Hello young people. Today we are here on the last day of our series on summer internship in psychology. Yes, another day, another evening. Good evening to all of you. That's absolutely fine. Not to worry about the link, the attendance. You will all get your certificates. Mana ma'am is here. She's very kind. Even if you've not filled in the attendance form, she's seen you. She knows your names now from here itself. and she will provide you all the certificates. Not to worry at all. Yes, if you have any questions from the previous sessions, please feel free to ask. Good evening. Good evening. Yes, I'm hoping Dr. Parak joins us for a brief moment shortly. He has been in meetings. He's a big big psychiatrist. So yes, sometimes it can be a little difficult for him to but I'm sure he'll be here shortly. Yes. Go on, shoot her questions. I had a doubt. >> >> This is just to do with our memory and uh there is no explanation per se apart from the fact that when you will read the chapter on memory then it'll be about recent memory and u memory long-term memory short-term memory recent memory all of that. So, some people may have very good long-term memory, some may have very good short-term memory, some may have um good recent memory. Or it could also be the fact that something is preoccupying them and so they are not being able to remember the recent events because the mind is just so preoccupied with anxiety thoughts, worrisome thoughts or anything else that's concerning them. No, we don't read minds like that. We have our ways of uh what we had discussed in some of the previous session day one where we spoke about our day two in fact where we spoke about socritic questioning um asking probing clarifying all of that that helps us to dig deeper into the person's problem and issue and at the same time what we also do is as part of our history taking you remember we take all of that information to get a 360°ree understanding. So that's what we do. We don't read minds but we ask the right questions. We probe. We understand family history, academic history, school history, interpersonal history, work history, all of that. OCD is obsessivecompulsive disorder that we had studied. obsessions, intrusive thoughts, unwanted thoughts that continue to keep uh troubling the individual and even though they may be irrational and the person knows they don't want to think about it, it still bothers them. Compulsions are the act acts which have a ritualistic sense to it and even though the person tries to control it is not able to control it and can consume a significant amount of their time of the day to keep doing it and both can cause uh impairment in their functioning. Well, having anger per se uh is an emotion. So, anger in itself is not bad. But when we recognize that we tend to feel angry too quick too soon and the intensity is very high in which either we are um acting out too much in an aggressive form in an passive aggressive form, reactive aggressive form then yes that needs to be handled and looked at. And this again is part of um how well built is the emotional regulation or self-control in us. Or there are many myths about psychology. Quite a number of them as you would have heard. Um you know psychology is mental health. People with mental health illness are so and so are psycho are crazy. uh all of these words and how they can be harm to society, to people. Um how once you have a mental health illness, you can't recover from it. I don't need um help of a psychologist or mental health profession. Yeah, it's because of my karma that I have got a mental health illness. Maybe just certain myths that are coming off my mind and how medications can be uh can create a lot of dependency. Even uh the fact that psychotherapy can create dependency. If you have post-traumatic stress disorder then you need to undergo treatment with mental health professional where there is a psychiatrist who prescribes you medication and a psychologist who does therapy work with you. You can't just overcome PTSD like that. Tricotillumia uh yes is about pulling hair. It could be body hair or it could also be hair of the scalp both but it is sign I mean essentially pulling of the hair >> starting our Indian chapter is here and he is in a meeting and he just left he's trying to log in from a meeting to just give a start to the session today while we continue to take the questions. He's back here again from some place where there is music. >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> So, I'll be here for a very short time and I'll let Mimmansa continue with this. But I thought this is a special one. So I just wanted to make sure that I come for a short time and um uh I know you'll be talking about uh creativity um arts more importantly music but on a very very personal note I wanted to um thank uh sitar for mental health and uh risha briam sharma for doing sitar for mental health. I think Satar for mental health in recent times has been one of the most significant u awareness initiatives which has reached not just young population but almost all age groups and it has been a brilliant effort and more importantly a sincere effort both at a personal level um I'm very I have a lot of gratitude good uh for Rishab for doing what he does for mental health and as a mental health professional I feel that this is something which we've always wanted right kind of people doing advocacy for mental health and ensuring that more people talk about it today you'll go through um some experiences that Mimmansa would be um guiding you through at our hospital adou which is um a psychiatry and addiction center. The music that we play there is by Sithar for mental health risham Sharma's music. He's been very kind to