CISF partners with Heartfulness Institute for five-year wellness program

CISF is moving mindfulness out of the wellness aisle and into the daily rhythm of a security force. Its five-year agreement with the Heartfulness Institute is built to strengthen the mental well-being and emotional resilience of personnel and their families, not just as a morale booster but as part of life inside a high-pressure institution.

The plan goes well beyond a standard meditation class. It calls for meditation and mindfulness workshops, stress management sessions, counselling, leadership retreats and family-focused wellness activities. Heartfulness practices will be folded into CISF training institutes, a sign that the force wants these routines introduced early, before operational strain hardens into burnout. The program will also offer free wellness sessions, multilingual emotional support through Voice that Cares, expert webinars and special learning modules for young people.

Heartfulness brings a scale that makes the partnership plausible. The organization describes itself as an educational, volunteer-based nonprofit centered on meditation, relaxation, yoga and spirituality. It says it has 20 million practitioners, a presence in 160 countries, 5,000 meditation centers and 16,000 trainers. That reach matters for CISF, where wellness programming has to work across a large, dispersed workforce and families who are often carrying the pressure of deployments at home.

Praveer Ranjan, the CISF director general, said simple meditation practices can help personnel reduce stress, maintain positivity and build emotional resilience while handling the demands of duty. That framing matters because it treats meditation less like a private retreat and more like a field-ready tool for regulation, recovery and steadier performance under pressure.

The new pact also fits into a broader shift already visible inside CISF. On March 19, 2026, the force signed an MoU with the Ministry of Ayush to promote preventive healthcare, yoga, stress management and overall wellness for personnel and families. Earlier, Project Mann, launched in November 2024 with Mpower, had reached more than 75,000 personnel and family members by mid-2025, and 8,506 officers and sub-officers had been trained to identify and manage low-risk mental-health issues. Reports also said CISF’s suicide rate had fallen below the national average during 2024 and 2025.

That is the real change here: mindfulness is being pulled into a disciplined security environment as infrastructure, not luxury. CISF is betting that if meditation is embedded in training, backed by family support and repeated in daily routines, resilience can become part of readiness rather than something personnel try to find after the shift ends.