Arriving at the New Delhi airport after a long flight does not qualify as a particularly luxurious experience. After finally receiving my passport stamp, I followed the pathway lined with what seemed like millions of people. I remembered the advice someone gave me before I embarked on my adventure, “avoid eye contact with all beggars.” They warned me that if I failed to do this, I would be swarmed by dozens of starving children refusing to leave my side until I surrendered my money. My first hour in India is forever engraved in my mind, and frequently I find myself thinking about my three-week stay there. But my admiration for the country lies much deeper than this pitiful, chaotic, dirty scene-I′m in awe of the Indian people, their heritage and their culture.
I boarded a 12-hour night train after an evening in Delhi and finally came to a screeching halt after what seemed like an eternity. My group and I filed out and then loaded our things into a small SUV that drove us up the vertical, treacherous, one-lane road to our final destination-India’s northern city, Chamba. This Himilayan city lies on the western end of the highest mountain range in the world. Home to over 1,500 quaint villages, its people remember their ancestors and thrive off of the land that they love. Chamba’s unique and isolated culture grabbed my attention and continues to hold my interest.
The people of Chamba seemed to religiously follow strict diets and other practices such as exercise, worship and meditation, appearing to be fully devoted to maintaining the principles of their culture. And on average, they lived long, happy, healthy lives. My interest in understanding the Northern Indian people lingered as I was amazed by their foreign lifestyle. I found that when I return back to the states, my curiosity for the culture remained with me.
While researching this amazing culture, I cam across one of the ways the Indian people maintained their health by practicing principles from the ancient Ayurveda medicine. Followers of the Ayurvedic medicine concentrate on six philosophical systems, which are labeled by causality, logic, behavior, the discipline of body and spirit, theory of the atom and knowledge. These systems provide guidelines that instruct followers how to treat their body so that it can reach a state of maximum health.
After learning some of the aspects of Ayurvedic medicine I began to realize the similarities between its principles and the lifestyle of the people in Chamba. The people that I saw followed a close schedule of daily meditation and were very aware of the things they put into their bodies. Among the guidelines of Ayurvedic practice, is a list of botanicals that Ayurveda claims can benefit the body in ways even modern medicines cannot.
Most of these botanicals grow in great abundance throughout several parts of Asia and particularly in India. Indian people, for thousands of years, have used various herbs, fruits and roots to help fight off infectious diseases. It is believed that these active botanicals have always been successful in helping its consumers maintain health by providing people with essential vitamins and minerals. After learning the potentials of Ayurvedic medicine, I started looking for ways that I could incorporate its practices and principles into my own life. In the process of this search I came across the nutrition company Zrii that uses Ayurvedic principles to provide a product and program to help improve lives.
Zrii does more than provide an Ayurvedic-based Amalaki juice drink, but also promotes the longevity of life through a program designed to help consumers reach a state of prime health by combining six of Ayurveda’s active botanicals. These ingredients consist of amalaki, ginger, turmeric, tulsi, schizandra and jujube. Zrii’s juice delivers their drinkers the vitamins and antioxidants necessary for fighting off harmful free radicals and illness.
It was exciting to stumble upon the philosophies of Ayurveda. My time in Chamba not only helped me develop a lasting appreciate for its people, but it led me to discovering a lifestyle that can improve my health just as it has maintained the health of millions for thousands of year.
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