Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR When we repel our emotions routinely, we disrupt our self-esteem’s applecart. When we, likewise, suppress our emotions, we also lose our touch with our inner self, including the capability to ‘reflect’ with our soul. It is, after all, our soul that makes us human. You and I become empathetic only when

Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV Dear Wonderful Person, Please notice that I have addressed you as wonderful person rather than as friend, patient, or client. The reason I did this is that I have been reading about the life of Fools Crow, who was a great native American healer. He never used the words patient, or

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR A calm mind in a serene body expresses wisdom; it also celebrates seasoned experience. Call it the outcome of a long, painstaking effort in self-control — or, a life filled with awareness. It sure makes you what you are, or what you want to be. It connects you to a heightened

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that wisdom is not just dependent upon information, but also knowledge, although it is limited in one’s perimeter of thought. This is primarily because knowledge is never absolute, howsoever intelligent, or brilliant, one may be. The idea includes the genii, no less. The tipping point, or scale,

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You are cool, calm and collected when you comprehend your own feelings. All of us can attain such a state without being Zen masters by accommodating our and others’ sensitivities and sensibilities. This is because our fellow beings are just like us, our likes, dislikes, moods etc. When you begin to

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is ‘participation’ in everything that happens, or does not happen, around us. This is nothing short of a profound sense of reciprocation — one that may also express what is obvious. Your hand is able to touch things, because it is a touchable thing all by itself. It is also

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 upshot is simple. Unless you value 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 It is not unusual for most of us to suppress our negative emotions for whatever reason. Suppressed emotions are like ‘bottled-up’ feelings, or a superfluous steam in the pressure valve, waiting to rupture. Suppressed painful emotions are, likewise, similar to a time-bomb ticking — or, waiting to explode. It is only

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We cannot take pride in the fact that we are wise than ever before. We don’t derive, for instance, our ecological inspiration, through technology. Most of our enlightened ideas are drawn from the sublime principles of ancient civilisations — most notably, the Vedas. In addition to this, our understanding of the

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Mysticism is, essentially, a practice — with a host of meanings. There are as many frames to mysticism as there are leaves on the mulberry tree. Mysticism is also aesthetics. It is practical science, its expression from a classic transcendental point. This explains why the transcendental has often been referred to