Listening to a merry laughter of someone is joyful. A popular Indian film actress, Madhubala (1933-1969), had such a musical, merry laughter that one could not but feel amused, delighted. Her laughter can still be heard over TV when old Hindi films are played.<\/p>\n
Another method of feeling better is by deep breathing. For a person who is sad or sorrowful, this exercise of deep breathing is helpful both emotionally and from the health point of view,\u00a0just as heavy laughter is.<\/p>\n
Poverty is endemic in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America. One can see slums, beggars, haggard faces of poor people all over. On such occasions doling out some money or food or warm clothing lightens one\u2019s own\u00a0depression especially if the beggar smiles in gratitude. Gandhi believed in\u00a0Anthodia<\/em>\u00a0which meant uplifting the lowest section of society.\u00a0\u00a0Charity won\u2019t lift this section from poverty and deprivation,\u00a0but at least a person who donates something with a pure heart would feel blessed.<\/p>\n As they say, charity begins at home. This means that children also learn the benefits of charity. At first they may show charity and love for their pets, but this develops into being good for your neighbours and poor people. This attitude if performed sincerely without any ulterior motive, also gives a sense of satisfaction, peace, goodwill.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________<\/p>\n Humankind has several emotions \u2014 not only pain, pleasure, but sorrow, greed, kindness, happiness, attachment, love, anger and several others. Perhaps the most common emotions are happiness or bliss and sorrow, or depression, sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[605],"class_list":["post-145751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/em>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"