Tag: effects of comparison

After menopause, major changes occur in the body  and therefore it becomes essential for women to exercise more than before. Changes in hormone levels especially the reduction of estrogen negatively affect muscle mass, bone...

“We need awareness, man- awareness!” This is a line most of us would have said to someone at least once in our lives. We have long believed that consciousness is the most important quality...

“When I am hungry, I get angry”- this is something some people often say. Others say, “When I am hungry, I just can’t see straight.” What this means is that hunger makes them extremely...

Traditionally, the formula we have been taught is that our success lies in another person’s failure. For me to succeed, you must fail. For me to come ahead, I must leave you behind. That...

Many may have heard of a detective who identifies and catches criminals based on footprints left in a courtyard and grains of sand clinging to their shoes...Sherlock Holmes. Although this is considered a special...

Many things in our lives do not happen the way we expect. Illness and accidents are things that can disrupt and even destroy our lives very suddenly. But there are certain habits that destroy...

Love is sometimes more of an awareness than an experience. It is when awareness arises that love turns into an experience. It is when I become aware that you love me that I am...

That villager had a very strong desire to invite the Chief Minister of his state to his daughter’s wedding. He could easily imagine how much respect and social prestige he would gain if people...

Most people are those who have forgotten how to smile. Yet everywhere, people are those who long to smile. Every smile is the beginning of a relationship that can grow into warmth.

Many parents today feel that they are unable to understand their children at all. It is unclear whether the problem is that children have grown beyond the point of being understood  or that parents have failed to grow along with their children.

A child who insists on being picked up by a working mother. Another child who quarrels to sit on the lap of a father busy working on a laptop.

This is often how we speak about certain people. Even within that remark lies the suggestion that being an introvert is a deficiency or a mistake.