Category Archives: Psychology

Beating them at their own game: New weapon for you and me By Dr. Mahesh Rajasuriya Consultant Psychiatrist, National Hospital of Sri Lanka Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo (Rajasuirya.Online@gmail.com) Doctors and other health workers have been trying to get people to eat less sugar and less starch for several decades, but people still eat lots…

The Ways We Deal with The World and Ourselves: How we do it when we are not assertive Last time we learnt about assertiveness. Some people are more assertive, and some are less. But no one is perfectly assertive all the time. We all deal with other people, things we have to do in life,…

How to promote assertiveness? Now it is time to learn how to promote assertiveness. The interesting thing about assertiveness is its effect on one another. More the number of assertive people around you better your life becomes; higher the level of your assertiveness in you happier people around you are. However initially, as with any…

Aggression and Veiled-Aggression Xyz school is playing its Big Match with Pqr school. The ground is full of students and old boys. A group of Xyzians chant “Down with Pqr! Down with Pqr!!”. A group of Pqrians respond to this with another chant. Then one Xyzian gets really angry and throws a stone at Pqrians….

So, you think you are assertive? The way we deal with the world around us, as well as with our own selves can vary. It can be varied from person to person. It can vary from time to time within the same person. It can vary from one context to the other. Four basic forms…

We always do what we believe correct, right? Wrong!    A Teacher, who believes that learning at school should be student-oriented, told his class that they are going to discuss the topic of „Respect for Elders‟. One girl jumped up and asked “but why?” The teacher, visibly shocked, asks her to explain her question further:…