Psychology is a very recent science that studies human behavior, cognition, causes and cure for mental ailments like depression, PTSD etc. and in general recognized as a tool to either understand or predict human approaches to various situations or contexts. Psychologists beginning from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Wundt were always…

Yesterday morning I was at my favorite joggers park, with a purpose driven brisk walk and some jogging. While I was in my second round, my mind was not focused on walk but on thoughts that were coming and going without letting me understand why was that happening. One thought…

Oddly enough or in all of its extreme subtleness A week was such a long yet short a period From having a glass of beer to the endless walk and run giggling as teens who got to spy on a funny neighbor And I feel a surge of empowerment that…

Take a nice deep breath with a smile before you start reading this article The genesis of Loving Kindness meditation lies in the Buddhist practice of metta bhavana. Metta in ancient Pali language means Love or Kindness while Bhavana means cultivation. In Sanskrit and Hindi, Bhavana also means thoughts or…

The shocking news came in the evening hours of 23rd September and the mind went numb. Ajay Gandhi, the iconic son of Hyderabad was no more. In his WhatsApp message in August 2021, he said he was getting chemotherapy for brain cancer and his MRI showed that the cancer had…

To introduce myself, I teach and practice Positive Psychology. Taking the risk of self-glorification, I was perhaps one of the few people in India who was talking about Positive Psychology in the year 2009, just ten years after the field was officially inaugurated either as branch of Psychology or a…

I am no public health expert but I have studied management and practiced as a Human Resources leader in various corporations and have managed various complex issues within the organizations I have worked for. No doubt that pandemic of COVID-19 is something that is unprecedented in human history. There have…

Loving Kindness Meditation or “Metta” is an ancient Buddhist practice of Meditation where the practitioners send loving wishes to themselves and others. The skeptics including rationalists and atheists might have a doubt on the practice as they would say it is just a temporary “feel good” arrangement. However the research…

I am culpable of being the part of the current global Happiness bandwagon, which I suspect is a matter of suspicion for many rational people who brandish scientific temper as a badge of honor. There are thousands of books written on the subject every year and almost all of them…