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India is in a unique position to resist disease and educate the rest of the world, because she is home to the world’s supreme natural health care systems. Ayurveda, Yoga and Yajna offer remedies for every stress-related disease. Here are a few simple, powerful, time-tested techniques, in addition to washing hands and social distancing. Ayurveda recommends respecting your food and eating moderately. Do not overeat. Avoid processed, packaged foods, bleached white sugar and bleached white flour. Reduce fried food, dairy, cold foods and cold drinks. Improve your diet. Favour organic food. Reduce toxic food grown with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, which poison the earth. Grow fresh, organic veggies in a backyard garden (if you have one). Compost and recycle. Eliminate red meat from your diet. Reduce consumption of fish and fowl in order to aid your digestion and to reduce the confinement and torture of helpless animals. Industrial meat production is a crime against natur...

In India river buffaloes are enjoying their bath, donkeys are drinking, people are  taking a bath, clothes are being washed – and the same water is perhaps being  drunk by some. But the Westerner going to India cannot drink any available water  because all water is polluted, has amoebas, and is not right for drinking. His  immunity has been destroyed by too much protection. Real medicine should give you immunity rather than take it away. It should make  you stronger, able to fight any infection rather than make you weak so that you are vulnerable to all kinds of infections. It has been observed that rich people fall sick more often than poor people. Poor people cannot afford it; rich people can. If the poor can manage one meal a day, that is very fortunate – but they are not sick. Rich people, even in the East, are more sick. In Ayurveda, a few diseases are defined as royal diseases. First you have to be able to afford them. A famous psychologist, Delgado, had b...

Eating is what we do when we’re hungry or when it is the designated mealtime of the day. But, for many, eating is much more than activity that satiates hunger; it is a sensuous, blissful experience, a boredom reliever, a stress buster. The most vocal, contemporary votary of mindful eating is Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, for whom mindful eating is the entire process of buying, preparing, eating and relishing your food. And what you shop for should reflect the wise choices you make. Never sit down to a meal when you are ravenously hungry, he advises, as you might wolf down whatever is available. Opt for small portions and bites and chew slowly so you taste and enjoy what you are eating. Feeling grateful helps you appreciate your food, and you will not stuff your tummy mindlessly. While cooking, be of cheerful disposition and serve food aesthetically, so the entire meal becomes a work of art, a pleasant and memorable experience. Take short pauses between mouthfuls, as tha...

If your work and leisure both involve looking at electronic screens, it may be a good idea to give your eyes a break Nothing has worked as hard over the lockdown period as your computer, be it for work, to catch up with your friends and family over video conferences, or to just sit back and let entertainment programming do its thing. And since multiple studies have linked excessive screen time with an increase in anxiety and stress, here are a few tips on how to switch off: Turn off notifications This would help you get back in touch with the real world and ensure distractions don’t impact your mental health. Keep some of the important notifications on, like those pertaining to work, but social media and news alerts can be done away with. Set time slots If you cannot swear off social media altogether, give yourself 30-minute windows where you can look at your accounts, but ensure you don’t cheat on this. For best results, you can partner with a family member, and you both keep each oth...

Sorry ‘Chai’ lovers, but having a cup of tea after a meal might be damaging you from inside. Of late, I have been seeing a volley of memes and quotes dedicated to ‘tea-loving’ society, on my Facebook timeline; maybe because most of my friends are die-hard-fans of this divine beverage. So, I can only imagine the expressions of dismay on their faces, when they would read this piece of fact. Nothing can be more gratifying than this globally loved beverage for a tea lover, who could go on to any length to have a mouthful of the divine nectar. Although ancient scriptures have mentioned tremendous benefits of consuming tea, it may vary on the type of tea that you’re consuming. A traditional tea is prepared by boiling cloves, ginger, basil leaves and tea leaves in water mixed with some honey. Even Ayurveda swears by the benefits of tea, which helps in smooth functioning of digestive system, and helps in curing cough, cold, and flu, etc. But, since a very long time, people have tweaked the rec...

