Ayurvedic Assessment of Balance and Imbalance
in Psychological Disorders:
The
build-up of chemical imbalances in the physiology can create psychological
imbalance. These impurities often aggregate due to poor diet, weak digestion
and blocked elimination. According to Ayurveda, psychological disturbances
start when fundamental imbalances develop in the deepest level of physiological
functioning, the biological intelligence that controls all bodily processes.
Biological
intelligence has three divisions called Vata, Pitta and Kapha. When Vata is
imbalanced a person becomes prone to anxiety, fear, mental instability and
insomnia. When Pitta is imbalanced the individual becomes prone to anger and
irritability. When Kapha is imbalanced the person is prone to lethargy and
depression.
The
actual symptoms the person is prone to often manifest most clearly when the
person undergoes periods of excessive mental and physical stress. Also
disruption of natural biological rhythms can trigger the manifestation of these
various symptoms.
Because
psychological disorders can be created by so many factors, the Ayurvedic
assessment of balance and imbalance does not simply identify the gross physical
abnormality and match up drugs to a symptom. This is because people can have
the same disease for different reasons. For example, ten people could walk into
a doctor's office with a headache and have it for ten different reasons.
Likewise not everyone has psychological disorders for the same reasons.
The
Root Causes of Psychological Disorders:
Since
psychological disorders can be influenced by many factors, such as diet,
digestion, toxin accumulation, stress, exercise levels and daily routine, the
Ayurvedic approach to these conditions is a comprehensive one that balances
many physiological functions simultaneously.
Natural
Treatment Program for Psychological Disorders:
Following
is a discussion of how Eeshanayurveda Centre program for chronic
conditions provides the most comprehensive set of natural recommendations
available today to address the true causes of psychological disorders. These
therapies are not only effective at removing the imbalances at the basis of
chronic disorders but also have no side-effects. The goal of this approach is
to enliven the body's natural healing and self-repair ability not only to help
cure psychological disorders, but also to prevent disorders and create the
highest state of health and well-being.
1) Removing the Build-up of Toxins and
Impurities
Most
chronic disorders start when toxins accumulate in tissues and begin to disrupt
the delicate biochemistry there. Toxin build-up can also obstruct the channels
of circulation and elimination. This blockage prevents proper nutrition from
reaching the tissues and blocks the processes that cleanse them of impurities.
Our
Ayurvedic Consultant will provide natural recommendations to remove and help
prevent toxin accumulation from:
1. Hard-to-digest
food
2. Poor
digestion
3. Poor
elimination
4. Improper
metabolism
5. Mental
and physical stress
Rejuvenation Therapy Treatments:
Rejuvenation
therapy treatments address the problem of toxin accumulation by systematically:
1. Loosening
impurities that have become embedded in tissues and helping liquefy them for
easy absorption into the circulation and eventual elimination.
2. Softening
and opening the channels of circulation and elimination so proper nourishment
can reach the tissues and impurities can be more easily eliminated from them.
3. Activating
the elimination process for the most thorough cleansing of the entire
physiology.
Herbalised Oil Massage
Our
Ayurvedic Consultant will choose specific herbalised oil that is individually
prepared for your condition. Herbalised oil massage provides a deeply soothing
and balancing effect for the entire physiology. The motion of massage creates
heat and friction which enhance circulation and help cleanse affected tissues
of chemical impurities that could be causing symptoms of psychological
disorders. The oil and herbs cleanse and nourish the tissues to aid their
repair and development. The various herbs that have been boiled into base oil,
and the oil itself, are specifically chosen for their effect on removing the
imbalances at the basis of your condition. The oil helps the balancing process
by allowing the herbs to more deeply penetrate the affected tissues.
2) Proper Nutrition
Our
Ayurvedic Consultant will provide you with detailed understanding of which
foods to favor and avoid for your condition. Avoid foods that are
hard-to-digest, clogging to the physiology and aggravating to the functioning
modes that are already imbalanced in you. Favor foods that are easy-to-digest,
nourishing, cleanse the physiology, strengthen digestion and balance your
body's inner intelligence. One of the great strengths of the Ayurvedic dietary
approach is that it contains knowledge of how to have a light, easy-to-digest
diet that still is both satisfying and nourishing. Many individuals have easily
followed this diet and have improved their digestion and energy while also
reducing their symptoms.
Ayurvedic Herbs
Herbs
are considered nutritional supplements in Ayurveda. Their purpose is to restore
balance to the specific functioning modes whose malfunctioning is causing your
condition. During your consultation, our Ayurvedic Consultant select the appropriate
herbal formulas for aiding the healing process, strengthening digestion and
helping the body purify itself of toxins and free radicals.
