MSSI – Chennai Chapter monthly meeting “Face to Face” Programme on 29-09-2018 started with the Meditation session by Dr. R.J. Kalpana on behalf of the “Institute of Heartfulness”. Dr Kalpana, an erudite and perceptive writer and critic who received her PhD from the University of Mumbai. Professionally she is a consultant for Knowledge Management. She also served on the Editorial Board for the Encyclopedia of Hinduism. It is a 30 minute follow up session as per the plan made on August 11th meeting. Our MS Person and their caregiver enjoyed and felt relaxed at the end of the meditation session which in turn helped them to stay active for the next session. Dr. Visalam, MD., FM (Functional Medicine) USA runs an alternative medicine clinic named Orange Ray, Nungambakkam and also Chief Medical Manager at Star Health Insurance. There were around 40 MS Persons along with caregivers, got benefited from her session. Dr. Visalam herself is an MS Person and so her connectivity worked with our MS Person. She shared her experience on MS and how she has handled life all these years from age 12 to 27 years. Her talk was highly motivating and inspiring to our MS Person. She highlighted the importance of Diet, Nutrition and MS. She also gave a few tips on Do’s and Don’t’s in their regular diet from her Trial and Error experience. MS Persons and Caregivers were very attentive and participated actively by interacting with the resource person.
The evening came to a happy ending with MS person, Mr. Ashokan and Mrs. Prema Srinivasan cutting a birthday cake to the joyous singing of Happy Birthday by all the 40 MS persons and their caregivers.
Delicious snacks and tea brought the meeting to a close.
