In todays present scenario it has become really important for every one to maintain a physical and mental balance. With so much of pollution in the environment, food adulteration, untimely working hours and unhealthy lifestyle it has become mandatory for everyone to look after our health. That’s why the Ayurvedic dincharya( daily routine ) is to be followed in accordance with the present context.
Achieving a healthy long life actually depends on the extent to which an individual remains healthy in his day to day life. For achieving this, a controlled mind in a controlled body is essential. The ideal way in which an individual with a balanced constitution (Sama Prakriti) should proceed with day to day lifestyle is described in Ayurvedic texts. This can be modified depending on the constitution and diseases of an individual. For maximizing the effect of a soothing treatment, leading a healthy lifestyle is essential.
Ayurveda emphasizes that an individual should adopt healthy habits like regular routine schedule for sleep, proper cleansing practices, body massage, meditation, regular physical exercises, yoga, good clothing habits, a balanced diet depending on the weather, adequate intake of fluids, avoiding anger and stress and maintaining healthy relationships, sex life that is socially permissible and self education. Ayurvedic life-regimens are simple, non-invasive, non-traumatic and generally do not interfere with other form of treatment.
The holistic approach of Ayurveda involves usage of drug, behavioral changes and diet in tackling problems of mind and body to ensure vitality and good health. In Ayurveda, an illness is treated by four main procedures; cleansing (Samshodhana), Palliation (Samshamana), rejuvenation (Rasayana) and spiritual and psychological healing (Satvavajaya). When there is an imbalance of doshas, the lifestyles and dietary managements that are based on these doshas get disturbed.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
HEALTH AND PEACE OF MIND
The term for perfect health in Ayurveda is Swastha. Literally translated Svastha means "to be fully established in the Self.” Hence, when we are fully established in knowing our true nature, we express our full potential. This represents optimal health for each person.
Ayurveda is a journey to perfect health, peace of mind and, ultimately, to enlightenment. By the very laws of Sankhya philosophy, human incarnation is disharmonious. Once incarnated, humanity forgets its true nature as spirit and lives as a physical being guided by the senses. This journey is one of the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain and suffering. This simplistic and, as some writers have stated, animalistic existence brings about both physical and emotional pain and suffering.
The process of healing is the process of remembering. When a person remembers their true nature as spirit, they become empowered to master the senses and make choices that bring harmony, not pleasure. The fruit of this action is peace of mind and well-being.
When we live out of harmony we suffer. In the physical body suffering takes the form of pain and symptoms of disease. Ayurveda understands that these symptoms are simply the body’s voice communicating that we are living out of harmony. When we change our life and re-create a life of greater harmony, our bodies reflect this change. There is less suffering. The greater the change toward harmony, the more radiant the body becomes.
The mind is no different. It is subtler, but the same laws apply. Symptoms of a diseased mind include unhappiness, depression, sadness, anxiety, anger and any other emotion other than peace of mind. These symptoms are also communicating that we are living out of harmony, that some aspect of our life is disharmonious.
Healing is the process of returning to harmony. Once back in harmony the body and the mind have no reason to communicate symptoms. The body becomes at ease; the mind becomes at peace. In this state, awareness reawakens to its true nature as spirit. Self-realization has occurred and the individual soul continues its advance toward enlightenment. When Self-realization occurs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the door opens to becoming a Jivan Mukta; a liberated soul, and enlightenment ensues.
Ayurveda teaches us that we are all unique individuals. We were conceived with a unique constitution or fundamental balance of energies that define who we are on the physical level. It defines what we are naturally attracted to and what causes us to move out of balance and experience disease. Depending on our constitution, we thrive in a particular environment.
We take our environment in through the senses, which are the portals to our body and consciousness. The energies we take in either blend with us or disrupt our harmony. Proper diet (taste), aromas (smell), sounds (hearing), colors (vision), and touch are essential to maintaining internal equilibrium. When harmonious impressions are taken in, the body is healthy and the mind peaceful. When disharmonious impressions are taken in, the body and mind suffer.
Hence, Ayurveda focuses on helping individuals understand themselves as unique beings. With that understanding, a person can become empowered to make choices that are in harmony with who they are. Ayurveda teaches us that nothing is right for everyone but everything is right for someone. Ayurveda is the path of understanding what is right for you.
Ayurveda also teaches us that it is not only the intake of sensory impressions that determines our well-being it is our lifestyle as a whole. Proper daily regimens are essential: a regular schedule that includes meditation, yoga practices, daily massage (morning application of body oil), proper eating habits and proper hygiene brings about good health and peace of mind. When combined with proper intake of sensory impressions, the depth of the peace and well-being we experience is infinite.
Ayurveda is a journey to perfect health, peace of mind and, ultimately, to enlightenment. By the very laws of Sankhya philosophy, human incarnation is disharmonious. Once incarnated, humanity forgets its true nature as spirit and lives as a physical being guided by the senses. This journey is one of the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain and suffering. This simplistic and, as some writers have stated, animalistic existence brings about both physical and emotional pain and suffering.
The process of healing is the process of remembering. When a person remembers their true nature as spirit, they become empowered to master the senses and make choices that bring harmony, not pleasure. The fruit of this action is peace of mind and well-being.
When we live out of harmony we suffer. In the physical body suffering takes the form of pain and symptoms of disease. Ayurveda understands that these symptoms are simply the body’s voice communicating that we are living out of harmony. When we change our life and re-create a life of greater harmony, our bodies reflect this change. There is less suffering. The greater the change toward harmony, the more radiant the body becomes.
