Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us get hurt at the drop of an insensitive, if not spiteful, taunt. Not just as much, if someone else is at the receiving end. The ‘hurt impact’ is, of course, variable — depending upon which side of the fence you sit, or don’t sit — even when the

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Emotions are the brush strokes of our mind. When they flow with happiness, they reflect delight around us and also everywhere. Everything, therefore, becomes sweet — because, without emotional sweetness nothing sweet can be produced, or experienced. But, what if your emotions revealed the opposite effect? You’d ‘emote’ dull, sad, or

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most of us dread the thought that if we begin to get distressed, we will be disturbed forever. This premise bids fair to the idea that if we overcome a past event, we will feel secure. In the process, we move away from feeling sad to making life meaningful. This is

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Life is a spiritual act — a state of activity and calm. It’s also a terrain for our many daily battles within. When you revere your mind, body, and soul, your search for life’s realities is achieved. You grow with wisdom and feel you are now just as much a part

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 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 All of us are born with our own likes, dislikes, interests, prejudices, and talents. We all differ from each other. No two individuals are alike — each carries their own unique identities, as distinct as their fingerprint. If one of them visualises leisure on the sun-baked beaches in the Caribbean, another

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Think of a ‘new light’ splashed on an old thought ― a classy synthesis on the potential of how our brains progress. Years ago a research team in the UK compared brain images of 16 male taxi drivers with 50 from general residents. They reported that an area of the brain,