Preeti ALAGUNDAGI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Compassion for others, as also oneself, defines beauty. This translates to treating the other person, be it a friend, or complete stranger, with compassion and respect. God created beauty, yes; but, we human beings have more or less warped, or distorted, it. Beauty cannot be
Words: Kerry DULIN No one said that this was going to be easy, but few things of value are. Deal with it. If you’re going to go for the healthy look you might as well go the extra mile and actually be healthy. When the fat starts to go, and it will, you want to
Dr Vansh LUNIYA responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It was a blissful accident, also god-sent, perhaps, that I chose homeopathy for a career. Well, I was all set to enrol in forensic sciences, but, by a quirk, I opted for BHMS. When I look back, I
Words: Vishal DUBEY This is the edited version of the essay that won the Second Prize in ThinkWellness360 Essay Writing Competition 2022 for Homeopathic Medical College Students. Introduction Over five million people used homeopathy in the year 2012, according to Health Survey Assessment on alternative health therapy usage in the United States. Homeopathy was used by 1.8 per cent of
Words: Dr Deep Narayan PANDEY Ayurveda places a profound emphasis on daily intake of fruits — such as amalaki, dadim and draksha — by making them nityasevaneeya [part of regular diet]. Risk reductions for total mortality in the order of 35 per cent — and, specifically of 27 per cent to 39 per cent for
Srilaxmi M KARAJGI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Your view on beauty? Beauty, in my view, is simplicity personified. It is also being able to carry oneself with confidence. This is all that matters. However, our all-pervasive, or ‘perverse,’ obsession with social media has led to us believe that we ought to fit into ‘so-called’ beauty
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our mind isn’t — quite simply — a metaphor. It is part of an extraordinary link that exists between psychology and biology: of mind and body, and of how they have been dexterously fabricated, by evolution, over the millennia. Having been once the basic nature of fairy tales, imagination, poetic licence,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Most ancient philosophers alluded to intuition as being the ticket for direct access. The big question also remained constant: intuition for what? Was it intuition for obvious, or intangible, objects, numbers, appearances, or their elemental properties — or, all our emotional contexts? Plato, for one, thought of intuition as being our
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Research suggests that the sea and ocean are our new, big frontiers for natural medicine, in the 21st century. You name them — fish oils, seaweed, sea salt, among others. They are curative medicines. They are natural. They are available in profusion. Most importantly, they provide a great degree of therapeutic
Words: Paribha VASHIST It’s just a couple of years ago that I decided to give up on all single-use plastics in the midst of the on-going buzz against plastic. I did not, however, reckon how difficult it would be to stick to that promise. The next day, I skipped my breakfast because I was late for an
