Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy is not just a system of medical treatment; it is an advance in the area of mind-body, holistic medicine. It involves treating the individual having an illness, or disease, with highly diluted substances, prescribed primarily in pill, or liquid, form with the aim of triggering the body’s natural capacity for
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is symmetry and a fine sense of equilibrium in the universe, or the cosmos. When we think of symmetry, our mind automatically goes into a state of stillness. It connects us to attuned contexts. For example, the time we spend with our five senses in appreciating, or analysing, things around
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Belief is essentially the feeling that helps you go through your actions and on to successful completion of goals. But, for belief to entrench, you must first have faith in yourself and be able to direct any outcome. To begin with, you need to have a clear understanding of trust, nay
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The mind is akin to your TV monitor flashing images and information in the background as you do your work-out. If you are observant, you will notice what it adds to your understanding of what is actually happening as you go through your exercise routine. The mind gives clues for you
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Nature has provided us with the facility to delve into our own inner resources to the full through mindfulness, or being meditatively focused — this is the fundamental principle that propels us to engage ourselves with our inner being, or soul, and turn things around from the inside out, as and
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There was a US Senate hearing, years ago, on alternative medicine practices — most of which were resented by the American Medical Association. Yet, some medical schools in the US began to include study courses on patients’ emotional issues, nutrition, and so on, while acknowledging that there was a certain mind-body
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our mind is more astounding than a super-computer. It develops, creates, analyses, nurtures, balances, gauges, organises and also judges perceptions at the speed of thought — without waiting for the system, or processes, to ‘boot.’ What is most astonishing is the fusion of countless mental processes into one whole. Add to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Illness, according to homeopathy, is internal imbalance. Homeopathy suggests that Illnesses first occur at the most fundamental levels of our being. This underlying imbalance is the cause of all disease, which presents itself in due course in the body as symptoms. These symptoms are manifest, or created, by the body in
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We all have enough time each day to get everything done — whatever one’s perimeter of thought, or view. The only thing is many of us don’t seem to make use of time fittingly. This is reason enough why we feel frustrated while taking stock of our respective ‘to-do’ checklist —
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is simple; it is complex; it is also, at times, prickly. You guessed it right — our life is like the seasons. Yet, in the midst of happiness, or chaos, it is as exciting as a nail-biting Twenty20 cricket match. It seems like everything in life is happening at the