gift his music to us and we see the impact on individuals there. So if you any of you are in and around NCR a drop in for a special experience uh both at the hospital and more importantly in the music room. Having said that, I am going to um let mim mansa take this forward and like I mentioned um big big thank you for everything that Rishab do and sitar for mental health more power to you reach more lives make more impact and today let's learn how we can as let's say future mental health professionals and all of you young people how can you utilize music in your life at various aspects from the cognitive to the mindfulness. On that note, I'll let Mimmansa continue with this. So, hello young people. Those who are in 11th, I'll meet you again next year. Those who are in 12th, be a psychologist and meet me in the future and let's work together. On that note, thank you and um unmute yourself. Okay. Right. So I just as just Dr. Parik spoke about the fact that yes some of you if you are joining us from 1st June that's great lovely come join us. Uh and if you are near NCR at Adou which is in Gorga we have Risha Briki Ram Sharma's music playing over there. Um a lot of patients do enjoy while the music is playing and the therapy is going. It just adds to the therapeutic element of the entire setting. And yes, today this is where we are. We are talking about how creativity, how different elements of um art, music, writing um and specifically music today help us help us maintain our mental well-being. help us maintain our u and uh and and build a lot of mindfulness therapeutic experience around the kind of creative uh activities that we engage in and music being one of that we are going to talk about that a bit more uh using Risha Brikam Sharma's music and we are going to do certain activities as well uh using that music he's been a great advocate for mental health and so here it is for you. The series and the topic for today is strings that calm music for mental health brought to you by Ada Mindfulness in association with Suda for mental health. So let's begin today's session. Um a lot of questions have been asked we've answered a couple of them and we'll continue to keep doing that. Uh but let's go forward with today's session. So if I have to ask you all before this there is a slide mana if we can go back to that we just skipped one what are some of the things that I think there is there is some issue which is happening uh h okay no what not a not an issue at Hello. Are you able to hear me? Yes. Okay, great. So, answer this. How noisy do you feel your brain is every day? How noisy do you feel? What all is happening in our brains? How noisy do you think that is? Noisy, noisy, noisy. What all noise is running in your head? Very much. Yes. 80 to 90%. A lot. A little noisy. Some of you feel very, very, very noisy. Yes. Our brains are never truly silent because there is so much which is going on in our brains. There are thoughts which are running. Yes. And there are some intrusive thoughts which are running in. Then there are notifications which keep buzzing in here and there. There is stress. We spoke about stress yesterday as well. There is so much stress that we can sometimes experience. Some days can be harder than the other. Some days are easygoing and specifically if you have nice weather that take takes care of some part of the stress because when we step out we feel a little light. Um there are also um a lot of reals and memes that we tend to see on a day-to-day basis and sometimes uh we feel that that's playing on our mind and we are still occupied with some of those things that you've seen fables thoughts. Yes. Overthinking random thoughts, memories, uh songs, lyrics. You hear one song and then that continues to keep buzzing and you almost feel that's running in in the loop um again and again and again and you feel that the song is stuck in your mind. Yes. So yeah, we recognize that our brain can feel a lot of lot of noise on a day-to-day basis. Now let's look at and like I said it could be because of stress it could be about thoughts overthinking and in overthinking we often tend to see it is u you start from one point an event in the day may have happened you may have had a small um fight with a friend and sometimes that's playing in your mind so much that you're almost playing the entire thing in your mind so much so that from one point you start and you move on to the next and the conclusion for that entire dialogue that's going in your mind is just too negative. That also happens. So that noisy our brain can actually be. Yes. So all of this that we just spoke about now from noise let's move on to what impacts our mental well-being. What do you think impacts our mental well-being? What affects our mood? What affects our well-being on a day-to-day basis? Stress is one of course. What else? The peer pressure can impact our mood. You had some kind of a pressure that you felt from a friend of yours. Uh you don't want to go somewhere but then you want to you've been pressured to go there. Um it's a party. You don't want to be a part of it. It's not a closed group. It's a closed group. all that you know the strain that you're feeling because you're obviously thinking about what some may likes, what some may not like, so on and so forth. The environment, whatever that we experience in our environment can also have its own influence, we studied about that, we spoke about that in our uh day four of social psychology. How does our environment have an influence on us? In our environment comes social media. In our environment comes relationships. In our environment comes even the physical environment part which is the pollution, the change in the climate. All of that