Word: mentality
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...based. After cleaning, the raw yarn is coated with a natural gum, and it's then soaked in medicinal dyes prepared with pomegranate, turmeric and indigo, among other plants. "The idea is that immunity levels are raised when using these medicinal textiles and the body reaches a certain mental and physical equilibrium," explains Rajan, a weaver sporting one of the society's simple handwoven tunics. Before you rush off to order bolts of ayurvastra, do remember that it's still early days and more research needs to be done. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...players must become great improvisers, due to the unpredictability of the responses given by the children when they participate in the show. Meyer states that the actors must “learn to think on the spot and keep the kids entertained….Sometimes the children have mental disabilities and will shout during parts of our performances where we aren’t asking for audience participation; as actors we have to train to speak louder or pause or incorporate these reactions into the play.” But the students who participate in HSTP find the group...
...tell him how he should feel rather than acknowledge the way he does feel? Do you see setbacks as problems rather than challenges? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then - uh-oh . . . this book may have you suspecting that you've condemned your child to mental illness...
Notes from a now-missing typed memorandum that once accompanied the book revealed that the binding’s skin comes from “the back of the unclaimed body of a woman patient in a French mental hospital who died suddenly of apoplexy...
...treatment is a marked departure from what until quite recently was standard practice in the field. Many doctors either offered parents hopeless-sounding diagnoses, such as autism or mental retardation, or dismissed their concerns as neurotic, telling them that their children would simply grow out of it. That message infuriates specialists like Shipon-Blum, who agrees that children with untreated SM may eventually manage to communicate in social situations but insists that without addressing the precipitating factors behind the mutism, debilitating anxieties are likely to persist into adulthood. "They may develop methods of coping, but are they happy and functioning...