| Ayurveda, the science of life gives elaborate | | | | Do you go to bed late in the night and sleep till noon? |
| guidelines to ensure a healthy and happy life. Life | | | | It is very unhealthy. Remember the nursery rhyme |
| according to Ayurvedic terms and directions will be | | | | 'early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, |
| healthy, happy and pleasant. | | | | wealthy and wise'. Ayurveda has been telling exactly |
| Here are a few tips to lead a healthy and happy life. | | | | the same thing for about 4000 years now. |
| Dinacharya - healthy days | | | | One must wake up in the morning with the sun. |
| Dinam means a day and charya means practice or | | | | Students must wake up before sunrise. Take bath |
| routine. Ayurvedic dinacharya is complete with | | | | before sunrise and do some meditation or |
| directions for a healthy daily routine. Ayurvedic | | | | suryanamaskar to give the day the perfect start it |
| dinacharya includes a set of daily practices. It includes | | | | deserves. |
| waking up before sunrise, bathing and taking food at | | | | About daily thoughts, words and actions |
| set times, the levels of physical exertion, the kind of | | | | Be careful about your thoughts, words and action. If |
| people to mingle with, the kind of thoughts, words | | | | you let your thoughts go uncontrolled, it can take |
| and action, etc. | | | | you to bad words and bad actions. This will in turn |
| Ayurvedic dinacharya doesn't allow one to use one's | | | | affect your mind and your mind will be filled with |
| physique beyond its endurance levels. It is also | | | | negative energies like hatred, jealousy etc. Staying |
| required that a person must mingle with people of | | | | positive in your thoughts, words and action gives |
| high qualities like love, compassion, truthfulness and | | | | your mind a pleasant experience. Daily good deeds |
| reliability. Thoughts and actions must be pure and shall | | | | will make your heart dwell in joy. It is not accepting, |
| not bring harm or loss to others. | | | | but giving. Do something good to others on a daily |
| Food - Ayurvedic healthy food | | | | basis without ever expecting anything in return. |
| Our stomach is not a waste box to deposit junk | | | | Mingling with people |
| food. One should take only healthy food items that | | | | Choose the people you mingle with. If you mingle |
| bring health to heart and body. | | | | with a group of people dispelling negative emotions, |
| Vegetarian food is recommended by Ayurveda as | | | | your mind will quickly become troubled. If you deal |
| the best food. | | | | with people who are of high caliber and see life on a |
| One shall eat only when he or she feels hungry. | | | | positive life, your mind too will stay on a positive |
| Snacks between meals, eating for pleasure etc are | | | | note. The psychological energy that interacts is not |
| practices that upset normal digestive functions. It | | | | quickly identified, but has its effect on your mind and |
| takes about 20 hours to completely digest the food | | | | your happiness. |
| we eat. We shall allow enough time for the stomach | | | | Keeping good relationships with god |
| to completely digest the food before we eat the | | | | The life of an average person from Kerala would |
| next meal. It is not normally possible in today's world. | | | | start with a bath in a temple pond and darshan at |
| Make sure you take only as much food as your body | | | | the nearby temple. It is early in the morning and is |
| requires. | | | | the perfect start for the day. Evening start with |
| Alcohol | | | | lighting a wick before their deity and reciting |
| Alcohol consumption is not completely banned in | | | | Ramayana or divine words. |
| Ayurveda. If you take 'alcohol as a medicine, it will | | | | This is indeed a good practice to keep oneself |
| act as a medicine'. When taken in excess amounts it | | | | mentally healthy and happy. |
| will upset your body and mind in different ways. Very | | | | Ayurveda principles thus are not just about |
| moderate amount is actually good for digestion | | | | diagnosing people or making prescriptions. Ayurveda |
| (especially of non-vegetarian food). | | | | is all about leading a healthy life in all fronts. Ayurveda |
| Sleep habits | | | | addresses a person on an emotional level, mental |
| Everyone must have a look at his or her sleep habits. | | | | level, physical level and divine metaphysical level. |