How to control your anger and use it productively How many of us have done something or said something to someone in anger, only to regret it later? Anger is one of the most uncomfortable and difficult emotion which has been highly stigmatized but we can use this emotion to make our lives and relationships more productive if we learn how to manage this difficult emotion. Coming to think of it, anger plays a very important role. Some situations demand anger. If someone is crossing the line or taking undue advantage of you, anger serves that role of protecting you. Anger tries to tell you something about your inner needs. Anger urges you to come out of denial and respect your boundaries. What is wrong about anger which makes it a poison is the way we express our anger. So just imagine that life is like a car and anger is like a kid. You don't want to put the kid on the driver's seat because there are high chances of meeting an accident. You don't want to put it in the boot ...
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How do I sleep better? Sleep is nature's gift to mankind for a healthy, happy, and prolonged life. It is your life support system and mother nature's best effort yet at immortality. Unfortunately, nowadays sleep has become an optional lifestyle luxury. It is imperative to understand that sleep is a non-negotiable biological necessity and the decimation of sleep in industrialized nations is having a catastrophic effect on our health. and wellness, even the safety, and education of our children. The sleep loss epidemic is silent and is fast becoming a public health challenge. As humans, we spend 1/3rd of our lives sleeping if we take 8 hours as the sleeping average of an individual. Sleep is important for various functions of our body. The most important being that sleep helps in learning. It is like the save button on the computer which has to be hit if the file needs to be stored on the memory of the computer. The deeper stages of sleep help in shifting our short-term memories...
HOW TO MAKE STRESS YOUR ALLY? Did you know that stress was meant to be a part of life? That is the precise reason why mother nature has built a stress response system inside your body to counter the stress experienced in life. Some stress is good for us. Exam stress for instance...a student will not burn the midnight oil and prepare for months if he was not stressed about his upcoming exam. Sometimes we pay money to experience a little stress. we queue up in lines for the roller coaster ride, and the more dangerous it looks, the more thrilling it becomes. Without stress, life would be like a straight dull boring line on the Electrocardiogram! And by flat I mean dead. So stress helps us to take up challenges in life, engage more with life, and come out as a winner! We don't need to fear stress, we need to befriend it. Make stress our most trusted ally. That brings me to the core of this discussion: How do you exactly do that? Well, we start by acknowledging the presence of stress a...
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Hey there! I congratulate you and your strength to stand up and take notice of your mental health . Let us delve together into this journey of self-discovery, hope and positivity. I assure you I'll be there for you through each and every step. I am Dr. Prerana Gupta , a psychiatrist and therapist and I heartily welcome you to mann se baat. There are many instances in life where we find it impossible to talk our hearts out. Millions of small issues,interpersonal frictions,frustrations both personal and job-related keep piling up and we feel helpless,lonely and frustrated. It feels like no-one understands me and I am stuck in an overwhelming spiral of negativity and doom. This is where I come in. You are not alone. With more than 12 years of experience of working in this field with my clients, I can assure you that you are in the right place. I will help you create a mindset which will propel you to push yourself forward from whatever is holding you ...