AOL session dissects virtues of eating
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, October 30 2023: A new awakening of eating and living with awareness marked the interaction on 'Food & Breath: 2 Miracle Medicines' hosted by the Art of Living Manipur on Sunday.

Well-known Food, Nutrition and Therapeutic Diet expert and social entrepreneur Dr Kshetrimayum Vedmani Devi and senior faculties of the Art of Living Brahmachari Dixon, Roshnikumar Sharma and Ra-jaque Rahman addressed the gathering on how one can harness naturally available ways to live a healthy and happy life.

Delivering the keynote address, Dr Vedmani elaborated on the need for figuring out the nutritional and medicinal values of locally available and affordable fruits and vegetables and align our diet accordingly.

She highlighted the 5-Co-lour meal concept which prescribes for ensuring our meals have ingredients of at least five colours.

"Often we go for costly and non-organic fruits and vegetables that come from outside and sidestep locally available ones which are sometimes more nutritious.

We must understand the benefits of local foods and adopt them in our life," she said.

Stressing that proper and informed eating is critical, she guided the gathering with many easily adoptable adjustments and exhorted those present to adopt sustainable eating habits as a regular lifestyle practice and not as a fad to be given up after a few days.

She mentioned how freely available water could serve as a medicine and cure many ailments.

Continuing with the concept of harnessing naturally available means for improving our wellness index, the resource persons from the Art of Living shared tips and techniques of harnessing our breath and attaining physical and mental wellness.

Describing food and breath as two critical sources of life force energy (prana), Brahmachari Dixon shared how proper knowledge of the two can lift our prana and ensure a more positive and healthy life.

Calling breath as a divine miracle medicine, Rajaque Rahman elaborated on how proper breathing can be the best way of detox and rejuvenation.

He also highlighted the need for integrating yoga and meditation as lifestyle habits to ensure that our natural healing mechanism remain active and efficient.

"That today we gathered to explore the untapped benefits of proper diet and breathing itself is a big step towards healthy and happy living," concluded Roshnikumar.

He dwelt on the role the Art of Living is playing in Manipur to spread awareness and techniques of healthy, happy and stress-free living.

The open and free session was held as part of the Art of Living's Anouba Yakairol campaign which seeks to spread knowledge about holistic life and help people cope with the heightened level of stress prevailing in Manipur.

The Art of Living Manipur regularly conducts sessions at its Happiness Centre, located at Keishamthong, Imphal to ensure mental wellness and help people reduce anxiety amidst the atmosphere of uncertainty and conflict prevailing in Manipur.

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