How to Train Your Mind for Happiness?
Give an Indian mind ten minutes of peace, and it will wonder what it has forgotten to worry about. If your son gets a job, it...
Category : Mental Health
Hanuman Chalisa Benefits: What Forty Verses Can Do for a Frightened Mind
A medical report can weigh less than ten grams and still become the heaviest thing in a house. Someone studies the numbers. Someone consults Google,...
Why Do Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others?
The calmest patient I have met was waiting to learn whether he had cancer. The most agitated was waiting for somebody to move a scooter....
Burnout Syndrome: Early Signs, Causes, Recovery and How Families Can Help
The email arrived late one evening. It was short, polite and quietly desperate. “Doctor, my younger brother lives in America. A new team at work,...
Can an Emotion Become a Disease? Ayurveda Says Yes
Diseases have two birthdays. The first is the one every doctor knows. It arrives with a blood test, an MRI scan, a biopsy, or the...
Why You Remember The Cricket Score But Not Your Anniversary
At my clinic last year, a man confessed something with the seriousness usually reserved for hidden bank loans or family scandals. He could not remember...
Loneliness Is Becoming a Public Health Problem
One retired uncle visited my clinic 6 times over 2 months for gas trouble. By the fourth consultation, I realised the actual disease was evening....
The Ramayana Is the Story of What Cannot Be Taken.
It takes 3 months. Not to heal — nobody heals in three months. But to arrive at the particular stage of grief that looks, from...
When Everyone Meditates Now!
Today is World Meditation Day. Which means if you ask ten people whether they meditate, eleven will say yes. One will add, “I do it...
Not Every Feeling Requires Treatment
Some days, I feel we are living in a world where every passing emotion wants a prescription, and every ordinary worry wants a clinical label....