Womenlines is delighted to share about Anjalika, an IITTI (CANADA) certified professional Image Branding & Lifestyle Consultant, as an Influencer for Image Branding at Womenlines. Yes womenfolk, gear up to learn the tips and tricks to carry yourself with excellence and make excellence your brand. Check out incredible tips to avoid glitches while having cross-cultural interactions-

Over the years, the world feels like it has gotten smaller as travels have been made easier.  People of different backgrounds get together, communicate, interact – socially or professionally much more rampantly than it had ever before.  As people of the world get more in touch with each other, there might be some cross-cultural glitches in their day-to-day dealings.

From experience, here are the few things that we need to keep in mind; to keep up with cross-cultural graces.

Let us first look at greetings; the words used and actions did have to be taken into consideration when you are dealing inter-culturally.  Something that is acceptable in one culture might not be to another.   In quite a recent spate the media had witnessed, the unseen happened when an individual of certain religious belief refused to shake the hand of someone of the opposite gender.  This happened in a professional setting and it caused so much embarrassment and inconvenience.  This could have been avoided if both parties understand the common greeting gesture of each other, coming from different parts of the globe.  Many countries have their own sets of greetings; it will be really helpful if you know and are aware of those before the big meet-up.  Research, know the words and gestures that are frowned upon so you can avoid them.

Years ago, when I first stepped into the professional world, being on a first-name basis with someone more senior than me, in terms of ranks, was a definite no!  These days, however, it is widely accepted.  That said, there are still a handful of other places on the map, where people in certain ranks prefer to be called Miss, Madam or other titles that show that they are more senior than you and if this is not practised, one will be considered unprofessional or even rude.  When you first meet someone, pay attention to how they are being introduced to you and then use that similar form of address.  Bear in mind, across many cultures, people with academic degrees such as Professor and Doctor would usually prefer to be addressed as such.

Wearing an appropriate piece of clothing is really important to set the tone for your meeting.  It is always necessary to know what is acceptable or not in the country you are visiting – do not just assume.  In certain places like Japan, a professional ensemble like a skirt suit is always expected, while in Scandinavia for example, professional settings are more relaxed.  It is always wise to find out all these before embarking on the meet-up.

It is said, one way to see the credibility of a person is through her punctuality.  Being punctual means you are respectful of the other person’s time.   It is important to understand, while in certain places being ‘fashionably late’ is acceptable, in other places however, it might be something that is frowned upon.   If you are caught in something unavoidable and indeed going to be late, do call to inform the other party.  That said, its always never a bad thing to be on time; if anything, it is commendable – so, why not just do that.

Always maintain good space between yourself and the other person.  Although not carved in stone, I personally feel spaces of between 1.5 to 2 arm-lengths is most appropriate for business dealings and co-workers.  Ensuring a comfortable space between yourself and the other party allows you to be more fluid and relaxed in the conversation.

If we are completely honest; even the best conversationalist might, from time to time find it a challenge talking to a person of a different cultural background.  This is because subjects or words that might be considered okay in one place might be a taboo to another. So it is always a good idea to read up on the place you are visiting beforehand; get an idea of what is accepted and what is not.

Zu Anjalika Kamis Gunnulfsen is the Editor (Singapore) for Marketing In Asia and certified Image Branding & Lifestyle Consultant. She was also crowned Mrs Singapore Globe 2017. Born in Singapore and blessed to have lived in a couple of other amazing cities in the world, Anjalika is currently expatriating in Kuala Lumpur. Follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram and blog www.zuanjalika.com,   LinkedIn –https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuanjalika/

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Womenlines takes pleasure to report about a young, enthusiastic activist and winner of Karamveer Award- Silver (2019), Kanksshi Agarwal who is working passionately towards increasing women’s participation in the Indian political system. Listen to Kanksshi in the video above about why she is so much passionate about women’s participation in politics-

Kanksshi Agarwal is a founder at NETRI, an initiative to enhance women’s participation in decision-making, specifically politics. She is a policy consultant and political strategist by profession. She has worked with parliamentarians and politicians, awarded multiple fellowships including LAMP, Citizen for Public leadership and Shenomics-Lead like a Girl, and writes for several leading digital news sites. A gender activist, co-founder of AIESEC Bhopal Chapter, State-level Youth Advocate (M.P.) for UN Women’s HeforShe campaign, she has facilitated multiple NGOs including UNICEF’s programme. She is a qualified researcher and obtained her masters from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Under NETRI Kanksshi IS providing training & knowledge-Circles for women to empower them with the right skills to participate in politics.

