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 […]
Category Archives: Positive Psychology
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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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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!
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Before we could answer this question, we have to answer several others. First we needed to find out if explanatory style is stable across a whole life time. If optimism while you are young is to affect your health into old age,
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What would your world look like if Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many other networking platforms didn’t reside on your phone or laptop? I quit Facebook and Instagram (these were the only two ones I was using) 6 months back and this is what my world looks like now: 1. I can get more work done […]
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We usually believe that we are in the ‘right’ state to receive our friends when we’ve tidied up our sofas, hidden the packs of chips and chocolates, dusted the magazines and the books, fluffed up our cushions, hidden our wrecked diaries under the mattress, put together a three-course meal (a meal I’d never feed myself […]
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In this article, we ask ourselves if an idle mind is actually the devil’s workshop.
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Many a times, those that occupy the four walls of our homes complain when our work is written all over pyjamas, our dinner table conversation or our sleep. They complain about how we are unable to leave our work in the office. This can lead to fights to couples sleeping on the two edges of […]
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One of the most powerful ways to change the atmosphere of the mind is to cultivate gratitude in our lives.