Dreams

During certain stage of sleep having dream is common.  Mostly dream occur during sleep state named REM (Rapid Eye Movement), although it can occur in other stages also.   Purpose of the dream is not well understood.  Study of dream is called oneirology.



Dream can be vivid or memorable.  Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind.  A dream could be a reflection of an event in the past or unresolved intent.  Duration of the dream could be from few seconds to minutes.  Mostly, recent memory firm up during the dream.

In order to dream it is important the person reaches REM sleep, rapid eye movement indicates the event in the mind. Dream is an unconscious mind activity.  This means, person's experience is played to either firm or form.  People are more likely to remember the dream if they are awakened during the REM phase. The average person has three to five dreams per night, but some may have up to seven dreams in one night.

Dream interpretation is practiced in religion, and medically.  Without getting into the significance of dream by interpreting, it is an important activity of the mind to imbibe learning, formation of thoughts, view points and strengthen self esteem.

Themes of dream include but not limited to visuals, emotions, sexual themes, relationships, life events, etc.

Do you dream?

Need for Psychological support during pregnancy

Pregnancy, beautiful gift of nature, brings about varied physiological (somatic) and psychological changes to a woman.  Men also undergo some changes, but we will deal with this later.  Pregnancy is a complex phenomenon which also includes social changes.  First pregnancy represents a powerful psychological event.  Lets understand the psychological changes in the course of pregnancy.

Likely changes during pregnancy

Pregnancy is always associated with changes in psychological functioning of pregnant women. It is usually associated with ambivalence, frequent mood changes, varying from anxiety, fatigue, exhaustion, sleepiness, depressive reactions to excitement.

During pregnancy, changes include body appearance, affectionate and sexuality, whereas the position and role of women attains a new quality. Even thoughts of pregnancy can bring about numerous worries about its course and outcome, and especially of the delivery itself, which may be so intense that they acquire a features of phobia (which may be the reason for avoiding pregnancy).

Motherhood, resulting from pregnancy, brings about several positive psychological changes as well, like emotional bonding with the child, affection, feel of family, joy.   Socially, in some countries, motherhood provides special status to women.

Relationship change is another aspect, a social change, affects not only the expecting mother, but also others closely associated with her.

Postpartum depression is another aspect of pregnancy usually requires psychological help.

Conclusion

Pregnancy is an event that involves numerous somatic and psychological changes. However, pregnancy can also be a potent stressor. Existence of prenatal maternal stress may lead to different perinatal complications that may have long-term consequences on the newborn. In prevention of maternal stress emphasis has to be put on partner's emotional support, as well as empathy of the social environment. However, in certain cases, professional psychotherapeutic support is necessary, in form of short supportive treatment. Preventive measures should include adequate psychological support during pregnancy, especially the first one, provided for all pregnant women, but also for those women that plan to get pregnant in the near future.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things (IoT) is the new buzz word!! This is an attempt to have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.   IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and the Internet.

Network of computers, aka Internet, are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code.   Such manual mega effort is unstructured, mostly wasted.  This resulted in social area like facebook, resulted in structured data.  In order to use such massive data, aka big data, brought in analytics, pattern matching.  Hadoop, similar technologies helped analyse such information.

What to expect?

Recently wearable flood the market, smart watch, iWatch etc are getting popularity.  Such gears identify location, temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and similar information about individual.  Imagine, a cardiac patient requires constant monitoring of pulse, analysis of pulse help determine the condition of the heart.  Based on the threshold setup, such information can be transmitted to the doctor automatically along with several other parameters like body temperature, environment, blood pressure, exact location of the individual.  Even, device can receive instruction to handle the emergency, alert ambulance.... essentially save a life in this emergency situation.

Second example, imagine a smart home having smart devices like fans or air conditioner based on sensors operate to to regulate temperature.  Similarly, washing machine can fitted with sensors to connect to internet, take care of creating service requests and report exact fault.  Even better, get automatic upgrade of its intelligence!!  Your water filter can order cartridge refill automatically! Television is already hooked to internet, so it is more evolved of the device so far.

