Trying to deal with the resentment one faces from others

By JyotiPosted on September 30, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Psychology4 Comments

“This human being is a guest house. Every morning there is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honourably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful… Read More »

A peek into myself

By JyotiPosted on August 23, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology11 Comments

As member of the IPI team I had agreed to submit blogs for the ipi-website at regular intervals, and now it was my turn. But… I am engaged in many unrelated things, and I was finding it difficult to put my mind and energy into coming up with something. Helplessly I observed the drama that… Read More »

Know Thyself

By JyotiPosted on July 26, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Miscellaneous musings, PsychologyLeave a comment

The biggest and the most refreshing departure from western psychology to Indian psychology, for me, was the shift from trying to understand the other, to ‘know thyself’. This is a process, a journey, an adventure, which entails a dive inside, from our surface knowing of oneself into all the deep, hidden, unbeknown layers of oneself… Read More »

Shifting authority from outside to inside

By JyotiPosted on July 9, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology, SocietyLeave a comment

I have spent a lot of energy in trying to grapple with a sense of guilt. The reason is that a few years ago I ventured to break the norm, and swim against the tide. I had my reasons for doing what I did, but I could not share all of them, and, perhaps, they… Read More »

The cycle of suffering and healing

By JyotiPosted on June 21, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Psychology, Psychotherapy and counselingLeave a comment

Healing follows the experience of suffering as day follows night. The two are inseparable just like the two sides of a coin. Suffering sets the stage for healing to begin. The two are apparently diametrically opposite, yet, together, they complete the cycle and enwrap within their fold the entire expanse and spread of human experience.… Read More »

TIP-2011: Observations from the sidelines

By JyotiPosted on April 29, 2011April 29, 2011Cat IPI, Teaching IP5 Comments

TIP-2011 — IPI’s collaborative workshop on Teaching Indian Psychology — began with much hope, enthusiasm and eagerness, as something, the need for which had been felt since quite some time. In spite of the resistance against the teaching of Indian Psychology in universities and other age-old institutions, where western classical positivist psychology had been the… Read More »