Free
radicals are a specific class of chemicals that are highly irritating to the
physiology. Scientific research has found that free radicals contribute to a
wide variety of disorders. When appropriate, our Ayurvedic Consultant can
recommend herbs that research has shown to be powerful anti-oxidants and free
radical scavengers. Ayurvedic herbs can also have a holistic influence of
balancing and nourishing the entire physiology.
3) Creating strong digestion:
Our
ability to properly digest food is as important as what specific food we eat.
Incompletely digested foods create toxins and impurities that are eventually
absorbed, travel throughout the physiology, localize in tissues and disrupt
their functioning. This process plays a major role in a wide variety of chronic
conditions, including psychological disorders. Our Ayurvedic Consultant will
provide recommendations for strengthening digestion including information in
the following areas:
·
Proper use of spices and cooking oils.
·
Herbal preparations for improving digestion.
·
Important differences between breakfast, lunch and dinner foods.
·
A simple system to determine a balanced diet.
·
Digestion-enhancing foods to favor.
·
Digestion-depressing foods to reduce.
·
Eating behavior for maximum digestion.
·
Proper food combinations to avoid indigestion.
· Non-dietary regiments to improve digestive strength including
exercise, specific Yoga asanas and breathing techniques.
4) Balancing nervous system activity:
The
nervous system controls most bodily functions, and almost every chronic
condition is affected in some way when the nervous system activity becomes
imbalanced. According to Ayurveda, the physiological principle at the basis of
nervous system stability and activation is called Vata. Because nervous system
imbalance contributes to psychological disorders, from the Ayurveda perspective
Vata imbalance is an underlying cause of the condition and needs to be
reversed. Ayurveda contains a wide variety of time-tested recommendations to
help balance Vata and remove the symptoms caused by its aggravation. These
include specific diets, herbs, cleansing programs, meditation, Yoga asanas and
Yoga breathing exercises.
5) Stress management:
Excessive
mental, emotional and physical stress can worsen the symptoms of many chronic
disorders, including psychological disorders. This is due to hormonal changes
and other biochemical responses to stress that can imbalance the nervous system
and depress the healing ability of the body. Enhancing the body's ability to
recover from stress is an integral part of Eeshanayurveda Centre’s
approach to health and well-being.
You
have the option of learning how to meditate. Meditation has a wealth of
scientific research verifying its effect on reducing many of the mental and
stress factors associated with psychological disorders. Research shows that
meditation creates virtually the opposite physiological response that stress
does and helps the body recover more quickly from stressful stimuli.
6) Lifestyle and Daily Routine:
One
of the most important factors for maintaining healthy functioning is to have a
lifestyle that does not disturb natural bodily rhythms. When we eat, sleep and
exercise in constantly fluctuating and disturbing patterns, the body loses its
natural balancing cycles and cannot cleanse or heal itself as effectively.
Therefore, regularity in our daily routine can be extremely effective in reducing
physiological imbalance at the basis of psychological disorders.
Our
Ayurvedic Consultant will review your daily routine and provide the information
you need to create a daily schedule that will increase balance in your
physiology and aid in healing your body.
7) Yoga therapy:
Ayurveda
considers proper stretching and flexibility exercises to have a very positive
effect on circulation, nervous system function, the body's healing response and
the treatment of many chronic conditions.
We
can teach you a simple and highly effective set of Yoga
postures that can be practiced daily to improve circulation and create a
healthy flexibility throughout the body. This will open the energy channels and
energize the energy centres. We also instruct you in individualized Yoga
breathing practices that create a state of restful alertness in mind and body.
8) Strengthening the body's natural healing
and self-repair mechanisms:
Ultimately
every treatment approach must depend on the body's natural healing ability for
a real cure of the condition. Ayurveda‘s approach is not to attack the
disease with something from the outside, like drugs or surgery, but to attempt
to enliven the innate healing response of the body. The healing response is one
of the most complex and coordinated activities within the human physiology and
often cannot be strengthened significantly without a comprehensive natural
approach. When it is
necessary to have an integrative approach through modern medicine, a
psychiatric consultation will be necessary.
Ayurveda
believes that many manifestations of diseases are rooted in the very innermost
layers of the mind making it possible to have been carried from past lives.
Vedic astrology could shed light to diagnose such causes and recommend
remedies. We offer full service in this area.
Sinusitis
is an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses (air-filled cavities inside the
bones of the skull). The sinuses are air-filled spaces in the skull. They are
located behind the forehead, nasal bones, cheeks, and eyes. Normal functional
sinuses contain no bacteria or other germs, mucus drains out and air is able to
flow through the sinuses.Anything interfering with the flow of air into and
drainage of mucus out of the sinuses can cause sinusitis, that is when the
sinus openings become blocked or too much mucus builds up.
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