In the troubled times that we live, anyone who is seen sitting alone at a coffee shop or at a dinner table, enjoying some food or coffee is viewed as pitiable and sad. Those around him or her make an immediate attempt to ask them to join them. It’s not acceptable to be okay and […]
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Developed by Carl Rogers in the United States roughly between 1940 and 1990, person-centered counselling rests on the belief that humans at their deepest level are essentially positive, growth-oriented (self-actualizing tendency) and trustworthy. Rogers believed the human personality to be consisting of a few hypothesized psychic structures – organismic experience i.e. the total experience of […]
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Some people view life as a battleground; if they don’t win, they leave the field with an extremely disheartened face and maintain this attitude until they win again. Others see life as an adventure where each day brings new opportunities to help the self grow. We all have our varying understanding of life. And most […]
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When was the last time someone put aside everything to listen to you? And made you feel like every single word you said carried an important story, no matter how small or big? How did that make you feel? Significant? Accepted? Appreciated? This is the power of deep listening. I thoroughly enjoy myself when I […]
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Maybe at some point in the day, you find yourself gazing at the clouds beyond the curtains or slowly sipping onto your tea or brushing your hands against the soft fur of your pet or noticing the texture of what you are wearing or relishing the taste of what is over your tongue. And at […]
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Empathy is an essential ingredient for successful counseling. Empathy allows counselors to step into our clients’ stories and experience their worlds with them so that we can forge strong bonds to build an effective therapeutic relationship that allows us to journey with our clients. Carl Rogers made it clear that we need to listen carefully, enter the […]
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Building a genuine relationship does not happen overnight. It takes a lot of little efforts and tonnes of intent to make the relationship sustain. Here are a few sayings by using which you can start the journey for both you and your partner towards a more fulfilling relationship – “I was thinking of you.” We […]
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Nandita Kochar A man decided one day to leave his life as a businessman and wander in the search of truth. As he moved out of his city, he saw an old man sitting under a tree. The young man did not know where to head in the search of truth. He had been told […]
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Ramakrishna Paramahansa was an Indian Hindu mystic and saint in the nineteenth century Bengal. Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk and a chief disciple of Ramakrishna. Once Ramakrishna attained enlightenment, his focus on Vivekananda grew even more since he saw the latter as a means to spread his message around the world; he saw […]
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What do Positive Psychologists have to say about the time when you got so engrossed in reading a book that you became oblivious to everything else!