Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR First things, first. Most people think that homeopathy is simple; some folks, likewise, think it is complex. It is best to recall the wise words of Sir John Weir, the great Scottish physician and homeopath — you’d have seen him portrayed in the award-winning Netflix series, Crown — to the British
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Think of a commonplace scenario. When a job interview has gone off well, one is often asked, pronto: “Would you mind having a psychological appraisal?” While it may be argued that there’s no better way to punching trepidation than asking job seekers to go through the motions of a psychological appraisal
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You don’t need to think in terms of a huge investment of time, energy, and an extended plan for good-for-your-body lifestyle changes. Simple, but important, health solutions don’t cost you anything. It is all a question of adding a banana to your morning bowl of cereal breakfast, keeping your car farther
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Psychologists suggest that parents should limit rather than eliminate their children’s TV watching and computer game play. One hour a day during the school week, and not more than two hours on weekends, would be a reasonable goal for TV watching. In addition, parents should, they suggest, eliminate violent programmes from
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us get hurt at the drop of an insensitive, if not spiteful, taunt. Not just as much, if someone else is at the receiving end. The ‘hurt impact’ is, of course, variable — depending upon which side of the fence you sit, or don’t sit — even when the
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is no great shakes to think of psychology as the study of human consciousness, not to speak of its manifestations in human behaviour. Because, what is fundamental to consciousness is something that most of us know only too well: perception, desire, will, and the ability to act. Even though all
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You know its import, don’t you? Or, so you thought. Either way, whether you are a physician, parent or an educator, you are right. It’s all about a new — or, old — phenomenon that is gaining ground everywhere. You’d call it a case of an entire subculture gone askew, but
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us regard the self, our deepest hub, as subtle. Just think of this. Without your body, tongue, or ear, you would not have spoken, or heard another’s voice. You’d also not have verbalised anything, reflected, or sensed them — because, there would be no contact, or ‘bumping into’ acquaintances
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Emotions are the brush strokes of our mind. When they flow with happiness, they reflect delight around us and also everywhere. Everything, therefore, becomes sweet — because, without emotional sweetness nothing sweet can be produced, or experienced. But, what if your emotions revealed the opposite effect? You’d ‘emote’ dull, sad, or
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dr Sigmund Freud, MD, the Wizard of Dreams, thought of society as composed of rules from within. Of rules meant to subdue the tides of emotional excess that surge too freely within. He also believed that contentment arises from attuning one’s life with one’s true feelings. Dr Freud, the plumber of
