The many ways we Indians say, “I love you” without actually saying it
Most psychology books are written by Western authors and these authors only look at the Western culture and assume the rest of the world...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Sep 21
- 2 min
Do affirmations work?
Affirmations are thoughts you consciously repeat to your self desiring a specific outcome. These are curious. Do they work? Sometimes...
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Sarita Talwai
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Comparisons Kill
Odious. Parents wield many weapons against their children. Sharp laced comments, insidious barbs, emotional blackmail or the deadly...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Sep 15
- 1 min
What am I lacking in life?
A Self-awareness Question You have it, but not enough. That is what a lack would mean. You have money, education, security, relationship...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Should parents discuss the negative aspects of their children with others?
Recently, while sitting in a cafe sipping coffee, could not help but overhear four mothers discussing their children. Three of the...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Ability to reduce interaction, walk way, cut off a toxic relationship is also relationship success.
Recently during a workshop when talking of how we can be successful at relationship this question came up. Are we successful only when we...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 30
- 2 min
Learning to stay with an emotion
If you don’t like particular weather (cold, hot, rainy, humid etc.,) you have two choices: move to a place where the weather is different...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Acceptance Vs Resignation
In counselling and psychology when the term acceptance is used many people think, acceptance means giving up the idea of change. They...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 1
- 2 min
I love you but don't want to live with you
“You keep saying you love us” “Of course mom, I love you. I love dad. I will do anything for you people” “Then why is it that you don’t...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Calming the storm in the head
You want to stop the loop thinking. You want to end the tape that is running in your head. You want to switch off the film running inside...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Stopping the conversations in the head - Give a running commentary on life around you
Most times we are talking to someone in our minds. Either to someone or to ourselves. As long as the conversations are pleasant, they are...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Isn’t it a defeatist attitude when people say possessions are not important?
People have to find someone more ambitious than them, more interested in the worldly things than them, more ‘greedy’ than them and...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Financial freedom is the gateway to many other freedoms.
All Indians are philosophers! It is there in our blood. Any situation, any place, any time, we can easily summon some aspect of...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 5
- 2 min
The Mother tongue fluster
This is another idea like your ‘hometown’ that is beginning to get diffused and turning slowly into shapelessness. Many of us struggle to...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 30
- 2 min
Dependent, Independent or Interdependent?
As children, we are dependent on the adults around us for almost everything. Slowly as the child grows up, the sense of wanting to be...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 29
- 2 min
Adopting a compound interest mindset.
As a former banker, I have always been aware of the power of compound interest. As applied to finance, it means that you earn a small sum...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 27
- 3 min
Protecting people we love all the time or teaching them to protect themselves?
“I don’t want to take cash, can you transfer the money online to my account?” I asked a friend recently. “I will ask my dad to do it,”...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 25
- 2 min
Refraining from being solution-oriented ALL the time.
First scenario: The child comes back home from school and says, “You know what happened today? My friend Rahul stopped talking to me.”...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 22
- 3 min
Beta testing relationships
Society alters its shape every decade or so and it seems to be happening faster than before. The way we commute (Uber, Ola, Metro), the...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 21
- 2 min
The might to remain silent
Recently when one of my friends was being exhorted by his wife about what not to tell some visitors expected home, remarked, “Saraswati...
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