Diabetic patients know their the pain of taking insulin every day.  How fixing a device in the digestive system to release insulin based on the setting of the doctor?  Health psychology deals with a challenge of patient consuming the medication as prescribed by the doctor.  Internet of Things can help increase the compliance!

Many other usages can be listed!!  The list is huge.

My view

Internet of Things are expanding the networking of devices, according to one study, 2 billion devices are expected to be interacting by 2016.  This humongous blast of information generates several petabytes of information. Life style of human being is set to change towards greater automation.  Such a change also has social challenges, relationship challenges, basic human challenges.  You need to decide to what extent this is useful or barging in to your privacy!!!  Only time will tell!!

Internet of Things are here to challenge human smartness for sure!  In this battle of smartness and intelligence, lets see who wins.

Depression

Depression is a common mental disorder, characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, feelings of tiredness, and poor concentration.

Depression can be long-lasting or recurrent, substantially impairing an individual’s ability to function at work or school or cope with daily life. At its most severe, depression can lead to suicide. When mild, people can be treated without medicines but when depression is moderate or severe they may need medication and professional talking treatments.

Depression is a disorder that can be reliably diagnosed and treated by non-specialists as part of primary health care. Specialist care is needed for a small proportion of individuals with complicated depression or those who do not respond to first-line treatments.

Levels of depression

Mild or no depression indicates that you are not suffering from depression or that what you are feeling are signs of depression within the normal range of human experience. 

Mild to Moderate Depression All of us are apt to experience at least mild to moderate levels of depression due to environmental or situation factors that are less than favorable. Feelings of depression from time to time are normal. What's most important is our ability to cope with that depression, resolve it's contributing factors and elevate our mood and thinking to a more positive state. Failure to resolve moderate depression can result in stress-related illness and interfere with sleep, work, family, and social functions.

It's best to get help or do whatever it takes to resolve feelings of depression as soon as possible, as left untended depression will build on itself and become deeper and harder to deal with.

Moderately Severe to Severe Depression should be treated as an illness and professional attention should be sought. Severe depression is a debilitating disorder that interferes with sleep, work, family, and social functions, leading to great impairment and isolation. Severe depression is treatable and treatment can help people lead productive and fulfilling lives.

Visit your mental health care professional to seek care.

Are you hypnotised?

Every life event is stored as an experience in our conscious mind, while sleeping this is prioritized and stored in subconscious or unconscious mind.  Unless required recall of subconscious experience is restricted.  There is managed by a filter/layer.  Hypnosis is one such tool manages to breach this layer.

During a session with hypnotherapist, you could experience accessing your subconscious mind to understand or resolve conflicts/issues.  But, certain emotions also enable you to similar experiences.

Imagine you are at grief, have you wondered why do you recollect all the events, which otherwise not accessible?  Similarly the case in anger, we recollect all the points against a person whom we are fighting?  Meet someone after long time, all nostalgic moments pop.

You are basically breaching this barrier in such emotional states.  Try and place your feedback!! 

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It's also possible to have only obsessions or only compulsions and still have OCD.

OCD is a common disorder among individuals, may or may not realize that your obsessions aren't reasonable, and you may try to ignore them or stop them. But that only increases your distress and anxiety. Ultimately, you feel driven to perform compulsive acts in an effort to ease your stressful feelings.

Examples are obsession:

• Fear of being contaminated by shaking hands or by touching objects others have touched
• Doubts that you've locked the door or turned off the stove
• Intense stress when objects aren't orderly or facing a certain way
• Images of hurting yourself or someone else
• Thoughts about shouting obscenities or acting inappropriately
• Avoidance of situations that can trigger obsessions, such as shaking hands
• Distress about unpleasant sexual images repeating in your mind

Examples of Compulsion:

• Hand-washing until your skin becomes raw
• Checking doors repeatedly to make sure they're locked
• Checking the stove repeatedly to make sure it's off
• Counting in certain patterns
• Silently repeating a prayer, word or phrase
• Arranging your canned goods to face the same way

This leads to more ritualistic behavior — and a vicious cycle that's characteristic of OCD.

