by Nivedita Ramanujam | Sep 9, 2020 | Hypnotherapy
Have you ever come across a situation where you were not given the chance to express your views over a conflict at work and just talked down to? Such a situation may arise when there has been a conscious or unconscious decision to either not really listen to you, or...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2020 | Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness and Meditation
Chronic pain is usually set off by a physical injury. Certain types of pain persist beyond the original injury, or emanate from a much wider or distant area. Sometimes the pain is far greater in proportion to the injury and sometimes the pain spreads to a wider...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2019 | Cancer Support, Health & Wellness
The Brain still offers the scientific and medical communities tremendous opportunity for discovery. Resulting from studies such as the groundbreaking Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Study*, scientists are still learning about how life events...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jun 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Meditation
The Sanskrit word moola means the foundation or root. Bandha means lock or restraint. The two words Mooladhara chakra refer to the seat of the kundalini. The bandha or lock refers to the contraction of the perineum rendering us the location of the psychic centre of...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Meditation
Do you find yourself hurting over things people say easily these days? Perhaps you are experiencing a difficult relationship? Perhaps your adult child is not communicating with you? Maybe your partner is quick tempered. Do you find yourself welling up or feeling...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jan 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Relationships
Sometimes we may have been so violated and hurt by someone or an incident that it leaves us in smarting and entrapped in feelings of deep pain. The same thoughts, memories and words ring in our mind. It might also get up to a point where the painful emotions, thoughts...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2018 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health
Imagine this: Your child hates school because he fears being asked questions by the teacher in math class. Having to stand up in class mumbling a possible answer or worse staying silent can be extremely unnerving. He feels that he is being ridiculed by some of his...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Sep 1, 2018 | Cancer Support
If you were to research cancer, you would be given a lot of statistics, medical jargon and all sorts of cases and treatment options. Stephen J Gould’s essay, The Median Isn’t the Message, which he wrote shortly after his diagnosis and takes a look at cancer statistics...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jun 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR
This pilot study examined the effects of EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder in cancer patients in the follow-up phase of the disease. The study also aimed to examine whether EMDR treatment has a different impact on PTSD in...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR
The exposure to a life-threatening disease such as cancer may constitute a traumatic experience that in some cases may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, several studies investigated this syndrome in patients with cancer,...
