Ayurveda Improves the Quality of Your Daily Life!
..it is a system of holistic healing unlike any other!
- Ayurveda is a choice of lifestyle, which when adopted brings a wave of general well-being to your daily life.
- Exercising, having an active lifestyle, adequate sun exposure, appropriate treatments and emotional well-being help to cleanse the mind and spirit. This leaves you with a healthy mind and glowing skin.
- Ayurveda works in perfect harmony with alternative medicines so it is practical for everyday use.
- Ayurveda helps reclaim health with balanced dietary guidelines, effective sleep patterns, home remedies, daily and seasonal routines, yoga, and exercise patterns.
- Heightened concentration levels through yoga, meditation, herbal intake, and adequate sleep help re-calibrate mental and goal-based settings in your daily life.
- Ayurvedic treatments improve digestion and increase appetite and immunity.
Ayurveda offers extensive therapies and remedies for the young, old, sick, healthy, and everyone in between. This 5,000-year-old scientific approach that originated in India has many life-altering benefits.
Here are some of the primary benefits that you can achieve with the consistent use of Ayurveda.
1. Reduce Inflammation
Lack of proper diet, unhealthy eating routines, insufficient sleep, irregular sleep patterns, and bad digestion can lead to inflammation. The root cause of neurological diseases, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, pulmonary diseases, arthritis, and many others starts with inflammation.
As you begin to eat according to your dosha type (Unique constitution determined by your practitioner) the digestive system begins to strengthen. Consumption of certain foods at the right times reduces toxins in the blood and digestive tract. A consequent result of this is increased vitality, high energy, and an overall decrease in lethargy and mood swings.
Ayurvedic treatments are greatly known for cancer prevention as well. The best example of a herbal Ayurvedic formulation would be a combination of turmeric with black pepper.
2. Lower Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Symptoms of Illness and Diseases
Researchers suggest that Ayurvedic diets and relaxation techniques help reduce plaque buildup. Plaque is a result of the formation of cholesterol and fats in the inner lining of the arteries. This condition is called atherosclerosis and is the root cause of heart attacks and strokes.
Ayurvedic medicine offers a multitude of herbs, vitamins, minerals, and proteins. These are mixed together at an appropriate dosage and administered at an optimal time to prevent and combat immunity-related disorders.
Ayurvedic herbs and essential oils help increase blood flow, compliment blood circulation, and draw out toxins from the body through the skin.
“Abhyanga massage” with herbal oils is highly used for massages.
3. Weight Loss and Maintenance
A healthy diet and modification in lifestyle habits through Ayurvedic treatments help shed excess body fat. In Ayurveda, weight is not a major concern but eating habits are. By allowing the body to detox through correct dietary restrictions, it is possible to achieve a toned body.
A practitioner will determine the best diet that will suit your nutritional needs and work with your dosha type (Unique Constitution determined by your practitioner)
4. Say Goodbye to Stress
With a fast-paced lifestyle that leaves no scope for rejuvenation or relaxation, Ayurveda guarantees a reduction in stress and anxiety. Including regular practice of Yoga (Ayurveda’s sister science) plus meditation, breathing exercises, massages, and herbal treatments the body calms down, detoxifies and rejuvenates.
Yoga improves the autonomic nervous system making your mind alert, so you can focus well and stay energised throughout the day.
Breathing exercises keep infections at bay and allow abundant oxygen supply to the cells to create a sense of awareness. Depression and anxiety can be treated with Ayurveda: Shirodhara, Abhyangam, Shiroabhyangam, and Padabhyangam.
5. Healthy and Glowing Skin and Hair
Need a perfect glow and shiny hair? Ayurveda claims that you can ditch the expensive clinical treatments and go for the organic and natural ways to achieve a glow without spending too much money. A balanced meal, toning exercises, and Ayurvedic supplements are enough to promote healthy skin and scalp.
General dietary guidelines in Ayurveda focus on the consumption of fresh food taking into account your dosha type (Unique Constitution determined by your practitioner) medical history, regional produce, customs, and traditions.
The focus is more on high-antioxidant foods, herbs, teas, vegetables, protein, and healthy fats.