Checking emails, SMS, social media updates are also kind of OCD symptoms.

There's a difference between being a perfectionist and having OCD. OCD thoughts aren't simply excessive worries about real problems in your life. Perhaps you keep the floors in your house so clean that you could eat off them. Or you like your knickknacks arranged just so. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have OCD.

If your obsessions and compulsions are affecting your quality of life, see your doctor or mental health provider. People with OCD may be ashamed and embarrassed about the condition, but treatment can help.

A type of therapy called exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the most effective treatment. This therapy involves gradually exposing you to a feared object or obsession, such as dirt, and having you learn healthy ways to cope with your anxiety. Exposure therapy takes effort and practice, but you may enjoy a better quality of life once you learn to manage your obsessions and compulsions.

Therapy may take place in individual, family or group sessions.

See earlier article on Emotions

Emotions

Emotions seem to rule our daily lives. We make decisions based on whether we are happy, angry, sad, bored, or frustrated. We choose activities and hobbies based on the emotions they incite.

As per Hockenbury & Hockenbury, "An emotion is a complex psychological state that involves three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response.".  This is a resultant action of human nervous system using some of the chemicals.

Emotions can be highly subjective, may not be pure in form.  your own unique experience of these emotions is probably much more multi-dimensional. Consider anger. Is all anger the same? Your own experience might range from mild annoyance to blinding rage.

Responses

As defined earlier, emotion exhibits physiological and behavioral responses.

Physiological 

Many of the physical reactions you experience during an emotion such as sweating palms, racing heartbeat, or rapid breathing are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system.

Brain scans have shown that the amygdala, part of the limbic system, plays an important role in emotion and fear in particular. The amygdala itself is a tiny, almond-shaped structure that has been linked to motivational states such as hunger and thirst as well as memory and emotion.

Behavioral

Actual expression of emotion is behavioral.  Our ability to accurately understand these expressions is tied to what psychologists call emotional intelligence and these expressions play a major part in our overall body language.  A smile indicate your degree of happiness.

An emotion is normally quite short-lived, but intense. Emotions are also likely to have a definite and identifiable cause.  A mood on the other hand is usually much milder than an emotion, but longer-lasting. In many cases, it can be difficult to identify the specific cause of a mood.

Some Emotions

Uneasy

Nervous, tense, anxious, flustered, insecure, angry, cross, confused, bored, flat, apathetic, weak

Angry

frustrated, cross, irritated, annoyed, furious, livid, enraged, hurt, inadequate, trapped, tired, scared

Frightened

uneasy, weak, insecure, inadequate, tense, anxious, nervous, anxious, scared, petrified, threatened, trapped, horrified

Happy

pleased, glad, wonderful, elated, excited, content, surprised, proud, relieved, satisfied, confident

Negative

distress, suspicious, scornful, disdain, bitter, stupid, shame, worthless

Positive

determined, forgiving, hopeful, motivated, inspired, daring, energetic, loving, eager, excited, receptive, happy

Unhappy

 hurt, upset, lonely, guilty, miserable, bereft, despairing, devastated, lost, down

Upset

angry, frustrated, sad, tearful, hurt, miserable, weepy

Confused

hurt, upset, lonely, inadequate, cross, miserable, shocked, mixed-up, nervous, scared, discontent, stupid, foolish

You would have experienced at least three of the listed emotions.  

Anxiety Disorder

What is Anxiety Disorder?

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress characterized by thoughts of apprehension and autonomic
symptoms such as sweating, palpitation, tremor and butterflies in the stomach.

This is useful for a person in day to day life in most of the cases, for example…..

It helps...

