7. You Matter: Why You Need To Commit To Self-Care Today
- Begin Self-Care By Bringing Balance To Your Body
- Apply Ayurveda’s Fascinating Three-Body Model To Pacifying Your System
- The Doshas In The Body – Explore Your Unique Physiology
8. Tools To Generate Health
- 8.1. Balance Your Physiology through Tips For Eating, Sleeping And Even Working Right
- 8.2. Why The Breath Or Prana Is A Bridge Between Body And Mind
- 8.3. Why Self-Awareness Is The Springboard To Change
- Habits To Generate “Quiet-Time” For Self-Awareness
- 8.4. Cultivating Sattwa Or Mental Clarity
- 8.5. Learn The Importance Of Staying In The Present
9. Discover The Practical Steps That Can Help You Balance Body, Breath And Mind
- 9.1. Why Yogis Say Eating Right Is Over Half The Battle Won
- What the Ancient, Wise Medical Text The Charak Samhita Tells Us On Guidelines For Healthy Eating
- The Crucial Reason Eating A Big Mac Consciously Is Better Than Eating Quinoa Without Awareness!
- How Your Food Choices Impact Mental Health
- Learn How To Eat Food To Calm The Senses
- Unearth Hidden Links Between The Way You Chew Your Food And Your Depression!
- How To Sync Your Food Habits With The Seasons
- 9.2. Why Rishis Considered Sleep to Be One Of the Pillars Of Good Health
- An Actionable, Stepwise Plan to Solve Your Insomnia And Sleep Apnea
- Learn The Tools For The Right Sleep Hygiene And Discipline According To Your Dosha
- How To Calm Brain Wave Patterns So You Don’t Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night
- 9.3. The Tie In Of Energy, Sexuality And Mental Health
- What Conventional Medicine Never Told You: Why A Channelized Sexuality Or “Brahmacharya” Is Vital To Mental Health
- Discover Routines and Habits That Channelize Powerful Sexual Energy Positively
- 9.4. How To Build An Optimal Daily Schedule To Unblock Your Energy
- Planning The Correct Dinacharya Or Daily Routine To Conserve Energy
- Learn Effective Time-Management For Eating, Sleeping, Working, Sex And More
- Tips and Tricks to Sync Your Dinacharya with Your Dominant Dosha
- 9.5. A Primer on Exercising Right To Decongest Dhatus Or Tissues And Get the Lymph Flowing
10. Why Rishis Insist You Must Take Control Of the Breath To Take Control Of the Body
- 10.1. How To Use Your Abdominal Muscles For Optimal Breathing
- 10.2. How To Take Your Pulse To Calm Your Breath And Cope With Anxiety
11. How To Bring Balance To The Mind, Through Invaluable Tools Like
- 11.1. Stream Of Consciousness Journaling
- 11.2. Talk to Friends
- 11.3. Keeping A Tally Sheet
- 11.4. Pointers On Identifying And Restraining Yamas - Or Your Negative Instincts And Thought Patterns And
- 11.5. Niyamas, The Healthy, Clean Qualities Of The Mind You Want To Foster Further
- 11.6. How To Begin The Work Of Rewiring Your Brain
- Tips To Replace Unwanted Thought Patterns With Desired Thought Patterns
- 11.7. Explore the Mind-Body Connect Through Meditation
- Learn and Practice the Right Meditation Type For You, Whether It Be:
- Yoga Nidra
- Breath Meditation
- Mantra Meditation
- Insight Meditation
- Walking Meditation
- Mindfulness Meditation
12. The Dish on Doshas: Pacifying Vata Mental And Emotional Imbalance
- 12.1. Vital Insights Like How To Space Meals To Cure Your Vata-Induced Panic Disorder
- Learn The Food Groups That Suit Vata
- Learn How To Eat To Calm The Senses And Nervous System In Vata Imbalances
- Sensorial Inputs To Calm Vata Through Sound, Touch, Taste Feel And Smell
- A Comprehensive, Detailed Exercise Routine And Combo For Vata-Imbalanced Mental States
- 12.2. How To Pacify Vata Through Breath Exercises
- What Does the Way You Breathe Say About Your Mental State And Doshic Imbalance
- Learn The Best Pranayama And Best Posture (Mudra) For Vata-Imbalanced Minds
- 12.3. How to Stop Your Mind from Obsessing About “What If…”
- Practical Tips on Replacing Negative Thoughts With Healthy Thinking
- Learn The Best Herbs For The Vata Mind
- A Unique, Relaxing Tea Recipe to Calm the Vata Mind!
