F&B universe with diets such as gluten-free, keto, plant-based, vegan, and lactose.
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  • Disruption by Experience

      

    • Customers expect and demand newer experiences. Such experiences may serve great food but in formats that are unique, futuristic, heart-warming, and hold high-value propositions
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    • A few unique formats creating disruptions could be in the form of dark restaurants where customers eat in pitch darkness, restaurants where everything is prepared and served by using robotics, and dining experiences that are specially curated and private in the form of supper clubs
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  • Disruption by Tech

      

    • The much talked about, hyped about disruptions of all times is the Food Tech phenomenon, which is now global in different shapes and sizes. Technology has long been an enabler, supporting businesses and industries for many decades. With food, however, technology, while initially being an enabling tool, seems to be fast overcoming and becoming the leader in establishing new venues, formats, experiences, and trends. This is causing a huge disruption in the “ways of doing the F&B business” from the traditional point of view to one being “led by tech” in almost all forms of decision making, be they to decide which cuisine to operate, to which location be the most appropriate, to even deciding what customers would want to eat and drink.
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New Restaurant Evolution Formats shall break barriers










Food has evolved through generations, being passed down from one to another, developing newer flavors, integrating with other cuisines to create fusion recipes, modernizing cuisines, and yet going back to traditional practices every now and then.


Food is the binding factor for cultures, nationalities & all humans, which today is prepared and served in various formats. The latest emerging trends in the F&B segment are:


    

  • Food Halls

      

    •  These are essentially large spaces converted into a common dining space with multiple F&B establishments setting up kitchen spaces to prepare fresh, made-to-order, gourmet-style food.
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    • Customers enjoy the openness of the space; intermingle with each other while savoring dishes of their choices.
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  • Cloud Kitchens

      

    • As the name suggests, these are large production facilities, which cater only as delivery locations, from where fresh food is produced and dispatched to customer’s
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    • These have become extremely popular the world over as they provide huge cost savings for F&B operators by means of reducing space requirements, labor costs, head office expenses, fleet costs, and inventory management.
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    • Cloud kitchens are generally structured in a manner by which food production spaces are efficiently optimized, menu selections are crisp, production times are shorter, thus allowing the food to be prepared and delivered to the customers within shorter time-frames, thereby improving the end experience.
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  • Pop-up Markets

      

    •  A very common sight for the last few years, over weekends, especially in the better weather months, is the emergence of pop-up markets in parks and communities.
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    • These have become so popular with residents within different communities that food and non-food vendors, establishments, and entrepreneurs get a chance to showcase their products and gain encouragement from the local community. Some established players also participate in these markets, thereby creating diversified sources of revenue for their establishments and attracting customers, alike.
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Restaurants & Customers alike are all part of the much-needed value chain of life and thus will always work hand in hand to serve each other’s needs and those of the larger community. Simplicity, trust, superior food quality, sustainable food chain, and exceptional customer service are going to be hallmarks for restaurants of the future.