Riya SEN on beauty, fitness, health and wellness. Your view on beauty? Beauty in my view is being confident, strong, self-assured, and calm to express oneself. I think a minimal make-up and just a little lipstick would be good enough, unless you’re shooting for a movie. Well, the best part, for me, is — beauty
Words: Dr Sanjeev RASTOGI In the 1950s, the World Health Organisation [WHO], the apex organisation for global health, defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Indeed, there is considerable evidence, modern western medicine included, that suggests a strong link between physical
Rupali MANIAR responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty is god, also everything in nature, like the mountain, the calm sea, the changing colour of the sky — the list is endless. For me, the key aspect is inner, or ‘bespoke,’ beauty. It is the sublime reflection of a generous heart and a
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 This is an inspirational book that presents information about human nature and its huge potential to transform. It introduces the reader to several scientific discoveries, explaining the neuroscience behind certain habits and how they can be changed. While it is easy for some people to change their habits according to new situations,
Words: Dr Boróka BÓ For many young people, retirement is a blip on the radar, if not a total unknown. This is particularly true during our cost of living crisis, when investing and contributing more to your pension might fall down the priority list behind paying rent. Despite this, more and more young people are
Words: Dr Manfred MUELLER Around age two-and-a-half, my youngest daughter began to make the unsolicited remark, “I am happy.” She has since proclaimed this almost daily — before breakfast in the morning, or in the middle of the afternoon, or sometimes before bedtime. She is one of those rare children [in America] who has never
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It’s a commonplace fact: anxious parents who enter a therapist’s office have just one notable query. They often argue that some of us aren’t always lucky — more so, their children, who as students, at all levels, need to face the music, as it were, vis-à-vis a vital keynote that separates
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Seventy-year-old Bill Richards loved to help others. He owned and operated the largest hardware store in Westchester County, US. He was an active man, the type of guy who’d run over to a neighbour’s house to fix something five minutes after getting the call. His store was fully stocked; if you
Words: Prof Krystine I BATCHO In his song Time Was, counterculture singer Phil Ochs reminisces about a past “when a man could build a home, have a family of his own. The peaceful years would flow; he could watch his children grow. But, it was a long time ago.” To Ochs, simpler times were better: “troubles were
Words: Dr Ronald D WHITMONT I have treated numerous cases of microbiome/immune system damage that have presented in the form of recurrent and chronic illness. These conditions can present as: chronic inflammatory illness [fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue], chronic infectious illness [chronic Lyme disease], recurrent acute illness [streptococcal pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, otitis media, sinusitis], allergic conditions
