Posts Tagged ‘stress’
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
On Thursday, 3 December, Dharmaraj appeared on Rashmi Bansal’s TV programme “Stay Hungry: Cracking Careers with Rashmi”. The show airs on business channel Bloomberg UTV.
Here is the video. The following is transcript of the unabridged interview. It has been edited slightly for clarity.
Hi Dharmaraj. First of all, what is ‘Harmony at Work’? What is this program all about?
Hi Rashmi. Thank you for having me here with you. Harmony at Work offers stress management, personal productivity, and leadership training for corporates. We take our hats off to all you corporates because the pace is grueling and we’re running at top speed just trying to keep up with you.
We base our offerings on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. His teachings have been applied to daily life by his direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda. One course that Kriyananda wrote is called Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles—that’s our training manual.
Success, happiness, and harmony are things that everybody wants. There are so many powerful techniques that we can practice to achieve these. (more…)
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Tags: career advice, energy, frustration, graduation, IIM-A, introspection, leadership, mba, meditation, negative emotions, productivity, stress, techniques
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
“Mere 7% of corporate Bangalore happy at work” reported DNA today. The article reads:
A whopping 93% of corporate Bangalore is unhappy at work, with employees showing moderate to strong signs discontent.
This has been revealed by a health risk assessment study, ‘HealthTrac’, done by PeopleHealth, a Bangalore-headquartered health management organisation. The study was conducted among 2,106 employees of 7 leading IT companies from the city, of which 85% were in the age-group of 25-35 years.
A general reaction from the employees was that they felt the pinch when they had to work with uncooperative colleagues or managers. (our emphasis)
The CEO of PeopleHealth, G. Krishnamurthy, added that the unhappiness was due to “long hours of traveling, hostile work atmosphere, and almost zero social interaction.”
This discontent is surely not limited to Bangalore, or even India. It is disturbing that so many people should be suffering at the office. What to do? It may not be easy simply to change jobs in today’s market, especially in the US, for example.
Swami Kriyananda gives these suggestions to employees seeking more harmony at work with their colleagues: (more…)
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Tags: anger, calm, harmony, negative emotions, office politics, stress, techniques
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Dr. van Houten
by Peter van Houten, M.D.
Dr. van Houten serves as Medical Director of the Sierra Family Medical Clinic and is a longtime resident of Ananda Village. This article was originally published in Ananda’s Clarity Online Magazine.
In the early 1980’s, I attended a revolutionary conference for scientists who specialize in the brain and nervous system called, “The Ever-changing Brain.” New information was being discovered about the nature of our brain and central nervous system that corroborated strongly with what the ancient spiritual traditions of yoga said about the brain’s ability to change. According to the old scientific model in the West the brain didn’t change much during a person’s lifetime. The brain developed through childhood and adolescence and somewhere around age twenty, it was thought, our brain cells began to die off without being replaced. After that, it was a race to see how many brain cells you would lose before you died! It was pretty grim. (more…)
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Tags: anger, brain, calm, energy, frustration, human values, introspection, meditation, negative emotions, productivity, stress, success, tension
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Listen: Download Audio MP3 (4 MB). This post is Part 2. See also Part 1.
(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s First Things First, Lesson 6 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)
Money is something I myself have never sought for personal gain. Yet I have certainly had to earn it for the benefit of others. The spiritual communities I founded could not have come into being without money, and it was I myself who, in the early years, had to earn almost all of it. There were times, in fact, when my financial needs must have been as pressing as any family man faces whose interests are focused entirely on his personal needs. Indeed, mine may have been heavier, for hundreds of people came, in time, to depend for their material security on my activities, and thousands more for their spiritual well-being. The pressures on me to “perform” were sometimes, to my sighs of regret, intense.
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Tags: anger, calm, deadline, frustration, leadership, negative emotions, stress, success, techniques, time management
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Listen: Download Audio MP3 (2 MB). This post is Part 1. See also Part 2.
(Excerpted from Swami Kriyananda’s First Things First, Lesson 6 of Success and Happiness through Yoga Principles)
There is an expression in America today: “the bottom line.” I don’t know if this expression is used in England or in other countries where, as in India, English is widely spoken. Usually the expression refers to monetary profit. By extension, it also indicates something of fundamental importance to an undertaking. Because profit is so often people’s concern, unless they make it clear that they mean something different it is generally understood that they are talking about money.
Let me clarify what I mean, then, in naming this lesson as I have. For this course of lessons serves a dual purpose, and may be said, in this sense, to have two “bottom lines.” First, it accepts the common equation of material success with monetary profit. It also attempts to show, however, that monetary profit, without corresponding inner satisfaction, is a hollow victory. As the Bible puts it, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?” (more…)
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Tags: anger, calm, frustration, leadership, negative emotions, productivity, stress, success, techniques, time management
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (Hindi edition)
Videos are available below. See also our interview with author Rashmi Bansal.
It takes courage to find your own path in life and to follow it. You may dream of starting your own business, but how to begin? If you’re looking for encouragement towards entrepreneurship, read Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: The inspiring stories of 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who chose to tread a path of their own making.
This book, written by Rashmi Bansal and published by Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad CIIE (Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entreprneurship), tells the real stories of how 25 people each started with an idea and built it into a highly successful organization. The book itself has been highly successful, selling over 100,000 copies in 9 months. (more…)
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Tags: business, entrepreneur, hindi, IIM-A, leadership, mba, stress, success
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
As a follow up to the previous post on diaphragmatic breathing, you may find it helpful to keep “breathe” reminder at your desk, or on your computer screen, such as:
If you’d like a printable version, you can download it here.
You might experiment with this technique of taking a few deep breaths to boost your energy in the following situations: (more…)
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Tags: calm, diaphragmatic breathing, energy, stress, techniques, tension
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
As part of our corporate training programs, we often teach the “10-Minute Recharge”. This routine consists of energization exercises developed by Yogananda, and a meditation technique that he recommended.
But sometimes, in the heat of the moment, one doesn’t have even 10 minutes. So what about a 1-Minute Routine? We offer that, too. It is just this: BREATHE.
You may be thinking, “yes, I know how to breathe already.” But the truth is that most of us don’t breathe properly throughout the day.
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Tags: calm, diaphragmatic breathing, energy, stress, techniques, tension
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Today we know that mercury, that liquid metal, is dangerous to our health. But this was not always well-known. A whole generation grew up using mercury thermometers, and many children delighted in breaking open those glass tubes and playing with the silver ball inside. And why not? What happens to you if you play with mercury for too long?
We often feel that there is not enough time for us to finish everything—or anything! In this article Swami Kriyananda touches on a new way to view time. He then offers tips on how to achieve calmness—and get your work done—when under intense time pressure.
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