The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda: An Easy Guide to a Healthy LifestyleBuild Optimal Energy and Health in Body, Mind, and Spirit Ever wondered why you’re feeling out of balance, stressed-out, sick, and exhausted but still can’t sleep? Western medicine often ignores the underlying issues that can lead to fatigue, illness, and disease, but there is a way to revitalize your body and mind without drugs or dangerous side effects. Ayurveda, the “science of life,” is a complete wellness system that includes all that we associate with medical care — prevention of disease, observation, diagnosis, and treatment — as well as self-care practices that are generally absent from Western medicine. This truly holistic approach considers not just diet, exercise, and genetics but also relationships, life purpose, finances, environment, and past experiences. In this thorough and practical book, Michelle Fondin guides you gently through self-assessment questions designed to zero in on your needs and the best practices for addressing them, such as eating plans, addiction treatment, detoxification, and techniques for improving relationships. She outlines easy steps you can take, with minimal cost, to heal common ailments such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, excess weight, anxiety, and depression. These time-tested methods for body, mind, and spirit wellness offer benefits to anyone at any age. |
Contents
Reinventing the Wheel? | 1 |
Why the Wheel? | 5 |
Taking Back Your Health and Your Life | 6 |
Taking Responsibility for Your Health | 8 |
Your Commitment to Yourself | 9 |
Chapter 1 A Quick Immersion in Ayurveda | 11 |
Balance versus Imbalance | 13 |
The Great Elements | 14 |
Your New Reality | 134 |
Finding the Lesson and Moving On | 137 |
Opening Blocked Energy | 139 |
Let Go of Your Past by Taking Three Lessons to the Future | 148 |
Healing Your Past | 149 |
Chapter 7 Relationship Health | 151 |
We Are Social Beings Meant to Be in Relationships with Others | 154 |
Life Is Not Balanced without Healthy and Loving Relationships | 155 |
An Introduction to the Doshas | 15 |
The Ayurvedic MindBody Type Test | 16 |
Interpreting Your MindBody Type | 25 |
The Six Stages of Disease | 27 |
Creating a Symptom Plan | 31 |
Identifying Your Typical Symptoms | 32 |
Living Your Dharma or Lifes Purpose | 33 |
The Importance of Dharma | 34 |
Defining Dharma | 35 |
Finding Your Dharma | 39 |
Discovering Dharma | 40 |
Creating Your Lifes Purpose | 44 |
List of Intentions and Desires | 47 |
Dharma | 48 |
chapter 3 Physical Health | 49 |
An Ayurvedic Plan for Optimal Nutrition | 57 |
The Twelve Guidelines for an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Eating Plan | 58 |
Guidelines for Recreating the MindBody Connection with Food | 70 |
Ten Guidelines for Eating Awareness | 71 |
Eating for Your MindBody Type | 74 |
Your DoshaSpecific Eating Plan | 78 |
Respecting Natures Waves | 80 |
Moving Your Body | 86 |
Creating Your Physical Movement Plan | 90 |
Physical Healing | 91 |
Chapter 4 Spiritual Health | 93 |
Embracing Your Spiritual Self | 95 |
Going from Tunnel Vision to Funnel Vision | 97 |
Cultivating the Act of Witnessing Awareness | 99 |
InternalDialogue Assessment | 101 |
Anyone Can Do It | 102 |
Thinking Thousands of Thoughts a Day | 103 |
Do Nothing or Do Everything? | 105 |
Wondering How It Works | 106 |
Living a Spiritual Life | 107 |
Spiritual Healing | 112 |
Chapter 5 Emotional Health | 113 |
Do You Run Your Emotions or Do Your Emotions Run You? | 115 |
Tools for Establishing a Healthy Emotional Life | 116 |
Emotional Clearing for Each Dosha | 123 |
Your Emotional Healing Plan | 127 |
Emotional Healing | 130 |
Chapter 6 Healing Your Past | 131 |
The Stories from Your Past | 133 |
Twelve Traits of Healthy Relationships | 159 |
Taking Inventory of Your Relationship Using the Twelve Traits | 166 |
Communicating Compassionately | 170 |
Minding the Doshas in Relationships | 173 |
Creating the Relationships You Desire | 176 |
Steps to Attract the Right Mate | 178 |
Healing Your Relationships | 180 |
Chapter 8 Occupational Health | 183 |
The Daily Grind | 184 |
Discovering the Higher Purpose of Having a Career | 185 |
Finding Dharma in a Career That Is Not Exactly Your Dharma | 188 |
Ideal Work for Vata Pitta Kapha | 189 |
Creating a Plan for Transforming Your Current Job or Finding Your Ideal Job | 192 |
A Healthy Occupation | 193 |
Chapter 9 Financial Health | 195 |
Your Financial Situation and Your Health | 196 |
Getting Rid of a Poverty MindSet | 197 |
Taking Stock of Your Beliefs about Money | 198 |
Giving to Receive | 199 |
A Commitment to Financial Giving | 201 |
Your Plan to Abolish Debt and Create Wealth in Your Life | 202 |
Healing Your Finances | 206 |
Chapter 10 Environmental Health | 207 |
Maximizing Healthy Sensory Input | 209 |
Outlining the Environments in My Daily Life | 215 |
SpaceClearing Commitment | 216 |
The Dosha Response to Environment | 217 |
Living outside Our Boxes | 219 |
Ways You Can Live Outside Your Boxes | 221 |
Healing Your Environments | 222 |
Chapter 11 Breaking a Spoke of the Wheel | 223 |
Dealing with Illness While Learning an Ayurvedic Lifestyle | 224 |
Healing from Addictions | 226 |
What If You Get Stuck on One Spoke and Cannot Move On? | 227 |
Enjoying the Ride | 229 |
On Being Gentle Humble Loving and Kind | 231 |
Sun Salutations Surya Namaskar | 233 |
Notes | 241 |
Glossary of Sanskrit T erms | 243 |
Recommended Websites and Ayurvedic Resources | 247 |
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About the Author | 265 |