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77Think outside the box
CAN YOU CONNECT the nine dots on this page, with just four straight lines, and without lifting your pencil or retracing the lines? Solving this popular puzzle is an exercise that Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American psychologist, gives to his patients. ...
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83Learning with the whole brain
IF YOU LOOK at the human brain from a horizontal perspective, you will see that the cortex consists of two distinct halves -- the cerebral hemispheres. They contain two sets of cortical lobes which gradually...
3 comments76Define yourself... in 3 words
MANY YEARS AGO, when I was just starting out as a counseling psychologist, a woman in her 30s came to me with a problem that is not at all unique to people her age. She was distressed by the fact that her...
4 comments74Of wind chimes, bells, and singing bowls
WHEN I TOOK a course on hypnotherapy in graduate school, my teacher used sounds to alter our state of consciousness. He would ask us to close our eyes and then play a tape of temple bells ringing. In no time...
10 comments84Five Questions on Women in their 40s
What happens to a woman (physically, emotionally, mentally) when she hits her 40s? In other words, what can you expect a typical woman to feel when she hits this milestone? There is no hard and fast rule. Depending on how a woman has been living...
23 comments727 helpful things to know about learning
1. Human beings are born with the ability to learn --but this takes place with experience. A baby -- sooner or later -- will talk, and walk, smile and cry. It will cry because it is hungry, sleepy, or in...
4 comments85How to Raise an Independent Child – Part 1
OUR GOAL as parents is to raise independent, responsible and resourceful adults and we measure our success by how much we are no longer needed when our children turn 21. In other words, to be successful as parents, we make ourselves more and more...
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70Tomorrow will be fine, but what about today?
I RECENTLY JOINED a seminar-workshop on Self Awareness and, in the exercise on getting in touch with thoughts and feelings, I realized how exhausted I felt. I had this image of myself running all over the place trying to get things done and I was...
1 comment81When your teenager falls in love
ANYONE who has ever been a teenager knows the difficulty of wanting to break away from your parents and the shock of realizing how dependent you really are on them. Anyone who has ever raised a teenager has felt this same ambivalence -- the agony...
5 comments62'Mars' and 'Venus': how their minds work
IN MY COLLEGE DAYS, circa mid-1960s, I had the reputation of being a ‘crammer’. I was notorious for writing up term papers ‘the night before’. I had one teacher who was bothered by this quirk and who...
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