21/02/2020
health tips for every day vitality
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Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle is not complicated or hard. Especially when you know about these Ayurvedic health tips that will provide a structure and rhythm to your life.
Ayurveda’s emphasis is on everyday disease prevention rather than the cure of specific symptoms. Disease prevention is rooted in our everyday lifestyle.
There are natural rhythms to each day and the more we align with these natural rhythms, the more balanced and harmonious we feel. Following these natural rhythms is called .
(Din = day, acharya = to follow – or to follow the rhythms of the day).
One of the best ways to connect and align with this energy is to rise early and connect with your soul. For thousands of years yogis known about this spiritually elevated time when these higher energies dominate.
Every day two waves of change pass through us, each bringing a Vata, Pitta, and Kapha cycle. The approximate times of these cycles are as follows:
Cycle of the Day:
6 am – 10 am Kapha time of day
10 am – 2 pm Pitta time of day
2 pm – 6 pm Vata time of day
Cycle of the Day
6 pm – 10 pm Kapha time of night
10 pm – 2 am Pitta time of night
2 am – 6 am Vata time of night
Here comes the sun! Aim to wake up and get out of bed with the sunrise. Ancient Vedic texts say between 4 and 6 am there is pure, clear, and peaceful energy that pervades planet earth. It is called Sattva Guna.
One of the best ways to connect and align with this energy is to rise early and connect with your soul. For thousands of years yogis known about this spiritually elevated time when these higher energies dominate.
Start a simple self-care morning routine.
▪️Drink a big glass of room temperature water to flush the kidneys and intestines. If you have a lemon, squeeze half into the water.
▪️Try to eliminate at the same time every morning.
▪️Splash your face and eyes with water.
▪️Brush your teeth and scrape your tongue using a copper tongue scrapper. Start at the back of your tongue and pull forward till you’ve removed any coating. Any coating on your tongue will indicate you didn’t digest yesterday’s food well.
▪️Massage the body (abhyanga) with good sesame oil or abhyanga oil. Start with the head and scalp, work down the neck to arms and torso (even strokes on the long bones and circular strokes at the joints. This massage need not be long. Five minutes is good. Take a shower or bath using mild soap.
▪️Exercise a little doing some yoga and breathing exercises.
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Make lunch the main meal of the day. Why? Because proper digestion is the key to amazing health. Just as the sun is the highest and hottest mid-day, so too is your internal fire, so your ability to digest food is most significant between 10 am – 2 pm. Since you are part of nature, your body mirrors the rhythms of the day.
▪️Literally, you are what you digest… And if you’re not digesting well, you will become diseased by the food that does not fully digest.
▪️Only fill your stomach 1/3 full. The correct ratio in the gut is 1/3 food, 1/3 liquid, and 1/3 space. (Yes, you need space for the food to digest). The ideal portion of food is what you can hold in your two cupped hands joined together.
▪️Eat peacefully and mindfully and try to avoid distractions like television, eating at your desk or in front of your computer, or while driving in your car. Multi-tasking while eating causes incomplete digestion which causes many illnesses.
▪️Chew your food well. Digestion begins in the mouth and chewing creates more surface area which is vital to good digestion.
▪️Be grateful for the food and all the people who made it possible for you to have the food (farmers, truck drivers, grocers, whoever prepared it for you).
As the sun sets so does your ability to digest well, so eat a lighter meal in the evening. Soups and stews are perfect for colder months, and fruit and salads are good in warmer months. A good time to eat is between 6:30 and 7 pm. This gives you ample time to digest the food. A short walk (10-15 minutes) is good for digestion.
▪️Sleeping just after dinner with a heavy stomach is not conducive to sound sleep.
Go to sleep around 10 pm. Between 10 pm and 2 am your liver is most active. It’s your housekeeper and it works while you’re sleeping. If you’re still awake and god-forbid eating at this time of night, it cannot do its job of detoxification.
▪️If you have trouble falling asleep, massage the soles of your feet with warm sesame oil. This calms your nervous system and helps you sleep really well. Also, the practice of Yoga Nidra(yogic sleep) is amazing for putting you in sweet slumber.
