Category Archives: Positive Psychology

You get the title, right? So let’s get to it straightaway!

John Gottman and co-workers collected behavioural and physiological data from 130 newlywed couples while they discussed areas of marital conflict in the first six months of their marriage (finances, in-laws, sex). Six years later participants reported whether they were married happily or unhappily or divorced.

Imagine a therapist who doesn’t advise you or throws solutions at you or passes any judgement. Rather he/she creates a safe enriching environment in which you can grow in a self-directive manner. Liked the idea? You know what? Such therapists actually exist! Read to know more.

Want a much needed nudge to exit an already dying relationship? Here’s some!

When should you not try changing?  When should you listen to the message of your negative emotions, as uncomfortable as it may be. And change your external life rather than your emotional life?

Experiencing grief is extremely personal and painful. But what is even more painful is our inability to comprehend it. In this article, we go through the five stages of grief, as outlined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying, to see if their knowledge is more likely to help us when it comes to understanding our own grief.

overwhelming number of people whose rules wire them for pain. Its as if they have intricate network of neural pathways that lead to painful state, and they have handful of neural pathways that are connected to pleasure.

Nandita Kochar One of the most powerful ways to change the atmosphere of the mind is to cultivate gratitude in our lives. This means focusing our attention on what we deeply appreciate. Appreciation softens us. It soothes our turbulent minds by connecting us with the wonderful ordinary things which often go unnoticed. There are endless […]

he importance of this trait becomes clear in the debate over so called ‘ Empathy Marketing’ during the past decade, empathy has become a popular concept in the advertising and marketing industries, where it tends to be seen in purely instrumental terms.

Now you might be wondering about sympathy and how to distinguish it from empathy. Well, empathy is “I am feeling with you” & sympathy is “I am feeling for you.” Empathy is a vulnerable choice you make, to tune yourself to someone else’s emotions, to look inside yourself (often at your uncomfortable corners) in order to understand what the other must be going through