The SAATHI Counselling Club at the Institute extends its support to every student from B.Tech to Ph.D. of the IIT Guwahati community and helps in maintaining a collaborative and comfortable atmosphere within the campus Aligning with the Ministry of Educations’ guidelines titled ‘UMEED’ to enhance sensitivity and understanding, and providing support to at-risk students, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is …

Allen Career Institute and the Kota Police department on Sep 10 joined hands to organise an awareness program on “World Suicide Prevention Day”. The program was themed “Creating Hope Through Action’ on the importance of mental health and strategies to reduce suicide rates, particularly among students. The high point of this program was an illuminating panel discussion on the issue …

By Dr. Jeny Rapheal Mental health and well-being is a consequence of awareness and mindfulness. The fundamental ingredient of any clinically concerted movement –what is it?. Whether it is developing positive thinking style, habit-forming, counseling, spiritual practices, learning new skills, meditation, growing in gratitude and compassion—they all are crafted on the principle mindfulness. Expansion of human consciousness orchestrated by evolution …

The Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences at Fortis Healthcare has published a free e-reader kindle book, ‘Don’t worry! Here’s how you can keep your mind fit during a pandemic.’ The book is aimed at helping people to better manage their mental health during the COVID – 19 lockdown. Conceptualized by Dr. Samir Parikh, Director of the Department of Mental Health …

Training of mind for well-being is quite possible. Neuro-scientists are now sure that there is a bidirectional communication between mind and body. In other terms, it means healthy mind has a direct bearing on a healthy body. While Indian meditation and yogic sciences may have long advocated this, a confirmation from modern scientific studies paves the way for more understanding …

A  Silent Movement of mainstreaming ancient and beneficial yogic sciences is building up slowly in India   Government schools in Delhi are experiencing a ‘Happiness Curriculum’ from July 12th this year and what is important, the 50,000 teachers, who otherwise always give a cold shoulder to additional work or change, aren’t complaining about it. In a sense, it is giving …