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Article #196: How to Lead a Healthy and Happy Life, the Ayurveda Way

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






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