"sir, human beings appear to be abstract and confusing!!"

 Dear friends....

Though few of the human behaviours appear abstract, today we have many knowledge tools available to study/research them systematically and put in a scientific manner to understand better.

We make substantive statements through the knowledge gained by observation...and later prove them through scientific analysis...one advantage in this is we discover new things which are not visible to our eyes or mind...with these discoveries we invent new things either useful or dangerous or both!!

Peacefully yours....Dr M Ramasubramanian

For changing your life, change your life style!!

 Dear IIM Students,

Till now you were following a lifestyle adapting to your place of living, organisation of working, the kind of work you did from waking up to sleep, meeting your wants and needs and the expectations of all the significant people around you at home, organisation, institution, and society.

Now your place is different. Organisation/institution is different. Your wants and needs are different. The expectations of your parents, your professors, your friends, and all others around you are different.

So, if you have to be physically healthy, mentally peaceful and happy, socially healthy, and meet your wants and needs, then you have to change the lifestyle. If you continue to follow the same lifestyle then you can’t meet your own needs, wants and expectations, forget about that of meeting the expectations of others in your life.

We all know that with the change in one independent variable, the dependent variables also have to change. The independent variable is what you change, and the dependent variable is what changes as a result of that. So, allow it to change. Don’t resist. You only chose IIM study and changed your place of living and studying. So, all factors related to the new place and its demands have to change commensurately. Otherwise, you will experience stress. The stressors will damage your physical, mental, and social well-being. They will push you back to the old previous state of life to regain the stability of the system and also to ensure you are without stress. But the truth is if you go back to previous state you will be more stressed. So, there is no other way other than to change the dependent variables. That means your lifestyle has to change!!...No escape. If you want your life to change, then your lifestyle has to change!!

But that new lifestyle should be health enhancing and not health compromising. Otherwise, you will end up with some other serious problems in life.

Therefore, the first and foremost is to realise that you have to change your lifestyle in health enhancing ways, sustainable ways, and in tune with the needs of the present new life!!...you have to change yourself…The New YOU with the changed personality traits, changed ways of doing things you have been doing from waking up to sleep (as morning to night does not hold good at IIM), leaving some old habits, creating some new habits and developing them, unlearning some old learning, learning something new….all these to adapt to the new place, new life, new beginning of an entirely different future life!!

So, take the first step today for a big leap tomorrow!!

Start now….

Peacefully yours…Dr M Ramasubramanian.

Accept the outcomes of your decisions and live through them!!

 

Dear students!!

 

We all have 'n' number of choices today to select courses, institutions, organisations to work and learn. We can choose online courses and 'work from home' kind of jobs in case we are not interested in leaving the home or our significant people at home are not interested in sending us out of our family environment. But we only chose to do on-campus programme. You only chose the Higher Educational Institution of National Importance like an IIM or a global MNC to study or work. When you selected this option you have consciously or subconsciously agreed to yourself for the following:-

 

(1)    I am a person who believe in ‘Experiential Learning’ for making a life rather than just acquiring education or using my limited knowledge and skills for making my living.

 

(2)    I want to experience all kinds of weather, the extremes of climates, live through the life of everyone at every part of the world, and learn out of my experiences. I want to become a seasoned person who can withstand any condition and an all-weather human being.

 

(3)    I want to live with people of all kinds of culture, religions, faiths, beliefs, languages, from all over the world, adapt and adjust with them, make genuine and life-long friendships with my unconditional care for them. I want to grind the sharp corners and blade edges of my personality traits to live under any social condition.

 

(4)    I want to eat whatever food that is available in the place I live and become not a slave of the food. Food should not limit my journey towards meeting my goals, dreams, and ambitions. Food is just a survival and health need and I want to make my body adaptable to any natural or man-made food available anywhere on this earth.

 

(5)    I will wear any clothing that is available at that place to protect my body from climate conditions so that my mind can continue to keep focus on the target.

 

(6)    I want to learn as many languages as possible in the world so that I can converse with any citizen of the world in their native language.

 

(7)    I want to face all kinds of life-threatening situations that nature exposes me in a natural way all by myself so that I can become physically and mentally strong to live all alone at any part of this earth at any age.

 

(8)    I want to acquire all global survival skills and become a global employee, global employer, global achiever, global citizen and go closer to an ideal human being.

 

Therefore, come out of the comfort zone, don’t disturb your parents and siblings, accept responsibility for your decision to move out of the home, agree to face the challenges for own growth, and my best wishes in your journey towards becoming the ideal human being and thank you for the first step in this direction!!

Peacefully yours… Dr. M. Ramasubramanian.

"Welcome to IIM. Shift to 5th gear. Be with the change. Don't resist. Look at bigger goal. Don't mind minor irritants!!"

 Dear first year students at IIM Kashipur!!...Congratulations for selecting a growing institution which has grown in the last two years from NIRF 33 to 23 to 19 now. We will continue to leap and grow.

Next three months will be hectic...as it is the adjustment/adaptation phase. You will experience tremendous stress. When stress increases immunity decreases. The climate is also changing from summer to rainy, humid and sweaty. So, increase your immunity with healthy eating, 05 minutes yoga or 05 minutes run...carry water and drink a lot....otherwise you will fall sick, miss classes and activities, lag behind and finally give-up...don't reach that state...so pull-up to 5th gear from the first day...all the best!!....Also allow the change to take place in your body and mind...don't resist...be with the flow...be with the change...look at the bigger goal...don't bother about the minor irritants....be devoted with single focus of learning, being outstanding, being unique and special!!

Yours peacefully...Dr M Ramasubramanian, CAO.

"The need for self-actualization increases as it is fulfilled!!"

 Life is a journey of adventure, with continuous evolving through learning, experience, exploring (the entire earth and world), excelling over a lifetime without limits, and enjoying the process of success as the need for self-actualization increases as it is fulfilled!!

Peacefully yours...Rams...Psychologist!!