As part of the Ayurvedic diet, you can use breathing awareness meditation to distract yourself from an emotionally based craving for unhealthy foods or to prevent food binging. Practice meditation whenever you feel a craving coming on.  Sit in a quiet area with your hands by your sides and close your eyes. Breathe deeply, focusing on your breathing as it flows from your lungs out through your nose. Inhale and exhale with awareness. Let your attention follow your breathe as it moves from your lungs and out your nose. Keep your eyes closed and continue to focus on your breath, pushing out all outside thoughts. Do this for five to ten minutes. Your body will send messages to your brain to indicate when it is hungry and requires food. Focusing on your body's natural need for food, rather than your emotional desire for food, will ensure you are eating enough every day. Only eat when you are hungry and stop eating when you are satisfied. However, when you are feeling really hungry, eat until you are comfortable full but not stuffed or overly full. This will allow your digestive system to process the food and not be overwhelmed by food. Allow your stomach, rather than your emotions, to dictate how much you eat every day and when you eat. Try to do this for two weeks in a row, eating when you feel hungry, which may mean you eat at unusual times or do not eat for a period of time until you feel hunger. Then, only eat until you feel comfortably full. This will allow you to be more in touch with your body's natural eating cycle and avoid overeating or eating with your emotions. It can be difficult to suppress a craving for sweets while on the Ayurvedic diet. One way to stave off sugar cravings if to have a warm cup of milk or to have hot water with honey and a little bit of lemon. If you have a constant craving for sweets, try having a cup of warm milk in the morning every day to prevent reaching for unhealthy sugar products. You can also have a cup of hot water with lemon and honey once a day to prevent sugar cravings. In the Ayurvedic diet, fresh foods are associated with energy, vitality, and health, while pre-packaged foods are associated with imbalance, fatigue, and staleness. Avoid canned, frozen, and pre-packaged foods to ensure you are only consuming foods that will add to your overall health. Go shopping every day or every other day at a farmer's market for fresh fruits and vegetables. You should also minimize your consumption of leftovers and microwaved meals, as these are not considered fresh and full of energy. The Ayurvedic diet encourages a shift to smaller meals at night to improve overall well-being and to also aid in weight loss. Your digestive system is the most alert in the middle of the day at lunch time so try to shift your portions so you have a larger lunch and a smaller dinner. This can also improve your sleep, as your body will not need to process a large meal at night, and give you more energy during the day.

Summary: Do breathing awareness meditation when you feel a craving for unhealthy foods. Eat according to your appetite, not your emotions. Drink a cup of warm milk or hot water and honey to reduce your sugar cravings. Consume more fresh foods and avoid pre-packaged foods. Have a larger lunch and a smaller dinner.


Adults will normally spawn within a day of being placed in the breeding tank. Depending on what method you use, you should be able to see the actual eggs so you know they’re done. Once the eggs have been fertilized, it normally takes about 1.5 to 2 days for the eggs to hatch. Even though the eggs hatch within 1.5 to 2 days after being fertilized, the fry that are born won’t start swimming around for another couple of days. Until they start to swim around, there’s no need to feed them. Putting food in the water before they’re all swimming around will only end up making your tank dirty.  Danio fry are extremely small and transparent, making it very hard to see them. You’ll need to carefully observe the tank to make sure you see them swimming around. Danio fry who are not free swimming usually attach themselves to the side of the tank to keep themselves in one place. They may be easier to see when they do this. Once the fry have started to move around the tank on their own, it’s time to start feeding them. Danios normally eat things like baby brine shrimp, but that food will be too big for fry. Instead, you can feed them a specialized powdered egglayer fish food or infusoria. Start by feeding the fry lightly several times a day. You can find this special fish food at some pet stores and any aquarium store. Ask the salesperson if you are unable to locate it on your own. Once your baby danios have started to eat on their own, it’s a good idea to add a bio sponge filter to the tank and a few snails. The snails especially are great for cleaning up any uneaten food and keeping the tank clean. In order to encourage your baby danios to grow quickly, change between 10% and 25% of the water in the tank every day. You’ll want to remove water from the bottom of the tank and replace it with clean water at the same temperature.  In order to have fresh water at the proper temperature available, you may need to set up a separate tank with a heater that is simply used as a reservoir for your breeding tank. If you use tap water in your reservoir tank, be sure to add dechlorinator to the water before putting the water into the breeding tank. As the baby danios grow, you can start to introduce freshly hatched brine shrimp to their diet. They’ll normally start to eat the shrimp around a week to 10 days after being hatched. Start by giving them some brine shrimp once a day, but keep feeding them the powdered egglayer fish food twice a day. You can continue to introduce new foods to your baby danios as they grow. Some options for other foods to try are: frozen cyclops, chopped tubifex worms, and live daphnia. When your baby danios are able half an inch long, it’s time to move them to a bigger tank. The size of the “bigger” tank may depend on how many babies you have in the breeding tank. It is not unusual for 2 to 3 female danios to produce several hundred babies.  Depending on how many females you put in the breeding tank, you may want to prepare this larger tank based on an estimate of the number of babies you’re expecting. It normally takes danios 6 weeks to reach a size of 1 inch long.

Summary: Watch the eggs hatch after 1 to 2 days. Observe the fry become free-swimming. Start feeding the fry once they’re swimming around. Add a sponge filter and some snails to the breeding tank. Change 10% to 25% of the water daily. Start feeding your baby danios brine shrimp. Move your baby danios to a larger tank.


Hold the fishing rod with your casting hand at the base of the reel. Leave about 12 inches (approximately 30 cm) of line hanging between your bait hook and the tip of the rod. Grab the line with your index finger and keep it taut. Make sure that there is nothing behind you for the line to catch onto (e.g., a tree or other person). Aim the line at the line towards the spot in the water you want it to land in, then pull it backwards. Cast it out and release your index finger from the line. After casting your rod, wait several seconds for the jig hook to reach the bottom. If the bait is heavy enough you may feel the spoon hit the bottom. Note that lightweight jig hooks will take longer to sink. Make boisterous vertical motions with your rod by flicking your wrist and popping your fishing rod tip up a short distance. Allow the jig hook to sink back to the bottom. Repeat this process to get the attention of larger fish looking for food. Vary your movements by jigging the rod up and down and side-to-side. Cast your line out into the water. Hold your fishing rod at a 60 degree angle and slowly reel the line in. This motion will cause the jig to flow through the water smoothly, appearing to swim.
Summary: Set up your fishing rod. Cast out your line. Wait for your jig hook to hit the bottom of the body of water. Snap and pop the line. Use the “swimming” technique.