It might sound absolutely ridiculous that you can be so tired that you can’t sleep, but it’s true.
How often have you been ambushed by something scary or stressful, and reacted in a knee-jerk way?
It looks as if the warmer weather is finally coming to an end, and Autumn is here. With the change of the seasons
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~Hippocrates
Ever stuck for a pudding, feel like you want something sweet, but you also want it to be healthy? Try my favourite date and chocolate pudding:
The Ayurvedic approach to health is: “disease is the absence of vibrant health”
I happened to be at a friends the other day staying over night and she produced her version of bedtime cocoa.
If the sun has gone to bed… so should you! Nature as a whole is resting during the darker times. These days there is every excuse and opportunity to stay up later, and maybe to get up later. We can falsify nature with bright electrical lighting to make us think it’s still daytime at 11pm, and blackout blinds to make us think it’s still night time at 11am. But this is dragging us out of sync with the way our bodies are naturally attuned to be!
My last blog post was about Ayurvedic doshas, and how your dosha might affect your meditation.
One of the main questions I am asked about my meditation practice is something along the lines of “but don’t you just sit there and think about all the things you need to do today?” Well yes, I do! I’m primarily a Vata personality.
Ayurveda means “science of life;” it’s a traditional Indian medicine system whose applications run far and wide. In Ayurveda, every person is treated as an individual. It is based on the principle that we are all made up of different proportions of the five elements: air, fire, water, earth and space. The proportions of these elements we have in us determine everything from predisposition to illness to skin type.
Firstly, when people hear the word chakra, they often dismiss it as being too ‘woowoo’, but listening to Deepak Chopra