Since Ayurveda is a comprehensive philosophy of health, you can begin an Ayurvedic practice by thinking about therapies you may already be using (herbal medicine, massage, and aromatherapy) within the context of Ayurvedic thought. If you find that taking an Ayurvedic outlook has positively affected your feelings of health, you can deepen your involvement in the philosophy of Ayurveda. This article is a great places to start such an investigation.
The first step to adopting an Ayurvedic perspective on your health is to determine your dosha type. Follow these steps to determine dosha type:
- Make a check mark next to the description that best describes how you have been most of your life. If you fall between two descriptions, check both of them.
- Consider the qualities carefully. There are no right or wrong answers. Be honest and check how you are, not how you would like to be.
- Look for lasting trends. For example, if your sleep has been heavy and for long periods of time most of your life but you are now sleeping light and fit- fully, the change is likely to be due to imbalance rather than dosha type. Check your usual pattern.
- Notice whether each dosha has some checks, because everyone has Vata, Pitta, and Kapha as part of their body type.
- Total the number of checks for each dosha. The dosha with the greatest number should be your body type. If the highest two doshas are close, you are probably a two-dosha type. If all three dosha scores are close, you have a three dosha type.
According to Ayurveda, human body are grouped to the three body types called Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Your skin / body type, the five universal elements of air, fire, water, earth and space. Disorders or imbalance in your body occur when a dosha imbalance happened. This can be a bit confused reading but after characteristics of three types of place where you can find your dosha.
Vata-Type - (space and air) to ease the way of fast action and quick movements, seems pretty thin, with a slim body has andpronounced joints, dry skin, hair and lips, rapidly changing language is flexible, creative and imaginative exhibits mood swings, hot climates can easily sexually are attracted caused.
Pitta-Type - (fire and water) is a well under way, good focus and concentration is well organized, competitive, self - confident, sexually dynamic, with more perseverance than Vatas, freckles generally light complected and sometimes dressed to cooler climate tends to sweat a lot, a costly Spender.
Kapha-Type - (water and land), has a mild step is relaxed kindness, love, forgiving and loving, has a methodical thought process is a slow learner but a great long term memory tends to obesity wakes up slowly with the sexual stamina has but possesses a strong immune system and health are not easily upset is excellent, dealing with money is not as cold and wet climate.
Determining dosha type allows you to begin to understand how your health is affected by internal and external influences as you consider your unique blend of doshas. As you become more familiar with your body, you can observe and experience the effect of what you eat and do each day, how you think and feel, the state of your metabolism, digestion, and elimination, the relationships you engage in, your jobs, and the environment in which you find yourself. Because all of these factors are interdependent, problems in one area can cause problems in other areas.