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  Sharing about loss during pregnancy Pregnancy can be a life-changing experience, bringing in excitement as well as many challenges that those who are expecting might not be entirely prepared for. They can experience a multitude of feelings from excitement, joy, happiness, worry, fear, disappointment. No one feeling is more acceptable than the other. No one ALWAYS feels positive throughout this journey. For the expectant looking after their emotional health becomes as important as taking care of their physical health during and after they give birth. Mental health is a state of wellbeing where we feel satisfied, connected, and alive. Many things can impact how the individual feels, acts, behaves ranging from their physical health, support systems, stressful life events/circumstances like socio-economic status, violence and abuse, HIV/Aids, adolescent pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, substance use, divorce/separation. 1 in 3 to 1 in 5  persons in developing countries, and about 1 in 10
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मुलांचा मेंदू आणि पालकत्व

मन नक्की कुठं असतं? हे नेहमीच मला पडलेलं गुपित . परंतु 'मन हे अकरावे इंद्रिय आहे' असा दाखला आपल्याला न्यानेश्वरी मध्येही दिलेला आहे. मन म्हणजे मेंदूचा भावनिक भाग आहे असं आपण म्हणू शकतो, ते हृदयाजवळ असतं असं आपण म्हणू शकतो, किंबहुना ते शरीरातील अणुरेणू मध्ये सामावलेलं असतं असंही मला वाटतं. मानवी मेंदू मार्फत अनेक कार्य साधले जातात. संवेदना ओळखणं, विश्लेषण करणं, शरीराकडून योग्य संदेश घेऊन त्यास प्रतिक्रियारुपी संदेश पोहोचवणं असं ते एक गुंतागुंतीचं जाळ असतं. आणि याच जाळ्यात बाळ जन्मल्या पासून अनुभव त्यांची प्रतिक्रिया यांची जोडणी दडलेली असते. काळानुसार त्यांमध्ये बदल होत असतात परंतु या सर्व जोडण्या बालवयात कार्यरत केल्या नाहीत तर त्यांचा वापर मोठेपणी करता येणे कठीण असतं. जसे बालवयात जर आनंदी अनुभवांमध्ये भर पडली तर मनातील जोडण्या आनंदी अनुभवाशी निगडित असतात. याउलट दुःखात जोडण्यामुळे मोठेपणी सुखाची वृद्धी असूनही त्याचा अनुभव घेण्यास ते मूल असमर्थ ठरतं. दैनंदिन जीवनातील अनुभवातून ते मूल विकसित होत असतं. त्याच्या मेंदूच्या प्रगल्भतेला चालना मिळत असते. थोडक्यात काय तर एखाद्या मुलाला प
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Student Corner- नाती हरवत चाललेला समाज

