Basic Principles of Ayurveda

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AYURVEDA - The basic principles

 1. The biorhythm among humans and animals  is transferred from grandfather to father and father to son.

Biorhythm has mainly 3 components:

• Intellectual Level:
• Physical Level and 
• Emotional level

2. These levels keep on changing  from day to day or hour by hour and create lot of imbalances in the body and mind. The movement of the various planets in the solar system impacts the body i.e. low and high moods are caused due to these movements. They are similar as the waves in the ocean go up and down many times during the day.

3. Mind is the master to cause  change in moods.

4. Brain( gross form of the mind) is the engine of the train called body.

5, Ayurveda has based itself on the doshas i.e Vaat, Pit and Cough that carry the functions of the body of an individual. Excess or deficit of any dosha causes imbalance in body and personality. Happiness, anger, low moods etc. are generally have the roots in imbalance of these doshas.

6. Individuals can master these doshas and manage them to create balance in Mind, Body and Spirit.

7. Ayurveda works more on "prevention is better than cure" principle.

9. Right sleep, right eating, right thinking, right behaiour along with "We attitude" are generally the benefits of Ayurveda.

10. Holistic approach of health and life is the guiding principle of Ayurveda.

Inputs by: Dr. R.Sharma, BAMS, MPH

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MIND AND MEDITATION

Mind is a good servant but very bad master. Mind is like a monkey that keeps on jumping from one branch of tree to another branch of tree. 

A person asked a wise man: Can you tell me what is the form of God?

The saintly wise man thoughtfully with his one finger on the chin said: Do you know who are you? The person nodded in negative. The wise man said: Know thyself and you will know the world or the creator of the world. If you could not know about yourself in your life till now, how can you know the creator of you? Go and first know about yourself and then come to know about the creator.The creator is within you. No need to find HIM outside thee. 

Isn't it the nature of human being to keep on asking "Where is God?" The human beings are more interested to find out what the others are having. Rather than feeling pride what he has. 

Comparison is hell. 

To elaborate more: On the eve of New Year, the management of a company gave gifts to its employees but it was observed that the most of the employees instead of focusing on opening and enjoying own gift were busy in asking others "what have you received as gift." 

In life too, we are mentally busy to know the net worth of the people known to us. First we endeavour our best to know what the others have and then we start feeling jealous of them by storming our mind with the thoughts: How has he accumulated all those possession or wealth?

We keep on troubling and torturing ourselves with those inefficient thoughts without any reason.

WHY?

The simple answer is "the minds of majority of the people are filled with greed."

What they see, they love to have. Can every thing owned by others be had? No. Not at all.

What gives happiness in life is FREE. For example: air to breathe is Free. Love of mother, father, brother, sister and friends is FREE.

Exaggerated expectations from others and mental possessions are the cause of  mental unrest.

MEDITATION 

Meditation helps in settling down these kind of untameable temptations. Bad is in our mind. But instead of throwing it out our minds, we keep on nurturing it in our mind and result is the collapse of character. 

Wealth is lost, nothing is lost

Health is lost, something is lost

Character is lost, everything is lost, says Mahatma Gandhi.

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MIND

PROGRAM

YOUR

MIND

FOR YOUR

PURPOSE

OF LIFE

OR

SOME BODY

ELSE

WILL

PROGRAM

IT

FOR

HER/HIS

PURPOSE OF

LIFE

 

SHACKLES OF MIND

Neither ahead, nor behind;

All shackles,

I have created in mind.

Like a clean slate,

Never I meet a mate,

 

Anger , anguish

Jealousy and hate

Prejudice and pride
Are in  my mind.

 

Neither ahead,

Nor behind.

All right and wrong

is in my mind.

 

I am cleaning

Purity I am feeling.

 

In relationship and

in the world  out;

 

I now know

I cannot live against

But with the life’s flow.
though very slow

I care my words,

Mind more they may not over blow.

Now I am patient and tolerant

More loving and affectionate

 

I love humans,

birds and animals alike,
As I loved in youth
My  fancy bike.

 

Now I believe  

Neither ahead, nor behind,

All shackles,
I have created in my mind.

 

 

 

 

LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU

Let lips part
to wear a smile.
Not be fraught in words
that run a mile.

Let eyes open wide
in pure delight.
Don't see the view
with narrow sight.

Let arms succumb
for an embrace.
Why stay stationary
in one place?

Let your mind drift
inside of a dream,
instead of being orderly
in the same regime.

Let your heart float
totally unaware,
instead of holding onto it
so afraid that it shall tear.

