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Kolam and Cognition

As you walk through the charming lanes of southern India, you can’t help but be amazed by the elaborate geometric designs that grace each doorway. This traditional craft, called Kolam, entails utilizing rice flour to create ornamental patterns. Kolam is

Health

The Adverse Effects of Air Pollution on Mental Well-Being

Air pollution is the term used to describe any chemical, physical, or biological factor that tampers with the natural properties of the atmosphere to contaminate the indoor or outdoor environment. Common causes of air pollution include motor vehicles, industrial operations,

Awareness

Exploring Trauma Dumping: Impact and Coping Strategies

People have a variety of stress reactions following a traumatic event, including “trauma dumping.” Trauma dumping, often referred to as emotional dumping, is when someone inappropriately and excessively communicates their painful experiences or emotional suffering with others, frequently without taking

Relationship

Understanding and Overcoming Fear of Intimacy

Fear of intimacy is a subconscious fear of proximity that regularly disrupts people’s intimate relationships. This fear of physical and/or emotional intimacy frequently manifests in people’s closest and most meaningful relationships. While we may be conscious of our apprehension and

Positive Self Help

‘Attaining the Unattainable: The Psychology Behind The Romantic Chase

Have you ever found yourself head over heels for someone? Where the only thing that seemed to matter was getting their attention and winning them over. The process of attainment that sent an exhilarating rush down your spine, but lost

Self Help

Forgiveness – The Golden Virtue 

Great beings in the past have said that forgiveness is not for someone else but rather for yourself. Harboring anger and hurt is like holding a piece of charcoal in your own hand and expecting the other person to burn.

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Noise: A disturbing movie about Displaced Anger

Your anger will pass. But your mean words can scar a person for life. Sandhya Ram Mahindra’s short movie Noise foregrounds the ill effects of displaced aggression and illustrates how anger pollutes the emotional environment. A poignant, disturbing movie portraying

Positive Self Help

Gratitude: A Key to Happiness

Gratitude has been understood from multiple perspectives. According to the state view, gratitude can be defined as the state of thankfulness for all. That is important to an individual. From the trait perspective, it can be understood as the disposition

Awareness

Frozen No More: Conquer Mood Freezing, Find Peace

The phrase “mood freezing” refers to an experiment conducted in 1984 using “mood-freezing pills.” To fix the respondents’ current moods, the researchers in the study purposely irritated the participants and gave them placebos, or tablets that freeze emotions. The respondents’

Awareness

Neuro-aesthetics: The Science of Beauty and The Brain

Fundamentally, Neuro-aesthetics is an approach to aesthetics that draws on neurology as a technique of inquiry, in contrast to other approaches that have relied on psychological or philosophical models. Accordingly, Neuro-aesthetics investigates the neural mechanisms underlying aesthetic behavior. The idea