Ayurveda – The Meaning
Ayurveda (pronounced aye-your-VAY-duh) is derived from two ancient words in Sanskrit, “ayuh” meaning “life” or “longevity” and “veda” meaning “science” or “sacred knowledge.” Ayurveda recognises that human beings are so much more than physical bodies, rather multidimensional beings with layers of emotions and intuition. Although you may not be `spiritual’ per se, the foods you eat and the way you lead your life affect you on a spiritual level every day! Ayurveda helps you recognise that interconnectivity.
Ayurveda – What is it?
As a medical science, it deeply focuses on healing and maintaining the quality and longevity of life. It combines science with psychology, spirituality and philosophy seeing each individual as a part of the bigger picture.
According to Ayurveda, the cornerstone of health is achieving mind-body balance. Ayurveda offers specific guidelines, practices, recipes and remedies to enable you to achieve this balance. On top of that, the guidelines vary for each person and even changes throughout the year, across the seasons and throughout your lifespan. It can sound complicated but it is a life-changing wisdom that is definitely worth knowing as we are all reflections of our environments & transform our personal health through awareness.
Ayurveda’s two main principles are:
Preservation of Health: How to maintain wellness and what to do to keep your body healthy and fit to avoid illness.
Methods, medicine, and tactics for disease management and ailments. How to cure and procure a return to health.
The first principle is based on prevention, while the second is based on regaining balance.
…And the basic principles of Ayurveda follow these daily disciplines – don’t skip breakfast, eat a light dinner, avoid sleeping and waking up late, drink water, eat organic produce, avoid smoking and drinking, and maintain an active lifestyle.
Ayurveda – Where did it originate from?
The practice of Ayurveda as a medicine dates back to over five thousand years, during the Vedic period of ancient India. The earliest known references to Ayurveda and its sister science, Yoga, appeared in scholarly texts from the time called “the Vedas.” The Vedas address everything from ways to heal the body to how to become one with the universe. You could definitely say the Rishis, the spiritually enlightened prophets who wrote these texts were centuries ahead of their time. Around 800 B.C.E the first Ayurvedic medical school was founded in India which later became the basis of modern surgery consulted today. It eventually spread along the Silk Road making its way from India across China, down to Indonesia, across the Persian Empire, up to Europe, farther East to Egypt and south to Somalia. Arab traders spread the knowledge of Indian herbs and this information reached the Greek & Roman Empires becoming the basis of European medicine and Herbology today. During the reign of the British rule over India Ayurveda was considered an archaic practice and forced underground and lived through home remedies and kitchen medicines that healed families with food, spice, oils & herbs. Ayurveda is experiencing a renaissance as people struggling with western medicine crave a more holistic approach to their physical and mental wellbeing!
Ayurveda Today, Ancient wisdom – Modern application
Ayurveda is not only practiced in the India subcontinent but globally. Oil pulling, dry brushing, and self oil massage are now hitting the mainstream. Much of the wisdom we know about food nutrition, combining and digestion derives from Ayurvedic knowledge. Turmeric now being sold in capsules for its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidepressant and anti-ageing benefits has always been a staple spice in the Ayurvedic diet. Thousands of people travel to India each year to partake in Ayurvedic treatments to detoxify and rejuvenate their health. What’s more, Ayurveda is practised by millions of people every day who may not even know they are practicing it!
People have become wary of the one size fits all approach to health and are drawn to the whole approach that sees the entire person and not the single symptom. In a time when doctors rarely have time to get to know the individual, people are left on their own to determine the root cause of their diseases.
Ayurvedic Versus Western Medicine
When most of us think of medicine and spirituality, we think of two opposite ends of the spectrum. However, Ayurveda blends these two disciplines harmoniously. It merges our left and right brains into a multifaceted system that includes all aspects of a human being.
According to Ayurveda, even before they manifest, we can feel illnesses by the subtle layers of our energetic body. If you have ever had a sense that something was òff’ before it turned into a sickness, that was your subtle energy calling! Ayurveda marries the seen and unseen to create a comprehensive discipline of spiritual and medical well-being.
Take A Deep Breath 