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The Speaking Tree: Recount moments you felt joyful and supported (December 2022)

The dawn of new year presents us with an opportunity to rekindle our deeper aspirations. Let us make the best use of it.

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The Speaking Tree: Be like an immovable rock in the midst of chaos (September 2022)

No matter how angry you are, you can always sow the seeds of change by yearning to be peaceful. Take out a few moments in the day to call upon peace – and with persistent effort, peace will come.

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The Speaking Tree: Finding meaning in our insignificance (May 2022)

There is no need to feel despair. We can simply be - be who we are, be who we want to be and be free from the pulls and pushes of social conditionings.

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The Speaking Tree: Birthdays are special days, worth celebrating (March 2022)

As we evolve, the way we see and celebrate our birthdays also needs to evolve. Birthdays can bring in deeper reflections and new beginnings.

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The Speaking Tree: Why make examinations larger-than-life events? (December 2021)

Life will give us many other chances to grow and evolve into a better person. Letting go of this immense pressure, breathing out our worries and smiling freely during examinations is the right approach.

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The Speaking Tree: Facing your loss with courage helps you heal (June 2021)

Our journey towards self-growth and wholeness must continue, finding solace and reassurance in the message of Sri Krishna that there was never a time when we and our loved one did not exist. We existed and we will continue to be.

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The Speaking Tree: Welcome negativity as your mystical guide (May 2021)

When negativity cracks up, there is a range of opportunities waiting to unfold – one could easily slip and plummet into dust, or persevere and find a way to ascend into splendor.

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The Speaking Tree: Declutter your life to reclaim happiness (March 2021)

Let decluttering be a contemplative activity — set aside a few minutes every day to sort your life. It could be fifteen minutes, half an hour or whatever time you can devote without feeling burdened.

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The Speaking Tree: Be anchored in the present moment (February 2021)

Why is our here and now so important? Because the present moment is the only space where we can perform actions to change ourselves and the world around us.

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The Speaking Tree: Loss could transform you for the better (January 2021)

Let us keep our faith intact and respond to the feelings of loss with unwavering surrender. Consequently, all the shadows of gloom will dissolve quickly, and we will bask in the luminous, celestial light.

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The Daily Pioneer: Say no to popping pills (November 2020)

Many among us religiously down multivitamin pills and health supplements everyday to keep ourselves fit. Sadly, this fascination for synthetic micronutrients can harm our health in the long run.

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The Speaking Tree: Giving back to life selflessly is beneficial (November 2020)

Say goodbye to your narcissism and learn to give back to life. Being unselfish offers a range of benefits: better physical and mental health, longevity, positive self-evaluations, increased life satisfaction and joy.

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The Speaking Tree: Heartfelt prayer is not separate from action (October 2020)

We are often accustomed to think of prayer as being separate from action, but this perspective is far from the truth. A wiser step would be to bring our prayers and our actions in unison – let us pray while we work and work while we pray.

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The Speaking Tree: You can bring hope back into your life (September 2020)

How could a person who is feeling utterly hopeless, reclaim hope? A steadfast hope could be cultivated by contemplating on the distinction between the real and the ephemeral, truth and falsehood, reality and delusion.

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The Speaking Tree: Try it out — patience makes you powerful (July 2020)

Can you think, can you wait and can you fast? If not, then try it out because patience makes you powerful.

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The Speaking Tree: Adapting to what is being called the new normal (June 2020)

Don't lose hope—the new normal is not just about losses, it also brings hidden opportunities. Let us work out a miracle!

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Yours Positively: Let the Divine heal your anguish (June 2020)

When grief bogs you down, spirituality can help you heal.

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The Daily Pioneer: Body shaming is ugly and unfair (May 2020)

Time to brush off body shaming and love your normal, healthy and beautiful body. Enough of designer bodies, measly diets, exasperating workouts and cosmetic surgeries!

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The Speaking Tree: Rediscover hope, embrace reason (May 2020)

Overcome stagnation; live authentically, meaningfully and joyfully by learning till your last breath.

