August 25, 2024 - How Ayurveda works - practical case, tested on me

 

This morning I woke up annoyed. Whatever annoyed me, my husband talking too much, the ducks quacking too loudly, the dogs standing in my way too much, the sun was already too hot, I wanted to take some yesterday's cut potatoes out of a bowl and got my hands dirty because there were a few drops of oil in the water and that irritated me to the max. You get the idea - I was in a crazy mood to argue. And before I started looking for a knot in someone's butt, I decided to see what was wrong with me...nerves, anger, irritation mean unbalanced pitta dosha. That means too much fire in the body.

Let me remind you of the three constitutions in Ayurveda: pitta (80% fire and 20% water), vata (air and ether) and kapha (earth and water). When you are nervous, irritated and nothing goes your way, it means pitta is unbalanced. When you are anxious, fearful, have the feeling that something bad is going to happen, you are sitting with fear and stress or your head is in the clouds and you can't gather yourself, it means that vata is not quite right. And when you are depressed and you can't get up, kapha is to blame. Here are tests to see what constitution you have and other details about Ayurveda.

And I sit like this and think about what I did yesterday:

- I ate shakshouka with warm toast in the morning (lots of tomatoes in sauce, lots of tomato juice, sour, warm and brown bread, lots of fire in everything),

- I spent half a day in the sun washing some jars that I took out of the cellar, again fire and heat,

- in the evening I made a barbecue on the disc, I sat in the heat, plenty of flames under the disc, barbecue is a food that accumulates a lot of fire in it for obvious reasons;

- I drank red wine after the barbecue, again fire;

- after the meal I lit a candle on the table, so ambient, a bright orange candle and very fragrant with the aroma of oranges (again a lot of fire and intense smell);

- I ate a few slices of salami biscuits with a lot of cocoa, again fire food.

How can I not wake up irritated at how much fire energy I gathered the day before? Especially since my main constitution is pitta, meaning maximum potential for fire imbalance.

When a dosha becomes unbalanced (meaning one of the constitutions) this does not happen because of the food but is an accumulation of factors gathered from all our senses - taste, smell, sight, touch, etc. I ate a lot of fire foods, I sat in the heat, I looked at the fire... it was expected that too much fire energy would accumulate in me.

Okay, okay. I identified the problem. And now what to do?

Well, let's balance it with the opposite. Pitta is hot, dry, oily, sour, salty, spicy. This is how Ayurveda identifies it. We act in all ways with the opposite. That is, we eat sweet and bitter food, stay cool, drink lots of liquids, preferably cold or as cool as possible. I made an Ayurvedic pitta tea (sweet-bitter). I really like Everest Ayurveda teas. I'm not paid to promote them. I just like them. Hand-picked plants from clean areas in Nepal and mixtures designed by an Ayurveda specialist doctor with whom the company collaborates. Then I drank water, made myself a chicken soup with carrot (sweet) and bell pepper (bitter) which I ate warm. Today I'm staying more indoors in the cool and less in the sun. My nerves went away after the soup and tea in about half an hour. Ah...and I drank the tea in a blue mug that gives me a feeling of coolness. I also have a similar pink mug that gave me a feeling of warmth and I couldn't look at it. As I was saying, colors also matter because visually we can lose our balance.

This is my experience.

I will come back with new discoveries. I have been studying Ayurveda for a short time, but it amazes me how precisely it works and how good I feel. By the way, I am not constipated at all anymore. I find it fantastic. Since the last article about Ayurveda, my digestion has remained as good as ever after balancing vata (i.e. dryness in the body with oils, fats and tea).

Good health to everyone,

Geo

August 16, 2024 - Vata dosha balancing (Ayurveda)

 

I have written about Ayurveda and my new passion for it here. In that article, I also proposed a meditation to balance Pitta dosha, meaning the fire constitution. That is what I felt I had to start with in balancing my physical and mental health. In the meantime, I discovered that Vata dosha is not okay either (I have a Pitta constitution in the foreground and then Vata a short distance after). If you want to find out what your typology is, here is a good test, it will give the result immediately.

First of all, let me tell you a little about Vata dosha.

As I said in the other article, people fall into one or more of these constitutions identified in Ayurveda: pitta (the fire and water principle, with 80% fire), vata (air and ether/space) and kapha (earth 40% and water 60%). We are born with one or more of them, during our lives they can change, they give us strength but they can also bring us into imbalance if we don't keep them in check. What do I mean? Let's give an example with Vata while we're still talking about this. People with a Vata constitution are very intelligent, creative, adaptable, social, light as air, but they can end up with their heads in the clouds, dizzy, airy, in their own world, antisocial, unstable when they are out of balance. They also have dry hair, dry skin, constant constipation, poor digestion - these are all physical signs of the imbalance of a person with a Vata constitution.

How can you get out of balance? Well, the air is light, cold and dry. Consuming light, cold and dry foods. Too much ice cream is not good for a vata person. A hot soup is, however. A lot of cold and dry food is not good, salami with bread all day long, definitely not, a cream soup in which I added a good oil, definitely yes. Ayurveda applies the principle of balancing with the help of opposites. We eat warm, moist and oily if we are too dry, cold and light. You understand. At the same time, a cold environment is bad for a vata person, a warm environment is not. Or the lack of a routine in life, of an organization, of a clear program can make an "airy vata" become even more "airy", more "scattered", more "with his head in the clouds". We balance the air with fire and earth attributes, with attributes that warm and give the state of grounding, of security, of being "with my feet on the ground".

How did I think of this meditation that I first applied to myself? I took all the unbalanced attributes of Vata, asked the Creator to extract and cancel them and replace them with their balanced version, including on the physical side.

- I eliminated fatigue and replaced it with rest, peace and tranquility;

- I eliminated the lack of adaptability, attachment to routine and replaced it with adaptability and desire for newness;

- I eliminated the lack of sociability and replaced it with the desire to communicate and socialize;

- I eliminated the lack of enthusiasm and replaced it with enthusiasm and joy;

- I eliminated the lack of creativity and replaced it with creativity, imagination, innovation;

- I eliminated the inability to listen to my intuition and replaced it with the ability to always understand and listen to my intuition;

- I replaced the unbalanced physical attributes - dry hair and skin, constipation, poor digestion, dryness in the body;

- I replaced fears and anxiety with courage, peace, calm, peace of mind, attention, mental clarity;

- I took instability and replaced it with its opposite.

The steps of a Theta meditation can be found here (before listening to the recording, it is necessary to enter the Theta state, the meditation is listened to with your eyes closed and the program changes are confirmed by "yes/accept". Complete the meditation below. At the end, you say. Thank you, it is fulfilled, show me.

What are my results?

I have been "attacking" vata dosha from several sides for several days - I drink vata balancing tea from Everest daily, I eat more hydrating oils because I saw that although I drank a lot of water daily, I was not hydrated, I use more face creams and hair oils, I drink hot drinks tea/soup (but not in excess so as not to upset pitta dosha, i.e. the fire principle). I feel much better, more balanced and the big victory: 2 stools a day, daily, instead of one dry one every 3-4 days. Yes, a little gross, but it is part of the vata imbalances, I had to tell you about it him.

All the best,

Geo

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