Yoga, meditation to detraumatise tsunami-hit kids

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Yoga, meditation to detraumatise tsunami-hit kids

Port Blair, Jan. 8. (PTI): Yoga and meditation will be put to good

use as mental health experts try to detraumatise thousands of

tsunami-struck children in Andaman and Nicobar Islands who panicked

even after 12 days at the thought of a wall of water chasing them.

 

Memories of the Black Sunday, which changed the course of their life

rendering many parentless and many others peerless, will have a long

time to be wiped of from the young minds.

 

The blow to the kids's psyche will be soothed by mental health

experts being specially called in from a Bangalore institue, Lt.

Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Ram Kapse, said.

 

"Their morale and confidence have taken a severe beating. We are

consulting psychiatrists and mental health experts who would employ

the yoga and meditation to relieve them of the stress," he said.

 

Kapse said he had vistied many schools during his extensive tour in

Port Blair and tried to give a healing touch to the small students.

 

"You have to tell them some soothing words and they are chirpy

again. They need careful handling and a great deal of reassurance,"

he added.

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