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How to Lead a Healthy and Happy Life, the Ayurveda Way

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Ayurveda, the science of life gives elaborate guidelines to ensure a healthy and happy life. Life according to Ayurvedic terms and directions will be healthy, happy and pleasant.

Here are a few tips to lead a healthy and happy life.

Dinacharya â€“ healthy days

Dinam means a day and charya means practice or routine. Ayurvedic dinacharya is complete with directions for a healthy daily routine. Ayurvedic dinacharya includes a set of daily practices. It includes waking up before sunrise, bathing and taking food at set times, the levels of physical exertion, the kind of people to mingle with, the kind of thoughts, words and action, etc.

Ayurvedic dinacharya doesnâ€™t allow one to use oneâ€™s physique beyond its endurance levels. It is also required that a person must mingle with people of high qualities like love, compassion, truthfulness and reliability. Thoughts and actions must be pure and shall not bring harm or loss to others.

Food â€“ Ayurvedic healthy food

Our stomach is not a waste box to deposit junk food. One should take only healthy food items that bring health to heart and body.

Vegetarian food is recommended by Ayurveda as the best food.

One shall eat only when he or she feels hungry. Snacks between meals, eating for pleasure etc are practices that upset normal digestive functions. It takes about 20 hours to completely digest the food we eat. We shall allow enough time for the stomach to completely digest the food before we eat the next meal. It is not normally possible in todayâ€™s world. Make sure you take only as much food as your body requires.

Alcohol

Alcohol consumption is not completely banned in Ayurveda. If you take â€˜alcohol as a medicine, it will act as a medicineâ€™. When taken in excess amounts it will upset your body and mind in different ways. Very moderate amount is actually good for digestion (especially of non-vegetarian food).

Sleep habits

Everyone must have a look at his or her sleep habits. Do you go to bed late in the night and sleep till noon? It is very unhealthy. Remember the nursery rhyme â€˜early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wiseâ€™. Ayurveda has been telling exactly the same thing for about 4000 years now.

One must wake up in the morning with the sun. Students must wake up before sunrise. Take bath before sunrise and do some meditation or suryanamaskar to give the day the perfect start it deserves.

About daily thoughts, words and actions

Be careful about your thoughts, words and action. If you let your thoughts go uncontrolled, it can take you to bad words and bad actions. This will in turn affect your mind and your mind will be filled with negative energies like hatred, jealousy etc. Staying positive in your thoughts, words and action gives your mind a pleasant experience. Daily good deeds will make your heart dwell in joy. It is not accepting, but giving. Do something good to others on a daily basis without ever expecting anything in return.

Mingling with people

Choose the people you mingle with. If you mingle with a group of people dispelling negative emotions, your mind will quickly become troubled. If you deal with people who are of high caliber and see life on a positive life, your mind too will stay on a positive note. The psychological energy that interacts is not quickly identified, but has its effect on your mind and your happiness.

Keeping good relationships with god

The life of an average person from Kerala would start with a bath in a temple pond and darshan at the nearby temple. It is early in the morning and is the perfect start for the day. Evening start with lighting a wick before their deity and reciting Ramayana or divine words.

This is indeed a good practice to keep oneself mentally healthy and happy.

Ayurveda principles thus are not just about diagnosing people or making prescriptions. Ayurveda is all about leading a healthy life in all fronts. Ayurveda addresses a person on an emotional level, mental level, physical level and divine metaphysical level.

Health & Fitness – Through – Prana Energy

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Our body is actually composed of two parts: the visible physical body and the invisible energy body called the bioplasmic body or astral body. Many of the alternative healing systems, like Reiki, Pranik healing, acupuncture. Aroma therapy, yoga, Crystal therapy, sujok, to name a few is based on maintaining and balancing different vital energies in the bioplasmic energy body. This vital energy is very important for life to exist. PRANA is the sum total of all energy that is manifested in the universe. As oxygen is vital for keeping our physical body alive, this vital energy PRANA is as vital for the bioplasmic body to work, as electricity in needed in functioning of electronic circuit. If you are not healthy, exhausted or weak, it is because that your vital energy in the astral body is low or not in balance. Energy, what ever may the form like electricity, magnetism, nuclear, have polarity, so the PRANA also has polarity which can be called as yin and yang in Chinese, and Ida and Pingala in Indian yoga systems. This astral body consists of many meridians, channels, chakras or energy centers which circulate and distribute the vital force in the astral body through different meridians or nadis. PRANA is absorbed through the air we breathe, food, water, sun shine and also by the different chakras present in the astral body from the ambient.

