February 14th is an exciting day for young and old lovers alike. It can be a day of celebration of love. Love of all hues and colours, with all its grandness and simplicity. It gives me great pleasure to greet you all on the occasion of Valentine’s Day and say that I Love You All [...]
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This Valentine’s Day, Love All !
Posted in Love, adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, greetings, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adjustments and compromises, commitment, commitment phobia, common interests, connotations, emotional closeness, emotional drifting, everlasting love, greetings, infatuation, intimacy, limitless and unconditional, Love, marriage, passion, physical attraction, proximity, roses, sharing and caring, spiritual, valentine's day, youth on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged emotional immaturity, emotions, laterality, learning disability, memory, reading expressions on other's face, right-left confusion, sequencing, spatial ability, specific learning disability, symptoms of LD on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let me once again make it very clear to all that the intention of my posts on Learning Disability is early identification and early intervention so that most of these kids will come out of the problem or the damages are minimized or intelligent kids are helped to make their own strategies to overcome the issues bogging [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 2
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged ADHD, learning disability on January 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In my first post on Dyslexia, I had mentioned that some children will have difficulties in the psychological processes of acquiring language, understanding and using it. Let me mention which are those psychological processes:
Attention
Sensory input or sensation
Perception (integration of all the sensory inputs inside the brain and making sense of them)
Cognition (understanding the information and [...]
ADOPTION and related issues – 4
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adoption in indian context, conditions for adoption, procedure on January 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In this post I would like to discuss other issues connected with adoption, more in the context of Indian milieu.
Who are the ones who generally adopt a child?
Married couples who have not had a child of their own, due to various reasons, who now want to go in for adoption.
Married couples who have their biological child/children [...]
ADOPTION and related psychological issues – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, betrayal of trust, birth parents, child, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, honesty and trust, parent, search for roots, Self support group, Sudatta Bangalore, teenage adoptees, teenage identity crisis on January 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Many of the doubts and confusions about adoption are alleviated during the pre-adoption counselling sessions. Here it is very important to note that both the husband and wife need to be in total consensus to go in for adoption. In case one of them is not too sure or hesitant or unwilling, it is imperative [...]
ADOPTION and related psychological issues – 1
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, betrayal of trust, birth parents, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, revealation by third party on January 2, 2008 | 19 Comments »
As a psychological counsellor, I have come across many adoptive parents and adopted children seeking counselling for various emotional issues. And somewhere deep down in my heart I used to wonder if I had counselled them effectively or not. Some times it becomes very difficult to transport myself into the minds of my clients and experience [...]
Fear – biological or behaviour based?
Posted in adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, genetic engineering, life skills, our mind, personality, psychology, research, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged cats and rats, fear, fearlessness, genetic modification, innate trait, internal enemies, soul modification on December 16, 2007 | 11 Comments »
People have a variety of fears. Some fear darkness, some fear animals, some others fear loss of face, some people fear death of self or death of loved ones and other so many. Some even have irrational, inexplicable fears of such high intensity that can upset the quality of their everyday life. Such intense, irrational [...]
Fate vs Free will
Posted in adding dimensions, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged fate, free will, karma, sri sri sri chandrashekhara bharathi swamiji of sringer on December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“There is only a thin dividing line between the attitude of escapism and acceptance”
it made me wonder how so many of us take the easy route of saying that something is “my karma and hence I have to bear it”, instead of putting sincere effort to alleviate the difficult situation! Whenever we feel lazy to [...]
8 facts about me – i am tagged :( :)
Posted in adding dimensions, food for thought, philosophy, tagged, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged facts s(h)elf, introspection, self awareness, tagged on December 11, 2007 | 8 Comments »
arvind has tagged me. i did not know what was tagging and he explained that it is like a game and i now need to state 8 facts about me. which of the 8 ones out of soooooooo many shall i write here?? well, this is sort of ’self awareness’ test for me! let me [...]
setting up the new blog
Posted in adding dimensions, tagged setting up, shifting on December 10, 2007 | 5 Comments »
hi, i am slowly shifting from my blogger account to wordpress and the relocation and setting up the new blog is quite exciting! like setting up a new home! ofcourse some sentiments too remain about the previous home. need to feel grateful to ‘blogger’ for the launch i got as a blogger. and all the [...]
