RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Life, in simple terms, is wholeness of being. In ancient cultures, the butterfly, the exquisite glider beyond compare, symbolised such wholeness. The wise, old Greeks contended that the gorgeous butterfly represented our soul, the symbol of life and its wholeness. They also believed that the multihued insect’s decorative wings represented change. One could […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our mind is just not limited to subjective and objective feelings. It is also not just the seat of intelligence. It loves amusement as much as rest, juxtaposed by habitual periods of activity. Get the point? People, especially night workers, who deprive themselves of adequate sleep show signs akin to psychosis. This demystifies […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our brain has a fundamental influence on our ‘mindful’ experience, not to speak of conscious responsiveness. It has a demonstrable pattern, or synergetic symmetry, no less. Yet, when consciousness is ‘measured’ in conventional parlance, the emergence of conscious experience seems mystifying. The argument is simple; also profound. While it is agreed that our […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR You are what you are isn’t as simple as it sounds. This is because who we are is based not just on our identities, but also our dreams, hopes, intelligence, memories, the world around us, and neurobiology. Neurobiology is the study of the nervous system and how the brain works, its anatomy, physiology, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We should not — in a few things — outgrow the ‘child’ residing in us when we grow up. Kids, for instance, have an unfettered gift to expressing their emotions. Psychologists say they possess a distinctive ability to react to actors’ emotions on television. They also seem to instinctively recognise facial expressions and […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR For a man who did not relish writing, Octavio Paz, Mexico’s most renowned poet, simply savored and enjoyed its result, be it plaudits, or brickbats. He never used the good old typewriter, the word processor, or computer. He always wrote by hand — the creator’s most simple, yet powerful tool — the oracle […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is not unusual for most of us to suppress our negative emotions for whatever reason. Suppressed emotions are like ‘bottled-up’ feelings, or a superfluous steam in the pressure valve, waiting to rupture. Suppressed painful emotions are, likewise, similar to a time-bomb ticking — or, waiting to explode. It is only when you […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s obvious that vitamins and minerals ought to be a part of our wellness cover — like life insurance — in health and illness. Here’s why — vitamins are a cluster of organic nutrients found in plants and animals. They are called essential vitamins. They are vital for regulating the chemical progressions that […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Aging is inevitable, albeit its cadence is not. As the American writer Betty Friedan rightly said, “Aging is not lost youth, but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” While we all know that our bodies age, the whole internal experience smacks of ambiguity, also mystery — although new research explains the aging […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us regard the self, or our deepest hub, as subtle. Just think of it. We all communicate with our mind, body, tongue and ear. Else, we would not have spoken, or heard another’s voice nor verbalised anything, or reflected, and sensed them — because, there would be no contact, or ‘bumping […]