Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 25: A workshop on Yog and Medical Sciences, organized by the Central Govt Pensioners’ Welfare Association, Jammu (CGPWA) in collaboration with the ‘Friends of GMC (FoGMC) was held here today.
The chairperson of FoGMC, Dr T R Raina, former HoD, Blood Transfusion Deptt of GMC and resource person of the Morarji Desai National institute of Yoga and founder of Yoga centre of GMC, Jammu presented a highly educative and motivational presentation on “Yog for mental health of senior citizens”.
The event was presided over by the president, CGPWA and former CVC & DGP, Kuldeep Khoda.
Dr Raina said that we have inner and outer energy but the inner energy is wasted even doing Yog asansif the practitioner has no focus, intention and attention.
Explaining the genesis of it, he said that daily walking would be more useful in conserving inner energy if done alone as talking with the companions during the walk would waste the internal energy.
Similar was his prescription for yogasans which should be done with eyes closed to preserve energy and complete focus on breathing processes that will lead to higher levels of meditation.
He advised people to at least, start touching mitti (earth) everyday in their gardens for ten twenty minutes and they find good results.
Dr Raina said that most of the people are suffering from mental stress, and yoga, like blood donation, transcended the boundaries of caste, colour, religion and region and truly represented secularism & universalization.
He assured the senior citizens that if Yoga is religiously undertaken properly daily there are greater chances of reducing unnecessary burden of medicines.
Khoda complimented Dr Raina for his presentation which has scientific basis and asked for another session on other items.
He honoured Dr Raina with a planter.
The workshop was attended by former chief secretary B R Sharma, former Advocate General U K Jalai, Dr Sudharshan Kumar, former DG, DRDO & vice president, CGPWA, V K Padha, former executive director NTPC, former principal conservator of forests, S D Swatantra, several former IGPs and other former civil servants.
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