Could Emotional Patterns Make Us More Susceptible To Cancer?
There is a lot of research, clinical data and statistics related to cancer â types, causes, and treatments â available to anyone interested in looking them up. There are, of course, the usual suspects /causes of cancer (more on that later). But there could be a case made out to […]
Poor Posture Alert! These habits could be ruining your posture.
Poor posture doesnât just affect us negatively physically, but also mentally and emotionally. Most of us go through our daily actions unaware of our posture â sitting, standing, walking, or sleeping. Recurring aches, pains and niggles are a constant source of discomfort. Poor posture doesnât just affect us negatively physically, […]
Do most Corporate Wellness Programs actually work?
Corporate wellness programs are fast becoming part of an organizationâs stated practice to keep employees at their optimum performance levels. Designed correctly, they can help in another critical area â to reduce costs incurred due to absences, low productivity, attrition etc. But are these programs really effective in giving results that […]
That Gut Feeling
Letâs face it. At one point or the other in our lives the topic of food and what it does to our body has surfaced. It may have been your mother valiantly admonishing you to select your greens over the in-your-face junk, that energetic friend with a fab body dishing […]
Natural resource
An underutilised body is the root cause of so many of our physical- and mental-health problems, but really, all we have to do is moveMy mother lay completely paralysed for several years, a beautiful woman with a sharp mind, trapped in an immobile body. The crushing ferocity of MS (multiple […]
Letâs Press âPlayâ
âYou see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see whatâs wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whateverâs in them, […]
I didnât know it would turn out this wayâŚ
Our association goes back more than 4 decades and counting. She initiated me into the exquisitely rich world of classical dance and performing arts. It all started without any fanfare. She saw me standing by the door, a dumbstruck little girl, watching her rehearse and asked if I would like […]
Stop Wishing, Start Doing.
A New Year has started. Resolutions have been made. Now what? Will it be another year of first month euphoria followed by a downward slide into the familiar and comfortable, or will this be the year you really hit it hard and earn your stripes? In my facebook post âNew […]
Nostalgic Romanticism or Changing Reality?
Is it the queer irony of our times? We are more in-tune with the idea of health but are less healthy. We have more conveniences and comforts in our lives but less time. We have greater access to means but less intent to avail. Could we be a living contradiction to […]
To be or Not to be (Outdoors)?
If you are living in north India, and specifically in the Delhi-Punjab-Haryana-UP belt, you would know winter is setting in. Not just because of the slight nip in the air but because of the smog engulfing us, making it hard for us to breathe. It has been on a bad-to-worse […]