August 5, 2024 - Pitta Dosha (Ayurveda) and the specific characteristics to balance

 

About 2 months ago I accidentally (or not?) came across a post on Facebook that talked about the 3 main types of physical and psychological constitutions (dosha in Sanskrit, which means impurities). What are these? Simple and clear - they are those elements that make us up, that give us life force, but which can also unbalance us if we don't keep them under control. Each person has a certain constitution made up of one or more of the elements fire, water, air, ether and earth. The Indians have grouped these possible combinations into 3 constitutions:

- pitta dosha - the combination of fire and water, 80% fire, 20% water - these are very energetic people who make things work, the initiators of projects, those who don't sit in one place at all, always on the go, but who also easily ignite and "burn" everything around them;

- vata dosha - the combination of air and ether - the extraordinarily creative people, full of ideas, with a mind as light as air, but sometimes with their "head in the clouds";

- kapha dosha - 40% earth, 60% water - the very stable, steadfast people, "with their feet on the ground", reliable, but difficult to steer in one direction.

We can have one or more dominant doshas. I am pitta, the child pitta and vata, the husband all three. They are tests to see where we fit in. These doshas are also our strengths, but also those that can weaken us greatly if they are not in balance. I will not write here everything I have learned about them, I invite you to study, but what I can tell you is that each of these types of people can become unbalanced when we eat the wrong food for each (too many fire foods - chili peppers, spices, sour food - in the case of the fire constitution for example), when we stay in the wrong environment for a long time (e.g. in a cold and humid environment for the earth dosha which is cold and humid anyway) or when we perpetuate characteristic negative feelings for too long (sadness, depression for example for the vata dosha or anger for the pitta dosha). I will give you just a few examples. I repeat, it is useful to study in as much detail as possible. It is a new field for me too, but extremely fascinating.

Balancing is done by appealing to elements opposite to those of which we are made. For example, in the case of pitta, instead of eating sour and spicy, we will add bitter, sweet (healthy ones of course, such as fruits) or astringent foods to the diet. The worst thing is, those tastes that we generally don't like because we are attracted to those specific to us. With watermelon I managed to regulate my constipation in just a few hours!! So you can see how well it works if you know what to do. Now I drink water every morning with a teaspoon of milk thistle seed powder (which are sweet and bitter) and I haven't had any problems for over a week. I used to be constipated for months in a row.

Well, well... I extended it but it was necessary.

I balanced the physical part a little, but spiritually I still didn't feel balanced. And I decided to read what are those characteristics of pitta (if you are also interested in vata or kapha, please write to me in the comments, maybe I can design balancing meditations for those too) that make me unbalanced. As I said, pitta are energetic people, leaders, project initiators, long-distance people who make things work. Yes...they are also aggressive sometimes, angry, critical, furious. I wrote down all the negative characteristics of this dosha (you have them below), I intuitively noted the programs that inspired me for each characteristic, then I released them with the help of the Theta meditation that you will find below, adding to each of them the definition and the truth from the highest plane related to the opposite characteristic of each. For example, I took out "I am aggressive" and I downloaded the feeling of being peaceful...and so on.

The meditation is long, about 25 minutes, arm yourself with patience and look for a quiet environment where you will not be disturbed.

Enter as usual before listening to it in the theta state.

For those who have not taken the theta courses: theta is a deep state of relaxation, similar to the one before sleep, but in which our consciousness is still awake. We reach it by following these steps:

1. We breathe deeply with our eyes closed several times, optionally we can imagine during the exhalation how we release all the negative things that no longer serve us

2. We go with our attention to our heart

3. We go with our attention to the center of the Earth from where we gather as much energy as possible, which we ascend through the soles of our feet to the top of our head where it emerges forming a protective globe of light around us

4. We imagine that we ascend with this globe above the house, the city, the Earth, we pass through layers and layers of light and darkness until we reach a plane with pearly white light, the highest plane and in which the creator of All welcomes us to whom we address the meditation recorded below. During the meditation it is normal to yawn. Yawning is a form of release of energy. After each released program it is recommended to say yes/I receive/I release in your mind because everything is done with your consent.

After the command "Show me" we can stay for a few moments to see if the All Creator has something concrete to show us, images, sounds, anything we receive intuitively.

5. Finally we give thanks and imagine how we take the newly accumulated energy back to the center of the Earth and then we go up through our soles into the entire body - the grounding process.

The purpose of the meditation is to extract from the subconscious the programs that no longer serve us and to download beneficial ones instead, starting from the premise that these programs from the subconscious are the ones that actually lead our lives.

We worked on the following:

being aggressive vs. I downloaded being peaceful

being conflictive vs. being a pacifist and feeling peaceful

showing superiority vs feeling equal

judging vs being thoughtful/thoughtful, forgiving/forgiving, appreciating/appreciating and understanding/being understanding

suffering from pride vs being modest

being manipulative vs having common sense, empathy, altruism, trust

suffering from jealousy vs being happy for the successes of others

being irritable being calm

blaming others vs taking responsibility

fighting, being combative vs peace/pacifist

having obsessions/burning desires vs accepting life, the flow of life, my needs are met

being competitive vs collaborating, femininity (starting from the idea that being competitive is a masculine characteristic)

discriminating vs accepting others as they are, equality

criticizing vs idem judging

being egocentric vs being altruistic

being hostile vs. being friendly

being impatient vs. being patient and enjoying peace

being angry vs. being calm, quiet, temperate

being harsh vs. being gentle

Have a joyful day,

Geo