has an impact on our mood. What we are also seeing increasingly is that with such stark and extreme temperatures that one tends to um experience it does impact our mental health too. Sometimes we tend to experience because of the heat um this irritability and and the drain and the fatigue at the same time. Sometimes for some people it may also be anxietyprovoking because the environment the physical environment impacts them so much more because of the sensitivity that they may experience to the change the stark change in the climate. And so people, young people, it's important u as adults, we've not given you a good a good u you know climate to live in. We've certainly done a lot many things wrong in the past more than a decade to bring you all of this. Uh but you people learn from us. Learn more and more from our mistakes and try and not do that. take care of the environment more so that the climate doesn't continue to be the way it is. Although it is going to take a lot of time and effort, collective effort from all of us uh to to sort of resolve so many issues that we are continuing to face right now. So yes, environment is one, pollution is the other, loneliness. We are living in a world where we are so hyperconnected through our phones, through various channels, through social media. Yet loneliness is increasing. It's on the rise. It's becoming another epidemic. And we need to understand why is that so? Why do we feel so alone in the crowd? is because perhaps we are not connecting ourselves enough with people like we spoke about to build our support systems to invest in meaningful relationships to nurture meaningful relationships. And so we just become a part of the mob, just a part of the crowd by just being in that virtual space more and more without actually having that genuine connection that we need to build in our relationships. Yes, everybody has digital gadgets, but it's us. It's not the fault of the digital gadgets. They are a part of our lives like anything else. They are here for our convenience. They are here for our use. But how we use it is on us. So if we continue to just maintain some of these relationships out of convenience, I will call them when I feel like I'll call them when I have time. I'm going to meet them when I have time. I'll reach out to them when I have time. I need somebody to talk to now. They are busy. I don't know if I can reach out to them. They must be busy. So many things that we continue to keep building in our mind without making the actual effort that requires for us to nurture meaningful relationships and build these support systems in and around us. That's the reason why we have loneliness. We tend to alienate ourselves more and more. Yes, alienation is something which is happening um more. We tend to isolate ourselves more and more. Um you're bored. You would just pick on again your gadget and you'll start scrolling, doom scrolling. You're bored? Why not call a friend? You're bored? Why not ask them to play with you? You're bored, why not just go around um you know for for a cup of coffee or or anything else? Maybe on the way, pick another friend of yours. You're bored, why not spend some time with family? You're bored, why not call a cousin of yours, a sibling of yours, play with them, do something else. you're bored, engage in physical exercise or some kind of a sport. Do some of these things. And boredom in itself is not so bad. By the way, do we realize this kind of loneliness? Well, we need to ask a lot of us do talk about how alone and lonely we tend to feel and that's happening precisely because we are so hesitant hesitant to reach out to someone. We are thinking they may be busy. We think they may not understand. We think that they may not be able to make some time for us or they may eventually leave or they may start talking about us um at our back to another friend. So many doubts and questions we tend to have or just the mere fact I only am the one who tends to reach out the other person never reaches out. So why do I need to make the effort and so we stop making the effort. So loneliness is about the choices that we make. It is about the choices that we make to disconnect from people. So if you want to address loneliness, connect more with people. Connect more with yourself. Find what is it that you want to do in those spaces so that you feel connected with your own self. If you are meaningfully engaged even in the hobby, the activity or whatever that you're doing, you will feel less alone. If you are meaningfully engaged in the time that you're spending with family and friends, you will feel less alone. And what we spoke about yesterday, the psychological first aid skills when we are there patiently listening to someone, when we are empathetic towards people around us, at that point in time, it's important that we also maintain that because when we have a friend and the friend is talking to us and yet we are on the phone and the gadget, then that's also a problem in itself because then that's where we feel that somebody is not being able to understand me or the fact is not interested in me is more busy with what they are doing and are condued more and more by that. So stress, screen time, productivity, pollution, environment, loneliness, support system, meaningful relationships, exams, exams are a part of our life. Why do we not see that an exam is an exam? Today you give an exam, after a week you have another exam and your unit test and then another week you will have a unit test. In the same way, it is your board examinations. It's your your mids. It's your final sem. It's all of that. So we have to understand that in life we are yes life is an exam. Some of you written over there that's that's so