Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

Let’s hear it from our counsellors – the master of this skill! Empathic confrontation is one of the many influencing skills that are used by counsellors when a sense of stuckness is encountered by the client. Stuckness, a term that has its origins in Fritz’s Gestalt theory, refers to being in a state of lack […]

 It’s the poetic spiritual sensibility of Zen that we shall be looking at in this article, a sensibility that is resonated in Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, built on three sentences only.

Quite often, even though our calendars are filled with crosses and short phrases, our hearts feel empty. We may know better about where we will be in the next five years than we know about in the next five seconds. We seem to be suffering from an excess of orderliness, caution and structural rigidity and […]

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain But how does a woman, living in this youth-obsessed world, avoid or escape the judgement sent her way each time she speaks to someone, opens a magazine, walks into a store or just goes online? How does […]

Not being able to get enough sleep is extremely frightening. We panic over why we cannot sleep, we panic over how we will meet the demands of the next day and then we panic over how little time is left for us to catch some sleep. Our generation has probably only one solution for insomnia […]

The true self has been the main topic of investigation in the Upanishads. We may select three Upanishads – the Chhandogya, the Mundukya and the Katha for our present purpose.

Nandita Kochar Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer behind what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) – which has 12,67,069 words in it. The text was published in French in 7 volumes, spanning over 14 years. And was immediately hailed […]

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 […]

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 […]