Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The concept is as old as the hills. But, it’s also something that is new. As Jerry Lynch, a sports psychologist, and Chungliang Al Huang, a ta’i-chi master and expert calligrapher, explain in their ‘back-to-the-future’ standard for sporting excellence, Working Out, Working Within, which is, in essence, a premise on how
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When was the last time you listened to the chirping of birds — not just posting, or reading, ‘tweets’ on Twitter? You’d not remember — unless you’d made an effort, or allowed your ear and mind to listen to the cheeping of sparrows near your window sill. Our body’s functional dynamics
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The Celestine Prophecy was sociologist James Redfield’s first book. And, you wouldn’t believe it, thanks to his superb use of words and craft. The testimony? Over ten million copies of Redfield’s maiden effort would have sold in the US alone. What’s more, for a spiritual novel, capitalising on Americans’ search for
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We live in ‘a pill for every ill’ society. Most people today have been ‘coached’ through print and other media to accept the idea that pharmaceutical, or conventional, drugs are the best, or, perhaps, the only answer to most medical problems, or issues. Our drug-inclined society has also been taught to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Philosophers aver that conscious awareness cannot exist in the presence of any disconnect with our ‘latent’ unconscious. This is because nothing can relate to our conscious awareness if it did not emanate from the unconscious plane of our consciousness. In other words, when there is some sort of ‘off-putting’ disengagement with
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Constipation is a common digestive disorder. It is the classical outcome of wrong eating habits and sedentary lifestyle. The problem is most often under-diagnosed, since most folks prefer to try a lot of unwanted medications, rather than report for treatment. What’s more, the belief that constipation leads to accumulation of toxins
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our mind isn’t — quite simply — a metaphor. It is part of an extraordinary link that exists between psychology and biology: of mind and body, and of how they have been dexterously fabricated, by evolution, over the millennia. Having been once the basic nature of fairy tales, imagination, poetic licence,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most ancient philosophers alluded to intuition as being the ticket for direct access. The big question also remained constant: intuition for what? Was it intuition for obvious, or intangible, objects, numbers, appearances, or their elemental properties — or, all our emotional contexts? Plato, for one, thought of intuition as being our
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dr Richard Firshein, DO, is a renowned New York-based board-certified family physician, clinician, researcher, writer-editor, publisher, teacher, educator, in integrative/mind-body/nutritional medicine, as also anti-aging and precision-based medicine. He’s a gifted wordsmith too. He writes on health, wellness and specialised medical subjects, for the lay and specialist reader, with a dainty flourish,
Words: Dr RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most open-minded folks consider homeopathy as a link between orthodox medicine and holistic approach to health. Modern homeopathic physicians, likewise, look at the system, not as an alternative, but as complementary to orthodox treatment. Homeopathy is a side-, or off-shoot, of orthodox medicine. It originated as a mode of treatment primarily