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The Daily Pioneer: Key to sound sleep (May 2020)

The silent epidemic of insomnia is invading our lives, triggering a gamut of problems — physical and mental exhaustion, emotional disturbances, diminished productivity, accidents and lifestyle diseases.

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The Speaking Tree: Some spiritual nourishment for the mind (April 2020)

We are experiencing a global crescendo of loneliness — more and more people are feeling isolated due to a lack of meaningful connections. Let us find some hope by bonding with our Self.

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The Daily Pioneer: Exhale out negativity (April 2020)

Here's how to keep mentally sane, calm and spirited during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Parent Circle: Help! My child talks to himself (March 2020)

Does your child talk to himself? Worry not! Private speech is common in pre-schoolers and often serves important functions of communication, self-guidance, & self-regulation.

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The Speaking Tree: Are You Virus-ready? (March 2020)

Mental fitness in the face of a pandemic — like the one caused by the spread of the Covid-19 — is of paramount importance, writes clinical psychologist Pulkit Sharma.

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The Speaking Tree: Analysing anger (March 2020)

Often our anger is a defense against deep-seated pain and traumatic experiences, and it can be healed once we learn to respond to it with empathy and love.

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The Speaking Tree: Make wise choices (February 2020)

Encourage yourself to emerge from your moment of self forgetfulness and passionately discover and manifest the deeper layers within yourself.

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The Speaking Tree: Seeds of hope (January 2020)

Pulkit Sharma writes of positive, spiritual ways to deal with the ecological grief that is overwhelming youngsters like Greta Thunberg.

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The Speaking Tree: Nurturing children who have special needs (January 2020)

Let us see the hidden light in every special child, assuring him that he is truly special and that we unwaveringly believe in him and that we love him unconditionally.

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The Speaking Tree: A new year brings new beginnings (December 2019)

In this coming New Year, let us resolve to make a new beginning by changing ourselves and consciously aligning with the Divine plan.

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Parent Circle: This is what I do to teach my child patience (December 2019)

Patience is a difficult value to practice for adults, let alone children. Let's look at how we can inculcate this value in our children.

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Watkins Magazine: Spiritual pathways to heal caregiver burden (November 2019)

When we are caring for someone, the greatest concern is the inability to navigate through our suffering while trying to resolve the struggles of the ailing person.

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The Speaking Tree: Repurpose yourself gracefully and be content (November 2019)

Staying vibrant and happily occupied at all ages and stages of life is valuable but, are we turning this into an unhealthy, if not unnecessary, obsession?

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The Speaking Tree: A spiritual approach to mental health (October 2019)

While innovations in medicine and psychotherapy are vital in treating mental illness, equally important is helping people re-establish contact with their soul.

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The Speaking Tree: Contemplations for a plastic-free world (September 2019)

Let us envision our earth as a living spiritual organism and keep its landfills clean and its oceans buoyant by minimizing our plastic consumption and wastage.

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The Speaking Tree: Spiritual birth pangs of a worldly life (August 2019)

Divine grace is paramount when it comes to those who are living a worldly life and yet struggling to be born as a spiritual being.

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The Speaking Tree: Let us reconnect to precious water (July 2019)

Water gives us life and the least we can do is to give it some love.

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The Speaking Tree: Experience the fullness in emptiness (July 2019)

If you wish to discover yourself and be happy, nurture the emptiness of ‘no mind’ state and let it guide you.

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The Speaking Tree: Ways to become an enlightened being (June 2019)

We can experience enlightenment by concentrating on our aspiration, effort and surrender.

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The Speaking Tree: Lose yourself and become immortal (May 2019)

When you lose yourself, you find a deeper self — that is unified with the Divine.

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A diary of gratitude (May 2019)

Keeping a daily diary of gratitude is an easy way to change your negative and complaining mindset.

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The Speaking Tree: The spiritual dimension of voting (April 2019)

For the growth and betterment of our nation, we must learn to rise above our narrow identities and choose wise representatives.

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The Speaking Tree: We need to transcend gender and sexual identities (March 2019)

Many spiritual perspectives recognize that our gender and sexual identities can be fluid and multifaceted and encourage us to accept and integrate them.

