Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR ThinkWellness360 is one-year-old today. A milestone, not just the e-magazine’s first anniversary. Yet, the fact remains that there’s a long way for us to go, because your favourite e-magazine is, as yet, relatively new — the new kid on the block. A kid trying to grow up, not quickly, but gradually,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The best way to become a skilful leader — from the sports arena to the workplace, also home, whether as a player, coach, executive, parent, spouse, or whatever — is not to set out to become ‘perfect,’ but rather to aim to be effectively balanced all the time. For most of
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We all enjoy pleasant dreams. We don’t seem to relish them when they tend to be dreadful. Dreams cost us nothing — rather they help us make something out of life. Most people with religious, or devout, upbringing relate to such dreams as good, or bad, omen, with the help of
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Acne Acne — pimples in common phraseology — is a ‘universal’ inflammatory skin disorder. Apart from being a cosmetic glitch, acne represents a certain elevation in the body’s production of the sex hormones, especially at puberty. This stimulates the sebaceous glands to produce excess sebum — the fatty oil that lubricates
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Question: I’ve read and heard a good deal about being mindful and how mindfulness can help us to achieve balance and calm in our day-to-day life. It all sounds good to me, but it is, I feel, a muddle; a simple thing being made too complex. It’d be a blessing it
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Backache [back pain] is as common as the common cold. It affects five out of six people, some time in their life. While most cases of backache do not have any underlying ‘factors,’ the disorder attracts a huge annual cost, running into several million rupees — from absence at work to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There are a number of ideas as there are interpretations on the nature of our consciousness. There ends the comparison. However, there is one idea that is quite different from any such prospective work in the field. A perceptive study, it breaks new ground and develops a strongly meditative and original
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We are our emotions and emotions are ‘us’ — one way, or the other. Our emotions make our behaviour and thoughts. The ‘trio’ represents a complex mechanism. The more emotional you are, there is less blood flow for your logical functions. Not more, as may be the popular opinion. This is
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy places a natural ‘firewall’ within our systems. It makes us better equipped to fend intruders, or beat them naturally, without the fear of unwanted ripple-, or side-effects, in our system. Homeopathy suggests that bacteria, or viruses, are not, in actuality, the only cause of disease, or illness. Such microorganisms actually
Words: Dr RAJGOPAL Nidamboor June 21: International Day of Yoga. Yoga, the ancient Indian form of health and well-being, is defined as a sense of balance. Yoga works on four planes: physical, physiological, psychological, and spiritual. When you practice yoga, you not only understand the lessons of the past, you will also be able to
