Healthy lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle can be defined as a discipline aimed at leading a proper life with optimal mental, emotional and physical health. As the saying goes, "Health is wealth", good health promotes well-being and harmony within us and among the people around us. Leading a disciplined life means understanding your body character, your mental character, and practicing emotional stability. There are many ways to achieve such a disciplined healthy lifestyle. But one of the best ways to learn about your body, mind and soul is through Ayurveda. Nowadays, Ayurveda has become more popular in Russia, and many people choose a natural and healthy lifestyle. Ayurveda is also referred to as quantum medicine because of the individual approach, therapies and philosophy.

Ayurveda talks about how permutations and combinations of the 5 elements make us who we are. One of the main aspects is to recognize that we are part of nature and mother earth. Therefore, everything that happens in the environment in which we live also happens within us. For example, early mornings are peaceful, heavy, and stable, and people tend to be calm, energetic, and focused during the early hours of the day. This is the right time to work hard as our body and environment are supportive. In the evening, in nature, it is light, and people are exhausted, restless. Therefore, in the evening it is recommended to do something slowly and calmly. We also see that people like to stay calm at the end of the day.

If we look back how our older generations lived, they respected nature. Since we take resources from the earth and it keeps us alive, it is our moral responsibility to give it back what we take. In this way, we respect ourselves and maintain a healthy ecology around us. I would also like to mention that respect is how we feel collectively as a society and individually with each other, not our inflated egos!

Another example is the COVID-19 pandemic, where many people have increased stress levels at work. Symptoms of stress can manifest themselves in different ways physically and psychologically. One with a stronger mind and body can withstand stress, but one with a weak body and mind will suffer more from stress. The body can become weak due to overwork, lack of proper nutrition, etc. A weak body manifests more of the air element. The main character of the air element is movement. Movement is important, but too much can be destructive. Too many bodily moments result in a painful and restless body. An unbalanced body leading to an unbalanced mind and unsettled emotions. In the same way, a weak mind is a mind that has so many uncontrolled thoughts, as if the mind is always flying somewhere without the permission of the owner. In a weak mind, the element of air also manifests itself. An excess of the air element leads to overthinking, anxiety, insomnia, depression, lack of attention, loss of memory, etc.,

As a result, people with unstable bodies, minds, and emotions love stability. Other factors affecting our well-being are climate, season, time of day and night, age, type of place where a person lives, nature in that place. In order to change our lifestyle, it is important to consider every day what type of activity we do, what food we eat, our sleep patterns, our daily routine. It is like our lifestyle influences our body, mind and emotions, just as our psychosomatic constitution also influences our lifestyle.

Ayurvedic consultation is the first step to understanding ourselves. Other diagnostic tools include questionnaires, pulse identification for imbalances in our psychosomatic constitution. Once we understand who we are and what imbalance we have, we can make several changes in our lifestyle depending on the constitution of our Ayurvedic body. An Ayurvedic doctor can recommend some treatments and Panchakarma, an internal cleansing process in case of excessive accumulation of toxins in the body or a strong imbalance of elements.

To lead a healthy lifestyle, you need to understand your body, mind and emotions. Seeking medical attention is essential, but I believe prevention is better than cure. And we can prevent many health problems if we know who we are.