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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 DO WE GET ANXIOUS?

2 Comments / Anxiety / Inner Space Team / November 28, 2011 / causes of anxiety, managing anxiety, mental health, stress management, treatment of anxiety

Anxiety – that uncomfortable feeling in the pit of your stomach, making you uneasy and jittery.. what causes that? Why do we get anxious?

A good chunk of the answer to this lies in our thought processes. We often have recurrent patterns of thought that cause, contribute to or maintain anxiety. Some such thoughts are described in this blog.

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‘Maybe’- A Zen Story

Leave a Comment / Inspirational Stories / Sadia Saeed / November 21, 2011 / gratitude, positivity, stress management, thankfulness, worrying, zen stories

I just love stories! The role of stories in conveying deeper meanings without appearing like direct instruction is unmatched. In my sessions too, I love citing cases or telling stories.

Zen stories are beautiful, in their simplicity and depth of meaning. Here is a lovely story which characterizes the meanings people attach to all events of life. The way we characterize situations as good or bad for us. It reveals simply the meaninglessness of attaching meanings. Read on and enjoy!

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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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FEELING OVERWORKED – WHAT YOU CAN DO

Leave a Comment / Stress at Work / Inner Space Team / August 20, 2011 / burnout, mental health, mind and body, slowing down, stress at work, stress management, work stress

Your alarm goes “trrrrrrrrrring” in the morning and your eyes are almost sealed shut.

Snooze.

Yet again “trrrrrrring”

Squirms, sighs, irritation.
You wake up to yet another day. Or yet another time-table? Let me narrate some more. Every hour of your day is like a timed, one-minute game. It’s all about speed, efficiency and energy and you are constantly feeling overworked.

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IDENTIFY YOUR TRUE PRIORITIES

Leave a Comment / Inspirational Stories / Inner Space Team / August 10, 2011 / being in the present, burnout, calming the mind, relaxation, self help, stress management

I’ve been running behind time for some time now. There’s always a lot to do and just not enough time to do all of it. What does one do then? We compromise. Do the “important” things first, and let the things that can wait, wait. More often than not, the things we keep postponing include the movie with family, the coffee with friends, the yoga class the doctor has recommended a 100 times or your favorite guitar, which now longs for your touch.

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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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Dealing With Obsessive Perfectionism

WHY DO WE GET ANXIOUS?

‘Maybe’- A Zen Story

WHY WINNING COULD BE A DISAPPOINTMENT

FEELING OVERWORKED – WHAT YOU CAN DO

IDENTIFY YOUR TRUE PRIORITIES

SILENCE : PEACE IN A “NOISY” WORLD

HOW TO STOP THINKING EXCESSIVELY: OVERTHINKING PART II

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

YOUR STRUGGLE WITH YOURSELF: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE

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