true. Life is an exam because you have to look at life as a longitudinal axis. What you're giving as examinations are more like a like a life skill for you. How can you learn to give yourself a test for something that you've learned and deal with pressure? How do you deal with a bad result? How do you deal with a day in which you have to give a a test but something went uh off your your health is not okay and we have to also deal with that pressure and just try and do our best. How do I celebrate the small successes that come in as a part of my good score? So what are examinations? Examinations are your life skills. They teach you how to deal with pressures. They teach you how to learn from a bad preparation. They teach you how to learn from our mistakes. They teach you how to celebrate small successes. They also teach you how to take a bad result into your stride and come back in a resilient form to prepare for the next. And they also teach you how to believe in your own self. At the same time, expectations is something that we must understand is is what is it that we can hold from us and keep working on it. But high expectations also is not something which is helpful. Low expectation is part of us feeling not competent or incapable of our of ourselves. And so what even can I expect from myself? Very high expectations. It could come in from our sense of uh being too harsh and critical from our own selves. We must understand that we have to keep working towards our goal. and over here yes in those long-term goals and short-term goals what are the right strategies I need to use and at the same time recognize not to compare yourself with the others you compare your current performance with the previous one because that's what will help you know where have you come uh from where you started and where you are today what skills have you been able to learn if there were certain things that required more practice, more honing of the skills, a different attitude, a different approach. Have you been able to do that? And today where you are standing, how has your result improved over a period of time? So you make comparison from your own previous result and your previous work and that's how you move forward. You never make comparisons with the others because the others may have a different skill set. You may have a different skill set whether it is examinations, whether it is your hobby, whether it is sports, anything. You figure out what are your strengths and you figure out what are your limitations. So all these things can have an impact on your mood and your well-being. But what we studied, if you have the right attitude and we recognize how to deal with stressors and manage them better, we can overcome that. But then we need tools to be able to do that. And from here we move forward. So at this point in time, tell me what all is playing in your mind. What's playing in your head right now? What is your head consumed by at this point in time? exams. See some of the things that we spoke about. So, somebody's head um what's playing on is is exams. This class, the lyrics, some random thoughts, bored, college applications, homework, deadlines, feeling sleepy, sports, that's what your mind is playing right now. This is an activity just for you to be aware of what's going on in your mind at this point in time. Mindfully try and understand what's going on at this point in time. What's playing in your head? Thoughts over perfection, problematic thoughts, internship, project. Don't stress about that. Listening to to the to the session, project submission, career. So these are this is some free association exercise for you. That's what is ah vacation. Yes. Memories of some people, right? Okay. too many things. What does a healthy mind feel like? What do you think a healthy mind feels like? A healthy mind is the one that is able to think, feel, and cope with whatever you are dealing with on a day-to-day basis. We are able to think more clearly. We recognize what we are feeling and based on that if requires some kind of a coping, we are able to do that. So that's a healthy mind for you and your everyday health. Now let's try and understand what does it conote with a healthy mind and everyday health which means your mental health and what is mental health? What is mental health? Ah too many letters are eating into each other. I think that's that's what is playing on uh in on on this PPT slide. The letters are playing into each other. Anyways, yes, a little less noisy wellbeing of the people. At the same time, what one needs to understand is it is a state of well-being where the individual recognizes or realizes one's own abilities, are able to cope with their normal day-to-day life stresses, are able to work productively, fruitfully, and are also able to make contribution to the community in the role that they are playing. So, let's say I'm a clinical psychologist. I am also a parent. I am um at the same time when I'm at home, I'm also a homemaker. So in my multiple roles, am I able to work up to my capability? Which means if if my child needs me, am I able to deal uh be there be there present for her? Am I able to work well as a clinical psychologist and work with my patients well? Am I able to also take care of the home aspect uh well and if let's say if there is the stress that has come in in today's date as of now today am I able to deal and cope with that well because it's a state of wellbeing the state of wellbeing is something that we carry on a day-to-day basis every day at any given point in time so does the stress overwhelm me let's say if somebody has just come in and requires my help and support because they've just had um you know some kind of an accident. So is