Category: Mental Wellness

Professional counselling ~1!

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Hope as usual all of you are keeping well some of you must be having Summer or warm weather. But here in Aussie it is still winter and Brrrrrr it is almost freezing and very cold. Still, I wanted to post new posts have thought of writing on Professional Counselling from what I have studied and my present experiences and more advanced Knowledge up to now. One of the most important instruments you have to work with as a counselor is yourself as a person.

The counselor as a Therapeutic person.
Counselling is an intimate form of learning. it has to be someone who is Authentic person in the Therapeutic relationship. if we hide ourselves in the Professional role our clients also will not open up and keep themselves hidden from us. our own genuineness can have a significant role with our clients, They can be encouraged us being open and Honest with them.

Personal Characteristics of Effective Counselors:
1.Effective Therapists have an identity. They know who they are and their capabilities.
2.Effective Therapists Respect and appreciate themselves. They can Give and Receive out of their own self-worth strength.
3.Effective Therapists are open to change.
4.Effective Therapists Make choices that are life oriented.
5. Effective Therapists are Authentic Sinceres and Honest.
6.Effective Therapists generally live in the present.
7.Effective Therapists appreciate the influence of different Culture
Effective Therapists have sincere interest of welfare of others
8.Effective Therapists have [interpersonal skills
9.Effective Therapists have sense of Humor
10.Effective Therapists become deeply involved in their work
11.Effective Therapists are passionate
12.Effective Therapists are able to maintain Healthy Boundaries.

I have written and posted the pictures as a starting point of Basic knowledge and will be posting next posts following and keeping to the ‘Professions Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Male patient in the office of a psychologist. Psychological counseling. Coping with stress

A Take-Home Message
We all have the capacity to adapt and to achieve our personal expectations. we raise the bar in relation to our own potential and push ourselves to achieve Higher things. Effectiveness of Adlerian Theory Recent studies have also supported Adler’s belief in the importance of the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic alliance has been shown to affect treatment outcomes across a range of conditions, therapeutic modalities, and contexts. In other words, a greater sense of social connectedness rooted in caring for others, connecting with the community, and finding a sense of purpose is linked to improved mental health and well-being.

Hope you have a better understanding than before and also questions and comments are always welcome Happy reading 🙂

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Ayurveda ~ Values of Ginger!

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Hope all of you are keeping well. It’s very very cold but I am continuing to write, being on Ayurveda I thought of Enlightening on Values of Food for being in Good Health. As so many are not aware of the Values of Fruits and Vegetables and most importantly Herbs 🙂



Botanical Name: Zingiber Officinale

Other Names: True Ginger, Jengibre, Jenjibre Dulce, Ginger, Adrak, and Kion

Common ginger is a world-famous herb, popular for its aromatic and pungent rhizomes. It has significant medicinal and culinary uses and needs.

2. Beehive Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber spectabile

Other Names: Ginger Wort, Malaysian Ginger

Beehive Ginger is famous as an ornamental plant due to its unique beehive-like yellow inflorescences that become red once mature. All parts have a strong gingery fragrance, making local dishes and appetizers.

Growing Tips

  • Avoid placing it in full sun, as direct sunlight can burn this plant.
  • It grows best in a humid climate.

3. Bitter Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber zerumbet

Other Names: Pinecone Ginger, Itter Ginger, Broad-leaved Ginger, Martinique Ginger, Pinecone Lily, Lempoyang, and Wild Ginger

Also known as shampoo ginger, it tastes bitter compared to the common ginger and is added to food flavoring and appetizers. It’s used primarily in herbal medicines and making shampoos.

Growing Tips

Grow it in bright and filtered light in warm soil.

Feed the plant with 8-4-6 fertilizer every three months.

4. Myoga Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber mioga

Other Name: Japanese Ginger

In Japan, Myoga Ginger’s flowers and young shoots are used as a tasty garnish on various food. It has a zesty and spicy flavor with a strong, pungent aroma.

  • It is better to grow it in partial shade.
  • It thrives in moist soil.

