The Positive Behaviour Podcast: Recent Episodes
Vinesh Sukumaran
The Positive Behaviour Podcast brings to you some of the most practical applications of positive psychology and ways to develop positive behaviour. Vinesh Sukumaran, who is a Positive Psychologist and the author of the book From Behaviour To Wellbeing shares his insights through every episode of this podcast. It combines cutting edge research in positive psychology with Vinesh's real-world experience as a Forbes Coaches Council Member and a sought-after consultant in the areas of Organizational and Individual Development.
Chaitanya’s love for animals has moved from mere empathy to a state of deep understanding and oneness. She is an animal whisperer who learns unique life lessons from the way animals behave and interact and shares them regularly with the rest of the world on her blog “Live Learn Reflect Grow” https://chaitanyavembar.wordpress.com/. In this podcast she discusses with Vinesh Sukumaran what it means to be happy, the importance of your parents’ pearls of wisdom and how even a simple gift life a diary during your childhood could kickstart a lifelong relationship with journaling. She also shares some of her personal secrets of getting through tough times and following your bliss.
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It isn’t easy to start and run a business at any age in life. But here’s someone who got into a family business in his teens and started and ran a couple of others after that. And he’s still not done. All this while having time to do some other things that really mattered to him like learning Salsa and competing in the World Salsa Congress, spending time with family, having his weekend drink with friends, reading his favourite comics and watching the Rocky series. Watch this interview where Sunil Khemchandani shares his business and life secrets with Vinesh Sukumaran in his rather nonchalant and laid-back style.
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People get influenced and inspired in an instant and sometimes that influence and inspiration can last weeks, months, years or even a lifetime. While Aadarsh Hariharan’s early influences of Nietzsche and Hermann Hesse among others embedded ideas that shaped his thinking, he shares in this interview the other lessons that he learnt through rich life experiences. While the man is an elite educational and corporate pedigree, he clearly values the small and simple things in life. He shares in this interview with Vinesh Sukumaran some of the secrets to a good life and meaningful pursuits to go after. Even if it’s just taking a walk with his wife Chaitanya or getting licked by his dog Imli. I hope I didn’t get that the other way around. Watch to find out.
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It’s not unusual for people to work hard, get a good job, slog in it for years and find their way up the corporate ladder until suddenly they find themselves close to retirement with a lot of their dreams still not realized. Vinod Sukumaran decided to play the game slightly differently and has cracked the code in his own style. He transitioned from the mundane IT career path into a job and working style that suits his taste. One that allows him to pursue what really matters in life. Even his early career dreams of buying a Mercedes by 40 don’t resonate with him any more because he’s realized what really matters in life and also what we should be telling our children. That’s what he shares with Vinesh Sukumaran in this interview.
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If you’re from Bangalore, you should know something about IT and have a pretty good threshold for traffic. While Rohini Vinod relates to these two stereotypes, her connection with what the city brought into her life go far beyond the that tip of the Bangalore iceberg. If you want to know the secrets of being an awesome mom, wife, friend, daughter and extended family member while working in rigorous IT jobs and making career transitions, listen to what she has to say. All this while keeping up with her other passions like travel, watching movies and embracing the people and faith that mattered to her. She shares in this interview with Vinesh Sukumaran what it takes to marry your childhood sweetheart and adapt to a foody family while still reading the books of Richard Bach.
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What do you think it takes to be a single mom? Oh yes, while working a full-time job and being successful at it, maintaining a clean, tidy, warm and beautiful home and raising two wonderful children and sustaining a social life while you’re at it. The point is not how difficult or easy it is, the point is that it’s possible to do with grace. The story and secrets of Sajala Sinha is one of grit, discipline, hope for a bright future and happiness. In this third season of the positive behaviour podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran elicits for his guests the positive behaviours of this super mom who lives and works in Bangalore, India. Also get a glimpse of the role books and movies play in our lives through this interview.
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Have you ever thought about how much time you might be spending day dreaming every day? Now think about being able to use those moments when you zone out several time a day to your benefit. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran talks about daydreams as states of consciousness and explains an easy-to-use method to get the best out of them. What you day dream about says a lot about what might be going on in your life, and if applied consistently, the technique explained in this podcast can help in changing your life for the better.
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While it’s possible to be on a well-planned vacation that was long awaited and end up having a lousy time because of all sorts of reasons, it’s also possible to land up in an unexpected weekend break some place and have an awesome time. In this podcast Vinesh emphasizes the role that the things that we do play in a vacation experience and specifically highlights ways to carry that back home. The place or location in a lot of cases just ends up being a sort of venue for your vacation.