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Depression — An integral perspective (March 2019)

Our thoughts, when nurtured properly can provide an effective antidote to depression.

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The Speaking Tree: Say goodbye to examination anxieties (February 2019)

Youngsters and those putting pressure on them to perform need to look at the bigger picture and ease up.

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The Speaking Tree: Bored — Disengage yourself for a while (January 2019)

Let’s not forget that at times, there is a great value in being disengaged, and staying relaxed, silent and quiet.

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Everything we have, belongs to her (January 2019)

In Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga, the Divine Mother is at the centre and everything that we have belongs to her.

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The Speaking Tree: Set your goals for the new year (December 2018)

If you wish to move forward, then stop chasing specific and short-lived goals. Instead, come up with an all-encompassing vision to guide your life.

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The Speaking Tree: Align yourself with the universal life force (November 2018)

We did not enter this world with a heavy baggage of acclaim, aptitudes, assets, or authority and, therefore, we can choose to be happy in their presence as well as in their absence.

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Heal your pain (November 2018)

When someone gets a consistent relationship where their spirit is loved, valued and validated, this powerful experience gets internalized in the self.

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The Speaking Tree: The Thirukkural way to psychotherapy (October 2018)

Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil text written by the sage-philosopher Thiruvalluvar, shows us a profound way to overcome loss.

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The Speaking Tree: Let’s learn the language of oneness (September 2018)

When we look deeply, we find that all religions are devoted to the one universal consciousness, and its myriad manifestations.

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Turn setbacks into fuel for self-growth (September 2018)

If we manage to develop mindfulness towards non-fulfillment, the curse of loss turns into a boon of transcendence.

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The Speaking Tree: Tirumantiram — The Karuna way to self-realization (August 2018)

Tirumantiram teaches us that love and God are one and the same and that compassion, is one of the best forms of devotion.

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The Speaking Tree: Pledge organs, feel the difference (August 2018)

A Speaking Tree article written by Pulkit Sharma inspired 71-year-old Vasantha Rao in Bengaluru to pledge her organs.

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Outlook Magazine: Why people risk their life for Kiki challenge (August 2018)

The narcissistic epidemic has led people to dangerous and seemingly mindless acts including the Kiki challenge.

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The Speaking Tree: The search for a soul connection (July 2018)

Kabbalah, the mystical dimension of Judaism, elucidates that all addictions are a distorted manifestation of our deeper needs.

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The Speaking Tree: Rethinking anger management (June 2018)

A Biblical perspective can help us in making sense of our anger and overcoming it.

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The light in Sri Aurobindo's yoga (May 2018)

The ultimate goal of human race is to realize the secret of Vedas that the heaven and earth are equal and one.

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The Speaking Tree: Become truly beautiful, inside out (May 2018)

All of us have potential inner beauty, a divine gift. To become truly beautiful, we need to nurture this potential.

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The Speaking Tree: Simply exhale, breathe out your worries (April 2018)

By mastering our breath, we can be free from all anxieties.

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Namah Journal: Working through the vital (April 2018)

Our vital part has the potential to evolve into something beautiful. We can bring a transformation by offering it higher forms of nourishment.

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The Speaking Tree: There is a solution to every problem (March 2018)

A spiritual approach can offer a lasting solution to several psychological problems that we are facing now.

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The Speaking Tree: A possible spiritual antidote to depression (February 2018)

To recover from depression, we must forgive our own self, other people, the whole universe and develop a deep, encompassing love.

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The Speaking Tree: Transform your dark side into a positive one (January 2018)

Our dark side is not an impediment that has to be kicked away. It has a fierce capacity of evolving into something beautiful, pure and blissful.

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Perfection is a myth (January 2018)

Perfection is a myth. No one is perfect. Till the time one believes that one is perfect, one is closed to understanding.

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The Speaking Tree: Whatever the result, let spirit triumph (December 2017)

A positive attitude and a complete surrender can make us sail through stress.

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The Speaking Tree: When pain persists (December 2017)

If we can respond to adversities with a faith that they are meant for our spiritual progress and deepen our surrender, Divine Grace will emancipate us.

