Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is symmetry and a fine sense of equilibrium in the universe, or the cosmos. When we think of symmetry, our mind automatically goes into a state of stillness. It connects us to attuned contexts. For example, the time we spend with our five senses in appreciating, or analysing, things around

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 Creativity, or originality, isn’t the privilege of working minds, even if some of us have missed riding the literary evolution wave, or scientific advance. However, the fact remains — the emergence of great machines, or the harnessing of energies, has transformed the face of our living planet, earth. It’s a revelation,

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We are primarily a reflection of our thoughts, emotions and responses. You’d call such mirrored impressions as our own biofeedback loop — something we understand, albeit we need a prompt to derive and utilise its essence. One reason why biofeedback techniques use our own fears to perceive and streamline our emotions

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Consciousness is something that exists in its own identity. It may, therefore, be construed that it is quite distinct from all other objects, processes, energies, and even realities, the physics of science would reveal. More so, because, physicists do not mean anything that constitutes the substance — and, what is meant

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 Aesthetics, in art or science, is now no longer a question of “I do my thing, you do yours” — an aphorism incorrectly attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche. As a matter of fact, integrating aesthetic judgment with truth, beauty, and justness is, today, more than absolutely mandatory than ever before. It’s not

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is a remarkable connection that exists between psychology and immune function — in health and illness. Harmony between the two is suggested to denote optimal health and well-being. Likewise, a ‘sickening’ imbalance between them is said to be the cause of a host of diseases, including tuberculosis and AIDS. While

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us are ‘proprietors’ of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The troika is the open, also sublime, anchor of our psyche. This is why we feel disconnected when we lose our touch with our old emotional state. We feel desolate when we are marooned by any negativity. It is only

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Colour is, perhaps, the rainbow synthesis of our lives. There’s also a paradox — although we are incessantly fascinated by different colours, hues and tints, we do not always think of their power. We do not also sometimes notice the colours around us. Research testifies that — consciously and subconsciously —