Understanding the barriers to happiness
It is been recent habit of mine – whenever I am in the midst of nature, I make it a point to sit down on the ground and try to observe the tiny beings in nature. This time I found …
Category: Emotions
Emotions are an essential part of the human experience. Our emotions make us who we are, gives us the colorful life with its highs and lows. Understanding our emotions and leveraging them effectively is a significant part of Personal Growth.
How does counselling really work?
How does counselling really work? How are clients able to make significant and long lasting changes in their lives? This is a common question that I am usually faced with when a person calls up to enquire regarding counselling and …
What is bandwagon effect? How does it impact us in our daily lives?
Colourful Wagons were used to transport the Circus groups and their musical bands in earlier times in a parade or procession in order to attract more people to watch/attend the circus. And hence the name bandwagon came into being. People …
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6 easy ways to instantly feel better when you are feeling down
Everybody wants to be happy. And some people do seem to be more happy than others. Success is a relative term, happiness need not be. Many a times, you give away happiness to other people, give them power and control …
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What is learned helplessness-How do we overcome it
Learned Helplessness was a term that was coined by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier. Seligman did a lot of behavioral experiments with animals. And what he found was that, when an animal received negative stimulus repeatedly, in a way that …
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Why asking for help is very difficult.
Life is not a bed of roses. And it is inevitable that we face difficulties, problems, challenges in life. Some of which we will be able to handle, solve, sort, deal, cope by ourselves, which is great. But then there …
How does owning our difficult emotions help us?
Many a times you might experience difficult emotions like sadness, anger, hurt, jealousy, insecurity, rejection etc. And you may feel helpless that your emotions are controlling you. When you deny your emotions in our attempt to either not feel them …
5 ways by which we inadvertently encourage or condone online bullying/shaming/trolling
5 ways by which we inadvertently encourage or even condone online bullying/shaming/trolling. For example – somebody forwards a message (the person may or may not the originator of the message) that could be insulting or shaming a particular person or …
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Ways to build strong social connections
One of the latest epidemics that we as a society are facing is that of loneliness. Research suggests that feeling lonely can be as damaging as having 15 cigarettes a day. So what can we do? How do we address …
What is Emotional Blackmail and how do we deal with it?
When one person tries to control or manipulate or gain power over the other person to make them do something or give something by issuing some kind of threat, it’s called Blackmail. When this occurs by making the other person …
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