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HOW TO BE MINDFUL? – EXERCISE 1: AWARENESS OF THE PRESENT

Leave a Comment / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / October 10, 2012 January 6, 2024 / how to be mindful, how to meditate, managing emotions, meditation, mind and body, mindfulness, self help

The Mental Health week 2012 is here and just as last year (We highlighted 7 most effective Mental health tips during mental health week 2011), this year again we have a post a day lined up for you for all the seven days.

The theme we have decided to focus upon this time is mindfulness exercises, to help you understand how to be mindful. So every day, for a week starting from today, you will have one technique, one practice or exercise that you can reflect upon and attempt to enhance the joy of just living-mindfully.

UNDERSTAND TEENAGE SUICIDE: GET INTO THEIR SHOES

2 Comments / Teens / By Sadia Saeed / September 11, 2012 January 6, 2024 / for children, for teens, manage depression, managing emotions, mental health, negative thoughts, parenting, suicide, teen issues

A classmate of mine in school and college successfully hung herself from a fan… It was devastating… Years later here I am-a psychologist- with several hundred sessions of having heard the teenagers side of the story-the hopelessness, helplessness and the frustrations. When Rediff asked me to write about teenage suicide, everything came together 🙂

Changing roles of Indian women and relationship difficulties

INDIAN MARRIAGE: STRAINED BY CHANGING WOMEN’S ROLES?

Leave a Comment / Relationships / By Sadia Saeed / September 1, 2012 January 6, 2024 / communication, gender equality, managing emotions, marriage issues, negative thoughts, relationship issues

Marriages today are under duress and we all know that. The statement has been true for the past decade or so for a number of countries and India follows suit. The number of couples I see for therapy have at least quadrupled in the last decade.

When you make peace with something, it bothers you less

WHY ACCEPT A PROBLEM?

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / By Sadia Saeed / August 6, 2012 January 6, 2024 / negative thoughts, overthinking, stress management

What’s common between a daughter-in-law devastated by her mother-in-laws behaviour, a man who cannot bear the boredom of his work anymore, a parent who is terribly stressed because his child refuses to study, a man who cannot believe he has lost his wife so suddenly, and a woman who is overwhelmed because she has been diagnosed with breast cancer?

As I see it, a few things …

The situation is grave
It has taken the joy out of life
Most of the day and sometimes a good part of the night is spent in thinking about the problem and thinking how to resolve it
A sense of being stuck, and trapped- a feeling that I cannot get out of this…

Do you feel like this about some situation of your life?

SIMPLE WAYS TO BE IN THE PRESENT

1 Comment / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / July 20, 2012 January 6, 2024 / being in the present, how to be mindful, inner peace, meditation, mind and body, mindfulness, self help

I recently wrote an article on why our minds do not like to remain in the here and now. I now move on to elaborate how we can better manage to stay in the present. Read each step slowly and mindfully 🙂

FOCUSING EXCESSIVELY ON PROGRESS : HOW WE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STRESS AT WORK – II

3 Comments / Stress at Work / By Sadia Saeed / July 9, 2012 January 6, 2024 / burnout, mindfulness at workplace, perfectionism, stress management, work stress

In the previous section of this blog post, we described how you can identify if you are stressed because you are focusing too much on progress. In this section, we first dwell on why we sub-consciously develop this mindset. Then, we move on to describe what we can do to avoid over-focusing on progress.

What’s The Big Deal About Being In The Present?

10 Comments / Mindfulness and Meditation / By Sadia Saeed / June 18, 2012 January 6, 2024 / being in the present, meditation, mindfulness, slowing down

The mind as we all know is a faculty within us that has the capacity to stray and wander. It does not stay with what is present. There is no wonder then that it has been compared with a wild elephant or an untamed monkey. I would say it’s like a hungry animal that needs stimulating food for its palate all the time. Whenever it doesn’t get enough interesting stuff, it searches in another place.

FOCUSING EXCESSIVELY ON PROGRESS : HOW WE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STRESS AT WORK

Leave a Comment / Stress at Work / By Sadia Saeed / June 4, 2012 January 6, 2024 / burnout, mindfulness at workplace, perfectionism, stress management, work stress

Have you been experiencing stress at work? It’s possible that you have had a number of discussions with your colleagues about how stressful work is. Pay close attention to these discussions. What do they revolve around? Deadlines, budget restraints, high demands, salaries? Other people at work… your bosses, colleagues, juniors stressing you out?

What about “YOU”? We mean “YOU” as being a source of stress…

Doesn’t sound very good, isn’t it? After all why would you cause stress to yourself?

And yet you do! Actually most of us do!… Allow us to explain…

A Short Story On Happiness

12 Comments / Inspirational Stories / By Sadia Saeed / April 2, 2012 January 6, 2024 / being in the present, negative thoughts, positivity, zen stories

Here is a special story that shows us how we identify with happiness. Its a short Sufi, Middle-Eastern story taken from here. The Sack Mulla came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. “What’s wrong?” he asked. The man held up a tattered bag and moaned, “All that I own in this wide …

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“THE PERSON BEHIND THE PARENT” : GROUP SESSION FOR PARENTS

Leave a Comment / Miscellaneous / By Sadia Saeed / March 4, 2012 February 6, 2024 / awareness, for parents, parenting, workshops

The Inner Space Team announces a group session, ‘The Person behind the Parent’, on the 11th of March, 2012. We held one such session on the 20th of November, 2011 and felt the need to reach out to you once again with what we believe are important perspectives for every parent to consider. As a parent you have dropped your children off to classes, therapy sessions, have attended Parent-Teacher meetings, open houses, been called to school to hear complaints or praises, fretted, fumed, stressed and of course loved it to some extent.

Time to love yourself, we say!

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HOW TO BE MINDFUL? – EXERCISE 1: AWARENESS OF THE PRESENT

UNDERSTAND TEENAGE SUICIDE: GET INTO THEIR SHOES

INDIAN MARRIAGE: STRAINED BY CHANGING WOMEN’S ROLES?

WHY ACCEPT A PROBLEM?

SIMPLE WAYS TO BE IN THE PRESENT

FOCUSING EXCESSIVELY ON PROGRESS : HOW WE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STRESS AT WORK – II

What’s The Big Deal About Being In The Present?

FOCUSING EXCESSIVELY ON PROGRESS : HOW WE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STRESS AT WORK

A Short Story On Happiness

“THE PERSON BEHIND THE PARENT” : GROUP SESSION FOR PARENTS

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