AUR, 7th August, 2010: The second day of the International Conference commenced with the Plenary Session-2: Perspective of Positive Psychology initiated by some eminent personalities of Psychology. The session was chaired by Prof.C.R.Mukundan, Former Head of Dept.: Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Prof.Manas K.Mandal, Director, Defence institute of Psychological Research, DRDO, Delhi, shared his views on the topic: Envisioning Positive Psychology for Tomorrow.His primary motivation was to see how he could gather inputs from the services for Indian forces and to maintain the morale of these forces. He highlighted the major points related to Operational Psychology and Clinical Psychology, emphasizing on the fact that although Ayurveda is far more effective than the modern medicine yet it lags behind since it isn't promoted much. He also discussed the advantages of meditation, where he informed that a person who is involved in meditation has activation in the front end of the brain where he/she is more concentrated. Amygdala responses to fearful and happy faces in normal humans. He concluded his speech that” People are identified on the basis of attitude rather than aptitude”.
Dr. S. D. Sharma Speaking on the Psychology (Photo:ABHISHEK/ASCO)
Prof. Manas Mandal Speaking on the Occassion (Photo:ABHISHEK/ASCO)
Ms. Pui San Whittaker, Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Prof. Girishwar Misra, Prof. S.K. Kiran Kumar (Photo:ABHISHEK/ASCO)
Audience at the international Psychological Conference (Photo:ABHISHEK/ASCO)
The next speaker, Ms.Pui San Whittaker, Senior Consultant, mental Health Commission, Western Australia expressed her viewpoints on the topic: Promoting Mental Health through Living Libraries. She introduced the audience to the Western Australia (WA) Mental Health Commission’s background and history. She defined LIVING LIBRARIES as “a library that facilitates one-to-one conversations with people from all walks of life, hence helping in breakdown stigma and discrimination. It has a partnership with the local libraries and local government.” People are highly satisfied with the event from the books and readers.would represent a human. Ms.Whittaker winded up her talk with a short documentary video where she showed the strategic ways to develop an individual’s mental health and the changes after inculcating living libraries in their lives.
After the living libraries, Prof. S.K.Kiran Kumar, Prof, University of Mysore, Mysore, shared his ideas on the topic: Indian Traditions and positive Psychology-Research Possibilities. He said that the conference would give a new approach to the outlook into the context of Positive Psychology. According to Upanishads, state of consciousness is a state of waking up. Indian thoughts have different perspectives than Modern Psychology. He emphasized on the Indian thoughts that are still surviving in this world. He further proceeded his lecture with the postulates of Indian Traditions, where he explained various terms like Adhakara, Atman, Svadharma, Ashrama Dharma and Varna dharma, and gave real life examples. He also stated that within the framework of Santana Dharma, attainment of well being through spirituality can involve hardships and emotional states. . He concluded his talk and the session with the thought that “Life is not about only being happy...it is a mixture of happiness and sorrows which has to be handled with pride.”
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