Positive thinking: Accumulating Happiness

Positive thinking Accumulating happiness.....Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji
How do we accumulate happiness? A tough task for all, but not an impossible one. It is said that a person with a happy, healthy mind is the one who is happiest, because in this state of mind he remains calm and truly happy.
The main reason for our unhappiness is when we fall below the line of self respect. The lower we sink beneath our self respect, the more miserable we become, slipping into a state of denial, thinking that it is normal not to have happiness.
However, our focus should not be on constant happiness, but it should be on how we can begin to achieve a happy and healthy mind. A wiser person is the one who instead of trying to make big leaps in life, just tries moving from one lamp post to the next. By doing so he experiences significant changes that take place and enlighten him from within. One must always learn to live in the present and tryto connect with what is around us. This simple method will give us a heightened state of awareness. The more aware we are, the more we are able to stay above. The habit of seeing benefit in everything helps us to stay above when the world is down below. What is needed for this is good feelings, energy, light and more understanding. We can learn from everything that happens around us. If someone else makes a mistake, we can learn from it as well. Positive vision is an incredible way to bring happiness into the world. So try to cultivate positive vision in life and keep accumulating happiness. Om shanti.
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An innovative idea by Ogilvy and Mather on behalf of HSBC to tackle climate change

A stunning view of the swimming pool at Bhakti Park, Wadala, Mumbai !!! The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming. It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool. The idea was conceived by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, who were commissioned by banking giant HSBC to promote its £50million project tackling climate change. The Ogilvy team came up with an innovative way to show the adverse impact of global climate change. They glued an aerial view of a city to the base of a swimming pool. When the pool was filled with water, it gave a shocking effect akin to a city submerged in water. The visual of a sunken city shocked swimmers and onlookers, driving home the impact of global warming, and how it could destroy our world someday.

ICMR-Effect of mental health Disorder and Substance Use on Maternal and Child Health

ICMR-Effect of mental health Disorder and Substance Use on Maternal and Child Health
Indian Council of Medical Research is keen to work on Effect of mental health Disorder and Substance Use on Maternal and Child Health
ICM is inviting research proposals from researchers and scientist of India to study in following areas- 1. Socio behavioral and mental health consequences of drug use/abuse among women of reproductive age group (15-49) Changing lifestyle and behavior of women is the key in present days. The drug use/abuse is increasing trend. There is need to find out the socio behavioral pattern of women who are using/abusing the various drugs.
2. Socio behavioral and mental health consequences of alcohol use/abuse among women of reproductive age group (15-49) 3. Effect of post natal depression (PND) among young mothers - The majority of PNDs are self-limiting though, if untreated, this process of resolution may take up to 6 to 12 months. There is a "compelling body of evidence implicating PND in a range of adverse child cognitive and emotional outcomes". The detection of PND is of great public health interest not only because of its profound impact on maternal and child health but also due to the abundant evidence that simple inexpensive interventions such as non-directive counseling are of significant benefit in terms of remission of PND.
4. HIV/AIDS and common mental disorder (CMD) among women - The effect of caring for terminally ill persons on the mental health of care givers is now recognized as an important cause of CMD. There are reports that women, who are often care givers for persons with HIV/AIDS, suffer considerable mental and physical health problems as a result of care-giving and that depression, in particular, is common.
5. Effect of substance/alcohol use/abuse on fetal growth.
6. Gynecological Morbidity and Psychological Disorder.
Gynecological Morbidity and Psychological Disorder:
Gynecological symptoms, for example vaginal discharge, are among the most commonly cited health problems in women in developing countries. Although much earlier research assumed this symptom to be indicative of reproductive tract infections, recent studies (particularly from South Asia) show considerable discordance between symptoms and actual disease. Depression typically presents in the form of medically unexplained physical symptoms. Rates of depression are high in women attending gynecological clinics and qualitative studies demonstrate a strong relationship between vaginal discharge, weakness, psychosomatic symptoms and psychosocial stress. Part of the etiology of ‘medically unexplained’ vaginal discharge may be that it is a somatic idiom for depression and psychosocial distress.
The proposal(s) should be submitted to Head (RHN), Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswamy Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110092.
Soft copy should be forwarded to Dr. K.K.Ganguly. Scientist E’, Division of RHN, ICMR Ansari Nagar, New Delhi -110029
Email kalyanganguly@hotmail.com.
Please write Call for Ad-hoc Research Proposal on “Effect of mental health Disorder and Substance Use on Maternal and Child Health” in subject line and send the proposal as an attachment. The proposals will be peer reviewed and will have to be presented by PI /discussed during meeting of Expert Group. Approved research proposals would be supported by the Council for funding, subject to the availability of funds. The proposal should be submitted in ICMR ad-hoc project format which can be downloaded along with the terms and condition for submitting the research proposal for funding from ICMR website
The last date of submitting the research proposal is up to 29thFebruary, 2012.
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