Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XIX

Motivation holds the key
This column is five months old this week and it is a time to look back and contemplate. We have discussed myriad issues on topics, among which are: Who am I?; Know Thyself; Be Thyself; Managing Anger; Meditation; Chasing Happiness; How Thoughts Shape our Lives; Role Playing and

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XVIII

Contemplation helps us understand ourselves

On a quiet Monday, when the nation was in bandh mode, I went along an interesting stream of thought. I believe it was Albert Einstein who said that the simplest questions have the toughest answers. My thoughts went out to the genius when I was adding a new

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XVII

Always concentrate on present, ignore the past
One of the main causes of unhappiness is that most of us choose to dwell, or daydream, about the past or the future. We do not wish to live in the present and leverage the most from it. We largely tend to look back on incidents

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Teaching is a thankless job……

“ Teaching is a thankless job “ , so says some of the most eminent and prominent people of the educated society. So says most of the teachers themselves and also the people running educational institutions. Then my question is , why are you teaching? Why are you the owner of an organization which deals

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XVI

I realised many summers ago that the way you react can often shape the outcome of events. Few of us understand this fact and most of us go blithely through life carrying on as we have always done; never re-living, or re-learning, from our actions. And as explained in my tenth column, our acts also

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XV

Last week, I was in the Lake District in north-west England being interviewed by the BBC. It was conducted across two days, not in an indoor studio but as we rambled along the most picturesque part of the famed British countryside. For those of you steeped in literary knowledge, you may recall that this part

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XIV

Everybody wants Happiness. And Happiness, not Wealth, is the most sought after attribute. Yet, unalloyed, complete Happiness, in the sense of an absence of Unhappiness, does not exist !  This statement may seem to be a contradiction of sorts but it is not.  Taken at face value, many will wonder what is the point of

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XIII

Last week I touched upon a very important tool in our armoury to change ourselves; Role Playing. It is widely used in group therapy workshops around the world and is a spinoff from the concept of Acting as Therapy. We touched upon two situations last week; mother-daughter and father-son relations. In this column, we will

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XII

Many of the triggers of our unhappiness come from unfulfilled relationships. They could be ones with your parents, loved ones or friends. When relationships are unfulfilled, I find that they rankle within us and they emerge as troublesome thoughts, or dreams. Sometimes, they even become the stuff of recurrent dreams. In any case, these vexing

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Anupam Kher on ‘The Change Within’ concept – XI

Some perceptions gain currency because they seem plausible. Other perceptions get accepted as fact because they have not been actively contradicted.  Among them are some widely-held beliefs about Change, which I will share with you soon.
The concept of changing oneself seems to be redolent with a spiritual purpose. And very true, as it requires more

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