Last week, Netri- Women who lead foundation, organised a Women’s political training and capacity building workshop in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Keeping in mind the upcoming local body elections the attempt was to cover information related to – reservation for women, processes for the nomination, the impact of leadership on the lives of women, case studies depicting the success of women leaders, few rules and tricks of campaigning, and busted myths and addressed queries.
100 women attended the workshop and Netri team was happy to know decent no. of them were considering running for office.

Kanksshi is a recipient of Karamveer Award- Silver (2019) and Karamveer Award-Bronze category from 2016 and a Rex Changemaker. Visit https://netri.co/ to know about Kanksshi’s initiative!

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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Eitu Vij Chopra, founder of Karmic Therapy by Eitu, Co-founder & Chief Curator at Rex Ideas for action/life as an Influencer for Alternative therapies. Eitu provides holistic professional and personalized healing and psychic counselling for every facet of human life be it professional, financial or personal, helping people achieve their goals. This month Eitu has shared about how to use thoughts to change your personality and your reality-

Human   Brain and the human body are the greatest healers. The change, the shift and the metamorphosis happen in the body in the mind to heal and shift.

Research shows that we become slaves to our thoughts and that is why 90% of our thoughts remain the same through the days, through the weeks, months and years.

Thoughts create our destiny and thoughts to create our future!

Same thoughts lead to the same choices and the same choices lead to the same behaviour and that lead to the same results. And further on the same experiences that lead to the same emotions which tend to influence the way we think.

Our hormones, our biology, our body chemistry and our neuron circuitry as well as gene expression equals to and depends on how we think and how we act and how we feel.

And to sum that up; how we THINK  and how we ACT is called our personality and our Personality also creates our Personal Reality. If you wish to change your PERSONALITY make it more vibrant you will need to change your PERSONAL REALITY.

How to do that:

1. Be mindful, conscious and aware of your thoughts and emotions.
2. Trail your thoughts and look at how you think.
3. Read your emotions each day, seek how you live with emotions through your days.
4. Do your emotions belong to your future or are coming from past experiences of fear/guilt and judgment or abandonment.

And once you begin to notice the points enumerated above you also begin to CHANGE and shift so that you create a new you and create a new life. Your Neurons fire with your wiring and thoughts can shift the wiring and firing of the SAMENESS when we just act upon our thoughts. Once the thoughts shift the action shifts, the behaviour shifts and so does the experiences. But this is not easy and your body, your mind and your thoughts shall resist this unfamiliar change as its used to, accustomed to same habit and the unconscious behaviour which turn into emotional reactions and ultimately hard-wired beliefs, perceptions. It’s like a computer or a robot that has been programmed to function a certain way with the commands it’s been fed and to give the precise known result. So if you wish to change POSITIVE THINKING won’t help as your body and mind are conditioned into a program a from the past. “The thought that I wish to change” never reaches the body. Think of it as an unfamiliar, uncertain and uncomfortable as well as unpredictable feeling and shift that you have to embark on. The familiar feeling of comfort will come back very easy and the body too shall move into the womb of its previous comfort. To move from one state to the next, to move from one static mind into another you will need to cross the river that will seem dreary, deep and dangerous. But beyond it lies the Change in your Personal Reality as you have guided it to this change and shift.

Educationist/ Fundraiser/Rex Mission Leader Founder at Karmic Therapy by Eitu, Co-founder & Chief Curator at Rex Ideas for Action/life coach and Energy worker/writer and poet. http://www.eituvijchopra.com/

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Series 4 Talk on the topic ‘Women Empowerment’ by Founder Womenlines Charu Mehrotra at Bringle Academy about how to develop a success mindset!

