Category Archives: Positive Psychology

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 […]

In this article, we ask ourselves if an idle mind is actually the devil’s workshop.

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 […]

One of the most powerful ways to change the atmosphere of the mind is to cultivate gratitude in our lives.

Watching your kids make their own decisions can be initially hard for a parent but it’s an essential. Here are a few guidelines about how to do it. 

  Nandita Kochar From the very beginning, we are taught that one of the biggest hurdles in the way of our flourishing is our own selfishness. We are asked to think more of other people when taking decisions, see how we are failing to view things from their perspective and be aware of the ways […]

As parents, we want what’s best for our children. We want to do everything possible from our end to help them grow into happy healthy adults. We want them to be the best possible version of themselves. So here are 3 Do’s and Don’ts for building your child’s emotional intelligence!

Nandita Kochar In its simplest form, balance theory is centered around the relation between a person and two attitude objects. These three elements are either connected by a favourable (liking, good, etc.) or unfavourable (hate, disgust, dislike, etc.) attitude. And so the structure formed by the relation between these three elements can be balanced or […]

Adding a pinch of mindfulness to the way we think gives us the freedom to separate ourselves from our thoughts, to say out loud, “I am not my thoughts!”

Man has turned upside down; by putting all the weight into the head, he has gone into a headstand. And with each passing day, we go on increasing the weight. When we send our children to school, they come back home merely with a little more weight in their heads. They are not able to learn anything else there.