President Paudel Urges Adopting Yoga as Lifestyle

Kathmandu. President Ram Chandra Paudel has urged to adopt yoga as a lifestyle.

Extending best wishes for happiness, peace, prosperity, and good health to all Nepali sisters and brothers residing in the country and abroad on the occasion of the 12th International Yoga Day, he urged to adopt yoga as a lifestyle.

Emphasizing that yoga is a holistic practice that connects the body, mind, and soul together, it involves a combination of meditation, pranayama, and physical postures, and should be considered a scientific human lifestyle and way of life, President Paudel expressed the view that yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice help bring the body, mind, and soul into balance, reduce stress, and gain positive energy.

The message mentions that studies, research, and historical and archaeological facts related to yoga have been confirming that our country is a land of yoga.

President Paudel stated that it is necessary to further work for the development of yoga by establishing it as an integral part of national policy, educational curriculum, and public health.

Expressing confidence that yoga practice will strengthen daily work efficiency, disease resistance, and digestive system, and develop positive thinking leading to internal energy, he mentioned in the message that yoga helps in making one strong physically, mentally, and spiritually for healthy living by leading towards knowledge, action, consciousness, and stability.

Stating that yoga, which spreads the message of unity, peace, and health globally, is an integral part of ancient Eastern knowledge and culture, the President emphasized the need to adopt yoga as a lifestyle to make human life, affected by increasing stress, pollution, and competition in modern life, easy, simple, and healthy.

In the message, he also wished that the International Yoga Day would provide positive energy to all and inspire them to remain healthy and happy physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.