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Ayurvedic DoshaHow Tridosha & Psychological Humors Be Out Of BalanceAyurvedic dosha are essential to define health and disease. Health is the balance of humors, tissues and waste materials. Their imbalance is disease. Health is happiness and disease is unhappiness. With balance comes synergy of the living being and greater fulfilling health. Find the causes of this imbalance. Causes Of Imbalance Of Physical & Psychological Ayurvedic Dosha:Charaka mentioned three main causes for the imbalance of ayurvedic dosha - Vata, Pitta and Kapha and two psychological humors Rajas and Tamas. Actually this description includes all the causes of diseases - genetic, dietary, lifestyle, emotional, behavioral, spiritual and so on. Practically every cause is included. Give this description of ayurvedic dosha a solid try in your life by pondering for some time on these concepts of holistic health and holistic medicine. (1) Improper Contact Of The subjects Of Ten Senses & Ayurvedic Dosha:There are ten sense organs; Five cognitive sensory organs like ear, skin, eyes, tongue and nose perceive five cognitive sensations; Five executive organs like anus, penis or vagina, tongue for speech, hands for capturing, legs for moving. All that we receive are five sensations - music, sound, noise; temperature, touch, massage, sweating and radiations, sunlight; all the tasty or bad food, nutritious or fat rich food, preservatives and chemicals, fast food, wholesome food and so on; TV shows both good and bad, sex promoting scenes, good or unpleasant scenes and later their effects; good or bad odor, breathing pure or polluted air, air conditioned air; environmental hazards, radiation hazards and more. If we ponder over all things that can be had in this category, it would be astoundingly great figure. All of us carry our peculiar set of sensations that we like or dislike or we are comfortable with or uncomfortable. The improper use consists of three types of use - excessive use, limited use and wrong use. Let us take the example of TV. It is OK to see some of the good serials. Excessive use of TV and becoming a potato couch is definitely bad and harmful for health. Not viewing TV at all or very little can keep us limited of this wonderful resource of news, serials, stories, movies, entertainment, new debates, consensus and the like. Wrong use is viewing it from too close, or too far and straining the eyes, getting wrong message from movies or serials like someone getting inspired wrongly for murder, rape or suicide. Other examples can relate to food - balanced food, fat rich food, salads; exercise; music; getting in touch with nature. Take any example and you will see the holistic science being operated. Understanding the proper and improper use is essential to good health. This understanding helps to keep ayurvedic dosha under normal conditions and then balanced ayurvedic dosha will make us healthy. (2) Violating The Intelligence & Ayurvedic Dosha:The principle of mind or intelligence is threefold. First one is decision making mind, second one is mind that can hold on the right decision and third one is the memory that supports the decision making and the perseverance of mind during the execution phase. The improper use of the threefold intelligence again in three ways - excessive, minimal and wrong use. Emotional upsets, psychological disorders, behavioral problems, habits, personality, character, mental strength and crime are some of the factors that come under this violation. (3) Time Bound Violations:Time means day and night, weeks, fortnight, month, age, seasons, environmental conditions like climate, place like general, forests, hilly area, near ocean, icy mountains and likewise. The improper use of time and place bound factors is also threefold like excessive, minimal use and wrong use. Strenuous exercise by a child or old person or suddenly by anyone; not taking proper sleep; living in damp area, dark area and poorly ventilated home; unhygienic conditions; eating unripe fruits, eating too much preserved food are all examples of violations of time and place. If we combine all the three factors and be only a little careful while having our choices, these principles can help us attain better and greater and more fulfilling health of body, mind and soul. We will be able to deal with disease in a more balanced and holistic way, the ayurvedic way. Concluding Ayurvedic Dosha:Ayurvedic dosha and the causative factors of its imbalance are a definite guide to keep ayurvedic dosha in balanced and synergistic condition. Our health will be maintained and diseases will go away easily by living in accordance with this information to keep ayurvedic dosha in balanced functionality.
Ayurveda Doshas
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