13. Pacifying Pitta Mental And Emotional Imbalance
- 13.1. Foods and Food Habits: How to Go Conscious Grocery-Shopping To Restore Your Pitta Imbalance
- How to Nourish the Five Senses to Cool the Pitta-Imbalanced Mind
- Specific Exercise Routines To Cool Pitta And Get The Energy Flowing
- 13.2. Tips to Exercise the Breath In Pitta
- The Pranayama Tailor-Made For Pitta
- 13.3. How The Pitta Hothead Can Cool The Mind
- Discover Which Is the Natural Instinct For The Pitta Type
- Brain Training For Pitta: Steps To Replace Unhealthy Thoughts With Healthy Thoughts
- Learn the Herbs That Cool Pitta
14. Pacifying Kapha Mental And Emotional Imbalance
- 14.1. Learn the Tell-Tale Signs Of A Kapha Imbalance
- Which Foods and Food Habits Can Restore Kapha Imbalance
- The Special Role of Digestion In Kapha-Imbalanced Mental States
- How To Calm The Senses In Kapha
- Which Exercise Routine Should You Adopt For Kapha
- 14.2. Calming the Breath In Kapha
- • A Pranayama Primer For The Kapha-Imbalanced Mind
- How to Stimulate The Mind In Kapha Through Awareness, Training and Replacement
- Discover Kapha’s Natural Instinct And How To Align With It For Better Mental Health
- Tips For Pattern Replacement And Rewiring Your Brain’s Circuitry
- Explore the Spices and Herbs to Stimulate the Kapha Mind
- Brew This Tea To Energize The Kapha Imbalanced Mind
15. The Ayurvedic Approach To Specific Disease Conditions
- 15.1. Depression
- How to Treat Anxiety Driven Depression, Through Tools Like o Daily Sun Exposure
- o Keeping A Mood Journal
- o The Use Of Vitamins And Supplements And o Herbs Like Saffron And Shankhapushpi
- A Detailed Program To Address Clinical Depression Through
- o Meditation
- o Exercise
- o The Use Of Nervine Tonic Herbs Like Basil, And Many More Tips
- o A Planned Dinacharya
- Managing Situational Depression Through
- o Anger Management Techniques
- o The Use of Cooling Herbs And Beverages
- o Strategies to Decongest the Liver
- 15.2. Lethargy And Inaction
- How To Climb Out Of One’s “Doshic Rut” Or The Passivity Patterns To Which We Are Predisposed Through
- Steps To Stimulate The Body Through Shake-Ups In Daily Routine
- Stimulating The Mind Through Herbs And Mental Exercises And Discipline
- Stimulate The Brain Through Forging New Neural Patterns
- 15.3. Steps To Overcome Fear And Worry
- Why Stimulants Like Caffeine Are Not The Answer
- How To Align The Five Vayus Or Energies
- 15.4. ADD/ADHD
- Why ADHD Cases Are On The Rise
- How to Treat the Root Cause And Not Merely The Symptoms Of ADHD
- What Western Psychology And Chemical Stimulants Miss About ADHD
- Natural Techniques To Boost Dopamine And Norepinephrine – The Calming Hormones – In ADHD Cases
- A Detailed Dinacharya For ADHD
- How To Exercise Body And Breath To Heal ADHD
16. Overview - Summary Of Treating Mental & Emotional Disorders
- Become Aware Of The State Of The Mind
- o Identify The State Of Your Mind
- Become Aware Of The Causes Of Disease
- Identify The Positive Benefit Of The Behavior
- Begin To Make Changes In Your Daily Life
- Exercise
- The Use Of Nervine Tonic Herbs Like Basil, And Many More Tips
- A Planned Dinacharya
- Managing Situational Depression Through
- Food
- Sleep
- Energy
- Sexual Expression