• A student to study harder for an exam, 
• An employee to deal with a tensed situation in the office, 
• A person to keep focused on an important speech….. 
• But when this Anxiety becomes excessive and disabling, thus affecting day to day functions........, 
• it becomes an Anxiety disorder.

Five major types of Anxiety Disorders:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Specific Phobic Disorders (Including Social Phobia)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, is characterized by 

• Chronic free floating anxiety, 
• Increased worry and tension, even when there is very little or even nothing to provoke it. 
• General worries are accompanied by fatigue, headache, muscle tension, muscle aches, difficulty in 
• swallowing, trembling, irritability, sweating, etc

Stress and You

Stress is one of the most common complaints one hears from patients. More and more evidence suggests a relationship between the risk of cardiovascular disease and environmental and psychosocial factors. These factors include job stress, relationship problems, social isolation as well as personality traits.

Developing an optimistic attitude and resilience is the way to beat stress. Of 999 people, men and women ages 65 to 85, researchers in the Netherlands found that optimistic participants had lower rates of heart disease and were 77% less likely to die of cardiovascular diseases.

How stress impacts you?

It is not known how exactly stress increases the risk of heart disease. Whether stress by itself is an independent risk factor or whether stress affects other risk factors and behaviours is yet to be ascertained.

Smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and family history are known risk factors for coronary heart disease. But stress plays a role too.

Studies have shown that long-term stress triggers an unhealthy lifestyle. Chronic stress can result in unhealthy habits such as smoking, being sedentary, overusing alcohol and eating poorly or overeating. These, in turn, increase chances of developing hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol. So, over time, elevated levels of stress can cause you to acquire risk factors that lead to heart disease. Chronic stress exposes your body to unhealthy, persistently elevated levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, which can be detrimental for the heart. Acute stress can cause a sudden increase in the blood pressure, plaque rupture or formation of blood clots, leading to a heart attack.

Warning signs from your body

When you are exposed to long periods of stress, your body gives warning signals that something is wrong. Don't ignore these physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural warning signs. They tell you that you need to slow down. If you continue to be stressed and don't give your body a break, you are likely to develop health problems. Remember, unlike other risk factors for heart disease, it is not possible to measure stress in a precise way.

The good news is that stress doesn't arise from a particular incident or circumstance, but from our perception of and reaction to it. Understand that it's not just stress but your response to it that determines how your health will be affected. Some people react to stress with feelings of anger, guilt, fear, hostility and anxiety that could make things worse. Others may face life's challenges with greater ease. Be in control of a situation so you know what triggers your stress, and work to abate the feelings so the stress is not prolonged.

Take out time to unwind in whatever way that works for you-go for a walk, listen to music, catch up with friends, meditate. Managing stress makes sense for your overall health.

Status of India

In the Indian pool of heart patients, almost every second patient has high blood pressure, every fourth has diabetes and every fifth had plaque deposits in hisher arteries.

Ongoing pan-india study is being done by the American collage of Cardiology's new India chapter indicate, of the 85295 patients studied over 26 months, 60836 had some form of heart disease.  

Average age of heart patient is 52, which is lower by 10 years in the west.  Of the patients surveyed 21.5%  had diabetes, and 20% have some form of heart block.  Most alarming is the 42% of them have hypertension.

In the backdrop of World Heart Day on Monday, the ACC data underlines that the average age of a heart patient in India is 52 years. In the backdrop of World Heart Day on Monday , the ACC data underlines that the average age of a heart patient in India is 52 years. “If one looks at ACC's American registry , the average age is much higher in the seventies. Clearly, Indians get hit with heart disease much earlier,'' said Dr Ganesh Kumar, cardiologist at Hiranandani Hospital in Powai and vice-chairperson of the study .

Are you doing your part to relax?  If not, please start.

Defence Mechanisms

Sigmund Freud developed psychosexual theory to understand anxiety types.  Here is the short video illustrating some of the defence mechanisms we may face in our lives.

Do you disagree or Argue?

