Psychology and NLP-based therapies are effective because they look for the root cause and help people release it

By Megharani Devadas

Children face many kinds of pressure in today’s world. Starting with the School demands, social challenges, and family expectations; all of these keep create enormous stress on them. We often look to teachers, counsellors, or activities to help children cope. But what if the strongest protection is much closer; inside our own homes?

A loving home does more than comfort a child. It builds emotional strength. When family bonds are strong, a child learns how to face life’s storms without losing hope. The healing home is the safest place in the world. It becomes the space where the child is seen, heard, and deeply understood. Love at home quietly teaches the child how to be strong.

The Observation: The Common Factor in Resilience

Why do some children recover quickly from irritation or failure, while others carry those wounds for years? The answer often lies not in what happened to them, but in where they returned afterward.

When the home is warm, open, and accepting, the child feels safe again. I have seen this personally. Even if the school environment is harsh or unfriendly, a strong and loving home makes it easy for children to leave their worries behind. They smile because they know they are loved and valued. From the lens of Psychology and Therapy, this safety helps a child reframe experiences. Instead of saying, “I failed,” they say, “I learned something today.” They get a mindset to see life differently.

The Root of the Issue: Trauma Often Begins at Home

Many deep emotional wounds can be traced back to the family environment. This is not about blame. It is about awareness and responsibility. When a child’s feelings are ignored or mocked, they learn that it is unsafe to express emotion. They stay quiet, and the pain remains inside. Over time, these unspoken emotions become hidden beliefs; “I am not good enough” or “No one will listen to me.”

In Psychology and Therapy, these beliefs are called limiting patterns. They shape how the child grows into adulthood. If we want to change the pattern, we must change the experience. The home must become a place where expression is safe and emotions are respected.

Shifting the Focus: From Treatment to Prevention

Today, much of our focus is on treating trauma after it has already formed. Psychology and NLP-based therapies are effective because they look for the root cause and help people release it. They bring awareness to the moment when the hurt began, and they help the person rewrite the story. The unwanted are exchanged with the bounties.

Prevent every hurt from taking root at all?

We can do this very easy by shielding our children from childhood. The goal is not to replace therapy but to create homes where children do not have to unlearn emotional pain later. If parents build empathy, patience, and good communication, they can stop trauma before it begins.

The Actionable Path: How to Build an Unshakable Home

You do not need big steps to make your home stronger. Small, consistent actions create lasting change.

Listen to Understand:

• Let your child talk freely. Do not interrupt or judge. Begin with simple words like, “Thank you for sharing.” Listening is the first step of healing.

Validate Their Feelings:

• Even small problems matter to a child. Say, “I understand that made you sad.” When you name their emotion, they feel seen and accepted.

Be Their Safe Space:

• Make sure your child knows that home is their shelter. No matter what happens outside, they can come home, relax, and feel loved.

Break the Cycle:

• Parents also carry old wounds. Take time to heal your own emotions. This is called clearing your inner patterns. When you release your pain, you stop passing it on to your children.

Model Emotional Awareness:

• Show your child how to handle emotions in healthy ways. When you stay calm, they learn calmness. When you say, “I feel upset, and I will relax for a while,” they learn emotional control.

The Ripple Effect of a Nurturing Home

A peaceful home builds strong hearts. When children grow up in love and respect, they become adults who spread the same energy to others. This is how communities heal. An unshakable child becomes a resilient adult. And that adult builds another home filled with care, awareness, and understanding. The ripple continues. When we choose to be calm, kind, and aware, we give our children the greatest gift possible; a foundation that will never let them fall.

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We often see cities as separate worlds. New York moves fast. Mumbai dreams big. Tokyo flows with precision. Each seems to live in its own bubble, defined by its skyline and local life. For years, connecting cities meant building airports, setting up trade routes, or installing faster internet cables. These were physical or digital links, but not emotional ones. Now, something deeper is happening. Cities are beginning to connect through people, stories, and shared experiences.

This new kind of connection is giving rise to what we can call the City Twinning; a living network of communities where each city’s life and identity enrich those of others. Success is not about building more infrastructure but about linking the human pulse that beats within every street and neighbourhood. When people across cities start connecting this way, three big changes take place.

1. The End of the “Local or Global” Divide

In the past, people thought you had to choose between staying local or becoming global. You either lived deeply in your own culture or left it behind to experience the world. The City Twinning removes this choice. Think of a food vendor in Chennai sharing a new recipe with a cook in Mexico City, or a musician in Lisbon creating a song with a beatmaker in Berlin through a local culture-based platform. This is not the kind of globalization that erases identity. It is a form of shared growth where each local story adds colour to another city’s story.

People become both rooted and connected. We belong deeply to our home city but also form meaningful ties across the world. We are not “citizens of nowhere” but “citizens of many connected places.”

2. Cities Start Solving Problems Together

Every city faces similar issues; hunger, employment, traffic, waste, housing, loneliness, and pollution. Usually, each city struggles to solve these problems on its own. But when local innovators, civic leaders, and community builders start sharing ideas, cities become part of one big learning system. A simple water-saving solution from Pune can be adapted for use in São Paulo. A project that helps the elderly in Copenhagen can inspire a similar effort in Seoul. Ideas spread quickly, saving time, cost, and effort. When this happens, cities stop working in isolation. They start functioning like a connected brain, where one city’s success becomes a lesson for all. The collective wisdom of cities grows stronger with every shared idea. People think and act together.