that stress going to overwhelm me or am I going to jump in with the problem solving approach or there is something else that happens and I see this this is last minute it is going to take away some time from my day am I a do I feel vulnerable or overwhelmed by that or am I able to just look after whatever requires my help and support at this time at the same time on a day-to-day basis am I able to work productively so if in a day I need to work 6 to 8 hours am I able to fulfill my sense of productivity in that particular time period and at the same time like I said first what is also important is to recognize what my abilities are so that's mental health for you as defined by wh now given that life is something that happens to us every day how do you think life can sometimes make you feel Heck tired. Yes. Unfair. Yes. Burnt out. Absolutely. Disappointed. Worthless. Undesirable. Frustrated. Terrible. too much noise outside and inside and that can make us feel a lot of emotions sad overwhelmed stressful unfair h yes a lot of emotions I can see over there then it's a good session that we're having today because we will and we are going to engage in some music to be able to take care of these emotions the exhaustion the the the over stimulation the blankness, the sadness, the exhaustion, the tiredness that you all are experiencing. So too much noise outside and too much noise and what we are feeling inside. Grateful, pressured, hyper sensitive. Yes, a lot of things that you're feeling at this point in time. And I know sometimes life can bring us all of this. Mana, can we move forward? So tell me what can help you and what helps some of you reset your mind? For me, I'll tell you what for me, what is it that helps me reset my mind? What helps me reset my mind is that on my way back home um and in the also when I am going to the hospital in the morning I listen to some music I actually listen to u Hindustani classical music or I will listen to some of my old classics as well both from um genres Indian music as well uh or western music as well some old classics But largely my go-to music is Hindustani classical music. That's something both while going to the hospital while coming back to the hospital in the evening. What also helps me reset my mind is my regular exercise that I do. Then post that it's about the regularization of the day. The routine in itself also helps me reset my mind. Spending time with the family a regular time of the day in the evening post dinner that we spend also helps me reset my mind and then having a good night's sleep after listening to my kid and what all happened during the day and having a lot of those conversations with my family. Yes, that helps me reset my mind. And then after resetting my mind before I engage in a lot of this family time I do ensure that I reset my mind with music with exercise and then a lot of good conversations and then a good night's sleep for you. As I can see for a lot of you young people it is songs, poems, music, dance. Yes. What else? reading, cooking, washing your face with cold water. That can also help reset your mind. Of course, some moves, sketching, sports, family, praying. Yes, why not? That can also help us reset our mind. I start my day with prayers, too. Absolutely. Gymnastics, reading novels. some plays, playing with things that we like. Traveling can help some people set their mind. But traveling is also not something that we can do on a day-to-day basis. So on a day-to-day basis if we have to look at what can help us reset our mind, journaling, sketching, art. So as you can see lot of us have singing, a lot of us have our own means on how do we reset our mind? We engage in some creative pursuits because these creative pursuits help us connect with our own selves. These creative pursuits and the creative juices that flow when you are engaging with a lot of these things actually help us reset our mind a lot more. We feel light, we feel calm. These activities are also have a very mindfulness kind of an experience to them because when you are doing some of these things you are fully engaged in that act. When you are coloring you're choosing the color you are seeing what you want to sketch based on that what you feel you want to express over there you're choosing those colors. When you're singing, you you are again choosing a song based on your mood. What do you want to sing? And then flowing with the notes, the rhythm, all of that. If you are in a happy mood, you pick up a peppy song. You start listening to that. If you're in a in a slightly, you know, low mood, you can also pick up a song that makes you feel a bit slower but yet changes your mood space. If you're reading what kind of a story that you've picked up that you're reading and even if let's say there is a worry because you get lost in that world that the protagonist the characters are showing you that again helps you reset your mind. So again a mindfulness-based experience that all of us tend to have when we are engaging in some of these creative pursuits. So today we are going to dive into music. And who listens to music while studying, when you feel sad, even let's say before sleeping, when you're overthinking, when you're walking, when you're doing any other activity. How many of us listen to music? Yes, most of us. So music is something which is universal connects us all. Even if let's say there are no lyrics to it, we may just be enjoying the instrumental music in itself. Yeah. And and it's it's there is music for everyone's taste. Music doesn't require a skill. Listening to music is just very calming, healing, therapeutic in its own way. So when we listen to music mindfully, it actually help us in a lot of ways. And music can be