During any discussion it is common to have our side of the story and others too have their stories to illustrate any point of view.  When we engage in a discussion, and some of the points you may agree with.  It is perfectly fine to disagree, after all it is your point of view.  However, does it mean you argue to over power other person and thrust your opinion on him? or simply agree but not argue?

Lets understand our point of view:

• Information we want to convey to other person, including the values, merits and demerits
• Environment or ecosystem in which this transaction is taking place.  This brings in the context required to analyse the information we would like to convey
• Here comes our judgmental interpretation or bias about the strengths of our point of view
• This is complemented by our believes, which others may or may not agree or have credence with other's believes.
• Finally, the methodology of implementing our point of view is conveyed.  

Need to agree and discuss further, 

• first define the need for agreement - this is an important step to understand the big picture of the issue on hand.  
• understand the people involved in the discussion, their believes, level of understanding of the discussion point.
• analyse the approach to find an agreement, illustrate the benefits, timeline and sense of ownership among the parties involved.  
• importantly, illustrate collective benefit to self, organization, group etc.
• finally, be polite in putting your discussion point across to others.

Diabetes and Stress

Stress, whether physical stress or mental stress, has been proven to instigate changes in blood sugar levels, which for people with diabetes can be problematic.

While stress can affect diabetes control, both directly and indirectly, it can also be caused by various diabetic factors such as being diagnosed with diabetes, adjusting to a diabetes treatment regimen, or dealing with psycho-social pressures of the disease.

When we become stressed,  the body quickly responds by releasing hormones that give cells access to stored energy - fat and glucose - to help the body get away from danger. This instinctive physiological response to perceived threats is known as the "fight-freeze, or flight" response.

Over time, both physical and mental stress can wear us down mentally and lead to depression and other mental health issues.

Some of the causes are work pressure, marriage and relationship, parenting, traffic, health conditions, financial insecurity, etc.

One of the reasons for this is that stress hormones such as cortisol increase the amount of sugar in our blood. High levels of cortisol can lead to conditions such as Cushing’s syndrome, which is one of the lesser known causes of diabetes.

Constant stress and frustration caused by long term problems with blood glucose regulation can also wear people down and cause them to neglect their diabetes care.

To combat stress take regular exercise, rewind your life with vacations, listen to music (soothing), yoga, meditation, etc.  Especially physical exercises can increase insulin sensitivity, and help lower blood glucose level, as well burn calories. Moving your body through a wide range of motions can also give the mind a rest from the pressures of everyday life. Some people find this relaxing as the mind is preoccupied with exercising rather than worrying about any problems in life.

Key is to prevent stress by planning your life better.  Enhance your relationship by resolving the long lasted conflicts and mending your relationship.  Talk to your doctor or counselor for tips to manage stress better.

Healthy Sleep Tips

Healthy sleep habits can make a big difference in your quality of life. Having healthy sleep habits is often referred to as having good “ sleep hygiene .”

Try to keep the following sleep practices on a consistent basis:

Stick to the same bedtime and wake up time, even on the weekends.

This helps to regulate your body's clock and could help you fall asleep and stay asleep for the night.

Practice a relaxing bedtime ritual.

A relaxing, routine activity right before bedtime conducted away from bright lights helps separate your sleep time from activities that can cause excitement, stress or anxiety which can make it more difficult to fall asleep, get sound and deep sleep or remain asleep.

Avoid naps , especially in the afternoon.

Power napping may help you get through the day, but if you find that you can't fall asleep at bedtime, eliminating even short catnaps may help.

Exercise daily.

Vigorous exercise is best, but even light exercise is better than no activity. Exercise at any time of day, but not at the expense of your sleep.

Evaluate your room.

Design your sleep environment to establish the conditions you need for sleep. Your bedroom should be cool  – between 20 and 24 degrees Celsius . Your bedroom should also be free from any noise that can disturb your sleep. Finally, your bedroom should be free from any light. Check your room for noises or other distractions. This includes a bed partner's sleep disruptions such as snoring. Consider using blackout curtains, eye shades, ear plugs, "white noise" machines, humidifiers, fans and other devices.

