miracles including increasing your harmony and energy levels. My husband and I read about it and finally convinced, bought the gadget in 2008. I still have it somewhere in my house but frankly it didn’t made much of a difference. There was no improvement in my energy levels at all.
There was another product I purchased in 2009 which was supposed to make one’s spine function better. Now, this was quite an expensive product, but my husband and I decided it was worth the money as we heard many positive reports from people on its benefits. At that point in time, my music teacher and my sister-in-law told me they knew of several people who had benefited tremendously from this device as it is also based on the principles of acupressure. I thought I would give it a try. This too did not make much of a difference and things remained the same, more or less.
These failed experiments affected me in a big way although I pretended it was no big deal. Not succumbing to every fraud product and marketing scam is perhaps the biggest challenge for anyone who suffers from an illness. The market is full of miracle gadgets that promise instant and visible results. But they instead usually send one hurtling down on a roller coaster of hope and regret. As soon as I would buy a miracle gadget I would feel full of hope and certain that a cure was just around the corner. But it wasn’t soon before I realized that the gadget was useless and I had just wasted a huge amount of time and money for nothing. Desperation had driven me to reject critical thinking. Instead of reading up on a gadget and checking to see if the product and its claims were backed by any reputable scientist or medical journal, I went along with the herd. Instead of asking myself and others if these products really had any health benefits or were just fancy placebos I went ahead and placed a purchase order.
Ayurveda
Living in India it is impossible to escape Ayurveda. I had two opportunities to experience this ancient science of medicine.
An old friend of mine, Sujata Menon Kapila who had benefited greatly from Ayurveda in Kerala asked me to approach Swami Nirmalanandagiri Maharaj in Palghat (Kerala), her home town. His treatment consisted of mainly home-made concoctions such as tender coconut water, sixteen glasses of water boiled with dried herbs and dietary guidelines such as avoiding red chillies, tamarind and curd and baked items.
Sujata urged me to pay him a visit and said that I was more than welcome to stay with her mother in Kerala during the course of my treatment. I decided to plan a visit and my aunt Vijaya, who could speak Malayalam offered to accompany me and double up as an interpreter.
Swami Nirmalanandagiri Maharaj examined me and prescribed some medicines along issuing some dietary restrictions and guidelines. I followed his instructions diligently for a while but soon started having digestion issues after taking Ayurvedic medicines. I kept calling the Swami and asking him what to do. He would tell me to stop one medicine for a while and then ask me to make further changes in my diet.
After a while I began to find it really difficult to follow this kind of a lifestyle and gave it up once I left Kerala. I reasoned that perhaps I was combining too many types of therapies or that maybe it would work if I had been able to spend more time in Palghat under the direct supervision of the Swami. I resolved that after my children had grown up and found jobs for themselves I would once again try Ayurveda and this time stay in Kerala for the full treatment.
Ayurveda revisited me in 2009 when my husband was transferred back to Mumbai. A friend of my aunt said she had benefited a lot from an Ayurveda clinic in Kandivali. I went for a visit to this clinic and the doctor said there was every reason for my condition to improve provided I followed his instructions diligently. I was to eat nothing raw, not even fruits, and was to eat only cooked rice. He asked me to see
There was another product I purchased in 2009 which was supposed to make one’s spine function better. Now, this was quite an expensive product, but my husband and I decided it was worth the money as we heard many positive reports from people on its benefits. At that point in time, my music teacher and my sister-in-law told me they knew of several people who had benefited tremendously from this device as it is also based on the principles of acupressure. I thought I would give it a try. This too did not make much of a difference and things remained the same, more or less.
These failed experiments affected me in a big way although I pretended it was no big deal. Not succumbing to every fraud product and marketing scam is perhaps the biggest challenge for anyone who suffers from an illness. The market is full of miracle gadgets that promise instant and visible results. But they instead usually send one hurtling down on a roller coaster of hope and regret. As soon as I would buy a miracle gadget I would feel full of hope and certain that a cure was just around the corner. But it wasn’t soon before I realized that the gadget was useless and I had just wasted a huge amount of time and money for nothing. Desperation had driven me to reject critical thinking. Instead of reading up on a gadget and checking to see if the product and its claims were backed by any reputable scientist or medical journal, I went along with the herd. Instead of asking myself and others if these products really had any health benefits or were just fancy placebos I went ahead and placed a purchase order.
Ayurveda
Living in India it is impossible to escape Ayurveda. I had two opportunities to experience this ancient science of medicine.
An old friend of mine, Sujata Menon Kapila who had benefited greatly from Ayurveda in Kerala asked me to approach Swami Nirmalanandagiri Maharaj in Palghat (Kerala), her home town. His treatment consisted of mainly home-made concoctions such as tender coconut water, sixteen glasses of water boiled with dried herbs and dietary guidelines such as avoiding red chillies, tamarind and curd and baked items.
Sujata urged me to pay him a visit and said that I was more than welcome to stay with her mother in Kerala during the course of my treatment. I decided to plan a visit and my aunt Vijaya, who could speak Malayalam offered to accompany me and double up as an interpreter.
Swami Nirmalanandagiri Maharaj examined me and prescribed some medicines along issuing some dietary restrictions and guidelines. I followed his instructions diligently for a while but soon started having digestion issues after taking Ayurvedic medicines. I kept calling the Swami and asking him what to do. He would tell me to stop one medicine for a while and then ask me to make further changes in my diet.
After a while I began to find it really difficult to follow this kind of a lifestyle and gave it up once I left Kerala. I reasoned that perhaps I was combining too many types of therapies or that maybe it would work if I had been able to spend more time in Palghat under the direct supervision of the Swami. I resolved that after my children had grown up and found jobs for themselves I would once again try Ayurveda and this time stay in Kerala for the full treatment.
Ayurveda revisited me in 2009 when my husband was transferred back to Mumbai. A friend of my aunt said she had benefited a lot from an Ayurveda clinic in Kandivali. I went for a visit to this clinic and the doctor said there was every reason for my condition to improve provided I followed his instructions diligently. I was to eat nothing raw, not even fruits, and was to eat only cooked rice. He asked me to see
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