therapeutic in itself. It's a tool. It's a tool that can be used to help us shift our moods, to help us feel better. And so why do we all use music? We use music to improve our focus too. We use music for fun, for enjoyment. We use music to dance and express ourselves. We use music while yes, we are doing our homework. But when you are learning and doing your homework, make sure you don't listen to a music which has lyrics in it because that can interfere in your learning. have an instrumental music playing in the background which has a certain kind of a tonality and a rhythm not too fast pace but yeah something slow it actually helps you improve focus for exploration we listen to music I don't know if you've because I explore a lot uh of music and different kinds of music I also have a background uh personally music is quite personal to me because from a young young age I've also learned Hindustani classical music. So when it comes to exploration of music, have you some of you have you also heard that the different instruments? There is sata, there are drums, um there is the ukulele, there is float, there is also a hand pan. If anyone of you have actually heard about that, there is hand pan over there as well. That also has a certain it's a certain kind of an instrument. Piano, yes, tabla, of course. guitar, different instruments, violin, we all have our favorites. Frequencies are helpful. Yes. Piper, xylophone, ukulele. Yes, like I mentioned, slute also my favorite. Satar, harmonium, tabla, mouth organ. Yeah, less Indian classical is the best. Harp, funk. So, so lot of instruments. Trumpet, cell, electric guitar, vina, backpipe. Yes. Absolutely. So we so we listen to music to improve our focus, fun, enjoyment, dance, exploration, cope our emotions even regulate our mood and energy levels because music help us change our moods and sometimes also actually changes our mood too. I will just add saxophone. Yes. And I have orchestra. Yes. I will add to that list a hand pan too. If you haven't heard that then listen and search for hand pan as well. you enjoy it. So today, let's experience music together. Let's pause for a moment and this is going to be an activity. I want you all just to sit back, relax and just follow some of these things that I'm going to tell you right now. We we are going to play a music which is by Risha Briki Ram Sharma the beautiful Sitha and one of the songs from his playlist one of the tunes from his playlist and I want you all to do this as an exercise because music helps us again like I mentioned improve our focus concentrate better. So when we use music in a very mindfulness kind of a way, it helps us in a lot of these things. So right now let's try and work on our focus aspect of music, the cognitive part of the music. So notice the first sound you hear when we play the music. Follow the strings. Notice the pauses that come in between the sounds. And whenever you feel that your mind wanders, you bring your attention back to music. Okay, that's what you need to do. So this is a very mindfulness-based approach to listening to music. Music helps us focus and we are going to focus on music right now. Notice the first sound you hear. Swallow the strings. Notice the pause between sounds. If you notice your mind wandering, you bring your attention back to the music. So now we are going to play a beautiful tune. Just close your eyes. Music for you all by Risha Brikam Sharma. >> >> Yeah, >> >> Heat. Heat. >> >> Hey. Hey. Hey. Are you coming home? Here's my Heat. Heat. N. >> >> Baby baby. >> >> baby. doo baby. Baby doo. >> >> High really high. Happy birthday. That was sad for mental health for you all. How did you all feel? Yes, it is available on YouTube too and Spotify. So, how did you all feel? Very nice. Yes. Close your eyes. That's what I did. Just kept my eyes closed and felt felt the music. Calm, soothing. Did you also notice the different instruments that were playing? Did you focus on that? It started with a certain instrument and then the strings of the sedha came in and there was also one more instrument that I noticed that was playing in the middle. You know that that sound therapeutic. Yes. A lot of instruments. Yes. That you guys did notice. relaxing sata drum flute right so that's what music does and that's how it helps us reset our mind music in itself can be quite therapeutic if we just listen to it while breathing in and breathing out it has its own calming experience Now let me ask you all was focusing a bit difficult for you when you tried to do that? Did you notice that your mind was wavering away? Did you feel that there were some thoughts that were still coming and taking you away from the music? For some of you, yes. You felt that you had some thoughts in your mind focusing was becoming a little difficult. So you had to bring your mind back to the music to focus on the Yeah. So that's that's observing what happens in our mind when we close our eyes. Simple observation which is why I said just notice notice whatever happens. There should be an experience that while you listen to this beautiful music, how the mind is just coming in and going, thoughts coming in and going, yet did we feel that our brain mind was slowing down? Did we feel our mind was slowing down? Not the brain, the mind was slowing down. young people when did we feel that the mind was slowing down a bit? Yeah, it was calming and relaxed. So if you had a lot of thoughts before this, a lot of emotions that we spoke about before this music, you realize that with the music, despite the thoughts that were there, you felt calm. The mind was slowing down. Did anyone of you also get distracted? Did you get distracted by some things that were happening around you? Some