S. Venkatachalapathy

When December starts every year, some how people irrespective of religion starts some spiritual exercises. This may be because of the Christians who often start Christmas celebrations from the start of December and continue with their choir through out the month with the Santa Claus moving with them to the home of every member of the particular church. By December Muslims would have completed their Ramzan fast and would have amply expressed their spirituality. Now it is the time for Hindus. The 45 days sanctity is to be adhered for all these purification exercises because it is believed that all the cells in our body will be replaced by new cells within 45 days. So some one instituted the Ayyappa Temple based on some stories in epics that Ayyappa is common to both Vaishnava and Saiva cults of Hinduism. Saivaits have their own vradha in January and go on pilgrimages to Lord Muruga’s Temple. The preparations involves rigorous exercises like getting up early in the morning and t

In my last article I have concluded that health is in our hands. That leaves a question in us, ' When and how best we can take the help of the doctors. Certainly there are many occasions we are dependent on the services of the so called health care professionals. Some of the occasions one can think of is as follows. 1.At times of certain infection causing fever, rashes and acute body pain. 2.When some one has diarrhea and vomiting 3.When some one is wounded in accident and in the course of games. 4.At times of insect and reptile bite. 5.Wounds due to animal and human attack. 6.Severe pain in any part of the body. 7.Excessive continuous discharge of body liquids. 8.When some one is unconsciousness or semiconscious 9. Excessive intoxication due to drug or alcohol 10. When some one is facing difficulty in breathing 11.During emergency conditions to provide life saving care. When we take somebody, we must be conscious not to get excited

Most of us have great faith on God. Being pious is a comforting feeling and adds to the psychological strength. If we have some problems, we pray God and we believe that our prayer is heard. Most of the time the problem get solved or we accept the bad results as our fate. Similar faith we seem to build on the doctors. If we are ill we go to doctors and religiously obey their words and gulp what ever they give as medicines. I have asked many of my friends and acquaintances, who are under treatment for some common ailments like fever about the medicines they take. Even well educated people are ignorant of the names of the medicines they take. So people have great faith in doctors and this really makes doctors to behave like super human beings in charge of the life and health of living beings. In this part of the world where I live doctors want every one of their patients to patiently wait for hours in the ill equipped waiting room. Friends are no exception to this general waiting

If there is an activity which works against Newton's third law of motion viz., for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction it is human communication. The law of communication can be defined as to every communication there is a reaction in the same direction or in the opposite direction or no reaction at all. This makes the practicing of this trait very interesting and challenging. If you smile you will get a smile in return. If you smile you will be stared at sometimes. If you smile you may get back an angry look or even get scolded! If you advance your hand to shake hands you might receive the other person's hand or some times you might get a Namaskar. If you shout at someone you might be returned with a shout or some times the other person may obey. Communication is basically a stimulus. The response depends on so many factors. Many guidelines can be suggested. But one must be willing to harness the skill rather than continuing with the habitual

Punctuality is a trait that appears to be personal and inter personnel. Personally one could feel proud about being punctual. However when there is a phone call or some unexpected guest reaching , keeping up the time becomes difficult. In the present life, amidst the electronic boxes viz. Mobile phones, TVs and Computers, stress to maintain punctuality is high. When an individual's mind is strongly habituated to observe punctuality, ways to do things in time is automatically devised. However, compliance of the ways very much depends on people around including those who can access on mobile phones. When one observes punctuality very strictly,some times people who have to go with us may feel comfortable and some times they may feel uncomfortable and even let down . The stress to maintain time increases as the no. of people involved are more. If we fail to maintain punctuality, there is huge collective interference loss of time. For instance if three people are to leave to a

As expressed by an eager participant The school management felt an urgent need to train us on soft skills so that we the teachers can perform better and the students excellence can go up. It was decided to get the services of United Soft Skills to achieve this. Twenty five teachers handling class LKG to 10th standard Matriculation stream of education were selected for the series program. On the first day there were sessions on Listening skills and communication skills. The atmosphere was cool. The faculties were dedicated to their mission. The slide presentations were colorful. I was very happy with the sessions and when a feed back report was asked for, I was enthusiastic to prepare the best. Language was a barrier because there were better qualified among the group but my enthusiasm was up beat. Suddenly I could remember the faculty stating that some times communication can happen even with limited language skills! Is it true ? Is this the kind of feeling one experiences whe