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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Unresolvable frustrations are a part of life
In our lives, we would really love to solve all our problems. Who does not like that? The idea of a life without any problems seems...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 10, 20232 min read
There are many faces of grief
Recently someone I know lost her husband after nearly 40 years of a good marriage. She went about briskly arranging for the last rites of...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 8, 20232 min read
Freedom is a need too
One thing this pandemic has made us aware is our love and need for freedom. Earlier too, before the onset of the pandemic, we may have...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Practice social distancing from Happiness Police.
Let no one make you feel guilty for finding some joy in these times The News is filled with articles on human suffering, pain,...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 5, 20232 min read
Helping others to achieve their dreams, realize their potential and believe in themselves
Harmony in Relationships Helping others to achieve their dreams, realize their potential and believe in themselves While we go about...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 3, 20231 min read
Life in slow motion
Does not life move much slower in reality than what it does in our minds? In our minds, life plays out at a much faster pace. Events that...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 2, 20233 min read
What if there is no unconscious thinking process at all?
Book Intro: The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater. All our life we have been told by Psychologists that we do thinking at two levels conscious...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Apr 1, 20233 min read
There Are Too Many People Inside Me!
There are too many little people inside me who are struggling to get out. It is not just me, but these little people are inside all of...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Mar 31, 20232 min read
A method to stop mental chatter
Words flow endlessly in our head and at times it can become disturbing. Our conversations in the mind is either with ourselves or with...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Mar 30, 20232 min read
The path not travelled does not exist!
We all have traveled one path in our life and that is the reality. But in our mind we keep traveling down paths we have never traveled in...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Mar 12, 20232 min read
Seeking external validation is necessary for us.
“My son is 12 years old and he still seeks validation for his actions from us and friends” “My husband at 40 still asks his elder brother...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 26, 20232 min read
When you don’t say, “I am fever”,” I am cold”, "I am fracture", why say “I am depressed”, “I am anxi
When you are running a temperature, you tell people, “I am having a temperature” or “I am having fever”. You are not going to say, “I am...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 26, 20232 min read
The people we give to and the people we receive from are often different.
“I have helped my sister so many times in my life but she is never there for me when I want it” “This has happened often?” I asked “Yes,...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 23, 20232 min read
Congratulating people on the getting a divorce that they wanted.
Recently, when I put the phone down after congratulating someone on the other side of the phone, the person who was in my presence asked,...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 31, 20232 min read
Don’t confuse people’s opinions with truth
While the philosophical idea of truth can be debated endlessly without coming to any conclusions, in our real life we need to distinguish...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 14, 20232 min read
Surrendering to the strengths of others around us
“I think you missed a turn back there”, said the daughter sitting beside her mom. “No I didn’t” replied the mother, “the turn is further...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Dec 27, 20222 min read
Our strengths can also be our weakness
We can look at our strengths as our personality strengths (I am…), our external resources like our relationships, our possessions, our...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Is ‘Closure’ another over-used word?
“I feel he has not yet had a closure for his dad’s death” “She has not had a closure for her pain from the divorce” “He is yet to get a...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Dec 5, 20222 min read
What are your Four-Five stories that keep you awake at night?
Most of us cannot go to sleep because we cannot stop thinking. The body is tired but the brain is active. Being primarily visual...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Nov 2, 20222 min read
A way to avoid forgetting some jobs
Enhancing personal efficiency Two similar incidents happened recently showing me how to avoid forgetting some jobs. On day 1, my nephew...
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