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The Speaking Tree: The spiritual dimension of neuroplasticity (November 2017)

We can train our brain to form neural pathways in order to activate spiritual intelligence and mirror infinite consciousness.

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The revival of core self (November 2017)

No matter how severe the trauma is, our core self is always waiting for support to revive itself.

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The Speaking Tree: Pseudo masters, the quasi-realized and the true yogi (October 2017)

Unlike contemporary flashy gurus, a true yogi is always grounded in 'yama' and 'niyama' and rejects even the celestial lures.

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The Speaking Tree: Do you have a death wish? (September 2017)

The reckless thrill-seeking and self-destructiveness displayed by the Indian youth can be understood and dealt with from a deeper perspective.

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The Speaking Tree: Dream big, focus on transcendental thought (September 2017)

By contemplating that transcendent point where there is no division between oneself and Divinity, one can become eternally free.

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Life Positive Magazine: Relationship sutras (August 2017)

Relationships wilt or blossom depending upon how evolved our perspective is and how much self work we are willing to do, in order to make them work.

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The Speaking Tree: For a balanced state of mind (July 2017)

What kind of lifestyle would facilitate achieving liberation?

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The Speaking Tree: In and out of meditation (July 2017)

Samadhi should not be a flight from outer consciousness — let the ordinary consciousness meet the higher consciousness and get transformed.

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The Speaking Tree: The Yoga Vasishta path to liberation (June 2017)

Sage Vasishta dispelled all darkness that was engulfing the mind of Prince Rama, so that he could clearly see the path to liberation and break free of suffering.

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Life Positive Magazine: The shadow and the light (May 2017)

We can permanently exist in the abode of light provided everything within us seeks, receives and reflects light without any hesitation.

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The Speaking Tree: A yogic approach to overcome depression (April 2017)

Patanjali, the author of Yoga Sutras, gives an in-depth analysis that helps us comprehend the root cause and cure of depression.

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Know your subconscious mind (March 2017)

Although our conscious mind is rational and logical but the subconscious is emotional, irrational and full of conflicts.

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Borderline personality disorder (February 2017)

Those suffering from borderline personality disorder can be treated with an empathic insight-oriented psychotherapy.

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The Speaking Tree: Let the light enter (January 2017)

The flame of eternal healing is right there to help us; all we need to do is to open ourselves up so that the light can enter.

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The Speaking Tree: To feel happy, just rewire yourself (January 2017)

Although we are made in a certain way, the Divine has given us immense potential to rewire and transform ourselves.

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Life Positive Magazine: The enlightened teacher (December 2016)

When a teacher follows a spiritual approach in the classroom, all disturbing elements are transformed.

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The Speaking Tree: Are you making peace with your ignorance (December 2016)

Within us exists the Purusha — the cosmic Self, eternal bliss and pure awareness that is beyond time and space.

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A bomb blast victim in therapy (November 2016)

Rahul's story — life after the 2008 Delhi bomb blasts.

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Life Positive Magazine: The dream code (October 2016)

When interpreted correctly, dreams can give us major insights into our life and situations.

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The Speaking Tree: What should we ask God for? (September 2016)

If we happen to meet God someday, what could we ask for?

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Breaking gender barriers (September 2016)

Gender categories have always been rigid, exclusive and opposite. Anyone not conforming to these categories is considered abnormal.

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The Speaking Tree: Faith could play a positive role in life (August 2016)

The greater our surrender to the Divine, the more we can be assured that the best will happen to us from a spiritual point of view.

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Turning spirituality into main course (June 2016)

For an effective, progressive and complete self-transformation, we need to adopt spirituality as a way of life.

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The Speaking Tree: A conscious approach to self-realization (May 2016)

Our mind can reach a transcendental state by rigorously working on itself in the light of our highest aspiration.

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Coping with sexual assault (May 2016)

No matter how hard one tries, trauma takes time to heal.

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The Speaking Tree: Who is the greatest guru of all time? (May 2016)

Who really was Eklavya’s guru? Was it just his own aspiration inspired by Drona’s skill or was there some kind of Divine intervention?

