Introspect

Today is the last day and last night at JNI for us. One of my goal was to reduce as much weight as possible (thought of 10 kgs but knew that it wouldn’t be possible). However I lost more than 4 kgs till today and now can say that my weight is in late 70’s instead of 80’s. However, I am not disappointed as that was my stretch goal. The primary goal was to keep my numbers in control and move away from taking any medicines and I am happy that I achieved that. The second goal was to get the cholesterol numbers in control; I not only got them in control but have done much better in all the numbers and everything’s in range now. My third goal was to reduce my waist; again I am happy that I was able to do that as well. So overall all targets achieved and I am going back as a much healthier person.  Today, though it was a regular day for the folks at JNI and all treatments and activities went as planned, I had opted for Deep Tissue message and was very good indeed. Though we still ha...

Tomorrow is our last day here and preparations are already on for tomorrow. I lost about 3.2 kg in 8 days, others lost more than 4 kgs. In order to achieve my goal, I walked two kms extra today and now my legs are too tired after walking for close to 9 kms at a stretch, but I am ok and I have my goal in mind as mentioned earlier. I had oil message today followed by steam, very good experience and later in the afternoon I had hot and cold pack for my back. My physiotherapy sessions are almost over except for one. I still have one session left for acupuncture for tomorrow. I have to target and loose at least 2 kgs by end of tomorrow so that I can reach below 80 kgs and hence need to work out extra. I also know that tomorrow I will not be able to do much in the morning as I am scheduled for LSP wherein I will drink 6-8 glasses of warm water and using yoga I will cleanse my system. But I am hopeful I would be able to reach below 80 by Sunday morning. In lunch, for a change I got cutl...

We are getting more and more comfortable with our body, with daily yoga’s we are becoming more flexible and are now able to do Yogasanas with ease which were very difficult initially. Our stamina has increased and we are able to walk more than 10 kms a day. We are happy that we decided to come to JNI, it’s an investment on your life. Another two days left, today marks the completion of 8 th day. Our schedules are busy all day following up with doctor, completing our treatments, physiotherapy, acupuncture and the rest of the time is used for juices or breakfast or lunch or dinner. Everybody has got so used to the timings that they are there on time as I mentioned earlier as well no matter where they are and what treatment they are taking.  We met many people here, some coming for the first time like us whereas there are some who come here regularly. No matter how many times people come here, there aim is better health. We saw some kids as well (around 15-16 years) getting treated...

The time is running fast and another 3 days and our course of 10 days will be over. Never thought it would go so soon, but time flies as someone said. Everyone is making progress, how much progress we have made we will get to know on the final day when we check our reports and we will check out weight as well on that day. However, today I feel I have lost about 3-4 kgs. My target was 10 kgs but that was a difficult target I guess but even if I am able to reduce 5 kgs (which everyone says I would) I would be around 78-79 and I think that’s a wonderful progress. Our schedules are decided one day before. There not much of change in the food except that instead of Sattu drink I am continuing with whole some juice and instead of Aloe Vera I have changed it to tender coconut. Looks like the only person is our group who was going strong, Mahesh, was not feeling well today. He had sore throat and little body ache. He was given some paste for his throat and was advised naturopathy treatment f...

Suryanamaskar Days are becoming longer, and even then time is not enough. We started our day today around 5.30 AM. We got up at 5 but by the time we started walking it was already 5.30 AM. Mahesh is still continuing fasting for 4 th day consecutively whereas Gopalji had come back to fruits diet since he developed acidity and doctor advised him to go back to fruits diet. The day started as usual with a walk for about 2.5 Kms and then performing the yogic kriyas followed by laughing session. These laughing sessions have gone so much in mind and body that we don’t leave any chance to laugh. After the daily dose of laughter we completed our yoga session as well. At 7.40 AM it was time for DT+M (Digestive Tea and Methi), a ritual we will miss once we are out of here. After the tea break we head to the treatment section for the other rituals to be completed. I completed my Mud Pack Eye Pack session followed by Bitter gourd Juice along with Ragi porridge and papaya at 8.45...

The day started again at 5 AM. We followed the same schedule as yesterday and same lunch like yesterday’s dinner (papaya, pineapple, sprouts, buttermilk and soup) followed same physiotherapy sessions today as well along with same mud pack eye pack treatment. The breakfast was as usual diet tea with soaked fenugreek seeds. All day you will think about health and nothing else. In-fact they don’t give you any time for anything else at all, of-course unless if you skip the treatments and activities planned for you that day. We did not skip anything on any of the days. All activities are aimed and planned to improve you health and we were there to improve our health. Hence there was no reason for us to skip anything, Of-course sometimes you are not able to do all your activities in the same sequence but as long as you complete them in the day, you are doing fine. Since you have so many things lined up in a day, they don’t give you any time to be lazy at all and they keep you busy from...