Excerpt from Chapter 3:

“Take into account how inherently and intriguingly totally different we every are in so many basic methods.  Every of us will react in another way to any explicit scenario whether or not food regimen, climate, emotional stresses, getting older, or illness and drugs.  Each well being and illness are extremely particular person phenomena.  The course of our life continues for a finite interval, and shows each obligatory and discretionary actions that reply to conditions in attribute and predictable methods.

From the Ayurvedic perspective, every considered one of our attribute variations and similarities is an built-in manifestation of simply three qualities or gunas of our notion. A preponderance of the three basic qualities make up our individuality. These identical three qualities construction our particular person perceptions of all of creation  and are the essential instruments we use to handle our well being and sickness, and manage our very existence.

The main target of Ayurvedic therapeutic is to revive and keep the physique and thoughts’s personal illness management and resistance functionality. The supply of true therapeutic is known as coming from inside.  Every particular person has inside them an interior steering that directs them towards the suitable decisions and responses to life.  The primary query in Ayurvedic therapeutic is just not what’s the nature of the illness, however quite who’s it that has the illness. The fundamental drawback with a illness is just not a lot the illness itself, however quite the tendencies of the person who has the illness. Due to this fact, Ayurvedic well being administration begins with the person structure or prakriti, primarily based on the three qualities of nature. The pure stability of those qualities that displays one’s individuality additionally displays one’s pure wholesome situation. The Ayurvedic tips for prakriti provide an understanding of the pure tendencies, together with the underlying metabolic faults or doshas that one inherently generates. With this basis we are able to start to develop an consciousness of regular fluctuations of our pure tendencies.  If an imbalance develops we are able to shortly acknowledge and proper it earlier than it solidifies into psychological or bodily illness.

Our our bodies and minds are naturally conditioned to accommodate a certain quantity of stress, together with stresses in food regimen and variations within the surroundings to which we’re subjected, however there are limits. We will describe these as limits to our pure immunity and skill to withstand illness. By relieving a stress earlier than our restrict to that stress is reached, a illness course of might be prevented.

However when a stress exceeds our limits for pure immunity and illness resistance, our expertise of nature is compelled out of stability and a illness course of begins.  The Ayurvedic therapy protocol begins with figuring out the weak point and eradicating the stressor that’s inflicting the imbalance.  That is straight adopted by measures to alleviate the physique of its disease-borne poisonous burden, and eventually serving to the physique to revive and keep itself in its personal pure balancing course of.”

10/31/23