RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a good old, also timeless, Oriental aphorism: “If you have a good diet, of what use is a doctor? And, if you don’t have a good diet, of what use is a doctor?” This leads us to the big question: what is ‘good’ diet, or what, in effect, epitomises a ‘normal’ […]
Author Archives: Rajgopal Nidamboor
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The word, hypnosis, therapeutic hypnosis, or, better still, hypnotherapy, connotes awe and perplexity in most people. It isn’t either. It is essentially a condition, where the mind accepts suggestions ‘articulated’ by the therapist. Most clinical hypnotherapists prefer to call hypnosis ‘a state of heightened suggestibility’ that can be generated by a permutation of […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a dazzling biology at work inside the brain, including its colossal appetite to storing information. Agreed that information technology has made ‘relative’ the need for long-term memory in the brain passé, but as new research augurs, this may call for the greater use of our working memory — not so much […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR A woman’s breasts’ primal function is to produce maternal milk and wield sexual appeal. A woman who feels at ease with her breasts being the vanguard of the ‘skin of her thought’ stands up straight and self-confident. The breasts, which celebrate a woman’s anatomical endowment, are primarily glandular organs; they encompass no muscle. […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Artistic, or histrionic, settings are limitless connotations — not just random constructs. They are, in more ways than one, burrowed truths moored in wide and deep realities, where each truth is a part of the whole, also its sum and substance. In simple words, acting is a myriad oeuvre that more than highlights, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Just like how loneliness is agony worse confounded by murky isolation and solitude is bliss, optimism always emerges in the midst of growing turmoil. What can also turn the tide is simple — little drops of empathy that bring about more than a sense of harmony, or calm. This occurs primarily because of […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all know the remarkable connection that exists between psychology and immune function — in health and illness. While harmony between the two is suggested to denote optimal health and well-being, a ‘sickening’ imbalance between them is said to be the cause of a host of diseases, including tuberculosis and AIDS. Though a […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is a fascinating dictum that exemplifies an intriguing simile — that Westerners think with their left brain, the ‘seat’ of our conscious mind, while Easterners think with their right brain, the ‘hub’ of their unconscious mind. The ‘maxim’ is too composite, except for one’s own point of reference that separates and connects […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It evolved ages ago — the pristine idea that crying has therapeutic effects on our psyche. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that crying could purify the mind by alleviating emotional stress — through the expression of emotions. Contemporary psychologists call this progression as catharsis. The idea of catharsis too is not new — […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR “The real voyage of discovery,” wrote Marcel Proust, the French novelist-essayist, “consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” This bids fair to three innovatively alluring medical possibilities: how we think, or feel, love, and find meaning in our life. New research suggests that the human heart thinks and […]