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Postpartum blues (April 2016)

Let your priorities guide you and do not hesitate in taking a stand even if others disapprove of it.

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The Speaking Tree: Do we lose ourselves or find ourselves? (April 2016)

In the blissful state of evolved consciousness, the dewdrop falls into the ocean and the ocean falls into the dewdrop.

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Narcissistic personality disorder (March 2016)

A preoccupation with oneself along with a disregard for needs and wishes of other people becomes dangerous.

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The Speaking Tree: How about celebrating the small joys? (February 2016)

In order to be positive, we must learn to find joy in small things.

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An interpretation of a painting (January 2016)

A drawing made by the Nirbhaya rape accused juvenile helps us understand his psyche.

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The Speaking Tree: Kundalini, the eternal psychotherapist (December 2015)

When Kundalini gets activated, it moves upwards to unite and merge with cosmic consciousness.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (December 2015)

The person having obsessive-compulsive disorder experiences repetitive and intrusive thoughts, impulses and images.

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The Speaking Tree: The realist and the idealist (November 2015)

The idealist is a dreamer; he chases perfection, unity and looks for a hidden grand agenda operative in everything.

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Life Positive Magazine: Transcend stress (November 2015)

Only by going into the depth of spirituality will we transcend the stress generated by our minds.

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The Speaking Tree: Why people are violent towards themselves (October 2015)

Although we crave to be loved and cared for by the world, we lack compassion and nurturance for our own self.

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The Speaking Tree: Go beyond mind (October 2015)

Integral Yoga aspires to bring down a higher light to integrate the divinity within, which leads to further evolution.

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How to deal with an abusive relationship (September 2015)

Abusive relationships deplete our self and cause a gamut of physical and psychological disorders.

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The Speaking Tree: Your thoughts become reality (August 2015)

For the evolution of consciousness, we need to create positive formations.

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Master your tyrant mind (August 2015)

The mind has become a tyrant and is playing havoc with our body, relationships and soul.

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The Speaking Tree: A psychotherapeutic approach to anti-ageing (July 2015)

Understanding and changing our negative mindset can help us defeat ageing.

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Why we fear change (June 2015)

Why is changing so hard for many people? The main reason is the terror of change. Although consciously we want change, unconsciously we fear and resist it.

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The Speaking Tree: Raising children - A Holistic perspective (May 2015)

As caretakers of the divine seed, our job is to create an environment where the child can experience an evolution of consciousness.

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The vice of a routine (April 2015)

While a routine can be a strong anchor in modern stressful life, if followed rigidly to an extreme it can be a big source of stress.

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The Speaking Tree: Learn to treat exam time differently (March 2015)

Always remember that any exam is a very trivial episode in the larger scheme of events.

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Paranoid personality disorder - On guard forever (March 2015)

Those suffering from paranoid personality disorder feel very suspicious and find it extremely difficult to trust others.

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The Speaking Tree: Break free of suffering (March 2015)

If we remain focused on suffering, we will only prolong our pain.

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Addicted to video games (February 2015)

For some people, playing, collecting and fantasizing about video games becomes a top priority of their life.

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The Speaking Tree: We need to rehabilitate the dark mind (January 2015)

For comprehensive rehabilitation, the perpetrators should be encouraged to share their pain emanating from traumatic experiences.

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The Speaking Tree: Freedom from repetition compulsion (December 2014)

In order to put an end to our meaningless repetition compulsion, we need curiosity, introspection and a deeper knowledge.

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Motherhood- A valued career (November 2014)

It is reductionist to conceptualize women empowerment wherein women just compete with men in traditional masculine roles.

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The Speaking Tree: Right choice can help resolve conflict (November 2014)

In order to resolve conflicts, we need to understand the interplay of our deeper qualities and transcend duality.

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A wake-up call on Indian mental health (October 2014)

A deeper awareness of mental health and its implications can help India in her growth and development.

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The Speaking Tree: To grow, get anchored in the present (October 2014)

In order to grow and blossom it is important to become aware of our mindlessness and gradually change it to mindfulness.

