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Sadia Saeed

Sadia Saeed is the Founder & Chief Psychologist of Inner Space Counseling Centre. She has had a practice of 19 years. Her work involves individual psychotherapy for people with an orientation of deep personal growth, designing and facilitation of mindfulness programs and workshops for individuals and corporates. She is also the founder of Mindful Spring, which is a platform for enhancing personal and organisational well-being by enlisting the concepts and practices of mindfulness.

Mountain Meditation

Mountain Meditation for Staying Steady during Stressful Times

Stress is really an overused word and yet it is a defining aspect of our current, modern life. When you are in the loop of stress and constant thoughts, it is easy to forget that the calm, stable, mountain-like, steadiness is also within you, at that very moment, co-existing with the stress response. You may feel completely caught up in thoughts, may not see a solution to your problems, your energy may be totally expended and your body may be fatigued. And yet you are the mountain, strong, stable and steady! Both knowing and accessing this state while stressed can be difficult but here I am sharing with you a practice that will make it possible. This is the practice of Mountain Meditation. Some of you who have been a part of our 8 week mindfulness meditation course have already experienced it. Continue The Practice of Mountain Meditation Join Our Community and Read the Free E-Book ‘First Few Steps To Mindfulness’ Click here This is a great practice when you need to re-orient, ground yourself, deal with worry and fear and access the resources of stability and steadiness within you. Remember, right now you are what your attention is fixed on. Doing this practice is a way of moving your attention from the constant, stressful thinking and planning and taking some time to let your mind and body resources get renewed.   Here are both the English and the Hindi versions for you. All you need to do is sit comfortably with closed eyes and follow the audio. English Version Hindi Version share this blog! read similar blogs Manage Hypertension with Mindfulness On World Hypertension day, here is our sharing on how… Read More Inner Space TeamMay 16, 2022 How to Find Time to Meditate? How To Find Time To Meditate? How To Find Time… Read More Inner Space TeamFebruary 14, 2022 Benefits Of Mindfulness The Many Benefits Of Mindfulness Benefits Of Mindfulness Mindfulness helps… Read More Inner Space TeamSeptember 17, 2021 THE BURDEN: A STORY TO HELP YOU STOP WORRYING “When walking, walk. When eating, eat”. This popular Zen proverb… Read More Inner Space TeamNovember 1, 2012

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defense mechanisms

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK 2016 – “DEFENSE MECHANISMS”

We begin our theme-based series for the Mental Health Awareness Week 2016! We all use psychological defenses to help us cope with something which we find difficult to accept. So for this time, each day of this week, we will put up a post that highlights the defense mechanisms used by a fictional character that you know about.

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Staring at the sun

DEATH ANXIETY: A SILENT FRIEND

Death Anxiety is not simply anxiety about dying but anxiety about not living meaningfully. Culturally, we are averse to talking of death. However, awareness of one’s finite time on this planet in this form is probably one of the most important factors for living meaningfully. What “living well” means is unique to you but it requires some deep exploration from your end.

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Four

WE TURN FOUR!

This post is always my favorite post of the year because I ritually sit down with a nice cup of tea and I can indulge myself in reminiscing about all the wonderful people I saw in therapy, about their movement and growth, about all the work we put in as a team, the activities we did and all the articles we wrote thinking of all of you who read this space regularly.

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pain is an ally that lets you look within

DAY 6 : EMOTIONAL PAIN – AN UNUSUAL ALLY

In the end of this series of looking within, I want to talk about an unusual ally that aids you to look within yourself. In fact forces you to do so. –Pain. As I work with people and also with myself, I am more and more convinced that pain is actually a friend. Unless we are pained, helpless, sorrowful, we never really question or look for answers from life.

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BEST MENTAL HEALTH ARTICLES OF 2013

Thank you for reading, encouraging, and supporting us all along this year.

We think about you a lot when we decide what to write.

In a typical brainstorming session we try to raise and answer questions like: what are people looking for, what problems they need help with, what psychological difficulties are fostered by our environments today, in these changing times…

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a poem dedicated to ' therapist '

WE TURN THREE!

Inner Space turns three on the 26th of December 2013 and we also near the end of another year.

The year has been eventful, lots of action, work, an additional office, new associations, more therapists and so on. But amidst the enjoyable inertia of all this work and action, I want to remind myself and all the Inner Space therapists to not lose sight of why we started Inner Space…

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inner self

TO THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL IN YOU

You are able to live with yourself because you know you are fundamentally good!

You know that all your inadequacies and the not so good qualities exist either because they are judged that way by people around you or because you picked them up somewhere on the way because of the difficulties that life sent your way.

You are correct! The deepest core of you, of all of us, every person is beautiful.

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finding the middle road to mental health

FINDING THE MIDDLE ROAD TO MENTAL HEALTH

“Maybe you could try to get something done by this week”,

“Maybe you’re trying too hard, you could do with a little bit of letting go”

“There may be a lot more options you haven’t explored”

“It would help if you would stop exploring more and more options and instead focus on one”

“Maybe you could reach out to your partner more”,

“Maybe you could detach a bit from your partner and work with yourself instead!”

Yes I’m quoting myself! What in the world am I trying to do contradicting myself all over???

You’ll soon know!

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The Art of Listening