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
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We ‘age’ the moment we are born. It is not that we begin to ‘grow old’ soon after we ‘come of age’ on planet earth. The fact is everyone ages slowly, or insidiously, or more quickly than the others, owing to illness — a poignant upshot. It begins at birth; it
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR “Good hair speaks louder than words.” — Anonymous Hair loss is not just a cosmetic problem; it is actually a medical disorder. It not only affects one’s self-confidence, it can also ‘hijack’ one’s career. Research suggests that people with hair loss don’t get promotions on time. Studies suggest that certain cells [stem
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s a commonplace fact: anxious parents who enter a therapist’s office have just one notable query. They often argue that some of us aren’t always lucky — more so, their children, who as students, at all levels, need to face the music, as it were, vis-à-vis a vital keynote that separates