of you noticed your heartbeat. Now what was this that we just did right now? The fact that I asked you all to use music as a means to focus and notice whatever is happening in that time period. Whether some of us notice the instruments, the various instruments that were playing or some of you noticed the distractions that were happening around. Some of you also noticed that the mind had some thoughts and it was wandering and then you had to bring it back. Some of you felt that you wanted to dance. Some of you felt the calming experience. What was this basically? What kind of listening was this? Was this active listening or was this passive listening? active listening or passive listening. Some of you, if you can answer, for some it was active, for some it was passive. Well, if you were focusing on the sound like I told you, if you followed what I asked you to do before the music was playing, the simple instructions that I gave you to mindfully focus on the sound, what happens in that moment, all of that, that was active listening. But if you're doing something while listening to music and music is merely playing in the background, let's say you're driving and you're listening to music or you are studying and you're listening to music, that's passive listening because you're not actively really engaged in it. That's something playing in the background while we are also engaged in something else. And so that's the difference between being active and being passive when it comes to our listen being our listening skills. So an active listener and a passive listener is also something that we spoke about u yesterday and couple of sessions ago too. Yeah. And we recognize there could be different music for different situations. Do all of you have different music for different situations? H do you all have a playlist? Do you have a music for focus? Do you have some music or a playlist for comfort? Do you have some music that makes you energetic? Is there a certain kind of music that you have for relaxation? Some music to make you feel happy. For relaxation, I generally tend to listen to a lot of instrumental music like a slow instrumental music. for joy. I do tend to play some some of my favorite ragas or even let's say some kind of uh western music as well even energy. Yeah. H So what does science has to say about music? What science says about music is And man, what does science say about music? Okay, I think there is something with the presentation today. That's what happened young people that technology tends to also play out differently on different gadgets and instruments. But yeah, what precisely studies have shown when it comes to music is that music based interventions along with treatment as usual shows its efficacy in reducing anxiety and also improving functioning in individuals with with depression. So some of the reviews have shown cockarine uh review one of the reviews done in 2013 and and 17 has shown that music based interventions can actually help us in reducing anxiety and also improve functioning in some individuals with depression along with other uh treatments that are being followed. The psychonu numerological effects of music. A systematic review has also shown that music activates our limbic system increases dopamine in the reward circuitry, reduces stress by lowering our cortisol levels and activates our parasympathetic nervous system. So basically it works around and it activates our lyic system. system is also our emotional part of the brain and it reduces stress by lowering the cortisol levels. Yep. And that's how it activates our parasympathetic nervous system that actually helps us to slow down. Then according to another study, Stanford University School of Medicine, this u study had shown that listening to music is not merely passive listening. It activates brain areas that are linked uh to attention, memory, and cognitive processing. And that's how it helps us in increasing our focus because active listening to music it certainly links to our attention the memory aspect and the cognitive processing aspect. So that's what studies in music have shown. So having said that create your own mood playlist is what I would say because uh studies have also shown that when we have um playlist which allows us to shift our mood space. So let's say you are feeling sad, you're feeling stressed, you start with a certain kind of a slow music and then slowly and steadily the playlist has more and more um it goes changes in the rhythm, the tonality of the kind of music that the playlist has and from there from a slow music it goes on to a slightly fast-paced and a little bit peppier and songs that you think comes in your happy joy kind of a mute playlist you see that or a healing aspect to some of these songs. You see there will be a shift in your emotions. So if emotions had some songs your calming playlist, what would it be like? Your confidence playlist, what would it be like? Some um sports people also tend to listen to music before before they uh get onto the field. Some kind of an instrumental music sometimes. Um even a happy playlist, a healing playlist. So we can all have a playlist of our own for the kind of emotions that we experience. But remember should not only be just sad, dull, but something that also helps you shift uh the mood space for you. Music also plays a role beyond entertainment. Yes, music is entertaining. But like we see that music is not just a background noise. It can actually become a tool if we use it very wisely, mindfully, rationally. It helps us ground ourselves. It also acts as an emotional release, as a way of expression. It helps us in focus. And what we just had is a mindfulness experience around music. So some of