The guilty conscience

Morality

A guilty conscience denotes existence of a moral standard within oneself; a super ego that has the ability to identify a compromise in morality, subsequently directing an individual towards pro social acts. Guilt is an emotion and brings out responsibility towards the violation, typically warranting merit for the correction. Guilt can also have negative eventualities with self-blame leading to withdrawal, self-resentment, delusions and frequently suicide. Consciousness as well as unawareness of guilt can have ruinous outcomes. It is imperative to understand and deal with guilt to reach a truce in the battle between the id and ego as well as ego and super-ego.

My imagination

Ingenuity

A world of ideas, beliefs and occurrences that haven’t been perceived in any form in reality, unseen, unheard and unfelt; is a typical description of a fantasy existence. The art of imagining entails a cycle of image creation, unique to each one of us. A process that has the power to create freedom in exile and calm in a storm; imagination sows the seeds of invention, innovation and origination. As Einstein rightly identified, imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited in its scope while imagination encircles the world and parts beyond it. At the same time he also emphasized that imagination was impossible without knowledge…

Great Expectations

A dictionary elucidation of expectation is something that’s most likely to happen; a belief that may or may not be representative of reality. Anticipations are unquestionably centered on the future; something that not even genius can predict. Expectations can have beneficial outcomes: when they are met there is indeed a sense of triumph but lesser advantageous results assure frustration. If something good happens (that was not at all expected) it counts as wonder. Expectations do take up a large proportion of thought and emotion. Behavior towards people, events and even one’s own self is significantly set by expectations.

All the world’s a stage

Shakespeare can be well described as a psychoanalyst who knew well that the persona accepted by every human being is a mask. This makes each one an actor playing his part in the drama titled ‘life’. It’s indeed an act, not a puppet show, emphasizing that the part is played by the performer, who has the right to choose the way he plays it. A show where there’s no director, producer or scriptwriter. A performance that is made at free will…

Is it all OK? Maybe not?

The perfect world

We await that picture-perfect moment for doing things we always knew we need to do but assumed it wasn’t the right time. The perfect moment to propose to your loved one, the absolute instant for the big business move, the important investment or essential partnership, what more, the right time for a healthy diet, exercise pattern and sleep hygiene; all need apposite scheduling for them to run smooth. Specific patterns to be followed and unambiguous arrays to be maintained; perfection is a commendable dream and each of us desires that impeccable world where everything works without a glitch.

Psychosis: What you must know

Psychosis is a term used to broadly describe conditions in which an individual has lost touch with reality. Schizophrenia forms the prototype of all psychotic problems. The picture of schizophrenia embraces a very diverse range of disturbance in perception, thought, motivation, emotion and movement. Schizophrenia is considered as an illness in which there are frank periods of disturbed behavior in the individual's life; set upon a background of continued emotional disturbance and disability which gets expressed in almost every walk of life. 

Have you lost it? Or do you still have it?

Well there’s so much that we are attached to in this world, and we feel we possess, so this question can have a pretty speckled answer. There are numerous things we feel we should retain to ease our existence. Things that seem fundamental to us. Things that are indispensable for us. And then, in reality, some of these things include those we are not even be aware of. We fail to realize that we are chasing objects that are not essential for subsistence; while we have lost the pearls that are imperative for happiness and contentment. Common nouns and proper nouns have taken precedence over abstract nouns...