Perspective

By M.S. Srinivasan - Jan 15, 2019

This is a story based on the experience of a seeker on the path of yoga, narrated in the first person. It illustrates some of the subtle and unseen inner quarrels and conflicts which go on within and among people living in a community, hidden behind a superficial and hypocritical camaraderie reinforced by social etiquette and culture. It also highlights the need to resolve these conflicts by finding their deeper cause.

By Ambika Talwar - Apr 24, 2014

This article explores energy medicine and processes as ways to access the ‘point of origin’ of diverse illnesses or imbalances, which are often triggered by our thought-forms for we live in a cosmic soup of thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, et al. Illness or disease is a result of confusion and inappropriate management of information in/by diverse systems of body-mind-spirit. Once we access the point of origin and eliminate recurring/causal confusions and false beliefs/associations, we can regain with ease our state of well-being or wholeness. Realise upon waking what is truly important...

By M.M.S. Ahuja - Apr 24, 2013

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea and Music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel what I can ne’er express — yet can not all conceal. Byron (1)

By Nimisha Rattan - Apr 24, 2015

This article is an effort to bring about awareness of the food that we eat. There are certain guidelines that help us become conscious of what and how we eat. The message here is to stay healthy and happy by celebrating the moments of conscious eating every day.

By Unknown Author - Apr 24, 2011

I watch the second-year students file into the Ether Dome for their first day of my Patient–Doctor 2 course. For me, this course marks their true entry into medical school. Here, they will refine their history-taking skills, building on their knowledge of pathophysiology and disease; they will learn how to perform a physical examination; and they will touch a living stranger’s body as clinicians for the first time. For them, right now, these are just skills to be learned. They do not see how they will be transformed by them. They know that these newfound abilities will open the door to clinical medicine. They do not know how utterly changed they will be by crossing that threshold. Last year, they took Patient–Doctor 1, which teaches the essential framework of history-taking and interviewing skills, with an emphasis on understanding the patient’s experience. The scuttlebutt is that PD 1 is the ‘soft’ stuff, with its focus on how it feels to be a patient, ill and vulnerable, and its emphasis on self-reflection. They believe that PD 2 is the ‘real’ stuff, the opportunity to start examining patients and taking histories about real disease. They do not understand the importance of what they learned last year, because they do not know how powerful they will become, how patients will hang on their words, how devastating a careless word can be. They do not know how they can ‘do everything right’ and still be ineffective because their behavior has alienated a patient who therefore never returns or does not take necessary medication. How do I convey all this to them while they are still on the other side — where they understand the patient’s perspective more than the doctor’s? Now they are appalled if they see a physician behave rudely or insensitively to a patient. Later, they may behave so themselves. Numerous authors have noted the discrepancy between the values we purport to teach in the ‘explicit curriculum’ and what the students observe and mimic in the ‘implicit curric