Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us seek, or yearn, to do well in life and career. This is a need that all of us aspire for too — to substantiate our value, not just to oneself, but also others. Besides, there is a distinctive emotion dormant in us. It is the urge to do
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Just like how loneliness is agony worse confounded by murky isolation and solitude is bliss, optimism always emerges in the midst of growing turmoil. What can also turn the tide is simple — little drops of empathy that bring about more than a sense of harmony, or calm. This occurs primarily
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Watching unpleasant news on TV, late at night, is detrimental to one’s health and well-being. It wobbles our sleep and causes disagreeable side- and after-effects on one’s psyche. This is akin to our frenzied response when we lose something valuable. It brings negative, unhelpful primary emotions. A loss of something which
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Emotions are not simple phenomena. They are as simple, or complex, as asking scientists, “Why is the sky blue?” Thought and thinking are far more convoluted than we imagine them to be. Just as certain questions and answers in science are riddled with haziness, even when their meanings, or concepts, are
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It goes without saying that our day-to-day interactions depend on our relationships. When our relationships are strong and healthy, it is likely that many of us — even in the wake of conflict — underplay tricky situations. In other words, investing in healthy relationships is like investing money in a reputed
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our ancients were wise folks. They had a ken for detail. They also knew the value of nature’s bounty much better, perhaps, than us — the so-called advanced species with no potent remedial answer, at one point, to the COVID-19 storm that rattled and is rattling our civilisation. We owe it
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Each of us can achieve eminence in life and career. Agreed that it isn’t easy — but, what helps one to attain distinction is focused thought and a constant desire to be what one wants to be. You can’t, of course, achieve just by thinking alone until you internalise your thoughts
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 was the last time you listened to the chirping of birds — not just posting, or reading, ‘tweets’ on Twitter? You’d not remember — unless you’d made an effort, or allowed your ear and mind to listen to the cheeping of sparrows near your window sill. Our body’s functional dynamics
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dr Richard Firshein, DO, is a renowned New York-based board-certified family physician, clinician, researcher, writer-editor, publisher, teacher, educator, in integrative/mind-body/nutritional medicine, as also anti-aging and precision-based medicine. He’s a gifted wordsmith too. He writes on health, wellness and specialised medical subjects, for the lay and specialist reader, with a dainty flourish,
