“I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life” – Drew Barrymore
Last night was interesting, as a calf decided it’s too early for us to sleep so started making noises since 930pm and the only thing I could think of is how are my neighbours going to sleep? Since I didn’t want to rush the ending of the book, after having a glance at my watch I decided to keep the rest for the morning.
After yoga, I picked it up again to finish before breaky and with still few pages left, I made my way to the dining hall. After wishing Good Mornings, eating the ‘before’ meds, we started with the breakfast, a routine that had long been set. Just when I was thinking about my weight and how I couldn’t check earlier as the scales didn’t have batteries, as if my neighbour read my mind, he informed me how he had lost so much weight already as he checked it prior to coming for breakfast. Seeing my blank face he realised I attempted to do the same but couldn’t due to the batteries and his response made me laugh, as he wasn’t going to give up without checking so he played with the batteries a bit until there was light 🙂 My thoughts then, maybe it’s not meant to be for me to check where someone else found a way to check anyways. Same same but different. My first treatment was early today, around 9am so after a quick breaky I head to the room to finish the book and I did. This would be the last one I read so I can put my energy back on writing and compiling my thoughts as without realising, I realised that I enjoy reading and it can be addictive.
I also aimed to try once more the Rubik’s cube later today to see how much I registered. Soon after finishing the book, I made my way for the treatment room and met Shruti the Head Therapist outside my door. We walked together and I thought about how tedious it was for her to remove the strips of bandaid from my shoulder (left and right) last night and she did it so patiently by applying water on each of them. To avoid feeling the little pain there was, I had continued reading.
The treatment was good as always and this time I didn’t chant anything during the Shirodhara but dreamt with closed eyes and open mind. As thoughts came to my head, I had to remind myself that it is still a dream, a vision and I still have so much to do, to achieve it. Where do I start from? In between, my stomach had started making noises as if hungry but surprisingly it had been only an hour since I ate breakfast and seemed it already digested that and was hungry for more. While my thoughts were still going on, just like that I had a brain freeze like my body was holding me against my thoughts, as the warm oil kept pouring on my forehead and when it was all over, it hit me I should have chanted instead. Maybe there’s a reason why they ask us to chant in the first place. Straight after, I had my fresh bandages on both knees and shoulder (both sides) then like a half mummy, I went to the doctor for my daily consultation. BP was ok, headache was gone, muscles were still in pain, surely on it’s way to recovery and I was getting curious of what is happening now. What stage of Panchkarma are we at and what sort of treatment is my body and knees receiving. The doctor patiently explained everything, from the reasoning of having curry leaves in turmeric half an hour before breaky to the shots I have in the night. What each treatment is doing to my body and each paste and oil to my knees. What next would be considered and how things seem to be on track. I was convinced and requested for a personal feedback on food based on my Dosha which we knew by now. What was interesting is him telling me something I already knew, that my body takes stress in the stomach and shoulders, so damn true. Hence why he kept asking me if there is pain in my abdomen and shoulders daily. Well the latter is already being treated and I guess with that my knees, my stomach isn’t expressing much at the moment. Even a bad sleep can lead to stress and all of the symptoms, that’s why I love this subject- Ayurveda, it helps you understand your body better and deal with it from inside.
The afternoon session was a killer, after lunch I went to the room for rest as my eyes were teary, maybe with all the reading. So after an hour of meals, I thought to snooze for a bit and surely the little calf sensed it like last night and started her music. After managing some sleep, I went for my afternoon nasal treatment saying in my head, all will be well. And all was well until the drops made their way in my nostril, this time taking over the right one where I struggled to breathe. Its always something when the mind takes over, yesterday I didn’t think much and all was well, even today I went with not much thoughts but somewhere during the process, they took over.
The yoga session was good, being International Yoga Day, the staff joined as well. Stretching is great but not when your nose isn’t on your side. Somehow, I managed to complete the class and shortly after dinner, we had a presentation so I went out of the dining hall earlier than usual to remove my bandages on the knees before the session. Unfortunately, due to a technical error the presentation didn’t happen but I informed the doctor of the playful sensation in my nose till my head so he recommended a steam session followed by a paste in the T-zone to absorb whatever was the concern. I felt bad for the ladies who had to stick around for this and thanked them from the bottom of my heart for bearing with me and the pain, especially since removing the bandages from the back need a lot of patience.
At one stage, I shrieked in pain and both ladies who were working on left and right shoulder stopped, the doctor said which one and I just replied, I don’t know and we all laughed.
Whereas Rubik’s cube is concerned, am comfortable with 2 layers now so only one layer left to comprehend and solve.
