{"id":156053,"date":"2021-09-18T03:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T03:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156053"},"modified":"2021-09-18T03:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T03:54:45","slug":"to-understand-other-people-we-must-understand-ourselves-first-rector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=156053","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To understand other people, we must understand ourselves first&#8221; &#8211; Rector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Aqilah Alya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 18 September 2021: The Rector of IIUM, Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato Dzulkifli Abdul Razak called for the importance of taking care of mental health in a webinar \u0153Breaking the Silence: Role of Mental Health Advocacy and Communications\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also suggested some ways to make us understand ourselves by communicating to ourselves such as asking about the things that we are up to for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He recommended communicating with ourselves for at least five to ten minutes and added that we must look at ourselves as another person as if we want to understand the person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153The moment I can understand myself, then I can understand you better,\u009d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this during a conversation with Senior Development Economist of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, Dr. Haniza Khalid in the webinar held on Wednesday (15 September).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The webinar was organised by UNDP with IIUM and the Malaysian Psychological Association as co-organisers and was attended by around 300 people through Zoom platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion focused on mental health of people during lockdown situation due to COVID-19, and the recommendations that most people can do that emphasise themselves as individuals. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aqilah Alya GOMBAK, 18 September 2021: The Rector of IIUM, Prof. Emeritus Tan Sri Dato Dzulkifli Abdul Razak called for the importance of taking&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":156054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,8,20],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,185],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-09-15-at-18.29.48.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156222,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156053\/revisions\/156222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}