Healthcare workers facing stress: GMC Principal

GMC Jammu receiving the guest during the lecture on Friday.
GMC Jammu receiving the guest during the lecture on Friday.

Lecture organised in GMC Jammu

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, June 10: A lecture on ‘Yoga for mind’ was organised in the NMCN hall of GMC,Jammu.Dr.Shashi Sudan Sharma,Principal & Dean was the chief guest on the occasion and said that in the present times almost everyone faces stress in daily life but the health care workers during the last 3 years have faced much more stressful situations than the common citizen in the society.
She further said that a fit mind in a fit body can serve the ailing humanity in the best possible manner to achieve the overall objective of holistic health which is the concept followed in our country for thousands of years. Dr Arvind Jasrotia, Professor of Law and Registrar of University of Jammu, who is well known for his special passion for Yoga, delivered a soulful & enlightening lecture on the subject.
He started with a verse from the ‘Mandukya Upanishad’ whic means whatever we see is a reflection of the same consciousness.There are 3 bodies the Physical,Astral & the causal and one has to travel beyond these bodies to become one with the sonsciousness.
All things created exist because of the one consciusness & nothing can exist without that.He further said that when “we become one with the consciouness there is nothing else that exists except consciousness itself.”
At the end everyone did meditation for five minutes. Dr Rakesh Bahl, Professor, Department of Community Medicine compered the programme. The lecture was attended by HoDs, faculty, staff & students. faculty , senior and junior resident doctors, staff and students.