The mind is no different. It is subtler, but the same laws apply. Symptoms of a diseased mind include unhappiness, depression, sadness, anxiety, anger and any other emotion other than peace of mind. These symptoms are also communicating that we are living out of harmony, that some aspect of our life is disharmonious.
Healing is the process of returning to harmony. Once back in harmony the body and the mind have no reason to communicate symptoms. The body becomes at ease; the mind becomes at peace. In this state, awareness reawakens to its true nature as spirit. Self-realization has occurred and the individual soul continues its advance toward enlightenment. When Self-realization occurs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the door opens to becoming a Jivan Mukta; a liberated soul, and enlightenment ensues.
Ayurveda teaches us that we are all unique individuals. We were conceived with a unique constitution or fundamental balance of energies that define who we are on the physical level. It defines what we are naturally attracted to and what causes us to move out of balance and experience disease. Depending on our constitution, we thrive in a particular environment.
We take our environment in through the senses, which are the portals to our body and consciousness. The energies we take in either blend with us or disrupt our harmony. Proper diet (taste), aromas (smell), sounds (hearing), colors (vision), and touch are essential to maintaining internal equilibrium. When harmonious impressions are taken in, the body is healthy and the mind peaceful. When disharmonious impressions are taken in, the body and mind suffer.
Hence, Ayurveda focuses on helping individuals understand themselves as unique beings. With that understanding, a person can become empowered to make choices that are in harmony with who they are. Ayurveda teaches us that nothing is right for everyone but everything is right for someone. Ayurveda is the path of understanding what is right for you.
Ayurveda also teaches us that it is not only the intake of sensory impressions that determines our well-being it is our lifestyle as a whole. Proper daily regimens are essential: a regular schedule that includes meditation, yoga practices, daily massage (morning application of body oil), proper eating habits and proper hygiene brings about good health and peace of mind. When combined with proper intake of sensory impressions, the depth of the peace and well-being we experience is infinite.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Ayurveda Intro
Ayurveda 'the life science' is a traditional medicinal system from India and Ayurveda practiced all over the world as a form of alternative medicine and holistic medicinal system. Ayurveda is a Sanskrit language word, the word ‘Ayurveda’ consists of two words āyur = 'life', and veda ='science'. Hence the complete meaning of ‘Ayurveda’ is ‘life science’. Ayurveda is a part of ancient ‘Vedas’, and was discovered 6,000 years ago. The main source of Ayurveda is the divine book of ‘Atharvaveda’ which was written in 1000 BC. Ayurveda was practiced by Indian spiritual ‘Rishis’ (priest) in ancient time, who laid the Vedic civilization in India. The art of Ayurveda slowly spread to Tibet, China, Mongolia, Korea and Sri Lanka, carried by the Buddhist monks traveling to those lands in the 6th century BC. Evolving throughout its history, Ayurveda remains an influential system of medicine in South Asia. Ayurveda originated in India influence the ancient Chinese medicinal system and medical system in Greece, Homeopathy, now familiar in west have their roots in Ayurveda. Thus, Ayurveda is also known as the “Mother of Healing”.
Ayurveda is considered to be a form of complementary and alternative medicine within the western countries, where several of its methods, such as the uses of herbs, massage, and Yoga as exercise, are applied. Ayurveda provide guidelines on ideal daily and seasonal routine life style, diet, behavior and the proper use of all body senses, according to Ayurveda health is the balanced and dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind, and spirit.
According to Ayurveda good health at physical and mental level indicates harmony in three bodily dosha, which is refers to the balances of 5 elements in human body. Balance does not mean doshas need to be equal, unless you were born with equal doshas; it means that you need to maintain your original status of Doshic Prakriti through out life to maintain good health. Factors such as the dietary choices you make, the lifestyle you lead, the climate where you live, levels of environmental pollution, the work profile you do and the nature of your relationships with people surround you, can influence doshas in your prakriti to increase or decrease from its original level in your constitution, creating vikriti or imbalance. If this imbalance is not corrected, you eventually lose your good health. That's why restoring balance is the central theme of the Ayurvedic approach to health. The aim of Ayurveda is explained in the following sentences.
"Swasthasya Swasthya Rakshanam,
Atursya Vikar Prashamanam"
This explains the depth of methodology by which Ayurveda science deals with the human life. The first aim of Ayurveda is to protect and maintain the health of the human being through out the entire life span. The second aim of this science is to cure the diseases which are developed in human body.
Ayurveda is considered to be a form of complementary and alternative medicine within the western countries, where several of its methods, such as the uses of herbs, massage, and Yoga as exercise, are applied. Ayurveda provide guidelines on ideal daily and seasonal routine life style, diet, behavior and the proper use of all body senses, according to Ayurveda health is the balanced and dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind, and spirit.
According to Ayurveda good health at physical and mental level indicates harmony in three bodily dosha, which is refers to the balances of 5 elements in human body. Balance does not mean doshas need to be equal, unless you were born with equal doshas; it means that you need to maintain your original status of Doshic Prakriti through out life to maintain good health. Factors such as the dietary choices you make, the lifestyle you lead, the climate where you live, levels of environmental pollution, the work profile you do and the nature of your relationships with people surround you, can influence doshas in your prakriti to increase or decrease from its original level in your constitution, creating vikriti or imbalance. If this imbalance is not corrected, you eventually lose your good health. That's why restoring balance is the central theme of the Ayurvedic approach to health. The aim of Ayurveda is explained in the following sentences.
"Swasthasya Swasthya Rakshanam,
Atursya Vikar Prashamanam"
This explains the depth of methodology by which Ayurveda science deals with the human life. The first aim of Ayurveda is to protect and maintain the health of the human being through out the entire life span. The second aim of this science is to cure the diseases which are developed in human body.
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