5. Crepe Ginger

Botanical Name: Cheilocostus speciosus

Other Names: Crape Ginger, Malay Ginger, and Cane Reed

Known for its crepe-paper-like showy white flowers that emerge from reddish-burgundy spiraled inflorescences. It has a pungent taste with edible flowers and buds.

Growing Tips

  • It grows under the canopy of trees.
  • Warm and humid climates are best for its growth.

    6. Hidden Ginger

Botanical Name: Curcuma petiolata

Other Names: Queen Lily, Siam Tulip, Hidden Lily

Hidden Ginger is a Malaysian native with a spicy scent and a bitter taste. It produces beautiful flowers of bright purple, pink, or orange colors.

Growing Tips

  • This 2-3 feet tall plant becomes an excellent container specimen.
  • Growing it is similar to canna lilies.

7. Butterfly Lily Ginger

Botanical Name: Hedychium coronarium

Other Name: White Ginger, Flor De Mariposa, Mariposa Blanca, Dolan Champa

8. Shell Ginger

Botanical Name: Alpinia zerumbet

Other Name: Variegated Ginger, Sannin, Getto Plant

Shell ginger has ovate leaves with green stripes, making it an ornamental plant. It blooms clusters of pink buds, emitting a luscious aroma.

With a clove-like flavor, its edible leaves are the primary agents in noodles and teas in Okinawan cuisines.

  • While it can grow up to 8-10 feet tall, it doesn’t exceed above 3-4 feet in pots.
  • It can be a beautiful houseplant.

9. Dancing Ladies Ginger

Botanical Name: Globba winitii

Other Name: White Dragon Flower

This showy ginger family plant is rare to find. It has unique flowers that emit a sweet honeysuckle-like fragrance and resembles dancing ladies when they move in the wind.

Growing Tips

  • It can be grown in USDA zones 8-11.
  • A spot that receives part sun is best. You can also grow it in the shade.

10. Yellow Ginger

Botanical Name: Hedychium flavescens

Other Name: Cream Garland-Lily, Yellow Ginger Lily, Wild Ginger

Growing up to 5-6 feet tall, the fleshy rhizomes of yellow ginger are edible but not as flavorful as common ginger. Gardeners usually grow it for its highly fragrant flowers.

Growing Tips

  • Grow it in well-drained and moderately fertile soil.
  • It’s a shade-tolerant plant.

    11. Red Ginger

Rhizomes and stalks of this plant have a strong spicy scent. But what it’s famous for is the bright red or pink bracts that look stunning.

Growing Tips

  • The national flower of Samoa prefers warm and moist soil to thrive.
  • Grow it under diffused light, avoiding full sun.

12. Torch Ginger

Botanical Name: Etlingera elatior

Other Names: Wild ginger, Combrang, Bunga Kantan, Philippine Waxflower, and Red Ginger Lily, Indonesian Tall Ginger, Boca De Dragón, Rose De Porcelaine

This tropical plant looks glorious with its big and vibrant flowers that appear in red, pink, or orange colors.

The whole plant is edible, and fruits, seed pods, seeds, and flowers stems are eaten in many countries. Flower buds taste piquant and are used in traditional Indonesian and Thai dishes.

Growing Tips

  • You can also grow it in a large pot.
  • Protect it from intense afternoon sunlight.

13. Mango Ginger

Botanical Name: Curcuma amada

Other Names: Mavina Shunti

Mango ginger is something between turmeric and ginger. The ginger-like rhizomes have a fragrant, spicy taste like common ginger with a hint of raw mango.

It is primarily used in Indian cooking in preparing pickles, chutneys, and soups.

Growing it is similar to common ginger.

In cold climates, you can grow it in warmer months.

14. Kahili Ginger

Botanical Name: Hedychium gardnerianum

Other Name: Fragrant Ginger Lily, Kahila Garland-Lily

This plant is native to Himalayan regions and grown primarily for ornamental purpose. Large dramatic foliage and showy, fragrant flowers make it a truly exotic tropical plant.

Growing Tips

  • It can be up to 8 feet tall. In containers, it doesn’t exceed above 3-4 feet.
  • You can grow it indoors, as well.