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On one hand it’s great to hear people use the term zen in an almost casual fashion in social conversations. Terms like “being zen like”, “finding your zen” or even “zen tangle”. On the other hand, there’s a hoo-ha about diving deeper. As if zen is this deep abyss or state of profound enlightenment the any person seeking self-realization must aspire for. In this podcast Vinesh Sukumaran introduces you to an easy way of understanding zen. A lot of listeners even love the interesting comparison that he makes in this podcast between zen and tasting honey.
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This is an idea that’s been liberating for several people who Vinesh has coached. It didn’t just end up empowering those people but lightened the load on them especially with respect to their interactions with others. We often don’t feel like doing certain things and that’s alright. What’s more important is the way we deal with that. Some go on a guilt trip; some feel that they aren’t doing something right and some others push themselves completely against their will again and again. Here’s an approach that is easy, light and practical.
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In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran talks about an interesting phenomenon called “The Musk Deer Effect”. It’s something that all of us have faced at some point in our lives. It’s also what might cause people to encounter the same kinds of jobs, bosses, problems and challenges in life again and again. This podcast explains a clear solution and workaround to get more out of life and not be trapped by the “Musk Deer Effect”. Listen to find out if you’re a musk deer or if you’ve been able to look inward and make actual positive changes in your life.
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Even if you’re doing exactly what you love in life and are blessed to be in the right area of work, it’s unlikely that every moment of every day is fun. On the contrary, there might by things that you’re doing on a day-to-day basis that are enthralling but they’re taking you nowhere. This podcast explains Vinesh Sukumaran’s umbrella theory that has helped a lot of his clients make sense of things like passion, ambition and doing what you love while coping effectively with the things you hate.
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This podcast explains a clear insight that has helped a lot of people who Vinesh Sukumaran has coached, to overcome doubt and get into a state of clarity and conviction. The feeling of doubt, as real as it might seem while it exists has one or two definite characteristics. Clarity and conviction on the other had have certain other characteristics. This podcast gets to the heart of what exactly to do to overcome doubt and how action can be the right antidote to the feeling of doubt.
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The title of this podcast is a casual quote that Vinesh Sukumaran posted on social media recently. Of course, people who’ve had migraines and hangovers related to it but the idea implicit in it is a lot deeper than just that. This is about waking up to and appreciating the good things in your life. This podcast clearly outlines a real application of positive psychology that helps in exercising gratitude, noticing and feeling good about what’s going well in your life.
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Think of all the things that you wanted to do at different points in your life but didn’t really get down to doing. Those awesome ideas that you later saw someone else bring to life. Here’s one big thing that ends up holding a lot of people back or even distracting them when they’re just on the verge of making their dreams come true. Vinesh also talks in this podcast about what you should be doing the next time that happens to you.
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While a lot of cultures and schools of thought across the world have prescribed this idea, Vinesh alludes to the time when he was struck by it when he read it in Randy Pausch’s book “The Last Lecture”. More importantly, Vinesh relates the “People are more important than things” idea to instances from everyday life especially the ways in which they unfold in terms of us having to make a choice between people and things. As always, inspiring his listeners to develop positive behaviour.
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This is a way of looking at and living life that is more aligned to what most of us seek and want to experience. In other words, feelings and emotions like happiness, peace, bliss or even the feeling of being successful. The “Be Do Have” philosophy is something that is extremely useful and yet least understood. Partially because of poor explanations but also because it’s so counter intuitive to what we’re told or taught to do throughout our lives. Here’s a lucid and crisp account.
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Are you among those people who would go on a fitness regime or diet plan to get fitter and lost weight, only so that you can start eating junk food again or sit around in the couch being lazy again. In this podcast you’ll learn about one of the most effective mindsets to approach anything in life with. One that doesn’t just ensure better but permanent results. More importantly, people who subscribe to this mindset often reach a point where they do things for the sheer joy of doing it and the results sort of become a natural by-product of that.
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For a lot of people, trust is like an on off game. You either trust or you don’t trust someone. And if trust is lost it’s often a one-way ticket. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran explores the phenomenon of trust in the light of what he’s observed in a particular display of the Cirque Du Soleil. One of the best ways to understand trust is to study people who demonstrate a high level of trust with each other and derive lessons from the contexts in which those people trust each other the most. Here are three lessons about trust from the Cirque Du Soleil.
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There’s no great secret in self-improvement or learning a new skill or even just in getting better at anything. Vinesh Sukumaran believes that the real truths and so-called magic formulae are in fact rather commonplace and extremely simple mindsets and behaviours. In this podcast he outlines one really simple behaviour that will help you get better at anything irrespective of your age, background, ethnicity or past experience.
