World Mental Health Day observed with stress on yoga enhancing mental health

PNS | HARIDWAR  

To mark the World Mental Health Day, the department of Psychology under the Faculty of Humanities and Oriental Studies, Patanjali University organised a one-day workshop on ‘Mental Health at Work’ on Thursday. The organisers said that the workshop was meant to raise collective awareness about mental health and to promote yoga and meditation boosting mental health.

Addressing the workshop, the dean of the Faculty of Yoga Sciences, Om Narayan Tiwari said that yoga is a discipline which strengthens the mind to take on all challenges in life. The CEO and director Mindcraft Jayan Namboodiri joined online and discussed anxiety, depression and mental pressures of modern life.