Having a sense of control is an innate human characteristic. Except for a small percentage of highly creative, abstract thinking individuals, probably the vast majority of us want to have some certainty in life. Predictability in outcomes makes you feel secure and…
Technostress is the new buzzword. Simply put, Technostress is the stress induced explicitly or implicitly due to the usage of Technology. Just think about how technology has impacted our living. The pervasiveness and its accessibility are making new inroads. Televisions…
God speaks through our desires. If there is a universal divine who manifested this galaxy, solar systems, and multitude of universes, surely he had a desire. Willa Carter, the Pulitzer prize winner said ““The world is little, people are little,…
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re in a professional, personal, moral or ethical decision making moment and need to make a choice? You’d wish there was someone you can use as a sounding board. In my own life,…
A hiatus and a long one indeed in connecting with you. These last few months have been a great learning experience for me personally. It highlighted the need for retooling myself regularly on my own discipline. A couple of events…
There is a story that a visitor once asked the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr whether he really believed that the horseshoe he’d hung at his country home was lucky. “Of course not,” Bohr said. “But I understand it’s lucky…
Between our stimulus and response there is a choice. It is in that choice we have the power to influence our action. Thoughts impact feelings, Feelings impact Emotions, Emotions cause Actions. A stimulus causes the chain of neuro triggers – thoughts,…
I had been to a meeting at a suburb country side location. It was an unfamiliar place with narrow and winding roads. The night was dark and the moon was hiding behind the clouds. As it repeatedly happens, my car…
The recent explosions in Brussels killing about 20 people and leaving around 230 wounded, raises the question again “Why do bad things happen?” More importantly, Why do bad things happen to good people? Conversely, it can also be asked “Why…
The topic of self-compassion is a bit alien. When was the last time someone said, “Be compassionate towards yourself.” Self-Compassion is needed in addition to being compassionate towards others. As Dr. Kristin Neff puts it “when you are self-compassionate, we…
