International Seminar held on Psycho-spiritual well-being

Udaipur. Society for Microvita Research and Integrated Medicine (SMRIM)  Udaipur, Rajasthan, India organized an International Seminar on  Psycho-spiritual well-being" on the Zoom platform on Sunday, 2nd October, 2022. Seminar was started with playing of a Prabhat Samgiita no. 2304 ' Se Kon Prabháte D́hálile... '. In the beginning, SMRIM President and convener of seminar,  Dr. S. K. Verma welcomed all the participants and the Keynote speakers of the seminar.
    First eminent speaker was Dr. Ashu who is an Ayurveda Practitioner at Jamshedpur. She discussed about various plants such as giloy, shankhalu, imli, kalami sag, punarnva, thankuni, lajwanti, ghi-karela, bhumikushmanda etc. mentioned in Yaogic Cikitsa book by Shrii P. R. Sarkar for treatment of various mental conditions. Dr Ashu also showed that there are some aromatic plants which can also affect mental health as well as what kind of dietary changes are required for a person with mental ailments. She also said that plants have been used for maintenance of mental health since ancient times and today modern evidence proves their efficacy for such conditions.
   The second distinguished speaker, Dr. Sid Jordan, joined the virtual seminar from the USA. He spoke on the Sacred quartet of Physical, Psychic and Spiritual Wellbeing. He told that plant based diet, proper yaogic postures (Asan), good company and neo-humanist service, tantra and yoga based spiritual practice for development of mental layers (kosha) of mind, and creating balance (prama) in physical, psychic and spiritual spheres in individual and collective arena and overall applying subjective approach through objective adjustment is required for psycho-spiritual well-being. Dr Jordan further discussed the role of positive microvita in psycho-spiritual solutions for wellness in both individual and collective life. He proposed various experiments to be carried out through an interdisciplinary approach for the impact of microvita on psychic development leading to spiritual upliftment ; in a nutshell the progressive journey from unit consciousness to supreme consciousness.
    Shefali Prabhakar, Senior scientist at USA was the third eminent speaker and she discussed how food affects the body and mind through the lymphatic system. She said that a good Lymphatic system is required for a disease-free mind and body. Lymph has two main functions of providing immunity and controlling inflammation which are responsible for development of modern diseases such as diabetes, metabolic disorder, arthritis, cancer, obesity etc. She discussed the importance of plant-based diets and antioxidants in improving thymus functions in view of modern scientific research.
    Organizing secretary of the seminar, Dr Vartika Jain said that this seminar is planned on the occasion of Mental Illness Awareness Week which is usually observed in the first week of October in the USA. As the mental ailments are increasing exponentially, the need for psycho-spiritual well-being is the need of the hour. Moderator of the talk, Dr. Urvansh Mehta said that more than 60 participants attended the Seminar from the country and abroad. The program was also streamed live on Youtube. In the end, Dr Vartika extended heartfelt thanks to all the speakers for delivering excellent deliberations. Queries of all the participants were also resolved in the question and answer session.