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 »
High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!
Posted in fashion, food for thought, life's dilemmas, people, psychology, research, science, sexuality, society, thoughts and emotions, women, youth, tagged breaking bones, fall, fashion, high heeled shoes, Italian scientists, junk research, pelvic muscles, podiatrists, research, sex appeal, sexuality, walking with high-heeled soes, women-libido on February 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, bangalore Edition, dated 7th Feb 08, found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!
They have found out that wearing high heeled shoes can boost a [...]
Britney Spears and Bipolar Disorder
Posted in Bipolar disorder, Psychological disorders, celebrities, habits n addictions, life's dilemmas, people, personality, personality disorder, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged 2 boy kids in 2 years, addictions, alcohol, attention seeking, Baby one more time First Album, bald hairstyle, Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Britney Spears, celebrities, counselling, cusotdy battle, custody battle, delusions, depression, divorce, elation, hallucinations, Harper's Bazaar, jason alewxandra, justin timberlake, kevin federline, lip lock, madonna, Manic Depressive Disorder, marriage, mood disorder, mood swings, MTV music award, new album Black out, poor parenting skills, posing nude for a magazine, psycho education, psycho therapy, psychotic features, rehab centres, suicidal, teenage fame, timberlake on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The whole of last week saw all news papers covering the story of Britney Spears’ hospitalization, for the second time in a month for her mental illness. She has been diagnosed as suffering from Bipolar Disorder. Before we discuss what exactly is Bipolar disorder, lets have a peep at her life story so far:
Britney was [...]
Do not drink and drive!
Posted in MotorAccidents, disability, food for thought, youth, tagged limb loss, motor accidents, spare parts, speed kills on February 7, 2008 | Comments Off
Please see my “view n review” page. Thanks.
New pic has replaced the one on adoption that was there earlier.
Safer India
Posted in empowering, life's dilemmas, notice to readers, people, society, spreading awareness, youth, tagged crimes in india, Kiran Bedi, Safer india, tell your friends on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello all,
this is the information that I received from Vandana through email. I am sure it will come of use to any of us or our kith and kin. Thank you, vandana.
This is very imprortant information about a web site called as www.saferindia.com .
This is a site of an NGO started by Ms Kiran [...]
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, procedure, conditions for adoption 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 adoption, adoptive parents, adopted children, betrayal of trust, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, birth parents, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, parent, child, Sudatta Bangalore, Self support group, teenage adoptees, search for roots, teenage identity crisis, honesty and trust 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 – 2
Posted in adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, personality, 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, parent on January 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
So which is the right age to inform the child that it was adopted? well, those who have made a long term study of teh cases opine that it is best to inform the child as soon as you start interacting with it. In your day to day activities, whenever there arises an opportunity to [...]
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 adoption, adoptive parents, adopted children, betrayal of trust, revealation by third party, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, birth parents 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 [...]
Usher in 2008 with some food for thought!
Posted in education, empowering, food for thought, greetings, life's dilemmas, people, philosophy, psychology, society, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged food for thought, His Holiness Sri Dalai Lama, make a difference in life, paradoxes of our times, value erosion on December 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My dearest readers,
My heartiest greetings to all of you for the New Year 2008!
May we all be lead from insensitivity to sensitivity; self-centredness to other-centredness; ignorance to wisdom!
Here are some sentences from the spiritual guru His Holiness Sri Dalai Lama upon the Paradoxes of Our Times. Even if you have read it elsewhere before , I [...]
