Category Archives: Mind / Body / Spirit

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that our brain is our own inhabitant physician — gifted with the ability to ‘write’ prescriptions for our mind and body in health and illness. This is, first and foremost, the reason why scientists, and not just philosophers, observe that when we understand the power of our mind and […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our soul is not just a thing. It is more than a qualitative aspect of our being — the insignia for understanding our mind. It celebrates life from deep within and connects us to the external dimension of our being. The soul mirrors our values and beliefs, or the core of our existence. […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s all in the gut is a commonplace precept. It narrates the possibility construct within and outside of our intuitive compass. This isn’t gawking at our star-signs — in simple terms, our gut is the contextual junction between us and our world. To picture a case in point — the earthworm scuttles ever […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The art of mentally ‘living’ your desired state — or, the state of positive confidence is in you, not outside. Picture this. Why is it that you can speak quite easily, and freely, to some people, but not others? Answer: it’s all a question of your communication style, or a matter of knowing […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Socrates articulated that love is not lacking in anything — it is much more than approximation, also proximal to yearning and, therefore, not fixated with itself. He expressed, no less, that love does not possess, notwithstanding its plethora of beautiful things, including wisdom, and of everything that is divinely, also exquisitely […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Decoding our life’s experiences, or perspectives, isn’t a problem so long as we are connecting them to comprehensible paradigms, contexts, or stated connotations that they convey to us. The whole idea, however, gets lost when we twist, or redefine them, while fitting them into totally new perspectives, or hooking them to a pedestal […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Being ‘grounded’ is to be at ease in one’s environs. It purports to a sense of inner calm amidst discord and turmoil. On the flipside, it is, for certain folks, not a ‘good’ attribute. This is primarily because not all of us have the sprawling ‘space’ to feel grounded. It does not relate […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mindful awareness is the most persuasive therapeutic entity that exists within each of us. It supplements and propels every function and process of our body. It jazzes-up our normal healing processes with a gush of healing energy that directly influences every bit of illness. It works in tandem with medical treatment. This leads […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Individuality, as the dictionary puts it, is the quality, or character, of a particular person, or thing, that distinguishes them from others of the same kind. The fact also is — being an individual means being uniquely you, one that includes your unique qualities, values, beliefs, also idiosyncrasies, and articulating them self-assuredly and […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The mind isn’t sufficiently adept in understanding how it works, although it can through our experience understand the self, as also consciousness. It can, likewise, experience a state of ‘no-self’ and also ‘no-consciousness.’ This is because the mind can hold on to any condition it creates, or makes possible. When the mind thinks […]