Stressed? Angry? Panicked? Can’t sleep? Take a deep breath – goes the automatic advice in all these situations. Humans have been using controlled breathing as a go-to solution for a number of problems since so long that it’s almost a cliché now. But ...
Reading is good for us, we know. But do we actually know why?
Most of us have received our formal education by way of reading, and it is one of the most essential activities we perform every day to navigate our life. But reading is not just a ...
Our body decays with age, and so does our brain. Under modern medicine’s watch, human life expectancy has increased manifold. But quality of life at an older age continues to be lower, and one of the biggest reasons of that are memory-related ...
The melody for the Beatles classic ‘Yesterday’ came to Paul McCartney in a dream. Einstein was known to have had several headways in his experiments through dreams he had and recorded.
The above examples point to one thing – dreams can have ...
All of us have to do things we do not want to do – that’s one of the primary features of adult life. But ever so often the “unattractiveness” of the task makes us delay or even forego doing it, and that’s where the trouble begins.
Wanting to ...
Stress is a modern epidemic, there’s no doubt about that. There is an ardent need to fix the problem of stress, and yet it is an inseparable part of our life. In fact, majority of research in the area shows that the invisible stress of everyday life ...
It can be safely said that one of the biggest problems threatening human life on this planet is stress. We are stressed beyond our natural capacity, and there’s no denying it.
The month of April has been designated as Stress Awareness Month in ...
Gautama Buddha, the great thinker and saint from 400 BC India, was said to have walked for seven days after he attained enlightenment. Legends say, the Enlightenment came to him in an epiphany, and he needed to make sense of it. To do that, he chose ...
We live in day and age where perfectionism is considered a virtue. In every sphere of our lives, we are told that there is a perfect state of matter and we need to try to upgrade to it. There’s the perfect body shape, the perfect job, the perfect ...
Ruminating or letting our thoughts wander is a very common function of our brain. But what if it starts to affect other aspects of your life?
Say, you made a mistake at your job and the project you were working on was delayed. It is good practice ...