Ayurveda
Ayurveda
Ayurveda dates back for thousands of years. It’s a system of medicine from India. The word in Sanskrit means knowledge (veda) and life (ayur). There are different segments of Ayurveda and that’s it’s five elements, three qualities, and three mind-body principles (doshas). The main reason for this holistic system is to balance yourself. They believe that your body is self-correcting and self-perpetuating, like the universe itself. It mostly focuses on diet, yoga, and state of the mind, body, soul, and senses.
The five elements of Ayurveda are space/ether, air, fire, water and earth. Space means emptiness, allowing communication and movement. It’s place in your body is your mouth, nose, lungs and abdomen. The sense is hearing and sound. Air is defined as movement in the body and energy. It causes your respiration, ingestion and elimination and it’s sense is touch. Fire is radiant energy. Your body temperature, digestion, assimilation of thoughts and transformation correlates with this element. Fire’s sense is vision. Water is fluid and binding and represents all of the fluid in your body. Taste is water’s sense. Earth means structure, stamina, strength, and stability in our bodies. It takes shape of bones, teeth and skin, and it’s sense is smell.
There are three qualities in varying proportions that compose everything in this universe and those are Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic qualities. Sattvic means clear, light and stable. Usually causing spiritual enlightenment. Rajasic qualities are moving, motivated, or agitated. This sometimes disconnects you from your spirituality and causes attachment, rage, fear, jealousy and depression. The qualities of Tamasic are heavy, dark, boring, and inert. It reveals that darker nature of ourselves and could cause harm to yourself or others. Causing addiction depression and suicide.
There are three doshas that seem to resemble personality types. Someone should really make an easy personality quiz online to see what
Ayurveda dates back for thousands of years. It’s a system of medicine from India. The word in Sanskrit means knowledge (veda) and life (ayur). There are different segments of Ayurveda and that’s it’s five elements, three qualities, and three mind-body principles (doshas). The main reason for this holistic system is to balance yourself. They believe that your body is self-correcting and self-perpetuating, like the universe itself. It mostly focuses on diet, yoga, and state of the mind, body, soul, and senses.
The five elements of Ayurveda are space/ether, air, fire, water and earth. Space means emptiness, allowing communication and movement. It’s place in your body is your mouth, nose, lungs and abdomen. The sense is hearing and sound. Air is defined as movement in the body and energy. It causes your respiration, ingestion and elimination and it’s sense is touch. Fire is radiant energy. Your body temperature, digestion, assimilation of thoughts and transformation correlates with this element. Fire’s sense is vision. Water is fluid and binding and represents all of the fluid in your body. Taste is water’s sense. Earth means structure, stamina, strength, and stability in our bodies. It takes shape of bones, teeth and skin, and it’s sense is smell.
There are three qualities in varying proportions that compose everything in this universe and those are Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic qualities. Sattvic means clear, light and stable. Usually causing spiritual enlightenment. Rajasic qualities are moving, motivated, or agitated. This sometimes disconnects you from your spirituality and causes attachment, rage, fear, jealousy and depression. The qualities of Tamasic are heavy, dark, boring, and inert. It reveals that darker nature of ourselves and could cause harm to yourself or others. Causing addiction depression and suicide.
There are three doshas that seem to resemble personality types. Someone should really make an easy personality quiz online to see what
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