• Success Mindset can help you to grow in life. Success Mindset is the way you think how you face challenges and don’t get demotivated in life.
• Having a success mindset is like having magic skills.
• Start breaking your goals into sub-goals. Schedule the sub-targets in the calendar. Work with dedication and mindfulness on sub-goals and in the end, you will be able to achieve your bigger goal.
• A success mindset is not only helpful in achieving professional goals but also your relationship goals, fitness goals, etc.
• You can replicate actions by people who are carrying themselves with a success mindset.
• Carry yourself with all positivity and enthusiasm which can help you to develop a success mindset.
• Check out the group of people with whom you are spending time. Are they having a success mindset? Hope you are not absorbing negativity from your friends. Be mindful of your company.
• Once you learn the skills how to carry success mindset you can teach those skills to your family and kids.
• You are responsible to be a better version of yourself and success mindset can help you amazingly.
• Start thinking about what type of energy you are putting behind your mindset.

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Womenlines brings to you Digital Secrets series in which Womenlines team is sharing about digital websites, youtube channels which can be helpful in self-growth by digital transformation sources, by the readers!

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Digital Secret 2- The Minimalists

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Charu Mehrotra

Founder Womenlines

Womenlines loves to get empowering and informative content for all readers, viewers and followers from across the globe. Womenlines is delighted to welcome the organisation ‘Cancer Awakens’ as a sponsor for the content related to ‘How to prevent and thrive with Cancer’ under ‘Health’ segment. Enlightening content from ‘Cancer Awakens’ is going to empower people with the right mindset and knowledge to prevent cancer and to thrive with it if one is diagnosed with it. This month share is about how you can uncover the emotional stressors in your life-

Emotional stressors arise when negative emotions like anger, guilt, sorrow and hurt occur frequently or intensely. Typically, these toxic emotional reactions are a result of your unresolved needs. They can compromise your immunity and affect your health. If you can discover your emotional stressors and what triggers them, you can take specific and targeted actions to recover from them.

Identify the source of negative emotions

Can you identify one of your top negative emotions? When was the first time you actually felt it? How old were you then?

In all likelihood that you were not more than seven or eight years old, or at best, a teenager. In either situation, it would have been when your mind wasn’t fully developed and you were not strong enough to handle a painful or difficult situation. This emotion would have been simply your fight or flight response to cope with that particular situation the best you could.

Negative emotions are actually the visible expressions of some underlying feelings which we have not been able to resolve. The feeling is itself born out of a perceived unmet need which on closer examination we find, is part of the coping mechanisms we learnt as a child.

One person, many selves

Are there times when you are mature and balanced, and other times when you act out, almost childishly? Most of us can recognise and empathise with living this contradiction on a regular basis. Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis (TA), identifies three different selves that make up our ego or personality: An inner Parent (who behaves exactly like our parents did), an inner Adult (our most objective self who can see the world from a mature perspective), and an inner Child (that part of us which still remains at the psychological age of under seven years).

To be a well-rounded and a functioning person, we need a good balance of all three selves operating within us. The Parent in us keeps us morally and ethically under control, the Child in us keeps us creative, curious and with a capacity for joy, and the Adult in us knows how to operate in the world with awareness and particularly, knows when to call upon the Parent nature or the Child nature, as appropriate.

The wounded “inner child”

In an ideal world, all three selves will be developed equally and in a balanced way. But the reality is different. Our inner child is often wounded in the early years and develops some coping mechanisms (tantrums, withdrawal, self-aggrandisement, etc.) to deal with the situation, to feel safe and to get love, acceptance and security.

Life carries on and we develop into our adult selves. But left un-healed, our inner Child remains wounded and this wound surfaces inevitably when we are caught in a similar situation (of being under threat) and it triggers a memory of the coping response we used then to defend ourselves.

While coping with emotions such as anger or self-pity or pride may have served us well to deal with a difficult situation in childhood, they are not healthy in the long term. As adults, we need to uncover our wounds, heal and replace them with more effective and healthy response mechanisms. It would be a huge relief to ourselves and also to our loved ones and colleagues, who otherwise bear the brunt of our inappropriate behaviour patterns.