 नाती हरवत चाललेला समाज "नात्यास नाव अपुल्या देऊ नकोस काही साऱ्याच चांदण्यांची जगतास जाण नाही." सुंदर असं अनामिक नातं कुसुमाग्रज यांनी आपल्या या ओळींमध्ये गुंफलेलं दिसून येतं. पण खरोखर नात्याचं काय स्थान आहे सद्यस्थितीतील समाजामध्ये? जर आपण आपल्या भारतीय संस्कृतीत डोकावले तर आजच्या समाजाचे वास्तव नक्कीच भयावह वाटेल. प्राचीन संस्कृतीत, अगदी अश्मयुगापासून टोळी करून राहणारा आदिमानव असो किंवा शेकडो राणी असणारे राजे, आपल्याला एकत्र कुटूंब पद्धती दिसून येतात. अगदी आपल्या आजी-आजोबांच्या पिढीपर्यंत आपल्याला एकत्र कुटुंब पद्धतीचा प्रभाव बघता येतो. परंतु आता कुटुंबाचा मूळ चेहरा बदलतोय.  एकत्र कुटुंब ते विभक्त कुटुंब आणि नुकतीच उदयास आलेली एकल पालकाची संकल्पना. किती मोठे बदल आहेत हे !! एकेकाळी ४ काका, ४ मावशी-मामा, ४आत्या असायचे. भावंडांसोबत जुळवून घेतानाच आम्हाला नाकीनऊ यायचे. पण त्यानंतर आली ती  कुटुंबनियोजनाची शिकवण आणि आत्ताच हे बदलतं कुटुंब. फायद्यासाठी जरी इकडे मेजवानी असली तरी नात्यांमधील विश्वास कमी होऊन हेव्यादाव्यांना यामुळे खतपाणी मिळत आहे. संस्कारांचे महत्त्व कमी झाले आहे. त
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  EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN Emotional Intelligence is the ability to know, manage and regulate emotions. Emotions affect our attention, learning, memory, relationships, physical and mental well-being.  Emotional intelligence is related to many important outcomes for children and adolescents. Children with higher emotional intelligence are better able to pay attention, are more engaged in school, have more positive relationships, and are more empathic (Raver, Garner, & Smith-Donald 2007; Eggum et al. 2011). During pandemic children’s emotional being is also affected as they are restricted with playground play, meeting friends, school and extracurricular activities like sports day, other events, etc. Many children and adolescents are experiencing demotivation, anxiety and suffocation because of uncertainty and pandemic . They feel bored and unable to figure out “what” to do and “how” to do which puts them on edge and they start acting out.  Children/ adolescents sometimes fa
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How self affirmation helps through the day

Our thoughts and emotions are deeply connected with one another. Thoughts are based on our beliefs, life experiences and opinions which give rise to various emotions. For example a person with a fear of cats is likely to be hyper vigilant of the cats in the environment and assumes cats as threatening, which leads to emotional distress when encountered cats in their surroundings. On the contrary, another person who views cats as affectionate will have a different emotional response to the same situation. Our thoughts are part of us which can be altered, which helps to alleviate our unpleasant emotions which promotes pleasing mood.  Affirmation is a strategy which we can use to alter our unpleasant thoughts. Affirmations are powerful and healthy statements or phrases made by us to feel in control with our thoughts and it has an effect on our reality. Affirmations also challenge our unhealthy thought patterns. According to Claude Steele, a strong self is a self-affirmed self, a self that
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Why do we experience troubled emotions and feelings?

Emotions and Feelings are something that we all experience and they are what makes us humans over machines. They being such an integral part of ourselves, our social systems have somehow forgotten to teach us what they are and how do we handle them. Emotions are physiological experiences of feelings. Feelings are our sensation based perception. So, if our heart is pumping fast, we are breathing fast, we have sweaty palms, our body feels tensed up (physiological experience- emotion) will lead us to understand that we are probably (feeling) anxious. But these same physiological arousals can be seen in someone who is scared. Here our perception of the situation gains importance. Difficulty in managing one’s emotions and feelings arises when we are allowed to feel one way and not the other way. We may be approved to feel happy but disregarded if we feel sad. Due to this pressure of not feeling sad, we keep on suppressing this emotion with the fear of being abandoned. This suppression keeps
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How our anxieties are born?

It starts with Fear- Fear is natural human emotion, which automatically gets triggered when we are confronting a recognized threat. It is a mechanism, where our mind gives signals of "flight or fight" which cautions our body, the signal is often in the form of physical and emotional responses. Physical response could be sweating, increased heart rate, and nausea, shortness of breath, chills, chest pain, or trembling. Emotional response to fear could be feeling overwhelming, getting upset, feeling of no control, or experiences sense near death. Depending on a person, their reaction to a fearful situation can be both positive and negative. Perceiving fearful situations, as negative or positive is usual and discrete for all people. We can experience both positive/ negative reactions to fear depending on the situation. People when they experience fears as positive they thrive to experience fear- induced situations like adventurous sports. People perceive fear as negative. They go
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