us can also use music for mindfulness based as a mindfulness based tool to just simply breathe in, breathe out, focus on a certain um kind of an instrumental music and just relax. But sometimes your mind just doesn't need more noise. What it needs is the right kind of sound. And so what we have right now is for you another song from Sata for mental health. And we are going to yes listen to a slightly energetic song from Sata for mental health which has a little bit more pace to it. Let's try and again experience the beautiful music from Sata for mental health. Just close your eyes, focus, have another mindfulness experience with Sata for mental health. Heat. Heat. >> >> Do you >> >> There. There. >> >> down. One more. >> >> Down. Down. Yeah. Heat. Hey. >> >> down. Hallelujah. >> >> birthday. I am >> >> Okay. So that was again a very very nice wonderful beautifully played peace from sata for mental health. When you immerse yourself in music, you have various experiences. Yes. So music can be therapeutic. Absolutely. Yeah, I can see a lot of you feel relaxed, had an amazing experience, calming, therapeutic. Right. So that was your experience of music and mental health. How music can help us maintain our sense of well-being, reset our mind, help us in focusing, bring in an aspect of calmness, mindfulness, pause that we all need in our day-to-day life. and of course a sense of soothing that we need in a world that continues to disregulate us disregulate us every now and then. So this brings us towards the end of our online series of summer internship in psychology 2026 summer of 2026. We look forward to having a lot of you join us who can at various um hospitals across fotus network. You'll be in interacting with our experts in the from the field of psychology from our team and having the same one week of internship in psychology. If you have any questions, please please feel free to ask me. Yes, you can ask your questions since we have some time left. Yes, the certificates for online internship and offline internship will be a little different. I mean, we'll just mention offline and offline in it. All of you will get your certificates but please give us some time. There are thousands of you and our team will also be teaching a lot of you in the physical space. So they need their time to make these certificates and send it to you all. So be patient with us. But all of you will get your certificates. If at all you don't get it, you can always write to us at mental healthare.com. But not now. Give us a period of uh a month or two. You will get your certificates in the month of July. By July. Whoever is asking me by when can you expect the certificate? By July. June we will be doing the internship in the physical space as well. >> Thank you. Thank you. Yes. If you attend your classes all six days and you will get your certificate for sure. We don't charge for our internships. So it's all free of cost whether online or offline. School mental health program per se doesn't charge for workshops and sessions um that we offer as a part of mental health awareness and learning. You don't need to fill up any particular form for the certificate. If you registered, you will get your certificate. And now the this uh this internship is not happening in our Chennai branch, but it's happening in Delhi NCR, nine places in Delhi, NCR. It is also happening in Kolkata. In fact, Kolkata is already running. The physical internship started two weeks ago. It is also happening in Jaipur. It will be starting in Jaipur. So from June 1, Delhi NCR, nine of the fortis hospitals in Jaipur in Kolkata in Bangalore two places Banagata and Kaningham road. We also have it in uh Ludana, Amritser, Moukadi and Jalander Mumbai. Four of Mumbai branches will also be having uh same summer internship over there. So we all have our team and expert of psychologists who will be interacting with the ones who will be coming there and the ones who've already registered from schools. So the ones who pass out and you will pass out when you are in grade 12th and you give your board exams next year. You see us for college internships which will happen in the which happens every year in the month of July. the way we hold summer internships in the month of June for school students. We hold the same um not the same but college internships in a similar format for uh students who've passed out from school and are now in college or are professionals or aspiring professionals in the month of July. We will be holding that this year as well. And for the ones who are in grade 11, we'll see you again next year for our summer internship. So our physical internships are registrations are done through school. You can reach out to your um school counselor or psychology teacher and they can just send us an email or connect with any of our experts and they'll help you with the registration. There is no online Excel sheet for offline registration because that's very difficult uh logistically to manage and which is why we have registrations through school for the offline internship. Yes, we wish you the very best for your grade 12 boards and treat it like any other examination that you do. is given your best. Believe in yourself and aspire to be a psychologist or if you are from the medical field or taken sciences then be a psychiatrist. Why not? You see the deficit deficits that we have in our country. We need more and more young professionals to take up and be mental health professionals. All right. On this note, we say goodbye and 11th graders, we see you again next year. 12th graders, we see you for college internship next year. Good evening and goodbye to all of you. Thank you. 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