Category Archives: Positive Psychology

With the Class X and Class XII Boards coming up, soon and yet again the entire nation will be covered in a frenzy of marks and question papers and most importantly, test anxiety! But what exactly is this test anxiety? Do we have to tolerate it for our entire student lives? Or is there a […]

Life and death are subjects of such colossal proportions that even after hundreds of years of contemplation by scholars of science and arts alike, much hasn’t been added to the repertoire of this knowledge. Self-intervention in this cycle, or imposing ones will before natural death is suicide. Suicide throws a spanner in the wheel of […]

Making use of the next 3 weeks may seem like an enormous task, sitting heavily on your chest. What can you do that does attend to both your mental and physical needs in a healthy manner, what can you do that does not make things worse? Well, here’s a few things that Team Happy Ho […]

Imagine if one morning you woke up with excruciating pain in your right knee; so unbearable that you were unable to move off your bed. Your first thought would be to immediately visit a doctor along with someone. No resistance. Imagine if one morning you woke up with immense sadness in your heart; so unbearable […]

There’s no better exercise than to pause for 15 minutes on a daily basis and just be, in the present, with no worries about the future and no regrets about the past. There’s no better exercise than meditation. Here’s why: 1. Better Focus When you are able to focus all your attention to something as […]

Just like Voldemort’s name could not be spoken in Hogwarts outrightly, similarly the term ‘suicide’ is not a part of our common parlance. There’s so much silence and stigma surrounding the term that our alert system goes on the moment we hear it. But the harsh truth is that suicide continues to affect the lives […]

The birth of a new born baby can lead to one experiencing a jumble of emotions – happiness, joy, anxiety, gratefulness. But it also might bring in something unexpected – depression.  Many parents experience what most call “baby blues” after the arrival of the new member. What do these blues look like? Well they usually […]

If everything were to be on autopilot right from the start then making new habits stick won’t have been such a task. But it is, especially when a new year starts, with all the resolution related sticky notes piling up on your personal journal or fridge.