Category Archives: Positive Psychology

Nandita Kochar 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 […]

According to Alan R. Hirsch’s report about nostalgia and the brain, nostalgia is “not a true recreation of the past, but rather a combination of many different memories, all integrated together… all negative emotions filtered out.”

We all wish to make our lives taste a bit sweeter, a bit happier and a bit more positive. So why wait until tomorrow for the taste to arrive on our tongue when we can have all of it today! Here are some tips to add some positivity to your life!

Nandita Kochar Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Haruki Murakami The death of a loved one, the loss of a treasured job, finding oneself to be extremely sick – these are all a few examples of traumatic experiences. One finds oneself in a pool of emotions and uncertainty at the end of such situations. […]

Nandita Kochar Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and the first person to ever devise a formal theory about the human personality, believed that one’s mental events could be divided into three categories: Conscious mind: It consists of mental events in current awareness (I am typing out this sentence, at the moment) Preconscious mind: It contains […]

Let me begin with this beautiful quote of Paul Boese ” Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future”.  Had someone ever pushed in front of you- on purpose or inadvertently- when you were in a sue at the cinema or supermarket? Did a friend once spill rend wine on your […]

Here are 5 small ways to incorporate Positive Psychology in your daily life, for a big difference!

The people who are the first to listen to the sound of the alarm are not likely to communicate the urgency to get into bed. They do not complaint or make eloquent speeches about how difficult they are finding the current situation to be or try to look inside their partner’s mind.

Solomon, author of ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, “The tongue has the power of life and death” (Proverbs 18:21, NIV). Verbal compliments or words of affirmation are the best way to express and build up love.