Srinagar: Security personnel of India’s paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been practicing yoga in Jammu and Kashmir to reduce stress and boost endurance levels.
Security personnel practising Yoga
Security personnel undergo extreme mental and physical stress while performing their duty in insurgency-hit valley. As per reports, in the past, many personnel in Kashmir or other militancy-hit areas have taken extreme steps of committing suicide under stress and depression.
In a bid to boost morale and calm their minds, yoga has been introduced in the valley. Meanwhile, soldiers said that practicing yoga every morning enhances concentration and clears their minds of any wrong doing.
Last year in September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first UN address encouraged more people to take up yoga. Two months late in November, he created a ministry for yoga, named AAYUSH.
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