And you thought Yoga was good for you? Try Ayurveda

Ayurveda originated in India over 5,000 years ago. In ancient Sanskrit it means “The Science of Life.” and is often called the “Mother of All Healing.” Many of the principles of the natural healing systems that are now familiar in the West have their roots in Ayurveda.
Your Constitution and Its Inner Balance
Ayurveda places great emphasis on prevention through close attention to balance in one’s life, right thinking, diet, lifestyle and the use of herbs to supplement natural healing. Ayurveda enables you to understand how to create this balance of body, mind and how to make lifestyle changes to bring about and maintain this balance.
In the same way we all have individual DNA, each of us has a particular combination of physical, mental and emotional characteristics — which comprises their own make up. This is believed to be determined at conception by a number of factors and then remains the same throughout your life.
Throughout our life internal and external influences, act upon us to disturb our unique balance and are reflected as a change in our make up from the balanced state.
Some examples of these changes include our emotional state, diet and food choices, seasons and the weather. Work and family relationships are also influencing factors. Once these factors are understood, we can take appropriate actions to reduce their effects or eliminate the causes of imbalance and re-establish our balance.
Balance is the natural order; imbalance is disorder. Health is order; disease is disorder. Within our bodies there is a constant interaction between order and disorder. When we understand the nature and structure of disorder, we can then re-establish order.
Balancing the Three Principle Energies of your Body
Ayurveda identifies three basic types of energy or functional principles that are present in everyone and everything, however there are no single words in English that convey these concepts.
So to make it easy, the original Sanskrit words vata, pitta and kapha are used. These three principles can be related to the basic biology of the body.
Energy is required to create movement so that fluids and nutrients get to the cells, enabling our bodies to function. Energy is also required to metabolise the nutrients in the cells, Energy is also needed to lubricate and maintain the structure of the cell.

  • Vata is the energy of movement
  • Pitta is the energy of digestion
  • Kapha, the energy of structure

 All people have the qualities of vata, pitta and kapha, but one is usually primary, one secondary and the third is usually least prominent.
In Ayurveda, disease is viewed as a lack of proper cellular function due to an excess or deficiency of one of the three principles: vata, pitta or kapha.
In Ayurveda, our bodies, minds and consciousness should work together to maintain balance. They are simply viewed as different facets of our being. To learn how to balance the body, mind and consciousness requires an understanding of how vata, pitta and kapha work together.
According to Ayurvedic philosophy the entire cosmos is an interplay of the energies of the five great elements—Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
Vata, pitta and kapha are combinations and permutations of these five elements that manifest as patterns present in all creation in our physical bodies.
Ayurveda is all about keeping our bodies in balance, keeping disease at bay and helping us to maintain a long, happy, healthy life. Reseach by Gordon Legge

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