Let it happen to you
this mystery of life.
Don't allow it to be common!
It's far more than rife.
                       - by Sandra Wyllie

 

Life

3 F of life.


Family- permanent- ACCEPT IT

Friends- SOOTH THE WOUNDS WORLD GIVES

Fools- Time wasters and naggers Avoid them.

Wise differentiation makes life easier and convenient. God has given 2 eyes and 2 ears. They are doors and windows of the mind. Brain is the store house for what ears hear and what eyes see. Discrimination of each and every visual and information that comes from outer sources like newspaper, television, the people we meet, the books we read creates heaven or hell in our lives.

Chance and choice are the two things we receive.

CHANCE:

Different people meet us in life.
Different kind of books are available.
Different kind of programs are available on television.
Different kind of news items (positive or negative) are available in newspaper.
Different people comment differently as per the level of their learning in life.

CHOICE

Choose good people to live life better.
Choose good books to read to think positive and stay positive in life.
Choose good programs to see on television to feel better.
Choose good news to read to motivate and inspire yourself.
Choose good people to listen so that positive and happy thoughts may run in your mind.

CHOICE IS YOURS. YOU ARE THE CHOOSER.

Meeting of Minds

When two people of this planet Earth meet,

their minds do not meet

but their impressions about each other meet.


Impressions are generally formed from the secondary data and generalization of the person as a whole.

Today's bad person may change mind and become good one but impressions remain same.

Ego

Body – Mind – Soul or being.

ATTITUDE AND EGO

Body bears pain

Mind suffers owing to thought of pain borne by body

Soul is beyond body

Mind speaks, hears, loves, hates, argues, plans, reacts, makes strategies, suffers. 

Ego resides in mind.

Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional 

says: 

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – the founder of Art of Living.

He further says: 

Guilt does not allow a person to live happily.

Attitude, listening and observing are the part of soul 

i.e. being.

Pure thinking for the welfare of living things 

and creating an environment in which the planet earth

may survive for the coming generations is part of Being.

World

Body
Feelings
Mind
World

World is inside

but we are

searching outside.

Only soul has to travel

in heaven.

So, keep it clean, pure

and honest.

MIND

ONCE

Rolex and Timex

get talking

TIMEX says: "You also show time and so do I

so what is the big fuss about you."

ROLEX says calmly: "Nothing really except that you display the TIME to your owner

and 'I' display the TIME   'OF' my owner."

Memories

Memories are so amazing things. 

You can either make them 

reason of your happiness 

or reason of your pain. 

Mind is the store to store them. 

Store happiness or pain - choice lies with you.

Write happy moments on stones of your mind

and painful moment on the sands of the mind.

Anything written on sand blows away with the wind - i.e. the passage of time.

IDEA

ONLY THAT IDEA

CLICKS AND WORKS

WHICH IS BACKED


BY THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE

AND FULLY TRUSTED AND BELIEVED

BY

YOU HONESTLY AND TRUTHFULLY.



WHAT THE MIND

CAN CONCEIVE

AND BELIEVE

IT CAN

ACHIEVE.

WISDOM

WISEMAN

A wise man changes

his mind sometimes:

A fool never

THOUGHT

Thought can make or mar a man.

Good thought mends and makes men

While the evil one ends him.

“A minute peepal(a holy tree in India) gets into a crack in a wall,

sprouts, grows and rents the wall as under.

Similarly, evil thought germinates in the mind, develops in its own way and

wrecks the man ultimately.”

BALANCE OF MIND

Whatever the favourable

or

adverse circumstances you may be facing,

you should not lose your balance.

“Do not lose balance either in pain or in pleasure.

Do not befriend one too much nor show unfriendliness to any.” 

YOGA

The highest yoga

 is

the control of mind.

GREAT IDEAS

Great ideas often receive violent opposition

from mediocre minds

-  Albert Einstein.

S

Mind

OPEN MINDS

Some so called open minds

should be closed for repairs.

The MOTIVATION #2

The mind grows only
Through use,
And it atrophies*
Through idleness.

Just as the physical body becomes strong
Through regular exercise,
So does the mind require regular use
To remain strong.

Make sure that your personal development plan
Includes plenty of mental stimulation,
One of the best ways to develop your imagination
And visualization skills is through reading.
As you read, your mind translates the words into images
That help you better understand the concepts
About which you are reading.

Be a voracious reader,
Read newspapers, trade magazines,
Self-help books, and novels,
All will contribute to your store of knowledge,
And to your ability to visualize
And more effectively use your imagination.

MIND

A strong mind and body will face problems squarely and get over them.
It is only the weakling that suffers.

“A weakling totters while carrying a small load to a short distance.

But a strong man with a heavy load on his head stands by
And sees a wrestling match unmindful of the burden on his head.”