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Understanding and treating drug abuse (September 2014)

Drug addicts are traumatized by helplessness, painful emotional states and lack of reliable relationships.

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The Speaking Tree: Getting to taste real freedom (September 2014)

Real freedom does not lie in building and asserting a performance, but in acknowledging that we are acting and that this act is an illusion.

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Bonding with your adolescent (August 2014)

Although bonding with your adolescent kid may seem daunting, these smart strategies can be helpful.

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The Speaking Tree: Take a balanced view of life (July 2014)

Tolerating frustration can become a strength if we learn to accept it and change our mindset.

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Internet addiction (July 2014)

Although Internet usage adds both spice and utility to our life, for some individuals it is fast becoming a drug.

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The Speaking Tree: Perceived disorders as growth opportunities (June 2014)

Psychological disorders could be growth opportunities in disguise. It is up to us how we utilize these opportunities.

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Transform a breakup into a breakthrough (June 2014)

Many breakups can turn into breakthroughs if people don't give up on each other so easily.

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The Speaking Tree: Explore your growth (June 2014)

As far as making a good career choice is concerned, we need to connect to our deeper self and take an informed decision.

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The Speaking Tree: Extreme indulgence is not blissful (May 2014)

Overly identifying with the body and sexual desires can cause serious difficulties.

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The mind of a rapist (May 2014)

Rape is a form of violence and like all other forms of violence we may benefit from understanding why someone got so violent?

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The Speaking Tree: The space beyond hatred and revenge (May 2014)

The question before us is: Should we punish the perpetrators or try to understand and transform them?

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The Speaking Tree: Don't fear death, begin to live (April 2014)

In order to overcome our fear of death, we need to constantly find meaning in our existence.

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The Speaking Tree: Bursting the narcissistic bubble (March 2014)

The desire for success has turned everyone into a narcissist and so they are only focused on fulfilling their own needs and desires.

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The Speaking Tree: Overcome your negative emotions (February 2014)

Negative emotions can be transformed through self-observation, building empathy and learning the art of expression.

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Being gay in India (January 2014)

Many gay men are forced into casual sexual relationships because our society does not value same-sex relationships.

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The Speaking Tree: Need for right intention and purpose (January 2014)

Let’s acknowledge that life is an opportunity to be spiritually evolved and thereby discover the Divine within and around us.

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The Speaking Tree: Chalking out your goals (December 2013)

Who am I? Think about this question; let it trouble you. Let it shake you up. Let it make you uncertain about your identity.

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The Speaking Tree: Changing yourself can be easy (November 2013)

Constant self-awareness and self-analysis is the key to bringing desirable changes in oneself. No one can change us, only we can change ourselves.

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The Speaking Tree: Beyond all that is good and bad (October 2013)

The human tendency to split impressions into good and bad becomes the root cause of individual, interpersonal, social and political problems.

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Five unnoticed sources of work stress (October 2013)

In order to help employees deal with workplace stress better, we need to carefully understand the various sources of work stress.

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Life Positive Magazine: Stilling the pendulum swing (October 2013)

Bipolar Disorder is a psychological condition where the person shuttles back and forth between two extreme poles of ‘mania’ and ‘depression’.

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The Speaking Tree: Stop being a victim (September 2013)

To heal the trauma and experience peace, one needs to transcend victim-hood and the associated demand for compensation.

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Getting help with depression (September 2013)

In order to treat depression permanently, an alternative depression treatment focusing on deeper aspects of psyche needs to be carried out.

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Life Positive Magazine: A healing space (August 2013)

Natural disasters unleash a blitzkrieg of suffering. Can we provide trauma survivors the help and support they need to return to health and happiness?

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The Speaking Tree: Pledge organs, feel the difference (July 2013)

Pledging your organs is a sign that you are evolving psychologically, transcending the identification and the obsession with your body.

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The Speaking Tree: Don't give up (July 2013)

Enjoy the ups and downs in life till you achieve what you really want.

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Coming to terms with being gay and lesbian (July 2013)

Sexual preferences different from the majority are perfectly normal.

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How to prevent suicide and depression (July 2013)

In-depth psychological treatment effectively removes suicidal ideation and restores hope.

