by Shantanu Tilak | Apr 9, 2018 | Industrial psychology, Workplace Counselling
When we go to work, we often have a mindset that guides us through the day. The way we handle tasks given to us throughout the day, and also the way we deal with people we interact with at work, depends on the way in which we look at the whole routine we follow....
by Alvin Alva | Apr 7, 2018 | Health, Mental Health, Social Psychology
Why do we struggle at forming new habits? There are many of us who want to become better than we currently are or achieve more in life. For this we try to either learn a new skill, improve an existing skill or start new habits to help us reach our goals. What stops us...
by Shantanu Tilak | Apr 2, 2018 | Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental Disability
“Autism offers a chance for us to glimpse an awe-filled vision of the world that might otherwise pass us by.” – Dr. Colin Zimbleman A few decades ago, Autism was vaguely associated with intellectual impairments, a lack of the capacity to socially engage, and in some...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 30, 2018 | Adjustment, Anxiety, Depression, Existentialism, Mental Health, Psychology, Social Psychology
When you’re in the peak of adversity, have you ever considered trying to find the humor in a situation to dispel the high stress levels? Humor and the light side of life often enable us to look at something differently. Adversity is something that we come across...
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 16, 2018 | Adjustment, Psychology, Social Psychology
The level of energy we feel at a particular moment often decides what we choose to end up doing at that every second. Boredom is something we often feel, and when we’re bored, we often tend to get restless, and think of things to do. But, why do some of us get...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 14, 2018 | Adjustment, Mental Health, Social Psychology, Stress
Emotion is defined classically as the feeling that we derive from our circumstances, , moods and social interactions with other people. We feel a cocktail of emotions all through our lives. However, have you thought that your emotions can influence the way we make...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 11, 2018 | Mental Health, Positive Psychology, Psychology
Positive Psychology and the theory of exuding optimism to see positive outcomes are drastically different. The idea of optimistic thinking to magically produce fruit is often something that we tend to think is the way to go about manifesting our goals. However, this...
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...
