Nepal Police Turn to Yoga

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Yoga in daily routine for healthy life emphasized

 

By Our Correspondent

KATHMANDU, April 6: A weeklong yoga training jointly conducted by

Armed Police Family Women Association and Central Office of Armed

Police Force Human Resource Development Department concluded

Wednesday.

 

A total of 25 armed police staffs and family members participated in

the yoga training.

 

Chairperson of the Association Kalpana Thapa distributed a letter of

appreciation to chief trainer Nilangchi Mahesh Kukin and other

participants.

 

At the concluding ceremony chief of the human resource department of

Armed Police Force and Additional Inspector General Rabiraj Thapa

said that yoga helps keep human body and mind healthy.

 

Thapas emphasized on need to include yoga in daily routine to attain

health and happiness.

 

Chief trainer Kukin said that mental and physical fitness of

security personnel would ultimately prove advantageous for the

country. She said that yoga would also help one to be free from

mental pressure.

 

Gita Bhattachan, one of the participants, said that the training was

very fruitful. Officials of APF Women Association and high ranking

APF officials were present at the concluding ceremony.

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Useful Yoga

 

Yoga is the science of right living. Many saints and great men

maintain their body and mind intact with the help of yoga. It is

said that by practising yoga, one can even avoid death. It works on

all aspects of the person: physical, pranic (relating to vital

energy), mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual. The root word of

yoga is ?yuj? which means ?to join? or ?to unite?. So yoga means

union or unity. In spiritual terms, it is described as the union of

individual consciousness with universal consciousness. Yoga is a

means of balancing and harmonising the body, mind and emotion. The

science of yoga begins to work on the outmost aspect of the

personality, the physical body, which for most people is a practical

and familiar starting point. When imbalance is experienced at this

level, the organs, muscles and nerves no longer function in harmony,

rather they act in opposition to each other. So the practice of yoga

begins from the physical level and then moves on to a more subtler

level: pranic, mental and emotional, according to yoga experts. Yoga

is an integration and harmony between thought, word and deed. Hence,

yoga makes one disciplined, hopeful about life and develop positive

attitudes. So it is useful to all. As such, a weeklong yoga training

was jointly organised by the Armed Police Family Women Association

and Central Office Armed Police Force Human Resource Development

Department, in which 25 Armed Police Staff and family members

participated. In the training that concluded the other day, speakers

highlighted the importance of yoga in one?s life, saying that yoga

helps attain health and happiness. The growing violence in the

Kingdom has resulted in growing mental pressure not only to the

security personnel and their families but also to the common people.

As such, yoga should surely help one to reduce mental tension if

yoga is practised daily. Indeed, such training programme should be

provided to other security personnel currently dedicating their

lives for the security of the people and public property and their

families, so as to develop positive feelings about their own lives

and duties. Similarly, such training needs to be extended to the

civil servants, as yoga will at least discourage them from involving

in corrupt practices. Of course, efforts need to be made to make

yoga popular as it is useful to all.

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