All Entries Tagged With: "Stress management"

Most people accept anger as a part of life. We all feel justified when we get angry and we can point to all the people and reasons for it. Certainly no one in their right mind could disagree. We all shake our heads as we hear of yet another “idiot driver who almost killed me”, the boss “who set me up to take the fall”, the spouse “who knows just the right buttons to push to send me over the edge”.

Whether stress kills or not, the talk of stress is so dominant in our lives, at home and work… be it a professional, a homemaker, or a school going child, ‘stress’ seems to the most hated, but most spoken word…

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt In recent weeks, I have been getting calls from clients who have lost or are about to lose their jobs. It [...]

Many productivity books have a drill sergeant running between the lines. Panic! So much to do to organize all that I have to do. The Power of Less is a sweet exception to that. Babauta’s energy is gentle and kind. No whistles. No drills. Just a zen-like understanding of what it takes to honour what’s essential.

My husband’s company went under two years ago and I lost my job 10 months ago. We are both unemployed for the first time, ever (remember, 45 here)

Many a time we are swept by that overwhelming feeling to bare all. Not to be mistaken with confession which is done after ensuring that there is nothing further to lose on account of reputation.

Have you come across anyone who is caught up in something very important and says so, which leaves you wondering what is so important about that task? Most probably you might have even faced such a situation where you are told to complete an important task and you drop everything else to do that while [...]

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato. And, this will remain true as long as human beings exist. Let’s ponder on why we need to play sports. Humans are nothing but an assembly of different kinds of energies. This includes positive and negative [...]

Several years ago I had the  good fortune to be mentored by a stunning individual.  Much of what I was ‘taught’ and the thinking I was exposed to simply went over my head.  Actually that’s not entirely true, it went in my head – the subconscious mind soaks up everything like a sponge, even if [...]

How many times have you laughed today? If research is anything to go by, the answer will be, not as much as you should have done.

Stress has become such an integral part of our lives, we end up rushing from errand to errand and thought to thought, with little or no regard for our bodies. No wonder a majority of ailments today are stress related ranging from physical symptoms like an increased blood pressure to mental symptoms like less concentration [...]

Push. Push. Push. And if that doesn’t accelerate the dream quickly enough, then push from a different angle. But keep pushing – that’s a given, right? Nope. Pushing maintains the swirl. Sometimes, what’s out of sight and zooming toward you isn’t quite here yet. A leap in another direction doesn’t always land you in a [...]

So here’s my new favourite concept: positive addiction. I just love the sound of it. It’s righteous and honest – a great combo. “I’m hooked, but it’s all good. No, really. I’m addicted, but it is positively healthy.” Like it. I was talking to a friend today (okay, it was my shrink), about my almost, [...]

To begin with, turned in late the previous night due to unavoidable circumstances? Over slept too as the alarm did not ring on the day? It should have but it did not. Got out of the wrong side of the bed? Burnt the toast? Missed the office pick-up? Starting problems with the engine? Rushed into [...]

While engrossed in work at home or in office, if we can be anchored in an inner calmness, it greatly helps. This needs developing and training self-awareness. Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, aptly describes this balanced state as being “Actively Calm & Calmly Active”. Some of the tell-tale signs of [...]

Work-life balance has become some kind of a cliche, and the more it figures in our talks, the less we seem to have of it. To begin with, the expression itself is a misnomer. Work is a part of life, how can we balance a part with the whole and is it not vain and [...]

Super moms are supposed to be good jugglers so we juggle a job, home, a child and a husband. Super moms are always on the go, so we drive our kids to soccer, ballet and museums. Super moms are known to be social, so we choose play dates on weekends instead of sleep. Sometimes I wonder, if we are secretly vying for the “super mom” label?