3 no-s to get rid of bad habits
Want to get rid of a bad habit? Here’s something you should definitely try.
Category: Healing Habits
Understand yourself better with the Five Whys exercise
Do you ever feel sudden emotions that you just cannot understand? Stop and do the five whys exercise before you act rashly!
Calming Down when Panic Strikes
What to do when panic strikes? Here’s a great advice I got from my dad.
The Ten Second Rule to persevere in tough times
A tip on what to do when the going gets tough. The Ten Second Rule will help you persevere and think through things rationally before taking a decision.
Stop to Smell the Roses
It was a usual weekday morning. I woke up with groggy eyes. Chugged down some black coffee to wake my senses up. Heated up the breakfast prepared last night and ate it while watching an episode of my favourite family sitcom. As the clock struck 8, got ready and packed …
Blind Trust
I remember when I first left my house and started living in a PG, everything seemed nice and independent. It was just that one day, one moment, when I was crossing a busy street that I saw a father in front of me take the little hand of his daughter, …
The Three Circles
In psychology classes, our teacher made us draw three concentric circles of relationship. The common centre of the three circles symbolised us as individuals. In the first (innermost) circle, we had to plot ten points, each point being a person closest to us. Let’s call these people a general term …
Compassion
There’s this book on Dalai Lama, written by a psychiatrist who has interviewed him from time to time. One of the questions he asks Dalai Lama is, “You have been exiled from your land, you have lost your home, your people, your culture. On top of that, you are constantly …
Is It All About the Journey?
The problem is… we read too many stories. We read and hear so many stories that all of us imagine life to have intriguing twists and textbook endings. But stories are based on real life- real life is not based on stories. I always imagined that the night before my …
Workaholism
There is a theory which says that the logical part of the brain suppresses the emotional part. And that is why complex funeral rituals were established, so that the family gets so busy logically arranging the funeral that they have no time to grieve. That is what we do too. …