Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Picture this — a spiritual inclination towards parental task is an idea whose time has come, with or without ‘initiation.’ It is a vision that is keyed to a deep personal conviction: parenting as a spiritual force, a structure, or worship, and also an acceptable attitude towards children. It is the
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is more to memory than learning, and vice versa. Picture this: of noted psychologist Gordon H Bower’s fine example of a phenomenon called state-dependent learning. Bower recalls a funny sequence from one of Charlie Chaplin’s masterpieces, City Lights. Chaplin, as usual, plays the little tramp, and he saves a drunk from
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is positive evidence on the influence of colour has on our mood, emotion, mental performance and wellness. It is, therefore, not without reason that the importance of colour therapy is being increasingly recognised in the symptomatic treatment of several health disorders. All of us know how colours affect our moods
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s part of a heavily customised mental baggage we all carry. What’s more, the truth about good food, and nutrition, cannot be conveyed in a manner comprehensible to each of us on planet earth. Not because of the subject’s astounding complexity, claims, counter-claims, fads and myths, but also inasmuch as our
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Question: I’ve heard and read a great deal about functional foods, nutraceuticals, or super-nutrients, among others. They sound simple, they also sound complex. Could you please help me separate the chaff from the grain, as it were, and make it comprehensible for me and other TW360 readers, who may be interested
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year And a sphere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Like every old year that goes by, we’ve all ‘rung-in’ yet another New Year — 2022. And, like every New Year, most of us would, doubtless, ‘elect’ to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Stress is a given. So, also our ability to deal with stress. This is because we have a large reservoir of techniques and the like to handle stress. But — how well do we all know that there are as many stress relief measures as there are stressors in life. However,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The major glands of the endocrine [hormone secretion] system, which produce one or more specific hormones, in our body, are the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, the parathyroid glands, the islets of the pancreas, the adrenal glands, the testes, and the ovaries, in men and women respectively. Not all
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our mind is more than an advance — a mirror to life itself. It’s also far ahead of what René Descartes, the mediaeval philosopher, reasoned: “I think, therefore, I am.” We all know it — that within the world of matter is the body, even though our fundamental body goes beyond
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When we think of awareness, or conscious receptiveness, most of us go through a state of perplexity. As we become attentive to our emotions, we also think as if we are subject to a plethora of warped emotional feelings. It takes time to understand such feelings — more so, to figure