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What’s your morning routine? Do you have one? Forget the morning routine. Do you have any kind of routine where you do things that you really love? In this podcast Vinesh Sukumaran talks about the magic of doing things that you really love to do and getting down to doing them right now and preferable first thing in the morning. He also stresses on how this could be the exact opposite of the popular narrative that encourages most people to postpone the good things in life. Finally, there are clear reasons why you should do them in the morning rather than at any other time of the day.
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There’s a popular quote in relationship coaching circles, “Attraction is not a choice”. This is also true of love. You hardly have any control over when you’ll fall in love and when you’ll fall out of love. While falling in love can be an amazing experience, what do you do when you actually fall out of love. Vinesh Sukumaran answers that question through the positive behaviour lens. By the way, this podcast isn’t just talking about dealing with falling out of love with a person. You could fall out of love with your circle of friends, with the city you live in, with your job or even with your hobbies and interests. He even talks about resigning to an interesting quote about love by Franz Kafka.
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This podcast is a response to an email that Vinesh Sukumaran received from a 12-year-old (whom he calls Rebecca) about challenges that she’s facing related to anxiety, stress and low self-esteem among other things. In the process of responding to the 12-year-old, Vinesh also shares insights about how anyone at any age can feel more relaxed and live a better life. He talks specifically about another key dimension of positive psychology, authenticity. It’s the quality of being genuine, being real and being yourself. Stressing that it really matters that you spend at least some time everyday being yourself and being real.
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You’ve probably heard the phrase “be careful what you ask for”, and it often implies that you might get what you ask for and then you won’t know how to deal with it. In this podcast Vinesh Sukumaran takes that discussion a step further by clarifying one of the reasons why people won’t be able to handle what they get in life. It particularly focuses on the kind of people you might want to have in life and what that means in terms of the kind of person who you need to first become.
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Prayer is a wonderful thing. It’s a great form of solace and a window to peace and a sense of security. But sometimes, out of sheer habit, we end up praying for things or even passing the buck to a greater power. More importantly, prayer should not be a constant reminder of what you don’t have in your life. If you’re a person who prays every single day, do you have the courage to stop praying altogether. What might this mean for you and what might this do? Listen to this podcast to start having the right perspective towards prayer.
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How often do you work out at a gym or practice any form of exercise anywhere or for that matter do anything at all on autopilot? This podcast, which is part of the second season of Vinesh Sukumaran’s podcasts, talks about exactly what to do with your mind when you work out or do any form of exercise. This is not just about ensuring that what you’re doing with your mind is not counterproductive to the exercise. This is about learning to get the best out of any physical fitness regime by using your mind in the right way.
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We do business with, want to work with as well as spend time with people whom we like. People who like us will do their best to make our lives easier, help us realize our dreams and do what matters to us. This quality of likability is more than just a “good to have”. In recent times, it’s moved to being a “must have” not just in people’s personal lives but also in the corporate world. You could have some incredible qualities in terms of technical competence, domain expertise or even a high IQ level, but if you’re not likable, you can take your other abilities and talents home with you. Listen to this podcast to find out more.
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This is the third meditation podcast of the three-part series that Vinesh Sukumaran is sharing. In this podcast Vinesh has tried to simplify a form of meditation to a point where it almost becomes as good as just practicing mindfulness. If you’re looking for the simplest form of meditation that you can integrate into your life, the “whatever” meditation is it. There’s also a clear emphasis on the fact that it’s important to learn to relax, feel good and experience happiness in your everyday life and not just when you go live in an ashram, a monastery or join a retreat. If your life is happening outside the monastery, ashram or retreat and you want a practice to integrate into it. Try this one out.
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This is the second meditation podcast of the three-part series that Vinesh Sukumaran is sharing. It’s being shared particularly in the interest of introducing people who want to practice meditation to something so simple that the entire technique of meditation is reduced to just one single step. It can be learnt in about 5 minutes and put to practice as soon as you finish learning it. This meditation is also something that you can do as a standalone activity or integrate it with anything else that you do in life like walking, eating, talking, reading or whatever else you choose.
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This is the first meditation podcast of the three-part series that Vinesh Sukumaran is sharing. It’s a simple and absolutely neutral technique of meditation that anyone from any faith, belief system, culture or background can practice. It’s something that helps when done hours or even minutes and seconds before you actually need the meditation to work for you. At the same time, it’s a technique that can be practiced everyday and adopted as one’s approach to broadening the horizons of the mind, expanding consciousness or sometimes just to feel relaxed and feel good throughout the day. It takes less than ten minutes to learn and is something that you can put to practice right away.
