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Awareness

Parallel Play and its Benefits

Have you witnessed how some children tend to sit together but are immersed in their own activities without interacting with each other? This is recognized as parallel play and it can function as a transition to more collaborative forms of

Relationship

What is Infidelity in Relationship?

Infidelity, commonly known as cheating, is one of the most painful experiences in any relationship. It involves breaking one’s trust and indulging in any kind of emotional,  physical, or sexual relations outside that agreed upon in the relationship. It may

Awareness Self Help

Feeling Empty? Here’s What Science Says About Apathy

You wake up one morning, and everything that once meant something now feels meaningless. It’s not laziness or procrastination – it’s deeper than that. You might find yourself wondering why you can’t seem to muster the energy to care about

Social

Transformational listening: Did the pandemic help us return to a forgotten skills?

The advent of pandemic was registered emotionally by individuals as loneliness, fear, nostalgia and a feeling of forgetting one’s self as a relational being. Perhaps as a consequence of the same, the world witnessed an increase in listening spaces devoted

Awareness Self Help

Understanding Intrusive Thought and Ways to Combat them 

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary and often distressing ideas, images, or urges that spur of the moment come into a person’s mind. This is very distressing, not so easy to live with, more so, if they have persisted for a long

Awareness

Hypercriticality and Verbal Abuse  

Hypercriticism and verbal abuse are two contrary behaviours that go hand in hand and greatly affect the mental health, relationships, and well-being of human beings. Hypercriticality is an over-the-top inclination toward fault finding or severe, often excessive, and unwarranted criticism.

Awareness Education

What is the Pink Elephant Test?

What happens immediately if you’re instructed not to think about a pink elephant? Are you surprised that a pink elephant pops up in your thoughts? That was a test to demonstrate the incessant struggle of subduing your thoughts. This thought

Life Style

How to Declutter Your Mind (Beyond Meditation) 

Brought into today’s fast and information-rich world, it is very easy to feel mentally occupied. Thoughts compete for attention, while the increasing number of digital distractions and the constant burden of responsibilities create even more mental clutter. Many people prefer

Awareness Positive

The Connection Between Mindfulness and Flow

The richness of present-moment experience is the richness of life itself. Too often we let our thinking and our beliefs about what we ‘know’ prevent us from seeing things as they really are. Kabat-Zinn  How often can you completely focus

Awareness Education

What Decolonising Psychology Teaches About Cultural Sensitivity

We are well aware of the state of mental health and its level of awareness in India, but we rarely pause to understand why this might be the case. Sure, we observe the reluctance of the general population to accept