Tag: Modern Psychology
Yoga Kshema Meaning: the bhagavad gita verse nobody finishes reading
Yoga kshema meaning, in its simplest translation, is this: acquisition and preservation. Yoga is the act of obtaining what you do not yet have. Kshema is the act of protecting what you already do. Two words. Two anxieties. The entire architecture of the human mind. The verse they come from is Chapter 9, Verse 22…
They were always going to leave. that was the point.
Letting go of your children is not a single moment. It is a thousand quiet losses that begin long before they leave, and long before you are ready. There is a specific kind of grief that has no funeral. No date to mark. No ritual to contain it. Nobody brings you flowers. Nobody asks how…
What Kama Actually Means: the ancient secret nobody told you about pleasure
There is a word you already know. You know it the way most people know it. As something charged. Something that requires a lowered voice or a knowing look. Something that sits in the imagination alongside incense and candlelight and the particular silence of a room where two people have decided to stop talking. The…
Brain rot: the science behind the word oxford made official
Brain rot was a joke until the neuroscience caught up with it. Oxford University Press named it Word of the Year for 2024, defining it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state from excessive exposure to low-quality online content. The word itself is not new. It first appeared in Henry David…
How the shows you watch are quietly teaching you marketing
Marketing lessons from TV shows are rarely what people expect to find. But they are there. In every episode. Not a textbook. Not a lecture. Not a course you paid for. The shows you watch late at night. The characters you follow. The lines that surface in your mind weeks later when you are doing…
Why does music give you chills? the science behind Frisson
Why does music give you chills? Because your brain just did something extraordinary. It predicted beauty. And it was right. That shiver down your spine has a name. Scientists call it frisson, from the French word for a brief but intense feeling. Most people describe it as goosebumps, a sudden tightening in the chest, hair…
An Astrologers Day by RK Narayan: the con man who told the truth
An Astrologer’s Day by RK Narayan is a story about a fraud. A man who knows nothing about the stars. Who cannot read the future. Who sits under a tamarind tree every day in a busy market and tells people what they need to hear so they will pay him and go home. He is…
Therapy generation anxiety: the paradox nobody wants to admit
Therapy generation anxiety is the paradox nobody in the mental health industry wants to talk about. Generation Z is the most therapised generation in history. More young people are in therapy, talking about their feelings, using mental health language, and identifying their emotional states than at any previous point in recorded human history. The stigma…
From trusting everyone to trusting no one but yourself
What nobody tells you about moving abroad alone is the sea of questions to come. Nobody warns you about the silence. Not the silence of an empty apartment. Not the silence of a city that does not know your name. The silence that sets in when you realise that for the first time in your…
Do people think AI is conscious? a study published today says it takes minutes
Do people think AI is conscious? Most people, if asked directly, would say no. They know they are talking to software. They understand, at least intellectually, that there is no one home behind the text on the screen. Then they have a conversation with a chatbot for a few minutes. And something shifts. A study…