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Though a fairly simple podcast about a Whatsapp message that Vinesh Sukumaran receives from a friend, the real message in it is deep. Alluding to the things that we hold on to in life, like real possessions, thoughts, habits, idiosyncrasies, people and lifestyles. Sometimes it’s time to just let go. You’ll be just fine. In fact, because you let go, you allow yourself to get rid of all the clutter and become more of the person you really are and are meant to be. By letting go of things, you aren’t losing anything, on the contrary you’re just becoming more of your real self.
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If you’re waking up every day and chasing dreams which are not even your real dreams then I think all bets are off. Worse still, If while you’re chasing those dreams and striving hard to achieve those goals, if you’re competing with those handful of people who matter the most to you. This podcast is for anyone who hasn’t realized the value of that close group of family members, friends, colleagues or neighbours who might be the only ones who are there for you when you need someone the most.
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You study hard, you get a job, then you work hard, get to the top of the corporate ladder and maybe in between you fall in love, get married, have kids, buy a house, get a dog and call him sandy. At each of these stages you could be asking yourself this question “Is this all there is to life?” If you’ve asked yourself this question in life and especially if you’ve asked yourself this question during the good times in your life, this podcast is for you. Vinesh Sukumaran shares a practical solution that has worked for most of his clients.
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I’ve often seen people trying to do all sorts of things to prepare for their old age. This could range from diet and exercise to saving money and in some cultures even getting married and having kids as a way to secure their distant futures. All that is great and each of them have their own kernel of truth hidden within. This podcast is about doing something far simpler, that ensures that when the things that excite you today fade away, you still have something to hold onto. Something that will make you feel good and keep you going.
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You’ve probably heard someone say at some point, “I had no idea that was the last time I was gonna see him” or “I didn’t imagine that I wouldn’t meet her after that”. Sit back and think about all the people in your life who really matter to you. Now think about how much time you’ve been spending with them. If you’ve been spending enough time with the top 20 people who matter to you in your life, this podcast is not for you. Listen to it if you want to start spending more quality time with those who really matter.
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Just pause for a moment and think about the way you’d like to work, get things done or even spend your time and life in general. Is your genuine preference to do things by yourself because you think that the dynamics of interaction and getting someone else involved is far more complicated and cumbersome than just doing it yourself? Don’t get me wrong, there are real perks in the focused attention and flow that one can derive out of doing things alone and in no way do I mean to dismiss the value that some introverts bring onto the table. This podcast is about appreciating the possibility that collaboration and working with and through others might take a huge load off our chests and help us get more done while actually being happier and improving the quality of our lives. Often, as opposed to torturing ourselves in isolation or doing things alone because the other alternatives seem like a pain in the neck.
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A lot of us actually end up relaxing a lot more when we’re not trying too hard to relax. A lot of us experience true peace when we’re not being stressed about finding peace and needing to be peaceful. Likewise, true happiness might keep evading you as long as you keep chasing it with a sense of desperation and anxiety. This podcast talks about a smart way to pursue anything in life and a great response to have when things are not going your way. There is real value in knowing when to push yourself harder and when to stand back. As the title of this podcast states, “Sometimes” it’s better to just let yourself be.
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All too often in life, we try way too hard to achieve a lot of things. Not just the usual dimensions of health, wealth and happiness but also other dimensions of success, dreams or personal goals in life. There is something about trying too hard that gives a lot of people the opposite results of what they're actually trying to achieve. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran talks about how the magic formula might actually be one of ease rather than being one of doing your best in a desperate attempt to get what you want. He wonderfully links this to the work of Viktor Frankl, particularly the concept of paradoxical intention.
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It was the Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who originally recognised, named and defined the concept of Flow in psychology. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran explains clearly what Flow is, how to recognize it and recall the times when it’s happened to you. Flow, like every other state leaves clues and therefore has some typical qualities that could help anyone reach that state again and again. More importantly, this podcast outlines four specific tips to help you experience flow and in turn experience greater happiness.
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It’s quite unfortunate that reading seems to be a vanishing trait across the world. People seem to be reading less and less and even when some of them sit down to read a book, there is this sense of wanting to finish it and move on to the next activity. In this podcast Vinesh Sukumaran moves beyond the usual suspects of why reading matters and especially throws light on how reading helps you really have a finer mind and experience more positive states. There is a specific mention of the unique benefit of reading any particular book again and again.
