Ten Wonderful Ways to Enhance Your Health with Ayurveda Wellness Tips
Ayurveda encourages a balanced state of being to support good health. This balanced state includes harmonizing the mind, body and spirit. During this seasonal transition, we want to remind you of techniques you can use to stabilize and strengthen your well-being. The following list of tips can help you get your balance on.Ayurveda, an ancient system of illness prevention and treatment, centres on maintaining mind and body balance through healthy lifestyle practices that combine traditional and complementary medicine.
1.Oiling your body
Massaging oil into your body brings immediate benefits: it not only improves the texture of your skin and brings a healthy glow, but improves your sleep and reduces vata dosha in your system. Allowing vata dosha to accumulate can lead to mental agitation. Vata dosha has qualities that are rough, dry, light, mobile and cool, so an application of warm oil works as an antidote to all these qualities.
The best time to oil yourself is in the morning before bathing or showering. Because it’s light, slightly heating and penetrates well, sesame oil is good for general use for everyone. Apply oil in the direction of the growth of the hairs on your body to prevent friction. Then shower or bathe in warm water to allow your pores to open and the oil to penetrate more effectively.
2.Drinking hot water
Due to keeping an irregular schedule, eating inappropriate food and dealing with the general stress of everyday life, something called ama accumulates in your body. Ama translates as ‘undigested food juice’, and it floats around your bloodstream looking for places to lodge and start the disease process.
The qualities of ama are heaviness, cold, dampness and dullness; hot water, with its opposite properties, helps to allay the production of ama in the digestive system.
Boil water for ten minutes, decant into a flask to keep it warm, and sip it about every half an hour throughout the day. (Heating makes the water lighter in quality.) You can put a couple of slices of ginger in it to improve the effect. Check your tongue throughout the day and you’ll see it getting cleaner – meaning that it’s pink and doesn’t have any coating on it.
3.Saluting the sun
Staying flexible is the key to health in the long run, and performing the yoga sun salutepromotes a full range of movement in most of your joints. It keeps your synovial fluid circulating in your joints and helps to allay stiffness and arthritis. Yoga treats your tissues to a wash of fresh blood, lymph and prana, the vital energy force.
Perhaps the greatest benefit to you though, is that performing the sun salute is a super stress buster. Your breath moves with your body in rhythmic tandem, so that your body and mind become realigned.
If you, like many people, sit at a desk all day, it’s so easy to forget that you even have a body. Almost while you’re not looking, poor posture sets in and your breathing becomes distorted. So try three rounds of the sun salutation twice daily in the morning and evening and notice how well you feel afterwards.
Eating warm fresh food
Stress in your life leads to an increase in adrenalin, which in turn shuts down the digestive system. Warm cooked food needs less digesting. A meal of warm foods, slightly on the oily side, makes you feel satisfied with what you eat, and you’re more likely to fully digest it.
Try to cook something fresh every day. Fresh flavours alone are so much more satisfying than processed foods. Commercial products are laced with salt, sugar and preservatives, as well as being old and not giving you the vital prana you need to tackle your daily life.
Microwave ovens are bad news: they take the moisture out of food and increase the rough qualities that aggravate vata in your body. Heat your food on a hob or in a traditional or convection oven.
Getting good sleep
Deep, regular sleep is one of the main pillars of health in Ayurveda, and you need to be protective of your sleep time. Ayurveda says that abuse of the senses leads to disease, and a good rest lets the senses switch off and regenerate.
Obviously, how much sleep you need varies with age. Babies sleep most of the day, and the elderly generally sleep for five to six hours per night. If you have to catch up on your sleep, it’s far better to do this before midnight rather than sleeping late into the morning.
Meditating for mental health
There are many ways to meditate. The important thing isn’t how you do it, but that you do it. Start with 20 minutes of meditation twice daily, and once you make the commitment, events will conspire to help you.
Meditation gives your mind much-needed nourishment when you just switch off – it’s a deeper relaxation than sleeping even. Over time, you’ll notice that you’re able to make better choices and more easily ward off the effects of stress. It’s said that through meditation, both left and right hemispheres of the brain begin to work synchronously, creating a calmer, happier you.
Taking triphala
What meditation does for you on the mental level, triphala can do on the physical. This herb is held in high esteem in the Ayurvedic scriptures for its rejuvenating properties. You can use it for many purposes, but it’s most widely used to keep the colon cleansed and toned.
Triphala is available as a tincture and in powder and tablet form; the powder form is best, because it’s been messed about with the least and the potency is better.
Triphala improves immunity, slows the ageing process, improves mental faculties and serves all the different tissues of the body. It’s very safe and quite economical. Having triphala powder in the house is useful for cleansing the teeth and treating bleeding gums. Rinsing your hair with a triphala decoction adds lustre and prevents greying.
Get into the habit (particularly between seasons) of taking half a teaspoon in a cup of warm water before bed – you can add honey if you want.
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