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Only My Health: Healthy vs psychotic fantasies (March 2013)

In the intermediate zone between healthy fantasy and psychotic fantasy there are people who both enjoy and suffer because of their fantasies.

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The Speaking Tree: Journey of a sex addict (February 2013)

A sex addict requires sensitivity, empathy and a strong relationship to heal rather than criticism and denigration.

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Only My Health: Men and addictions (January 2013)

Addiction is a very complex problem and not a simple weakness or moral issue that can be overcome with little effort.

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Only My Health: Separation anxiety disorder (January 2013)

Separation anxiety disorder revolves around an intense fear of being separated from a close figure to which the child is attached, usually the parent.

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Life Positive Magazine: Coming to terms with loss (September 2012)

The person may not be physically present, but by holding onto and keeping alive an internal image of the person, we can come to terms with separation and loss.

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The Speaking Tree: Back to my cup of tea (June 2012)

Don’t be scared of ridicule. There’s great comfort in just being yourself, says psychologist Pulkit Sharma.

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The Speaking Tree: Looking through others eyes (March 2012)

In order to understand, connect to and heal people you need to see the world from their perspective.

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The Speaking Tree: Be open to love (February 2012)

Do you feel there isn’t enough love in your life? Find out if you are somehow responsible for this, advises psychotherapist Pulkit Sharma.

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Life Positive Magazine: Meeting of the selves (December 2011)

Psychotherapist Pulkit Sharma charts a compulsively formal young man’s journey from the pits of crippling anxiety to a life of joyful spontaneity.

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Only My Health: Attachment disorder (November 2011)

Attachment disorder refers to abnormalities in a person’s multiple facets due to disturbed bonding with primary caregivers.

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Open Magazine: Ugly duckling syndrome (October 2011)

No one is entirely happy with how she or she looks. But Ranbir was fixated, and his need for physical perfection unknowingly made him a social misfit.

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Life Positive Magazine: When trust transforms (September 2011)

How a young drug addict turned around her life when provided with a stable, empathetic therapeutic space.

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Only My Health: Overcoming phobias (July 2011)

A phobia is a relentless and excessive fear of some specific object or situation that presents little or no actual danger to the individual.

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Life Positive Magazine: The mirror of healing (June 2011)

A clinical psychologist shares how the process of healing others can make one confront, exorcise and integrate one’s own inner demons.

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Only My Health: Women in frustrating relationships (June 2011)

Women who are in difficult relationships should evaluate whether their fantasy of changing the other person is realistic or not.

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Only My Health: Dealing with negative thoughts and emotions (April 2011)

The moments where we despise ourselves, minimize our accomplishments and talents, maximize our faults and impediments, hate our body or self, feel inferior to others are quite common to our experience.

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Only My Health: Kleptomania in children (April 2011)

Kleptomania refers to a compulsive stealing behavior, belonging to the family of impulse-control disorders. Children with kleptomania experience strong impulses to steal objects.

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Only My Health: The pain of a borderline personality (February 2011)

Once considered a rare and esoteric personality disorder found in western societies, borderline personalities are now somewhat ubiquitous in any Indian mental health professional’s clinic.

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Science And Spirituality: From impasse to innovation (October 2006)

The author reflects on the fact that how many a modern Indian youth, including himself must struggle and live the split created between ‘science’ and ‘spirituality’ within dominant academic discourse leading to inner chaos caused by collision of perspectives.

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Life Positive Magazine: Out of the maze (June 2005)

Mental health professionals have an obligation to adapt the therapy to the needs of the patient, says the writer, as he outlines the most popular approaches.

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Life Positive Magazine: The body beautiful (May 2005)

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a preoccupation with an imagined physical defect in appearance, is on the rise today because of society’s increased emphasis on good looks. However, effective therapies can heal the condition and alleviate the sufferer’s distress.

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On The Seashore: Dialogues between Indian psychology and modern psychotherapy (December 2004)

The aim of this paper is to bring out the crucial relevance of the need for a dialogue between Indian psychology and modern psychotherapy.

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