MSSI  Chennai Chapter monthly “Face to Face” Programme held on 23-11-2019 started with the Meditation session by Dr. R.J Kalpana on the topic “Learn to meditate, Heartfulness Meditation with Yogic Transmission”. It was a 40-minute online session. Our MS Persons and their caretakers enjoyed and felt relaxed at the end of the meditation session which in turn helped them to stay active for the next session.

The guest speaker for the programme was Dr. Ravi Samuel, one of the Chennai’s eminent psychotherapists, who has over 20 years’ experience in treating people with emotional, behavioural, psychological, psychiatric problems, corporate mental health, etc. He has had professional training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy by Mr. Allan Davidson, Cognitive Behavior Therapist at Dept. of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. He addressed our MS persons and their caregivers on the topic “ Caring for the Carers”.

He focused on mental well-being, for MS persons and Caregivers and how to handle the emotional effects, organize and fight within ourselves. He explained the healing process which was very informative and useful for our caregivers as they were able to relate it and make it has an interactive session.

As a coping mechanism, the counsellors Ms. Gayathri and Ms. Kavya who teamed up with Dr. Ravi Samuel taught us few breathing techniques. There was a question and answer session where our MS persons and caregivers clarified their doubts.

A birthday cake was cut by those who celebrated their birthday this month. They are  – Mrs. Ann Gonsalvez, Mr. Sivakumar, Mr. Raghunathan, Mrs. Lucy Nathan and Ms.   Keerthana by singing of happy birthday song by everyone.

Delicious snacks and tea brought the meeting to a close.