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FINDING THE MIDDLE ROAD TO MENTAL HEALTH

2 Comments / Stress and Mental Health / By Sadia Saeed / March 13, 2013 February 7, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, how to reduce stress, how to stop thinking, mental health, mind and body

“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!

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional

PAIN IN LIFE – WHY IT IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING

2 Comments / Stress and Mental Health / By Sadia Saeed / February 20, 2013 February 7, 2023 / change self, dealing with negative emotions, how to be happy, how to reduce stress

Going through pain in life is inevitable.

You know this. Oh yes, you often want to believe you can escape it by being “overly” careful. But deep inside… all of us know, we will go through pain!

An imperfect life scattered with pain, physical and emotional, makes you feel like life and people are unfair. When you are in pain, your mind says, “I deserve happiness, not yet another pain!” You work hard at your happiness, at work and at home. You try your best not to hurt others and to be steadfast and responsible.

Somehow, you still encounter pain and sorrow, sometimes right after a happy event.

You feel angry and dejected. You ask life, ‘why?’

THE BURDEN: A STORY TO HELP YOU STOP WORRYING

6 Comments / Inspirational Stories / By Inner Space Team / November 1, 2012 January 16, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, how to calm mind, how to stop worrying, Mindfulness, self-help

“When walking, walk. When eating, eat”. This popular Zen proverb had me bewildered about it’s meaning at first sight, some months ago. In good time, I realized that most of us think while eating, walking, sleeping, and a whole lot of other things.

Dealing with emotions and feelings mindfully

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 7 – DEALING WITH EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS

2 Comments / Mindfulness / By Sadia Saeed / October 16, 2012 February 9, 2023 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to reduce stress, mental health week 2012, mindfulness exercises, understanding feelings

Okay! So here we come to the end of the Mental Health Week with our last post, and all along we have made it a week of mindfulness for you and for us.

As promised in the last post, we are taking you into somewhat deeper levels of mindfulness since the last two days. In today’s post we will work on mindfulness with emotions and feelings. As in the last six days, we will do a small exercise to help you observe your emotions, mindfully. But before the exercise a little bit more on observing emotions:

How can emotions and feelings be observed?

You know when you are happy, sad, angry, disappointed and so on… Well how do you know? Maybe you will quickly answer “I just know”! But this is mindfulness week remember? We do everything with a pause…so I Invite you to try to not answer immediately! Take a moment and think on how you know what you feel. Think before you go on reading…

UNDERSTAND TEENAGE SUICIDE: GET INTO THEIR SHOES

2 Comments / Issues in Adolescence / By Sadia Saeed / September 11, 2012 February 7, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, emotional problems in children, how to overcome depression, Parenting, parents and children, teenage problems

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 / Marriage and Couples Therapy / By Sadia Saeed / September 1, 2012 February 2, 2014 / dealing with negative emotions, how to communicate, how to reduce stress, managing anger, marriage problems, understanding feelings

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.

SIMPLE WAYS TO BE IN THE PRESENT

1 Comment / Mindfulness / By Sadia Saeed / July 20, 2012 January 20, 2023 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, how to reduce stress, mind and body, 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 🙂

JUST FOR TODAY – BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF SELF GROWTH

1 Comment / Self Help and Improvement / By Inner Space Team / March 22, 2012 February 7, 2023 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, how to change self

Become the person that you want to be…one day at a time.

We all have an image of our ideal self, the kind of human being we would like to be, of the kind of life we would like to live. But more often than not, reality has a different plan for us. No matter how much we want to be the tranquil, equanimous, all-accepting, ever-blissful Buddha, somehow we end up being the angry, frustrated and anxious poor Joe instead.

7 MOST EFFECTIVE MENTAL HEALTH TIPS: TIP 5

1 Comment / Self Help and Improvement / By Inner Space Team / October 14, 2011 January 20, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, irrationality, mental health week 2011, negative thoughts, rational emotive behavior therapy

TIP 5: Identify Irrational Thought Patterns

‘I should be loved by everyone for everything I do.’ How does this statement sound to you? Chances are it will sound unrealistic, irrational and almost impossible. How can anybody be loved by everyone for everything they do?

Let me introduce a situation here. You are at a party, exchanging pleasantries with other folk. You spot someone you know across the room. You generously walk up and say ‘hi’. That person however barely acknowledges you and walks away. How are you likely to feel? Are you more likely to dismiss it and say, ‘never mind, he must have been frustrated’ or to dwell upon how ‘disrespectful’ and ‘insulting’ a gesture that was?

7 MOST EFFECTIVE MENTAL HEALTH TIPS: TIP 3

Leave a Comment / Self Help and Improvement / By Inner Space Team / October 12, 2011 January 20, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, how to be happy, how to overcome depression, how to reduce stress, mental health week 2011, negative thoughts, self-help

TIP 3: YOU Play a Very Important Part in the Solution of YOUR Problems

Why are you unhappy?

Only 3 possible sources:

– The situation

– Other people

– Yourself

Not convinced with the third option? Read on.

Most of us feel that our emotional suffering and pain are created by situations or people. However, the only one who has any power to make you happy or unhappy is YOU. Our emotional responses are triggered by our own perception of a situation or event only.

dealing with negative emotions

FINDING THE MIDDLE ROAD TO MENTAL HEALTH

PAIN IN LIFE – WHY IT IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING

THE BURDEN: A STORY TO HELP YOU STOP WORRYING

HOW TO BE MINDFUL?: EXERCISE 7 – DEALING WITH EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS

UNDERSTAND TEENAGE SUICIDE: GET INTO THEIR SHOES

INDIAN MARRIAGE: STRAINED BY CHANGING WOMEN’S ROLES?

SIMPLE WAYS TO BE IN THE PRESENT

JUST FOR TODAY – BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF SELF GROWTH

7 MOST EFFECTIVE MENTAL HEALTH TIPS: TIP 5

7 MOST EFFECTIVE MENTAL HEALTH TIPS: TIP 3

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