15. Thai Ginger

Botanical Name: Alpinia galanga

Other Names: Thai Ginseng Ginger, Krachai Dum Ginger, Lengkuas, Blue Ginger, and Greater Galangal

Rhizomes of Thai ginger have a pungent aroma with a flavor of pine needles and black pepper. Its rhizomes, flowers, and shoots have extensive uses in Thai curry, chili paste, and pickles.

  • Unlike other types of ginger plants, galanga can tolerate more sun and grows best in partial sunlight.
  • Grow it in rich and moist soil.

16. Pineapple Ginger

Botanical Name: Tapeinochilos ananassae

Other Names: Indonesian Wax Ginger, Lipstick Ginger

Pineapple ginger has inconspicuous orange-yellow flowers and deep red bracts that grow on long cone-shaped inflorescences that resemble pineapples.

It’s grown for ornamental purposes and used popularly in tropical cut flower arrangements.

Growing Tips

  • It grows well in filtered sunlight.
  • You can also place it indoors in a spot that receives several hours of morning sunlight.

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Love!

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I started this blog in September 2015, mainly to spread the messages on Good Health. My main intention was to make You the reader feel “More Positive” and to have that “Faith and Hope” so that you can reach up and make ‘Yourselves Better and Happier”. I kept My Faith and succeeded in My Life. The Beautiful thing is” I have achieved what I wanted through Faith. And then next post was Joy and now “Love” ❤

When it comes to love, some people would say it is one of the most important human emotions. Love is a set of emotions and behaviors characterized by intimacy, passion, and commitment. It involves care, closeness, protectiveness, attraction, affection, and trust. Many say it’s not an emotion in the way we typically understand them, but an essential physiological drive. 

Love is a physiological motivation such as hunger, thirst, sleep. There are countless songs, books, poems, and other works of art about love (you probably have one in mind as we speak!). Yet despite being one of the most studied behaviors, it is still the least understood. For example, researchers debate whether love is a biological or cultural phenomenon. How Do You Know You’re Feeling Love for Someone? What are some of the signs of love? Researchers have made distinctions between feelings of liking and loving another person.

It is said Romantic love is made up of three elements:

  • Attachment: Needing to be with another person and desiring physical contact and approval
  • Caring: Valuing the other person’s happiness and needs as much as your own
  • Intimacy: Sharing private thoughts, feelings, and desires with the other person
    While people tend to view people they like as pleasant, love is marked by being devoted, possessive, and confiding in one another. 

Are There Different Types of Love?

Yup—not all forms of love are the same, and psychologists have identified a number of different types of love that people may experience.

These types of love include:

  • Friendship: This type of love involves liking someone and sharing a certain degree of intimacy.
  • Infatuation: This form of love often involves intense feelings of attraction without a sense of commitment; it often takes place early in a relationship and may deepen into a more lasting love.
  • Passionate love: This type of love is marked by intense feelings of longing and attraction; it often involves an idealization of the other person and a need to maintain constant physical closeness.
  • Compassionate/companionate love: This form of love is marked by trust, affection, intimacy, and commitment.

Is Love Influenced By Biology or Culture?

Love is most likely influenced by both biology and culture. Although hormones and biology are important, the way we express and experience love is also influenced by our own conceptions of love.

Some researchers suggest that love is a basic human emotion just like happiness or anger, while others believe that it is a cultural phenomenon that arises partly due to social pressures and expectations. Research has found that romantic love exists in all cultures, which suggests that love has a strong biological component. It is a part of human nature to seek out and find love. However, culture can significantly affect how individuals think about, experience, and display romantic love.

Is Love an Emotion?

Many say it’s not an emotion in the way we typically understand them, but an essential physiological drive. On the other hand, the American Psychological Association defines it as “a complex emotion.” Still, others draw a distinction between primary and secondary emotions and put love in the latter category, maintaining that it derives from a mix of primary emotions.

