Complete Wellbeing [CW] is a first-of-its-kind monthly magazine dedicated to YOU and your wellbeing. This website offers a preview into the magazine. In each issue, you can read six complete articles (marked FULL TEXT). Excerpts of rest of the articles are also available. Explore the free articles.
Gayatri Pagdi is a Mumbai-based health journalist. Her areas of interest include emotional, mental and spiritual health.
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Apr 2008Home is not just about the four walls, but about the family living in it and how they contribute to the house and its happiness. Even for those among us without a green thumb, watching one particular kind of sapling grow into a tree is (Read Full Text »)
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Mar 2008Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Temptation, supposedly, led to the first sin. Falling in to that sweet moment of pleasure may put you in hell later. In 1970, a bunch of four-year-olds were offered marshmallows by a team of two psychologists. The deal was that the children had to choose (Read Full Text »)
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Feb 2008Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
Great people have always been associated with indefatigable spirits and die-hard optimism. We can try and follow their footsteps. Long after one has put down Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, one can’t help but remember how perfectly some words reveal what made the (Read Full Text »)
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Jan 2008Relationships • Basic Instinct
Discover how to use your voice to excite your partner. Whether it’s honey-drenched voices, or deep, low-pitched ones, some voices are so fascinating that you want to hear them again and again. Voice colours our every interaction and conjures up the image of who (Read Excerpt »)
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Jan 2008External beauty influences your personality as well as others’ perception of you. Every year, a number of beauty pageants ranging from Miss Universe to local beauty contests manage to capture the interests of many youngsters. It is not only a step towards achieving their dreams (Read Excerpt »)
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Dec 2007Mind And Emotions • Self-help Clinic
Our moods determine our response towards events in our life. Understanding our moods, and learning how to manage them is, therefore, critical. Some practical mood management tips. Years ago, while sitting in the Philosophy class in college and feeling very important and profound, we had (Read Full Text »)
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Nov 2007Making time for family and friends takes some earnest efforts and understanding your responsibility towards them. Relationships thrive when people are emotionally available to each other, and provide each other with time and attention. It’s almost unreal that while global communication reaches new heights with (Read Excerpt »)
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Sep 2007Mind And Emotions • Self-help Clinic
Laughter releases just as much endorphins, the feel-good chemical, as a bout of physical exercise. It also offers many therapeutic benefits. If one’s childhood resounded with the “Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho” of Santa Claus, our world today reverberates with the laughter of Pu Tai, the laughing Buddha. (Read Full Text »)
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Sep 2007What helps us to get on with life in moments of grief is a strong social support system. There are no pharmacies that fill-out a prescription of confidantes, friends, well-wishers, or pro re nata [PRN, or “as needed”], but “people-need-people” situations are indispensable in life. (Read Excerpt »)
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Jun 2007Mind And Emotions • Mind Over Matter
For a rational species, it is irrationality that often seems to “work.” Why? It was a very popular circus. One day, a new elephant got in. He had huge ears and the audience roared with excitement every time they saw him flapping his ears. What (Read Full Text »)
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Jun 2007There’s something eternal and unchanging about the grandparent-child relationship. From the loving “Swami” and grandmother’s favourite in Malgudi Days, to “Puttar” by Jassi’s bebe, no Indian story is complete without a grandparent. If you’re lucky enough to have grandparents in your middle age, it’s (Read Full Text »)
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May 2007When boredom mars your wedlock, it takes some fun to find your own glue and stick together in renewed romance. It has been almost three months since you have been writing to the gorgeous man on the Internet. You’re married and so is he, and (Read Excerpt »)
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Apr 2007Body And Beauty • I, Me, Myself
Summer is a big challenge to your skin. It need not be so — if nature’s cooling tools are put to good use.
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Apr 2007The mother-daughter relationship, no matter how healthy or how troubled, plays a major role in the way every daughter visualises and lives her own life.
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Mar 2007A happy, successful marriage is like honeymoon that lasts a lifetime. Noah Webster, like most husbands through history, would sit down and try to talk to his wife — even if it’s only once in a while. But, as soon as he would start to tell something, his wife would say: “And, just what is that supposed to mean?” This is how Webster’s Dictionary, goes the story, was born.
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Mar 2007Living well for today’s woman means a lot more than health. It encompasses a broad range of issues in every aspect of her existence. All of these tell us a story: The explosive growth of cultural patterns, including health and fitness centres, products in different categories, and increasing destinations to “flush out” your stresses — these are just some of the many routes to a healthy body, mind, and a happy soul.
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Feb 2007A kiss is much more than lip-service to romance; it is, in fact, the nicest thing about it. It’s just a word, but a magic word. Kiss! Whether it is the passionate kiss of a lover, a desperate one between two, a deliberate kiss (Read Full Text »)
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Feb 2007The father-son relationship has to be tended, nurtured and shaped, because it’s a goal well worth its weight in gold. Check out the history of any respectable Hindi film replete with family ties, and you hardly ever see the father. What role does a father play in a son’s life? Does he play any role at all? Or, is it like what bigoted feminists once believed — just help procreate and, thereafter, move on, or away?
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Jan 2007Body And Beauty • I, Me, Myself
Allergies, hair loss, breathing problems and cancer — you have them all. Yet, colouring hair remains a ritual for millions worldwide. With appearance linked to women’s self-esteem, the role of cosmetics has assumed psychological immensity. So, there are more colours to play with, more variety, and more choices. Also, more voices of caution. Every hair colour user has heard the debate: is colouring your hair risky or not? And, yet this hasn’t stopped even one of us from buying the dye that adds magic to our hair.
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Dec 2006Why love is a many-splendoured thing, a miracle and blessing. Love is the strongest motivator to live. It is also the biggest cause of heartbreaks. More powerful than the desire for life, richer than every other emotion in all its hues and creative in (Read Excerpt »)
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Nov 2006The instinct to touch and communicate warmth, compassion or empathy is the most humane of characteristics. “A hundred hugs to you,” I told my friend Tanisha Dedia, who is battling multiple sclerosis and who I couldn’t meet but wanted to hug so desperately. “I’ll take (Read Excerpt »)
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