by Shantanu Tilak | May 5, 2018 | Counselling, Health, Mental Health, Stress, Time Management, Workplace Counselling
As we’ve already discussed, sleep and exercise are our pillars of support through our times of stress. Setting a daily routine contributes to strengthening these pillars. A structured daily routine really enables these notions to have effect within our lives....
by Shantanu Tilak | Apr 21, 2018 | blog, Counselling, Culture, Existentialism, Social Psychology
We’re sure you agree that crime has no religion. The recent gruesome happenings in Kathua go to show how some sections of society rally and protest over religion as a basis for proving the guilty as innocent. The reactionary wave of social media outrage is but...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 28, 2018 | Adjustment, Counselling, Mental Health, Stress, Workplace Counselling
Do you sometimes feel that you simply can’t work towards something anymore? Well, that’s what we often perceive as burnout. Many of us often exclaim ‘I’m so burnt out!’ when we reach the peak of our capacity to be productive and engaged...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 23, 2018 | Counselling, Depression, Existentialism, Health, Mental Health
“He held up a real brain in a jar with a blue liquid, which he called “joy juice:’ trickling into it from a small plastic pouch held above. He asked the audi- ence to pretend that their brains could be treated with a hormone (i.e., joy juice) that...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 8, 2018 | Counselling, Culture, Psychology, Social Psychology
As we’ve discussed before in our posts about fate, events that occur in our lives are independent of one another, rather than constructed by something equivalent to molecular theory. The circuit of our past and future is wired when we list the varied events or...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 17, 2018 | Counselling, Existentialism, Mental Health, Psychology, Social Psychology
We feel a host of emotions as human beings. Emotions like fear are said to be wired into us in order to cope with negative situations, and activate our fight and flight responses. These are experienced during stressful situations and often lead us to narrow down the...
