(DDIP Internship 2.0) Thousands of People are Waking Up With 24-Year-Old Nimisha to Embrace a Conscious and Healthy Plant-Based Lifestyle

Seema Jain has never felt "more alive and aligned". She expresses the same as she munches on her plant-based soya chips, organising her desk to plan the day. However, she was not always like this. Just 8 months ago, she faced sexual and physical abuse from her former husband. Traumatised and shaken, she did not have much to look forward to, except a painful, numbing feeling. This was before she joined Nimisha's mindfulness program.

"I felt like I was swimming in the same sea of pain, but instead of being engulfed in it, I was looking at the pain with love and empathy, caressing the feelings like a baby," she says. 2 months down the road, she has launched her own startup to help broken wives heal, and is self-reliant.

Meet the miraculous mindful warrior

Nimisha was just 16 when she experienced her first panic attack. "It felt like I had no body, and only my nose remained to breathe," she recounts. In the subsequent years, she went through many panic attacks and bouts of anxiety and depression, because of which her work, relationships and family relations suffered. That was until she had her mini-enlightenment moment, where in a 27-hour-long panic attack, she could finally see all her fears just as they are, sending them love and forgiveness. 

"I am a social activist. I speak about feminism, equality for all genders (men, women, other genders) and for animal and human liberation from all the subconscious imprinting that benefits the powerful," she says. Indeed, Nimisha has written 3 powerful books on the "feminist lifestyle of love", presenting an alternative, powerful approach for healing that is mindful and conscious of social realities, far away from the "feel-good" popular psychology usually led by upper-caste men. This lifestyle of love includes community bonding, trauma sharing, healing through feeling, observation and consciousness rising activities. It also realises the inter-beingness of all life on Earth, and it is conscious of embracing fellow animal beings. The therapy is not "objective" but based on subjective realities to accommodate traumas, and emphasises on healing the know-it-all ego that is constantly on the search for boxing truths into neat concepts. It advocates for the blur and mess that is life, and finding peace within the chaos. 

This was also the subject of her recent TED talk, which at the time of writing this has hit 500 million views on YouTube. She has hence completely changed the way that popular psychology looks at healing, and has made mindfulness more acceptable and relatable for the masses. 

"Not all labels are to be discarded. Some labels are meant to be gained strength from," she says. She ends it with the following words, "I am a conscious, feminist, vegan, and empathetic healer. And I am here to make people realise the magic potion that resides within themselves, which they can seek whenever they want to: unconditional love."

P.S. If you are interested in veganism, check this out: https://nimishaagarwal.com/is-legal-personhood-for-animals-a-breakthrough-for-animal-rights/