Sleep on a comfortable mattress and pillows.

Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive. The one you have been using for years may have exceeded its life expectancy – about 9 or 10 years for most good quality mattresses. Have comfortable pillows and make the room attractive and inviting for sleep but also free of allergens that might affect you and objects that might cause you to slip or fall if you have to get up during the night.

Use bright light to help manage your circadian rhythms .

Avoid bright light in the evening and expose yourself to sunlight in the morning. This will keep your circadian rhythms in check.

Avoid alcohol, cigarettes, and heavy meals in the evening.

Alcohol, cigarettes and caffeine can disrupt sleep. Eating big or spicy meals can cause discomfort from indigestion that can make it hard to sleep. It is good to finish eating at least 2-3 hours before bedtime.

Wind down. Your body needs time to shift into sleep mode, so spend the last hour before bed doing a calming activity such as reading.

For some people, using an electronic device such as a laptop can make it hard to fall asleep, because the particular type of light emanating from the screens of these devices is activating to the brain. If you have trouble sleeping, avoid electronics before bed or in the middle of the night.

If you can't sleep, go into another room and do something relaxing until you feel tired.

It is best to take work materials, computers and televisions out of the sleeping environment. Use your bed only for sleep and sex to strengthen the association between bed and sleep. If you associate a particular activity or item with anxiety about sleeping, omit it from your bedtime routine.

If you’re still having trouble sleeping, don’t hesitate to speak with your doctor or to  find a sleep professional . You may also benefit from recording your sleep in a Sleep Diary  to help you better evaluate common patterns or issues you may see with your sleep or sleeping habits. 

Who is smart? Me or my device?

Alaxander Graham Bell introduced primitive telephone to human kind.  Thomas alva edison introduced electricity to us.  Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, and many other scientists created many devices which made in roads and become part of human life.  I'm not calling this as inventions for different reasons, which we will deal with later.

With Microsoft first thought of Smart tablet, but Apple introduced to the market a product named iPad.  Smart devices include phones, pads, tablets, wearables (includes watches, glass, shoes, monitors etc) which have flooded the market, and many other devices are yet to come.

Interesting fact is Graham bell could not make calls to his mother and wife as both were deaf.  However, telephone has not only provided voice communication but also shrunk the distance.  Traditional phone evolved into mobile phones (several studies on with their health hazards, but not a point on discussion here), made great in roads into many individuals.  Although the communication capability improved, our ability to remember the telephone number, dates, events are slowly fading away.  Now a days seldom people write the phone number, instead say, "give me a missed call".

By our reliance on functions of remembers, we are avoiding to use a great feature of our brain, long term learning.  This is attributed to students as well.  Thankfully, in India, still these devices have not penetrated to primary schools (though some governments are trying to their best), so that writing, maths skills are still manual.

What is the objective?  By using these smart devices, do we compromise on our smartness?  Do you want your smart phone to alert you to say "Today is your _____ birthday"?  Our relationship is just a reminder?  Think about it.

Now, geo coordinate based services pop up as you travel.  This means, our ability to plan our travel is compromised?  Evaluate your self.

At the same time, devices like health monitors are great advances, useful to help diagnose and save lives.   Telemedicine, is such an advancement where medical services can be rendered virtually any location.  Appreciate such utilities.

Let me know your views.

Being consistent

My interaction with people brings in this question. What is the importance and how's of being consistent. There are two groups of people, those who start well, slack during the execution, and drop on the side of failure, others start slow and build their momentum, bring in consistent to finish their task.

What is consistency?

Consistency in life is to make a habit of achieving the activity within planned time most of the time.  Yes, not every time!!  Do you know if you succeed every time as planned, your brain lowers its ability to think rationally.  Also, failure is the stepping stone for sucess.  Life is full of learning from every experience, and being consistent is also an experience.  Being consistent, builds self-confidence, motivation, social recognition and respect.

How to be consistent in Life?

