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
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR For most of us being calm in the face of difficulty is tantamount to emotional maturity, or serenity. Emotional maturity, however, is more than what meets the eye and mind. It relates to a state that exemplifies being in control, or animated, being responsive, or receptive to others, and being protected
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Stress is a blurred response to the demands that life places on us. This is also how it builds up. In the course of time, it leads to stressful frustration — an indivisible component of modern life. Our day-to-day life too has its allocation of stresses: peer pressure, marital, financial and workplace
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy, to paraphrase one of its cardinal tenets, looks at symptoms as being the idiom, dialect, or language, in which the body, in illness, speaks to us. The body’s response, thus, gives us the cue that a struggle to externalise is on. This provides us with the ‘prompt’ that potential damage
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR One had always thought of shyness as a behavioural anomaly. It may not be so, after all. According to Dr Ward K Swallow, PhD, a noted paediatric psychiatrist, shyness is not a disorder. It is also not a disability, or the cause for parental despair and societal intolerance. His raison d’etre?