There is plenty of literature and information available about the astral/bioplasmic body in many of oriental alternative healing systems after all these different healing systems are well established and practiced since ages by many civilizations. You simply cannot rule out that these alternative healing systems are base less as no physical evidence available to confirm. Much of the fundamental concepts in these systems is metaphysical and cannot be verified on physical grounds and one should study these systems and concepts to understand. All the philosophies of religions, psychology and the concept of mind, themselves are metaphysical in nature.

Our whole body is totally bio-electrical in nature. Every cell has electrical potential difference in them to carry out the different functions needed to obtain nutrients. Whole of brain and nervous system are functioning on bio-electrical impulses in parallel with the meridians, carrying the vital force, PRANA in the form of yin and yang. Some years ago, Dr., A.E. Baines stated in a paper entitled “The origin and problem of life” that there are three things that militate against continuance of vigorous life for prolonged periods. One is physical deterioration; another is gradual failure of generation of nerve force; and the third is falling in the production of certain glands that vitalize body and brain. All the glands secreting the vital hormones are just located on the map of energy chakras of the astral body and all of we know that how important are the functioning of these glands in prolonging healthy and vigorous life. Much of your old age problems and debility are the result of the malfunctioning and unhealthy conditions of the vital glands. Many rejuanation therapies are based on replenishing the hormone levels in our body to optimum levels. The practice of yoga is the foremost and very effective method in activating and rejuanating these glands to optimum levels and canalizing and unblocking the flow of PRANA to these glands and there by you can enjoy life in all levels for many years.

All the flora and fauna present in the nature are loads of the vital energy, PRANA and in exploring the full potential of utilizing this vital energy you should lead certain life style and practices

1) Try to live as near to the natural surroundings with plenty of open space with clean air.

2) Near water falls as water falls are great generators of PRANA, when water runs on rocks of crystal matrix as generally found in volcanic rock formations and the concentrations of negative ions in the ambient air are potential carriers of PRANA.

3) Under some big and flowering trees, as many of big grown up trees like oak, banyan, neem, peepal release vital energies around them.

4) Practice of pranayam for few minutes, as described in Patanjali yoga systems is a wonderful technique in absorbing fresh PRANA from the air and cleansing the chakras and unblocking the meridians.

5) Go for vegetarian diets, containing fresh vegetables and ripe fruits, as they contain greater amounts of the life giving vital energies, natural vitamins, minerals and variety of essential ingredients which are easily absorbed and assimilated in the body and also to get rid of harmful toxins from the body. Non-vegetarian food derived from animals & other live- stocks contain volatile deceased PRANA and violent psychic impressions embedded in them due to the extreme pain and torture endured during killing and also the intake of non- vegetarian food increases the production of uric acid in the blood, which is a toxin.

6) Avoid stale, processed and junk food as they contain no or very less PRANA and much of their nutritional value are destroyed during the process and their toxic levels are high due to the addition of harmful chemicals for preservation, coloring and taste enhancing. All the above facts and the energy levels could be seen through Kirlien photography and allied techniques.

7) Keep away from anger, sorrow, depression and revenge as they consume lot of PRANA and there by weakening your astral body. Not only your physical body is affected but also much harmful deceased energies enter your astral body from the ambient atmosphere.

Avoid visiting hospitals, cemeteries, abattoirs and places where torture is a thing as they are full of negative and deceased energies. If your astral body is weak and lacking PRANA, then there is a chance for the deceased energies entering your astral body and you end up with ailment.

9) Occasionally visit some holy places like historical religious places, natural springs, shrines, caves in mountain ranges and botanical gardens as they are full of PRANA in the surrounding air and always remain in cheerful and compassionate mental state when you are visiting these places. By doing so your astral body absorbs much of PRANA as your astral body vibrates in harmony and in resonance with the ambient energy potential.

10) Occasionally take a swim in clean sea waters, natural springs or in running streams as they are great cleansers of astral body.

11) Once in a year or at least once in two years, try to get rid of the body’s toxins and waste products by naturopathy to ensure its good health. And when it starts to flush out these unwanted materials, the body is said to be in the process of purifying itself. While doing it, the body may begin to experience changes and even diseases.

The purpose of naturopathy is to initiate the body’s ability to heal itself. Our bodies have antibodies that work naturally and spontaneously whenever it detects something wrong inside. But if the disease outnumbers these antibodies, the body’s balance is disrupted. With the use of naturopathy and naturopaths, then a remedy to the sickness is served and the antibodies are reinforced. The body then will attempt to start the healing process again.

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