In order to be consistent in Life, keep two aspects in mind.  First of them being methods of execution i.e. planning an activity and learning from experience.  Second being, way of thinking.  Aim to be truthful, honest and reliable, not a perfectionist.

Routine is the mother of consistency and peace. Routine is good for you, it enhances your experience of life by anchoring you with life's essential mundane activities. It is not necessary to make all of your day a routine but at least some of it should consist of habitual rituals that calm, center and fulfill you.

Bring in flexibility in your life, adjusting with others at times, helps build relationship.  Try to be consistent, does not mean you will bend backwards.

Things to avoid

1. Do not demotivate yourself.  Believe in your abilities to perform the task.  Take step back and see big picture, benefits, do research (not immerse your complete time), to build confidence to do things.

2. Don't be in a hurry to do things.  Have you heard "Slow and steady win the race".  This childhood story holds good for every age.  Plan your execution, and build milestones.  Every milestone, check the progress, you get chance to correct the course of execution.

3. No single formula fits all.  Always have "Plan B".  

4. Procrastination, biggest enemy of being consistent.  Proceed as per your plan, plan only what you could do.  This means you understand yourself and what you could do.

Benefits of Walking - Human Systems Approach

Are you certified on ______________ ?

Now a days, getting certified to do a task(s) has become need.  Let us introspect into the process of certification.

• Obtain the syllabus
• Get the material which contains the syllabus (pay off!!)
• Read the material carefully
• Obtain past questions of the certifications (available in the market) (pay off!!)
• Join a class/course which guarantees pass (pay off!!)
• Schedule a date for the certification exam (pay off!!)
• Prepare day and night towards the exam
• Give the exam and wait for the result
• Hurray!! You are certified for the current version

Congratulations!! You are proud certified professional!  Basically you have completed the syllabus (hopefully) and not took shortcuts by reading previous question papers solved for you.  If you have done the later, there is no value addition created for your career.  Objective is to understand the concepts and apply your thoughts to generate new ideas or innovate.

Are you innovating???

• Next release is expected later this week!!

Oops!! Start the cycle again!  

In search of happiness...

We all want to be happy.  But, we wonder what brings us happiness?  In search of happiness, our life goes on.

Do you know how to be happy? Where is happiness?

Want a preview.... a simple formula??

Happiness = Mindfulness + Compassion + Gratitude + Kindness

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Parents Day 27th July

Happy Parents Day!!

Understanding parents is an important life learning.  They are instrumental in you being in this world! Your body was gifted by them.  They spend many many years for you and your learning.  You were THE IMPORTANT in their life.

In these days, new age business is coming up in a very rapid way!  I'm sure you have guessed it right! OLD AGE HOME!!  Think about it! Do you think they deserve in your home or OLD AGE HOME??

About Me

About Me

Suresh has mix of skills related to engineering, planning, managing, finance, psychology and mind management. He encompass these skills to address conflicts, priorities, resource, customer, stakeholders and task management. He has excellent understanding on the methods of communications like managing arguments, reasoning and refutations, in verbal and non-verbal communications.

Suresh has good experience in decision models, aggregation, diversity and innovation, path dependence and mechanism design. He has good grip on aggressive commitment and cooperative commitment models, and has vast experience.

Suresh mixes various intelligence models on decision making, resource management, customer management, and stakeholder management. Thus, risk is averted or managed as per the need.

Suresh focuses on the employee satisfaction by making them as stakeholder in the project and task oriented behavior to enhance delivery timeline. He wins the trust and takes complete responsibility for end-to-end delivery of projects / programs.

Suresh puts his skills on psychology/hypnotherapy/energy healing to counsel and guide individuals on their acute to chronic issues, including lifestyle diseases. He understands the manifestation process of diseases/illness.

Suresh has a youtube channel, watched in 98 countries including US, India, UK, Netherlands. He is running a series on Social, Emotional, Cognitive intelligence for students and parents. Visit www.youtube.com/spillaip for more.

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