Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We are our emotions and emotions are ‘us’ — one way, or the other. Our emotions make our behaviour and thoughts. The ‘trio’ represents a complex mechanism. The more emotional you are, there is less blood flow for your logical functions. Not more, as may be the popular opinion. This is

Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 It’s often said, as also realistically, that technology makes some of the same promises as religion. Pledges like security, link with others, a handhold in history, and so on. The point also is: just as surely as its ‘favours’ accumulate, there may be a point where it can also fall ‘asleep.’ You

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Hope insulates us against stress. It inspires us to overcome difficulties. It reduces the song of one’s burden — the excess baggage of surplus, negative emotions we carry during tough times. It is not just that when the going gets tough, the tough get going, right? Everyone does — in one way, or

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dr B M Hegde is a pre-eminent cardiologist, professor of medicine, author, former Vice Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and recipient of a host of top awards and honours. I admire his monumental work, writings, books, and memorable lectures, organised by Moneylife Foundation and others — all of which are dotted

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Life is the most complex material fact. It shows chemical and physical properties of matter. It is so simple; it is also composite. Take, for instance, beach sand. It is nothing, but silicon dioxide — the core of your personal computer. This does not mean that your gadget is a heap

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Picture this — a spiritual inclination towards parental task is an idea whose time has come, with or without ‘initiation.’ It is a vision that is keyed to a deep personal conviction: parenting as a spiritual force, a structure, or worship, and also an acceptable attitude towards children. It is the

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  We all go through life like waves over matter, or slow, measured upsurges — a form of precise, or inventive, transformation. This is part of our time and space continuum. It defines us and contextualises our existence — of who we are, as self-regulating, independent entities, with each of us being

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us have our dreams, ambitions and goals. While some of us are expressively explicit about them, others are not as articulate — for a host of reasons. Put simply, the whole context, on the one hand, may be a result of humility and, on the other, a consequence of