Dude! No wonder people can be averse to holistic viewpoints. Doooode (with more force)! I went to a “holistic” fair this weekend. As alternative and hippie dippie I can be sometimes, THIS was definitely along the lines of creepy. There was an overabundance of “get slim,” “extend your life,” new age products, which came complete with an infomercial-like delivery.
Some dude blasted pine smoke up my nose and I nearly died. Another dude was trying to get me to buy maxi pads (with demo!) that had 16,000 negative ions…to soak up liquid AND reduce infections. Yum! A different dude grabbed my arm, put chakra oil on it and said that it would “clear my face up” because apparently I have, “all these dark spots and blotches.” Well guess what. My face might be slightly blotchy but your logo sucks! So there.
(that was not very Ayurvedic of me)
The kicker was the guy who felt my chakras and told me that I was, “a f-ing mess.” Really? Really did you drop an f-bomb, dude, to describe any part of me!? Unreal. I walked away, held back tears and left.
What kept running through my mind was, “Oh my gosh. Is this is what people see!? Is what people think ‘alternative’ science really is?” I was so sad because for a second, I thought Ayurveda would get lost in the creepy jumble of other things. But then I knew better. And I also know that there are GREAT holistic practitioners and products out there (Thank you! And why weren’t you at the fair?! I was looking for you guys).
Anyway, I was quickly confirmed that this is exactly why I created HeyMonicaB. Granted the neti pot, ghee, kitchari, and nadi shodhanam might be foreign to some, but please trust that the advice comes from my heart. I am gathering knowledge daily and believe that it is my job to promote the heck out of it – because nobody ever told us these things! Ayurvedic information is simple, easy, logical and frankly, cheap to practice!
So my friends, thank you for reading and please continue to do so. Heck, pass on to your friends! Together we will create a mini community that is healthy, helpful, authentic to YOU, created with the right intention.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Tina // Mar 26, 2012 at 7:40 am
Wow, well this post is a little old but I just found it and you’re just sooo right. That’s exactly what the “non-hippies” see when looking at “natural stuff”. I’m one of those “well-grounded” people who believe in facts and science and white scrubs. Or I used to be. That’s what they want us to believe while trying to make anything else look silly – and quite successfully if you ask me.
So finally I’ve come to see that big pharmacy concerns don’t give a f* about our health but only about their profits and am looking for alternatives. Can you believe how hard that is? First you have to open your mind and deal with the comments of the white-scrub-followers. Then you’re trying to learn something and need to find good and trustable sources among all those who are trying to make money from all the… well gullible esoterics; that’s how they see them. If you don’t know a thing about alternatives it’s really hard to figure out who is credible and who isn’t (way easier to just stick to “white scrub” as identification…).
So I totally understand people who find it hard to believe in alternatives, as long as it comes mixed among those obvious quacks…
2 Monica // Mar 26, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Thanks Tina! I know…I totally get how hard it is for people to respond to something that seems so wacky on the surface. We like logic and simplicity, which is why Ayurveda needs to get out there more! :)
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