Your emotional health, your choice
Emotional Health of Health Workforce “ the new coronavirus has made all the easy stuff hard”- from the New Yorker We are living in challenging times. Of the many population groups, the group most challenged are the providers of essential services in general and the health workforce in particular. The nearly universal practice of social... Continue Reading →
LOCKDOWN (losses and Gains) Dr.Shashvat Shere, Consultant Psychiatrist, Ratnagiri(Maharastra) I used to like to travel a lot, Void in my life I always fought. With meeting people all over, I thought my happiness grows forever. The beautiful colours in the nature, And the sounds of music on the player, The fragrance of a deo or... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on COVID-19 and My Own Experiences as a Cancer Survivor Harmala Gupta, Founder-President, CanSupport (www.cansupport.org) March 31 2020. What strikes me at this time is that those in authority and ordinary individuals don’t behave very differently when it comes to handling bad news. We are only too aware of the time it took China... Continue Reading →
This is a very special book. Full of insights into living with cancer and the uncertainities of life, with a STRONG sense of HUMOUR. You will really ENJOY reading this book and seeing the videos. Cancer Memoir- Ananya Book launch video of 90 minutes. It is a mixture readings from the book, and interviews with... Continue Reading →
Personal experience of a person living with a diagnosis of Cancer, after reading the special issue of THE CALL BEYOND (2016) from Sri Aurobindo Society( please documents section for the full 21 page document of articles). ( by a member of the WhatsApp group: My emotional health) Dear Sir, After reading the article, I found... Continue Reading →
SAASIVE TANDAVALU(Kannada) by Bharathi, B.V. (2019) Alampu Prakashana. Bangalore. This is a very special book that presents the personal experiences of Ms. Bharathi, B.V. a cancer survivor, from the beginning of suspicion about cancer, through the diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and recovery. A good way to describe the scope of the book is to... Continue Reading →
SUFFERING-Some reflections The diagnosis of Cancer and living with cancer is associated with suffering. A compilation of narratives from different sources is at the later part of this blogpost. However, the more important purpose of this post is to share the insights of Sri Aurobindo on Suffering. Please read and reflect on the same and... Continue Reading →
True Love – Just a Currency for Joy Sri Aravind Bhashyam, Professor of Civil Engineering, Christ University, Bangalore This talk at Sri Aurobindo Cultural Trust, Bangalore on July 20,2019 was very special. Starting with the title of the talk, which raised a sense of mystery to the speaker, an eminent Civil Engineer speaking philosophy. What... Continue Reading →
Spirituality and Health-R.Srinivasa Murthy The evidence for the positive evidence of spirituality and its health benefits. This was part of the SPECTRUM lecture series of Sri Aurobindo Cultural Trust Centre at Bangalore. Beginning with the broad definition of spirituality, ‘Spirituality is a broad concept which encompasses the search for MEANING, PERSONAL VALUES and DEVELOPMENT, a... Continue Reading →
From HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, USA. July 2019. 5 surprising benefits of walking The next time you have a check-up, don't be surprised if your doctor hands you a prescription to walk. Yes, this simple activity that you've been doing since you were about a year old is now being touted as "the closest thing we... Continue Reading →
Living with cancer 