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PREVENTING DEPRESSION – BOOSTING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL IMMUNITY

Leave a Comment / Stress and Mental Health / By Inner Space Team / October 1, 2011 January 20, 2023 / change self, dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to overcome depression, mental health

Depression is often triggered by untoward traumatic events that one is unable to deal with emotionally. These events may be sudden and severe like accidents, gradual and continuous like terminal illness or even ongoing and day-to-day like conflicted relationships. At any given time, many people are affected by the particular trauma. However, only a few end up suffering from depression. What makes some people more likely than others to suffer from depression?

MINDFULNESS DAY 2011

Leave a Comment / Mindfulness / By Sadia Saeed / September 12, 2011 January 20, 2023 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, how to calm mind, how to reduce stress, mind relaxation

Finally the Mindfulness Day is here- 12th September 2011! And I have a mindfulness plan.

Since mindfulness is about being in the present moment completely and fully, here are two things I have planned to do today to celebrate mindfulness. I would love it if you, in the privacy of your own spaces and minds join me in whichever suits you. We may not do these everyday, although that is the attempt, but today maybe a start to being mindful…Maybe you will have an entire day of mindfulness someday.

ARE YOU FEELING LOW OR ARE YOU DEPRESSED?

1 Comment / Stress and Mental Health / By Inner Space Team / September 6, 2011 January 20, 2021 / change self, dealing with negative emotions, how to be happy, how to overcome depression, mental health, negative thoughts

The term “depression” is becoming increasingly commonplace today. Often people believe they have gone through depression but today we want to question whether it is really so! The number of people suffering from depression is definitely on the rise, but while it is as widespread as to be the common cold of mental disorders, it still isn’t as common as common cold!

DEALING WITH JEALOUSY IN FRIENDSHIP

Leave a Comment / Issues in Adolescence / By Inner Space Team / August 2, 2011 November 30, 2022 / dealing with negative emotions, how to communicate, relationship problems, self-help, teenage problems

Jealousy is a difficult emotion to deal with. It becomes that much more difficult however; when we’re jealous of a close friend, who we also love. Two opposite emotions – affection and jealousy clash…and perhaps leave us agonized. The closer we are to the friend, the worse it could get. Every time we meet the friend, we’re reminded of how he/ she is better than we are…and how we are not good enough. Leaving the situation unaddressed could prove detrimental to the friendship, to our emotional well being or to both

WHY MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS WORK INSPITE OF PROBLEMS

1 Comment / Marriage and Couples Therapy / By Sadia Saeed / July 21, 2011 February 1, 2023 / a good marriage, dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to communicate, relationship problems

A happy marriage or relationship is where both partners understand each other, love each other unconditionally, communicate effectively and love doing little nothings for each other- so we are told. Those marriages or couples that are not like this are not quite there!

However, we see in our own lives and in lives of those close to us, a number of relationships do not have these qualities. And yet, they last! Some for decades! Ever wondered how is it that without these so assumed ‘basic’ needs, relationships still last?

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

1 Comment / Stress and Mental Health / By Inner Space Team / June 28, 2011 February 1, 2023 / dealing with negative emotions, how to calm mind, how to reduce stress, how to stop worrying, mental health, stop thinking

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.

YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

5 Comments / Self Help and Improvement / By Sadia Saeed / June 14, 2011 November 22, 2022 / dealing with negative emotions, negative thoughts, relationship problems, self-help

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.

MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE: FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE

1 Comment / Self Help and Improvement / By Inner Space Team / May 31, 2011 January 20, 2021 / dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to reduce stress, negative thoughts

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.

LIVING IN THE NOW- THE HADZA WAY

2 Comments / Mindfulness / By Sadia Saeed / April 30, 2011 January 20, 2021 / be in the present, dealing with negative emotions, How to be positive, how to do meditation, how to reduce stress, self-help

Why do we suffer? Like a lot of you who would read this, I too ask the same question. Trying to answer that might lead us to an entirely philosophical and spiritual debate, which is not the aim of this piece. However, the question-what is the best way to diminish this suffering seems to often result in one answer-live in the now-in the present moment. This holds merit whether we arrive at it through the Zen or Buddhist path or through the Choice theory and Cognitive therapy path. And yet we find that living in the present is no easy task, although the present is all we have.

dealing with negative emotions

PREVENTING DEPRESSION – BOOSTING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL IMMUNITY

MINDFULNESS DAY 2011

ARE YOU FEELING LOW OR ARE YOU DEPRESSED?

DEALING WITH JEALOUSY IN FRIENDSHIP

WHY MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS WORK INSPITE OF PROBLEMS

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

YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE: FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE

LIVING IN THE NOW- THE HADZA WAY

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