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 […]
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 […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Music, as Plato said, is highest philosophy. It fills us with the purpose of the noble and the sacred. It invigorates us with the notion of the good. Soft, soulful music is soothing to our senses. It helps us to create a milieu that is favourable to philosophical and spiritual reflection. In other […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR He first left Avignon, a city in Southern France, at age 14, exactly 500 years ago, and travelled across the countryside exploring and ‘researching’ herbal and other native, or natural, remedies. He embarked on a career as an apothecary, eight years later [1529], following which he enrolled at the University of Montpellier, for […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Despite our ‘clash’ with the times, also convention, there has been a huge transformation of position in our minds — from the old to the new. This has been engineered by our progress in science. Put simply, science’s success in explaining and predicting our natural world has now come to stay, be it […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR A brace of squares at lunch time, or dinner. Or, a steaming cup before bedtime. Just think of a simile — “Wouldn’t it be ‘loverly?’” as Eliza Doolittle [Audrey Hepburn] crooned, with her rural English twang, in My Fair Lady. Chocolate is, doubtless, considered a blissful indulgence — the best part is it […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Daniel Goleman, PhD, the noted psychologist and best-selling author, pioneered the concept of emotional intelligence [EI]. This bid fair to his ground-breaking book, by the same name. It was followed by his yet another landmark tome, Working with Emotional Intelligence. It set out a framework of EI that reflects how an individual’s potential […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We all have a ‘natural’ proclivity to express anger — a reaction that symbolises aggression. The response, juxtaposed by bellicosity, denotes a reflex intent to internal and external stimuli. It is also an ‘impulse sortie’ that connotes powerful, combative feelings and behaviours. You’d connect it to the ‘fight-or-flight’ response — a biological reaction […]
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 […]
It goes without saying that we are in the midst of what futurist Alvin Toffler called “the rattling and shaking.” And, with no let-up in sight, and no end to the cultural and economic upheaval, interspersed with the COVID-19 scourge, or ‘earthquake,’ we are witnessing a fundamental ‘shift’ in our lives at work and home. […]