Notes from this week’s episode:
WHAT IS AYURVEDA?
Ayurveda is the traditional science of life. Though the title may sound unfamiliar, the teachings of Ayurveda quickly really feel comfy and intuitive as you begin to study extra about your particular person nature and the way and why sure meals, environments, habits and seasons make you are feeling higher or worse.
A NATURAL SYSTEM OF HEALING FOR BODY AND MIND
The Charaka Samhita is taken into account one of many oldest and crucial writings on Ayurveda, states:
“The physique and that which is known as the thoughts are each thought of to be abodes of illness, and likewise of well-being. The reason for well-being is their harmonious interplay.”
Ayurveda at all times sees the thoughts and physique as interwoven and inseparable, any problem with our well being includes each our physique and our thoughts.
There isn’t a “good or dangerous” physique kind. Everybody has a novel nature with its strengths and skills. When out of stability, all of us expertise challenges in bodily and psychological well being associated to our structure, or dosha. Ayurveda teaches us learn how to flip in direction of stability with our life-style, weight loss program, and pure treatments.
“We have now to comply with the regulation of nature.” Dr. Vasant Lad
To comply with the legal guidelines of nature, we have now to know them, and perceive how they apply to us.
Starting with understanding the 5 components: earth, water, hearth, air, and ether and the way they mix in us and every part round us.
THE FIVE ELEMENTS
Ayurveda acknowledges the 5 components (Pancha Mahabhutas) – earth, water, hearth, air and ether.
The 5 components kind our physique kind, our thoughts kind, our meals, local weather, and the environment. All the things is created from various combos of the 5 components.
These components mix to kind three main energies or doshas: Vata (house and air), Pitta (hearth and water), and Kapha(water and earth). Understanding the interaction of those components and doshas is the core instructing of Ayurveda.
THE 3 DOSHAS
The three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, are the organic energies or forces that govern the physique and thoughts. Every particular person has a novel mixture of doshas, referred to as their Prakriti or structure.
Vata is shaped from air and ether
Pitta is shaped from hearth and water
Kapha is shaped from water and earth
Vata is the power motion
Pitta is the power of metabolism, or transformation
And Kapha is the power of construction, it’s the framework and glue that holds issues collectively.
The Tridosha principle of Ayurveda states that well being is maintained when the three doshas are in a state of stability, and illness happens when there’s an imbalance. Ayurveda goals to establish the doshic imbalances and restore stability by way of varied remedies and life-style changes.
A RETURN TO NATURAL LIVING
We live so removed from the legal guidelines of nature that we get sick, and we do not know why, it comes as a shock to us as a result of our instinct will get buried below pushing by way of.
The three doshas that kind our particular person make up carry the ideas of the weather that kind our universe and the world round us.
We’re made from the weather of nature. As soon as we perceive this, we are able to begin studying concerning the habits, practices, and meals that greatest assist our psychological and bodily well being.
All of us have the 5 components inside us. All of us have some hearth, air, water, earth and ether, however we every have them in various proportions and that’s what creates our distinctive doshic make up, or structure.
Ayurveda is about nourishment on all ranges in order that we will be effectively in order that we have now power and peace of thoughts to look into the deeper which means of life.