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How badly do you stand for the things that you stand for? To what extent would you go to in order to guard and protect your personal rules and regulations for life? These personal rules are great if they're actually helping you and making your life better. This podcast is motivated by people who Vinesh Sukumaran has met through his work as a coach and consultant who were in many ways trapped by the very rules that they once created for themselves. If you’re doing things just because it’s part of your rule book but it isn’t useful, it isn’t helpful, it isn’t effective and it isn’t even making you happy, then the message in this podcast is for you.
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Though the words Feelings and Emotions are often used interchangeably, in this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran highlights clear differences between them. More importantly, this podcast throws light on how Feeling Good could be our default state and a more natural state than a lot of us make it out to be. Think about it, even just left alone we might almost automatically start feel good. There is also an interesting discussion here about the book “The Power of Now” by the great spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and how even if we have to choose between feeling good and feeling bad, it might hardly make a big difference in terms of the emotions we finally experience. Especially since feeling good is closer to our instinct than we imagine.
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Sometimes, it’s worth reminding ourselves that there is nothing more we need to gain or get in order to feel happy or feel good. On the contrary, there might be a lot the we already have that we need to get rid of in order to reduce our baggage. Reduce both the physical load as well as the metaphorical load that we carry by holding onto things, people, habits, ideas and thoughts. This podcast talks about specific positive behaviours and ways in which you can declutter your life at many levels.
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I once read somewhere that we believe so strongly that the walls around us exist that we start to freeze without them. A lot of us become absolutely attached to our affiliations, our styles, our schools of thought and our beliefs. This is great for a sense of identity and being grounded in something strong. Something that you can proudly say that you stand for. But sometimes, along with this comes your need to protect what you represent and in worse cases exclude and even harm others who don’t stand for the same things. This podcast is about getting you to examine your attachments and checking if you’re attached at the cost of your or someone else’s happiness.
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While there’s a lot that’s inspired me from one of my favourite books, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, this little concept stands out. I love Robert Pirsig’s explanation of it and since I first read it, I’ve been amazed at the number of areas in life where the concept of the South Indian Monkey Trap applies. Pretty much in any aspect of life where you think you have only one way of doing things and are stuck in limited mindsets, ways of thinking and in turn behaving. Vinesh Sukumaran explains in this podcast what the trap is and the positive behaviour of escaping from the trap if you like.
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One of the really inspiring stories that I’ve read in recent times that epitomizes the whole concept of post traumatic growth. This is a key idea in the field of positive psychology the describes how people grow, get better and stronger after episodes of trauma or any kind of hardship in life. The tough times create a better person not a worse person. Vinesh Sukumaran even reads out her message to the world verbatim to ensure that it’s captured in its completeness. A motivating podcast for anyone with not just Rheumatoid Arthritis but any illness or in a tough life situation.
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If you’ve been even slightly sensitive to your feelings and emotions, you probably know that happiness and sadness are not merely either-or phenomena. There are shades of happiness and sadness. In this podcast, Vinesh Sukumaran explains the five levels of happiness and specifically highlights what you could do to prevent yourself from spirally downward and feeling sad and later miserable. He also explains a sure shot way to experience more of the higher levels of happiness if you want to.
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There’s a whole battalion of people out there who misquote and misinterpret a positive mindset or positivity in general. It’s also seen as cheesy, fake and trying too hard in some circles. Anything that gets you through tough times, makes you love life more and feel a lot happier can’t be that bad for you. This podcast highlights one of the big myths that people have about being positive and how looking at rather than running away from the negative stuff is an incredibly positive behaviour. While you’re at it, also learn ways to look at and demystify things that might be threatening you in your own life.
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There’s not greater feeling than being at peace with where you are, who you are, the way you do everything and all other dimensions of your personality. Vinesh Sukumaran reiterates this fundamental truth to his listeners and relates interesting phenomena like the Missing Tile Syndrome and the Tetris Effect as he tells you how to start appreciating yourself more. The way you are is perfect and nothing needs to change about that mindset and the related positive behaviours unless you truly want it to.
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Are there things that have perpetually been on your “bucket list”? How about starting to do some of them? Vinesh Sukumaran explains how silly it might often be to wait and put away the very things that you love to do when you should actually be doing them right now. Doing what you love is a positive behaviour and this podcast talks about ways to start doing them and get done with the wait.
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Have you ever experienced those moments when you feel hollow or incomplete inside? Vinesh Sukumaran alludes to the temporary nature of such feelings and highlights specific ways to get out of them and start feeling more complete. In short, completeness is a positive behaviour that anyone can demonstrate by just learning to do a few things right. This podcast focuses on three of them. You can email Vinesh Sukumaran on vinesh.sukumaran@gmail.com or call him on +91 9844198791 Understand more about his work and background on www.vineshsukumaran.com or view his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinesh-sukumaran-1a452447/
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