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THE SEEDS OF SELF ESTEEM – ‘INITIATIVE VERSUS GUILT’

1 Comment / Children / Inner Space Team / July 14, 2011 / behavioral problems in children, for children, parenting, self esteem, self love

‘Initiative versus Guilt’ is one of the eight stages of psychosocial development proposed by pioneering psychoanalyst Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994). Each of the stages described by Erikson constitute a milestone in personality development, wherein the child is faced with a primary psychological issue / theme/ conflict that he/she needs to resolve satisfactorily for healthy development of the personality. For eg., the conflict faced by the child in its first year is, “ Is the world a good and safe place to live in?” and in its second year is, “Am I capable of controlling my environment?”

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Improving Memory For Learned Material

2 Comments / Children / Inner Space Team / July 7, 2011 / for children, for teens, issues in school, learning and memory

It is the beginning of the academic year. It will soon be time to slog it out with those never ending chapters, long notes and innumerable details to know and remember. I wish to share with you few ways that could make our efforts more effective and worthwhile.

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HOW TO STOP THINKING EXCESSIVELY: OVERTHINKING PART II

1 Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / July 2, 2011 / article series, negative thoughts, overthinking, stress management

Most of us have experienced or rather suffered rumination at some time, either temporarily or more chronically. Hence, we are here reading more about it. Now that we have understood what rumination is and why it doesn’t work for us more clearly, how do we stop this process?

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WHY THINKING A LOT DOESN’T HELP: OVERTHINKING-PART I

1 Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / June 28, 2011 / article series, negative thoughts, overthinking, stress management

Some people complain that “I just can’t seem to think” but a larger number, perhaps, find themselves trapped because they just can’t stop thinking! They find themselves thinking all the time – while watching TV, while working, eating and even in sleep! Psychology has a name for it. Rumination.

Rumination is the process of pondering or thinking over something repetitively. It’s pretty much like a cow chewing over her food incessantly. Where rumination may help the cow’s health, it isn’t really helpful for our mental health.

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TOUCH – A POWERFUL SENSE INDEED!!

Leave a Comment / Children / Inner Space Team / June 20, 2011 / awareness, communication, for children, managing emotions, mind and body, self help, workshops

“What’s in a touch?” one may ask. I came across an article on ‘psyblog’ ( read it here) that seemed to convey, “what is NOT in a touch?” The potency of touch as a means of communication is often underestimated. We often use ‘conversation’ or ‘talking’ and ‘communication’ synonymously, even while we surely have read about facial expressions and body language as being more powerful than spoken content while in interaction. Going one step ahead, body language immediately brings to our mind elements of body posture such as slouching, stooping, standing upright, having hands folded etc. Well, what we miss out on, possibly due to cultural norms, is that body language also involves touch.

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EFFECT OF REEL AGGRESSION: DESENSITIZATION

1 Comment / Parenting / Inner Space Team / June 2, 2011 / anger in children, behavioral problems in children, for children, managing anger, parenting

Desensitization to aggression is a much discussed issue. It refers to a psychological state where the impact of aggression fails to rub off on the mind, when we are “not affected” when we watch scenes of violence. While this could be great news for a good night’s sleep, experiencing it repeatedly could slowly begin to erode empathy out of our systems when such a situation occurs in real life.

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MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE: FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE

1 Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / May 31, 2011 / mindfulness, negative thoughts, positivity, self help

Whatever we focus on expands.

As human beings with limited resources of attention, we can only focus on a few things at a time. Naturally, whatever we invest energy and attention in, becomes more important and significant to us. In other words, it gets amplified. The other aspects of the situation are ignored.

Amplification is the process of making something larger and more important than it is, be it thoughts, emotions or experiences. Unfortunately, usually without even consciously realizing, most people focus on the negative aspects of situations. We’re always thinking of what all can go wrong, rather than what can go right. With this mode of thinking, people soon find themselves spiraling downwards into an abyss of anxiety, fear and depression.

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IT’S ALL IN THE DEFENSES…INDIA-PAKISTAN CRICKET

Leave a Comment / Anger Management / Inner Space Team / May 10, 2011 / anger management, calming the mind, irritability, self help, sports and games

2nd April 2011, Saturday night. India lifted the cricket world cup …and we were in a frenzy of celebration! It was a “dream come true” moment for team India and many of us across the country. An utterly delicious icing to the cake….the cake being our win over Pakistan. MS Dhoni made a particularly interesting comment about cricket fans’ expectations after their win against Australia in the quarter finals – “we don’t care about the finals, just win the SEMI-FINALS!!”. Why not? Ind/Pak clashes are always mouth-watering….probably even more than the match where we actually bagged the cup. Let us think about this…which match instantly stirred up a bigger adrenaline rush in us and meant sheer excitement? Ind-Pak or Ind-Sri Lanka? For most of us, the answer would be the former. Why so?

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RESCUING YOU RESCUES ME

3 Comments / Self-esteem / Inner Space Team / April 4, 2011 / managing emotions, negative thoughts, self esteem, self help

A lot of people that I have met recently seem to be caught in the classic rescuer complex. They live for others, their happiness, their needs, their wishes – the self is nowhere in the picture. You live for your parents, your spouse, your children, the community, even pets – absolutely anything that is external could be a worthy candidate. What about yourself, aren’t you worthy of your own love?

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VICARIOUS TRAUMA AND PTSD

5 Comments / Psychological Trauma / Inner Space Team / March 25, 2011 / coping with trauma, PTSD, Symptoms of trauma, trauma therapy, treatment of trauma

We suffer for stressful events that occur in our own lives and probably in the lives of those whom we love. However, can we also suffer intensely for painful events that occur in the lives of unknown people living miles away from us? The answer, though unexpected, is a definite yes.

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Inner Space Team

THE SEEDS OF SELF ESTEEM – ‘INITIATIVE VERSUS GUILT’

Improving Memory For Learned Material

HOW TO STOP THINKING EXCESSIVELY: OVERTHINKING PART II

WHY THINKING A LOT DOESN’T HELP: OVERTHINKING-PART I

TOUCH – A POWERFUL SENSE INDEED!!

EFFECT OF REEL AGGRESSION: DESENSITIZATION

MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE: FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE

IT’S ALL IN THE DEFENSES…INDIA-PAKISTAN CRICKET

RESCUING YOU RESCUES ME

VICARIOUS TRAUMA AND PTSD

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