Category Archives: Positive Psychology

Next use your social awareness skills to think of the person who is receiving the feedback. Remember, feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person. How does the person need to hear your message so it is clear, direct, constructive, and respectful?

There is one particular way which always seems to work – to talk about our vulnerabilities and errors. To confess to someone about how sad we are, why our project at work got rejected and how that made us feel, why our partner won’t appreciate us anymore contains the least amount of our praises and yet the most amount of our authentic self. This approach never fails in winning over the hearts of the right people.

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!