Social media has fundamentally altered the way we engage, communicate, and obtain information. It is now an essential part of our day-to-day lives. However, it has also disrupted old norms and systems of human behaviour and interaction in the society. Here is a brief examination of the benefits and detrimental effects of social media.
How many of us feel uncomfortable with receiving acknowledgement for the work we do or even complimented for the way we look or behave? There is almost a sinking feeling out of the fear of being exposed or judged. On the other hand, it feels comparatively easier to process any criticism or wrongness pointed out to us. Strange, but true.
There are so many things that we wish we had known earlier. Here is a list of five things I learnt through a series of self-help books, courses, programs on personal development, healing and therapy over almost a decade.
There are so many things that we wish we had known earlier. Here is a list of five things I learnt through a series of self-help books, courses, programs on personal development, healing and therapy over almost a decade.
Explore five things you didn't know about relationship with yourself. It is the most important thing to create and generate a life of joy and harmony.
Do you know that you do start resembling the person you judge constantly? Judging others, being judged and judging yourself has a much deeper effect than you can imagine! Here is a quick take on how judgements create the biggest limitations in our lives.
Stress affects men and women differently. While the common symptoms of stress in women range from skin rashes, breakouts and anxiety; men show signs of fatigue, insomnia, lower back pains and irritability. Although the symptoms may not have much variation, the perception of stress by both the genders is starkly different. Women tend to perceive stress as more serious than men.
Trusting is an essential human response for survival and growth. Trust in self and others constitutes the fundamental basis of personal development and relationships. Have you ever paused and wondered what makes you trust some people and not others? How many times have we allowed ourselves to be hurt for trusting someone too quick? What if that is a lie? What if the fault wasn’t in trusting but in the understanding of what we were trusting? Here are a few insights into the emotion of trust.
Parenting has been hard, especially for parents of millennials and more so for parents of Gen Z. With the onset of the information age, socio-economic upheavals, and breakdown of the family structures, parenting has become a domain of strategic planning and management. In the movie Taare Zameen par, you could see the child being put through intense routines, training and discipline to prepare the child for a fairly competitive and cut-throat world; and if the child was unable to adhere to the rules, parents saw it as a failure on their part and that of their child’s.
Why do we need emotional resilience? Stress is an inevitable part of our lives. From trying to get to work on time to dealing with an emotional trauma, we cope…