Type of LoveComponents
 Friendship Intimacy
 Infatuation Passion
 Empty Commitment
 Romantic Intimacy, passion
 Companionate Intimacy
 Fatuous Commitment, passion
 Consummate Intimacy, compassion, commitment

How to Show Love to Another Person

There is no single way to practice love. Every relationship is unique, and each person brings their own history and needs. Some things that you can do to show love to the people you care about include:

  • Be willing to be vulnerable.
  • Be willing to forgive.
  • Do your best and be willing to apologize when you make mistakes.
  • Let them know that you care.
  • Listen to what they have to say.
  • Prioritize spending time with the other person.
  • Reciprocate loving gestures and acts of kindness.
  • Recognize and acknowledge their good qualities.
  • Share things about yourself.
  • Show affection.
  • Make it unconditional.

How Love Impacts Your Mental Health

Love, attachment, and affection have an important impact on well-being and quality of life. Loving relationships have been linked to:

  • Lower risk of heart disease
  • Decreased risk of dying after a heart attack7
  • Better health habits
  • Increased longevity
  • Lower stress levels
  • Less depression

Tips for Cultivating Love

Lasting relationships are marked by deep levels of trust, commitment, and intimacy. Some things that you can do to help cultivate loving relationships include:

  • Try loving-kindness meditation. Loving-kindness meditation is a technique often used to promote self-acceptance and reduce stress, but it has also been shown to promote a variety of positive emotions and improve interpersonal relationships. involves meditating while thinking about a person you love or care about, concentrating on warm feelings and your desire for their well-being and happiness.
  • Communicate. Everyone’s needs are different. The best way to ensure that your needs and your loved one’s needs are met is to talk about them. Helping another person feel loved involves communicating that love to them through words and deeds. Some ways to do this include showing that you care, making them feel special, telling them they are loved, and doing things for them.
  • Tackle conflict in a healthy way. Never arguing is not necessarily a sign of a healthy relationship—more often than not, it means that people are avoiding an issue rather than discussing it. Rather than avoid conflict, focus on hashing out issues in ways that are healthy

History of Love

Only fairly recently has love to become the subject of science. In the past, the study of love was left to “the creative writer to depict for us the necessary conditions for loving,” according to Sigmund Freud. “In consequence, it becomes inevitable that science should concern herself with the same materials whose treatment by artists has given enjoyment to mankind for thousands of years, Research on love has grown tremendously since Freud’s remarks.

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Faith!

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I started this blog in September 2015, mainly to spread the messages on Good Health. My main intention was to make You the reader feel “More Positive” and to have that “Faith and Hope” so that you can reach up and make ‘Yourselves Better and Happier”. There is various explanation of Faith. But this is how I know and kept My Faith and succeeded in My Life. The Beautiful thing is ”I have achieved what I wanted through Faith. And the next post will be on Hope 🙂

Faith is defined as belief with strong conviction. It is a firm belief in something for which there may be no tangible proof—complete trust, confidence, reliance, or devotion. Faith is the opposite of doubt.

Faith’ is a broad term, appearing in locutions that point to a range of different phenomena. We speak of ‘having faith that you will succeed, despite setbacks. ‘Being a person of faith,’ ‘professing and keeping the faith. and so on. At its most general ‘faith’ means much the same as ‘trust’. Uses of ‘faith’ and ‘faithfulness’ closely parallel ‘trust’ and ‘trustworthiness’ and these are often used interchangeably. Yet one of the striking and intriguing facts about theorizing in this area is that people have offered radically different accounts of what faith is to which faith belongs. Is it a psychological state. affective or perhaps some combination of both? Is it an act or disposition to act—or is there at least some sort of connection to action essential to faith and, if so, to what sorts of acts?


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  • As always, it is all free”. You can share and pass it on also for others who can benefit from this post. I hope All those who Read will be able to make the maximum use of all these facts and make, “Your Lives More Healthy and able to Lead Better lives in Happiness and Peace”. I wish it to be so as,” Peace which is our Ultimate Goal in Life ❤

The Topics in Green, if you “Click” on them “Will take you to My other different posts which you will be able to find more information and even Pronunciation”. I have another website with “My own little Poems and Pictures of some of My Hobbies” if you are interested on seeing, “What else I am doing” during my spare time you can have a look at: https://deepanilamani.com/

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May God’s Blessings Be Upon You ❤

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