Reflection

Here are some questions to help you discover the emotional patterns that are creating stress in your life.

• What are some of your recurring emotional patterns? When did you first learn them?
• What purpose did they serve then? How are they serving you now?
• Can you identify the ‘feeling’ under the emotion and the unmet ‘need’ under the ‘feeling’?
• What might be a legitimate way to meet that need, as against your typical emotional response?

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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Dr Vijeta Sahey as the Guest Contributor at Womenlines. Vijeta has shared an informative article on how to search a real treasure within you. Once you are able to dig out that treasure you will have understanding of how to achieve your dreams-

In this hustling world we are so engrossed with the fast pace that we are missing out on many of the important things in life, be it be relations, love, friendships and the most important person is forgotten completely that is “our own self”.  Connecting with self is the only way to all success and dreams turn into reality. For a fulfilled life we have to make conscious efforts towards it. The below simple steps are just a simple reminder:

• Stop Thinking and Start Believing -Remind yourself, that you can rise up from anything. You can completely recreate yourself. You are not stuck. You have choices.  You can think of new thoughts.  You can learn something new.  You can create new habits. Start loving yourself and accepting yourself.
• Immerse completely into what you do– To make our dreams reality we have to give our 100 % to what we do.  We should ensure to leave no stone unturned and make all efforts
• Shed your insecurities and become fearless -On the way, you will come across many challenges, you have to just focus on one thing that is your goal. The eye on the target helps you keep our view clear on the way. Keep the pace moving onwards by taking one step at a time to reach your short term or long-term goal
• Connect with your goal -Feel the sense of achievement inside you much before you start your journey towards it. This helps you on the way and helps you keep your motives clear and achievable
• Impossible seems “I M Possible“- Remember your dreams always. Never lose the sight of your dreams, as dreams add fuel to the climb and make the journey easier and climb possible. Keep pushing yourself to find the hidden treasure inside you.
• Disconnect to connect with inner you– Occasionally go in for emotional detox, digital detox, relationship detox. This helps us expel all the negative emotions and we feel happy and energized.

About Vijeta :

Dr Vijeta Sahay has 15 + years of experience in the field of Human Resources.  The thought of influencing the lives of people around embarked the “New Journey” of being an Inspirational Coach, and a Mentor. Vijeta is a certified Pranic Healer, LOA expert & NLP coach. 

For more details please visit: www.eunoiamantra.com   and  www.vijetasahay.com

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Womenlines brings to you Digital Secrets series in which Womenlines team is sharing about digital websites, youtube channels which can be helpful in self-growth by digital transformation sources, by the readers!

Womenlines (https://www.womenlines.com) is an online magazine empowering, enlightening, enabling womenfolk across the globe. Womenlines is present on 6 social media and is listed in the list of world’s top 40 online women’s magazines and publications to follow in 2020.

At Womenlines we strongly believe women are what they read. Womenlines weekly content related to physical and mindset health empowers women to live life with excellence.

Digital Secret

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Charu Mehrotra

Founder Womenlines

Womenlines takes pleasure to share about a best selling book  ‘Play it Full-7 steps to unlock an extraordinary career’ by a power couple Kapil Kulshreshtha and Shilpa Kulshreshtha. In this article, Kapil and Shilpa are sharing various ways this book can help you in taking your career to the next level-

• This book is about living powerfully by achieving previously unconsidered prosperity.
• It is also about living fully across the 3 facets of your life, your Health, your Relationships and your Achievements.
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• This book is going to make you think on a deeper level about winning more across all the areas of your life.
• It will enable you to snap you out of the monotonous pattern of your daily life and dissolve the barriers that are limiting your growth.

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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Monica Rajiv Batra, Nutritionist and founder of Diet Point -Nutrition and Healthcare Centre as a guest contributor at Womenlines. In the video above Monica has shared some home remedies for cough cure and to build immunity-

Coronavirus –Any virus attacks a body which is low on Immunity and Stamina, Like Rome Immunity is not built in a day, take care of the Tips above all through the year to build stamina and have a healthy body.

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