Badminton star PV Sindhu said on Sunday that she has been practicing mediation for a long time as it helps overcome stress. “I have been practising meditation for a long time and always felt a relief as I connected very well within through meditation,” she said while virtually participating in the concluding session of the International Rising With Kindness Youth Summit. “Meditation helps stress go off. I wish the youth don’t forget to take to meditation,” said Sindhu in her first public appearance after winning the gold medal at the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games.

Injury scare

On Saturday, Sindhu pulled out of the upcoming BWF World Championships owing to a stress fracture on her left foot. She has won the World Championships gold in 2019, along with two silver medals and two bronze. “While I am on the high of winning a gold medal at the CWG for India. Unfortunately, I have to pull out of the world championships. I felt pain and there was an injury scare at the quarter-finals of the CWG, but with the help of my coach, physio and trainer, I decided to push as far as I could,” Sindhu said in the statement on Saturday.

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