Ayurveda is an ancient medicine and at the same time a real philosophy of life; prevention in the Ayurvedic perspective is very important and is all geared towards understanding the disease in a profound sense, not only as a symptom, but as a manifestation of an imbalance.
Anyone who comes close to an Acharya (teacher), who may also be a Vaidya (Ayurvedic expert), comes into contact with an ancient knowledge, characterized by extreme richness and depth, where women and men are seen in their physical constitution, in the course of their thoughts, in the state of their digestive fire .
But even those who have not come into contact with a teacher and are interested in self-taught Ayurvedic knowledge can open themselves to the road to capture new aspects of themselves.
And that is how healing passes through self-knowledge, inevitably. The symptom is not something to plug or silence but to listen to.
Taking care of one's thoughts is the way to well-being, observing them, seeing their quality and trying to improve it with effort and without haste.
Ayurveda from awakening to dinner
Ayurveda teaches us to manage the arc of the day according to the rules of the dinacharya, that is the daily behavior that is the basis of a healthy life model.
According to the basic practice, you wake up early, dedicate at least an hour and a half to yourself and body care, proceeding with the cleaning of the tongue, in self-massage with oils, with hair care, taking care of the own eyes and then with exercise .
In this sense, yogic practice helps to rebalance the various points of the energy body and the physical body. True, however, that even a minimum exercise of personal choice, even a fusion of practices acquired over time, all of this also works well.
Then comes the time for breakfast to be made following the ayurvedic food rules settled on a single person: each of us is in fact a precise and incomparable balance between at least two of the main doshas .
According to Ayurveda, in fact, each individual is an expression of the three natural principles ( Vata, Pitta, Kapha ) that characterize the psychophysical aspect and the individual predisposition towards imbalances and diseases.
Basically, in Ayurveda you don't eat immediately when you wake up, but you don't even expect 13 to eat lunch. There is therefore a first basic meal followed by a lunch consumed when the fire inside us (and the sun in the sky) is at its maximum and digestion is faster.
Dinner should also be made before 8pm and usually digestible foods such as cooked vegetables and rice are chosen.
In meals usually cooked and raw foods are not mixed, to facilitate "the intelligence of digestion". A conflict at the level of the digestive fire is avoided and a balance is sought instead.
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Other Ayurvedic indications on hygiene and lifestyle
The meal, whatever it is, is never too abundant. We usually recommend two fists of food per meal, of which 50% is solid food, 25% is liquid food and the remaining 25% is that void that promotes digestion, the space within which the transformation mechanisms of the food.
In the choice of food obviously foods that are not Indian are not excluded, since in our tradition we find foods that can be contextualized in the logic of the five elements: water, air, earth, fire and ether.
Food is both cure and prevention : where the disease occurs in ayurveda what really matters is the active process of the patient, which implies becoming aware of the three elements that in ayurveda should always be in balance: activity, nutrition and rest.
Fatigue or illness must be traced to the imbalance of these three aspects. In fact, reviewing these aspects inevitably leads to improving the quality of thoughts and emotions .
