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\u201cWhen you don\u2019t stop people from laughing, then why do you stop people when they cry?\u201d <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
– Dr. Harish Shetty <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the 2nd<\/sup> anniversary of HCI, Umang invited Dr. Harish Shetty for an interactive session and meeting the good doc was quite a revelation. As soon as he began his topic of Self Love, we realised he is a unique doctor, one of his kind. He made us laugh, he used dialogues from movies and he showed us in every possible fun way how to love ourselves. Self-love, the difference between self-love and self-gratification, narcissistic love, the \u2018so-called\u2019 love that makes us a sacrificial goat…he covered every topic swiftly and with his characteristic sense of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indians love the concept of Self-sacrifice, he began. It has been ingrained in us deeply. However, self-love begins by accepting ourselves the way we are, including our physical self. \u2018 Tareef karoon kya uski, jisne MUJHE banaya! he exclaimed, reminding us, cajoling us and teaching each one of us to focus on ourselves first and then things would fall in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shame\nand guilt are the two emotions he wanted us to stay away from \u2013 the\nroot cause of most mental illnesses, he explained. He also told us to\nexamine our mental blocks and slowly annihilate them one by one. One\nof the beautiful examples he gave us was that of the game of\n\u2018Kho-kho\u2019 which was like a metaphor for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was refreshing to hear a mental health professional calling Buddha a scientist rather than a philosopher. I especially smiled when he explained the merits of \u2018Doing Nothing\u2019 ( my personal philosophy too!). He urged us to treat Yoga and Vipassana as serious experiments to experience – today\u2019s modern concepts of \u2018Mindfulness\u2019 and the like that westerners have coined as new terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end, all of us wished that he had stayed longer, as he opened our eyes, shook up our beliefs and made us smile at our own follies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Mahrukh<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you don\u2019t stop people from laughing, then why do you stop people when they cry?\u201d – Dr. Harish Shetty On the 2nd anniversary of HCI, Umang invited Dr. Harish Shetty for an interactive session and meeting the good doc was quite a revelation. As soon as he began his topic of Self Love, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/huggingclubofindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/October-2nd-Group-meet-1024x498.jpg\")
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