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Dealing With Obsessive Perfectionism

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / December 29, 2011 / managing anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, self esteem, stress management

‘I strive to be perfect!! Well, not always; but there are a few areas where I seek perfection.’ Such areas could be studies, one’s appearance or work related projects. Perfectionism in one or more areas is a trait some of us identify with. We want a perfect state of mind before we begin work and a smooth, perfect route to task completion. The question I want to raise here is – Does the quest for perfection help or hurt? You might say, “both”.

My next question would be, “does it hurt more than it helps?” Wait a minute, you don’t have to answer me immediately.
I’d like you to take a few minutes though and think about this before you continue reading. It is an important question for you.

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WHY WINNING COULD BE A DISAPPOINTMENT

5 Comments / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / August 28, 2011 / achieve goals, managing emotions, self help, stress management

The list is out! You’re in! After a million hours of preparation and a zillion prayers, you’ve got through to the IIM! You’re officially and rightfully part of the top niche. Your dream has come true. A flashback flashes through your mind:

Sitting in school – day dreaming of IIM,
giving board examinations – mugging for IIM,
extra-currics in college – building a CV for IIM,
slogging for CAT, GDs and PI – preparing for IIM,
staring at the list – already in IIM!

It’s been your goal for as long as you can remember and you have proved to be worthy of it.
But something doesn’t feel right.

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KINDNESS: MORALITY OR A WAY TO MENTAL HEALTH?

5 Comments / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / August 15, 2011 / compassion, how to be kind, mental health, mind and body, negative thoughts

Be Kind. Not just because it makes you look good, but primarily because it makes you ‘feel’ good. I would understand kindness as helping another person, in any way you can, without expecting anything in return. Kindness is not defined in magnitude, but only the purity of intent. Be it giving tons of money to charities or helping an old person cross the street – it’s all equally important and significant.

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SILENCE : PEACE IN A “NOISY” WORLD

Leave a Comment / Stress Management / Inner Space Team / July 27, 2011 / being in the present, inner peace, mental health, mindfulness, slowing down, stress management

Our lives today are full of noise – auditory, visual, tactile, cognitive etc. From honking cars, to bright neon billboards, uncomfortably tight clothing to endless worries, there is an overload of stimulus input from all these modalities. This understandably overworks and gradually exhausts our sense organs, our mind, our body and our very nerves.

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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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YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

5 Comments / Stress Management / Sadia Saeed / June 14, 2011 / conflicts, managing anger, managing anxiety, negative thoughts, relationship issues, stress management

What happens when what you think does not agree with what you also think?

Whether you are aware of it or not, it happens all the time! That’s the phenomenon sophisticatedly known in psychology as cognitive dissonance. Let’s take an example we knew in our childhood. Haven’t we all heard of the story of the fox and the sour grapes? In the story the fox has two conflicting thoughts: -“the grapes are sweet’. “I cannot have them.”

The fox’s resolution of the conflict is inducing the belief “the grapes are sour”. What the fox technically does is resolves its state of cognitive dissonance because it is too difficult to accept the two conflicting thoughts.

Much as we laugh and scorn at this silly fox, we do similar things all the time.

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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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THE BEGINNING…

1 Comment / Stress Management / Sadia Saeed / March 13, 2011 / achieve goals, self help, setting goals, stress management

It’s always uneasily wonderful to start a new journey, a new practice, settle in a new place or start a new blog. ‘New’ is delicate, adventurous, beautiful, thrilling and uncertain. With me, as luck would have it, the uneasiness of starting to write the first post on this website was largely allayed and I could enjoy just the thrill of what was wonderful.

I owe this mainly to something I was reading a few months ago…

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HOW TO STOP THINKING EXCESSIVELY: OVERTHINKING PART II

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