RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR There is evidence to show that being overweight puts you at amplified health risk — high blood pressure, heart disorders, diabetes, and gall bladder disease, among others. Losing weight is, therefore, a key part of any early treatment plan, albeit recent research presents a paradox — that having a few ‘supplementary’ pounds may […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR When Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity ‘toppled’ Sir Isaac Newton’s model which was dominant since the Renaissance, it led to a new resurgence — that the fundamentals of scientific discernment were not a fixed, or inflexible, set of edicts. Rather, such models were elucidations of certain composite portents reliant on societal norms, just […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us know its essence, if not its subtle nuance — yet, we are, for the most part, too tense about what the future would hold for us. As Albert Einstein said, “I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.” For most people though, the future is always near and yet […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It’s a simple question with the most complex of answers. Why psychological and emotional factors make us anxious, sick, or ill? Or, why our body’s neural and chemical processes trigger psychological distress — and, upset our immune system — leading to illness? Or, why a certain number of people spend most part of […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Plato thought that we are all in the same yacht apropos of our vision. This, notwithstanding the fact that all of us aim to be better than others while imbibing and cultivating wisdom, valour, balance, or commitment, and not being absurd, anxious, indisciplined, or prejudiced. The inference is apparent — if […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Mindfulness is about guiding our attention inwards, in the present moment, and relating to the sensations we are feeling, and what thoughts and emotions we’re going through. When diversions occur — a child crying, or TV jabbering, a bird singing, a new recollection surfacing — we just let them go. The mind is […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The idea of being conscious and having sensory qualities, or perception, are independent of each other. This is autonomous of the sensory qualities that we all know — physical stimulus, physiological response, communication, psychological, or emotional experience. What does this signify? That our sensory qualities, whatever their character, or essence, are distinctive of […]
RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that objects imitate life at the material level. In addition, they fulfil a psychological need. This prompts us to reorganise ourselves with good things in our wardrobe, or new shelves, too. It is, therefore, not surprising that one may opt for an expensive mobile phone as a substitute for […]
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 […]
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 […]