Your ayurvedic type is also called dosha in Ayurveda, which is a holistic type of medicine from India. Ayurvedic medicine works on the assumption that a person’s health depends not just on her body but on the balance between mind, body and spirit. Ayurvedic therapies focus on promoting health not on fighting symptoms and diseases. Different factors can affect this balance including, but not limited to: Your age, body composition (prakriti), past injuries and traumas, weather and seasons, emotions and lifestyle amongst others
Ayurvedic Types
According to ayurvedic medicine, we all are composed of different elements and their combinations. These elements are: Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Ether/ Void/Space. The way these elements combine each other give birth to your ayurvedic type or the fundamental energies that govern our structures and lives, known as doshas in Sanskrit
- Vata dosha (wind and ether)
- Kapha dosha (earth and water)
- Pitta dosha (fire and water)
Your ayurvedic type role
These ayurvedic types or doshas shape our nature and balance. For instance if your ayurvedic type or dosha is Vata you tend to have a thin frame, long fingers, to be creative and energetic. With a Kapha dosha, you tend to be easy-going, fun and patient. If your dosha is Pitta then you are powerful, ambitious and smart. We are all combinations of these three but usually we have a predominant one
By knowing your ayurvedic type, understanding if you are Vata, Kapha or Pita you can easily learn important facs about your body, your nature, read the signals your body sends you, the types of situations, foods and emotions that balance or imbalance you, the diseases you are more prone to get and so forth. Such an understanding brings you the awareness to act and adapt your lifestyle to the one that goes with your nature and helps you feel better, balanced and happy
I am a Vatta
Let me tell you about my experience. My ayurvedic type is a classical Vata, so when I am balanced, I am lively and creative. When imbalanced due to too much movement, cold meals or by certain conditions in the weather I tend to feel bad, catch colds and get anxious. I have adapted my diet to an ayurvedic diet, the type of exercise and sleep routine to one that suits me and that has helped me to achieve balance in many ways such as: maintaining my weight, getting rid of damaging emotions, improve my skin and in general to feel lighter
It is important to identify your ayurvedic type, to know what puts you off balance and correct it using non invasive ayurvedic techniques such as: changes in your diet, herbal teas, essential oils, massages, meditation and other techniques to bring back balance to your life, to loose excess weight, to let go of any anxiety or fears and to find your center.
Start by identifying your ayurvedic type with this dosha test from the Chopra Center: http://doshaquiz.chopra.com/
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