3. Taking Back Our Stories from Algorithms

Today, much of what we know about other cities comes from social media or global news feeds. These often show only the extreme; the protests, disasters, or viral moments. This gives us a narrow and sometimes fearful picture of the world. But when people tell their own local stories directly, the picture changes. You could watch a live walk through a Cairo market, follow a Toronto journalist explaining a council debate, or hear about a new school project in Nairobi. These small, real stories show the daily rhythm of life that big media often misses. Connect and get connected; act further as well.

This simple act of people sharing their real experiences and working together on shared wisdom and goals help cities regain control of their own image. It builds understanding and empathy across cultures because people connect through real lives, not filtered headlines.

From a Map of Cities to a Living Organism

Connecting cities through people and stories is not just about speed or technology. It is about creating a new kind of shared awareness. We are moving from a world of separate city-states to one living, breathing organism; the City Twinning. This is a living network. Every city is like neurons connected everywhere with its own culture and energy.

The links between them are like brains and minds that carry ideas, emotions, and creativity. The more these cities connect, the more alive and intelligent the network becomes. The future is for those who are connected; systemic and dynamic. Every heartbeat adds strength to the global pulse. Together, we can think, feel, and grow as one living world.

“Motion is science and spirituality in one breath. It is the singularity from which all became apparent. Since no energy can ever be created or destroyed, it was, it is, and it will be — the same eternal flow that animates every atom and every soul. It is the non-created Creator — the force without beginning or end, the silent motion that became existence itself.”

By Josi Joseph, Psychologist, Group Editor +91 94468 48191

There is something that has always fascinated me — the mystery that connects everything. When I look at the world, from the smallest particle to the vastness of galaxies, I see one thing that never stops: motion. Everything moves — the planets, the rivers, the trees, the seasons, even our thoughts. All are in motion.

From the beginning of time, human beings have asked one question: What holds everything together? Scientists, saints, and seekers have searched for this truth in different ways, yet I believe they have all been looking at the same thing from different sides — motion.

This motion is not just physical; it is existential. It is the very nature of being. Existence means motion. When motion stops, existence ceases. When motion stops, life ceases. The one permanent truth, the one unbroken rhythm in all existence, is the motion that never stops. In that sense, motion is the foundation of all that is.

Science began its journey by observing motion. Newton taught us that every object in the universe moves according to laws — simple, beautiful, predictable. Later, Einstein came and showed that even space and time are not still — they bend, stretch, and expand. The universe itself is in motion, endlessly unfolding.

Modern science tells us that the universe is expanding and evolving. Yet when I think deeply, I see that evolution is not the opposite of creation — evolution is creation in motion. The world was not made once and left behind; it is being made every moment, through motion.

Science tells us that there was a moment when everything began — a single point of unimaginable density and energy. From that moment of birth, the universe has been in constant motion — expanding, evolving, transforming. This motion implies a force — not one acting from outside, but one that arises from within — a unifying force.

One of the most profound scientific truths is that no energy is ever created or destroyed — it only changes form. The same energy that lit the first star continues to pulse through every living cell, every thought, every heartbeat.

That means there is something eternal flowing through everything — an unbroken force, an everlasting vibration. Science calls it energy. Spirituality calls it divinity. But both speak of the same reality.

This idea transforms how I see creation and evolution. For centuries, people have argued about whether the world was created or evolved. But to me, these are not opposites. Creation and evolution are the same process — seen from two perspectives. Creation is the first motion; evolution is its continuation. Evolution is creation in motion.

When I reflect on this, I see a profound harmony between the Bible’s “Let there be light” and the Big Bang’s first burst of energy. Both describe a beginning of motion — the moment when stillness became existence.

All religions, in their deepest core, point toward this same realization:

The Vedas say, Aham Brahmasmi — I am Brahman, the divine within.

Christ says, The Kingdom of God is within you.

The Tao speaks of the Way that flows through all things.

The Qur’an says, God is nearer to you than your jugular vein.

Each expresses the same living truth — the divine motion within us. When we realize that, we see that the universe is not outside us; it moves through us, and we move through it. In that moment, the walls between science and religion, between you and me, between the visible and invisible, all dissolve.

Yet even as I reflect on all this, I know there is something beyond — something that cannot be captured by equations or scriptures. The realm of the Creator can never be the same as the realm of creation.

The world of an ant cannot comprehend the world of a human being; likewise, creation cannot fully grasp the realm of the Creator. The brush cannot understand the painter; the melody cannot grasp the musician. The Creator’s realm is not another layer of the universe — it is the source of all layers.

That is the logic of transcendence — the humble acceptance that beyond science and spirituality, there is still more. Something wordless, boundless, and yet deeply real.

This realization changes how I live. When I understand that life itself is motion — continuous, divine, and shared — I stop fighting it. I stop demanding that things stay the same. I begin to move with life, not against it.

In this flow, conflicts fade. The need to control or prove disappears. Happiness is no longer something to chase; it becomes a natural state when we live in congruence — with ourselves, with others, and with existence itself.

To live rightly, then, is to move in harmony — to be at peace with the motion of existence. When we do that, life becomes light — effortless, peaceful, and deeply joyful.

We have spent centuries dividing truth — science on one side, spirituality on the other. But truth has never been divided. It moves, it evolves, it unites.

The universe began in motion. And through that same eternal motion, we are all returning — not backward, but inward — to the very source from which we came.

To live is to move with that source — consciously, joyfully, harmoniously.

And perhaps, when humanity begins to see life this way, science will find God — and God will smile through science.