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
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You’d sure think what the buzzword about nutraceuticals is all about. Because, the expression seems to be doing the rounds, much more than its equally noted ‘corollary’ — functional foods. Here goes — Nutraceuticals are simply functional foods with specific health and medical benefits. They also refer to dietary supplements and/or
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The propelling action behind all action is desire. It works on a compressed spring called consciousness, which also relates to value. The outcome is simple. Unless you ‘rate’ a thing, you cannot desire it. All of us have within us a strong urge to become explicitly valuable to others. Whether we
Words: Dr RAJGOPAL Nidamboor First of all, you need to bear in mind the several tiny compartments of time in your day that are not being used appropriately. For instance, you have the habit of hitting the road at 8:00am. So, you get up at 7:30am and rush through your shower. You have, in so
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us have a penchant to read a self-help book, or at least carry one around. The best part is best-selling self-help authors are happening wordsmiths. So, what’s so great about this, you may well ask. The fact is — the publishing world is abuzz as and when a self-help
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Call it hypnosis, therapeutic hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, the whole idea triggers a sense of wonder and puzzlement in most folks. It isn’t either. It is essentially a condition, where the mind accepts suggestions ‘sculpted’ by the therapist. Most clinical hypnotherapists prefer to call hypnosis ‘a state of heightened suggestibility,’ a state