Workout style linked with core personality Why is it so troublesome for individuals to stay with their wellness objectives? Numerous inside the wellness group ascribe these disappointments to an absence of teach or responsibility. Wellness objectives While these reasons are unquestionably material now and again, it doesn't clarify (or help) much by any stretch of the imagination. When it comes directly down to it, there are various reasons why individuals neglect to accomplish their wellness objectives. How to remain fit? One reason individuals neglect to get and remain fit is they pick the wrong strategy. While there might be a spurt of inspiration amid the starting stages, these sentiments rapidly blur until the point that the individual wants to work out by any stretch of the imagination; coerce rapidly takes after, and the ineffective cycle rehashes itself. One size fits all It is essential to comprehend that there is no "one size fits all" while talking about identit...

It is a widely believed notion that more than the face, one’s mane is the most important body feature. Some people blindly trust it to the extent that the hair can single-handedly build or ruin one’s personality. In fact, not just the face, now day’s people have become so conscious of their hair that one can find them foraging through variety of brands that promise to help them fight hair fall, bring back life into their dead hair, or best, give them the nutrition that was provided to hair in the ancient times. To escape the embarrassment of hair thinning, baldness, dandruff, dry scalp, etc. people have gone ahead to take the risk of using measures like chemical and laser treatments that actually have disastrous effects on their hair locks. And if not for that then you’ll find experimenting with a variety of scented, ayurvedic, herbal and chemical free shampoos and conditioners, time and again. But, do you ever wonder, what was being used back in the ancient times, when none of these s...

Practice Yoga everyday Don’t take life so seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway! Although yoga poses are a type of exercise for your body, they are also much more. So just take a deep breath, loosen up and let me take you through some yoga poses that will keep you in the pink of your health, today and always… Half Moon In this pose, you balance on the right leg and right hand with the the left leg lifted parallel to the floor and the left arm extended straight up. In order to age gracefully, we must challenge our balance regularly. When in a balancing pose like this, the brain lights up like fireworks. It good for the brain, the mind and the nervous system. Dolphin Pose Begin on your hands and knees, then lower your elbows to the floor, shoulder-distance apart. Interlace fingers, tuck your toes, and press hips up to create a long line between elbows and sitting bones (aka your butt). Slowly squeeze your upper arms inward to work biceps, triceps, and shoulders. Breathe and repeat. Cha...

Yoga has an answer for every malaise You come back home after a long day of work and all you want to do is to grab some sleep. But no matter how hard you try, you just cannot sleep fitfully. However, yoga – the ancient Indian form of exercise which has a solution to most problems - has the perfect solution for your sleep disorder as well. Here are 13 simple and effective yoga poses for better sleep… Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend Pose) Relax your entire body and put your fatigue, stress and anxiety to rest with this standing pose. A mild inversion pose, this improves the circulation of blood to the brain. This also offers a good stretch for your hamstrings and hips, while relieving the tension experienced in your back and spine. It improves digestion levels by activating the digestive system. Sukhasana (Easy Forward Bend) This is an easy pose to try. Sit in a relaxed pose with knees bent and criss-crossed. Stretch your hands and bend forward. Try to touch the ground with your head. ...

 How do we get past our own mind? The spirit is willing but the real hurdle is the mind. Restless, peopled by low vibrational thought, it is a chaotic space. That’s why the first requisite of the spiritual calling is to ‘master your mind’. Why one person is sorted while another struggles to keep it together, may have everything to do with the nature of the mind.
Three gunas, qualities, influence our mind. These are sattva, rajas and tamas. Sattva is a state of harmony and balance. Rajas is driven by action, change and attachment. Tamas breeds inactivity, materiality and darkness. We are a combination of one or the other guna. If rajas is predominant, you may find it hard to meditate. Thus, eminent yoga master Patanjali suggests the practice of asanas and pranayama before dhyana, meditation. There are various methods of meditation. The simplest, most effective being: Focus on the breath and mantra chanting. Practise either technique. Method: Take 10-12 deep breaths. Return to normal...