Have you ever had an intuition about something? A subtle feeling that something isn’t right?
We’ve all experienced it, but the chances are, the older we’ve become, the more we dismiss intuition as “our mind playing tricks.”
That’s a shame, because if you ever stop to look back on those moments when you’ve thought “I knew that was going to happen!”, you’ll realise your intuition is often right.
We need to trust ourselves more than we do.
We especially need to listen harder to what our bodies are telling us.
In a moment, I’m going to ask you ten important health questions.
Please listen carefully to how your body answers them.
Ayurveda and the body
The human body is a work of art. Even though all our bodies have the same essential components – heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, joints, muscles etc. – everyone’s body is unique. You are an individual, and Ayurveda treats you as an individual. That’s why there are no quick fixes in Ayurveda because even when you seemingly have the same ailment as somebody else, what caused that ailment to take root inside your body and howAyurveda treats your body to ensure it never returns, is entirely unique to you.
Modern medicine doesn’t take your uniqueness into account.It will treat your symptoms in precisely the same way as it treats everybody else’s, which means the cure it prescribes might work for now, but the chances are very high that the condition will return sometime in the future. That’s because the real cause of your condition, why the disease appeared inside your body and began to grow, is unique to you, your lifestyle, your genetics, and a whole raft of other factors. Modern medicine’s ‘one size fits all’ approach only cures the symptoms, not the underlying condition. Ayurveda treats you as an individual and removes the underlying condition by its roots, so it will never come back.
There’s one other important point to consider.
Modern medicine always begins too late
Modern medicine treats patients symptomatically. In other words, you have to show symptoms before modern medicine can start to treat you.
That means, when you’ve begun to show symptoms and realised they’re worrisome enough to visit your GP, the disease has already taken hold, and your body is already in trouble.
That doesn’t happen in Ayurveda.
In Ayurveda, a simple pulse diagnosis (when I read your pulse by applying three fingers to your wrist) will tell me everything I need to know about your current state of health. If there is even the slightest imbalance in your body, I’ll be able to treat it before it becomes a problem.That’s because there are three stages to the development of disease inAyurveda:
1. Accumulation
If your body is out of balance for any reason – for example, if your diet is bad, you’ve suffered any kind of psychological upset, or you’re not exercising correctly – your doshas will be blocked. Because the doshas aren’t able to move freely in your body, they will increase until they overflow and enter your plasma and blood. Once there, they can penetrate your organs and tissues and combine with your body’s waste materials, causing various types of symptoms and eventually relocating to other parts of your body where specific illnesses will start to be created.
2. Manifestation
The symptoms reach a point where the illness is so highly advanced it can now be identified.Manifestation is usually the stage when modern medicine first steps in, but if the accumulation had been detected before manifestation had the chance to occur, the disease would be much easier to treat. It also wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do any damage.
3. The disease is irreparable
In a worst-case scenario, the disease has progressed so far that it cannot be cured. In a best-case scenario, the disease has been stopped, but the body has usually been substantially weakened. The disease could return, often in another more severe form, because the body has been damaged and the root cause of the disease still exists.
The sooner you can detect a disease, the easier it is to treat and permanently remove. Once you’ve reached the stage of manifestation – the stage where modern medicine begins –your disease will take more time and effort to remedy, because it has already shown itself and gained a foothold in your body.
So, preventing accumulation from taking place is by far the best result.
Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle will help you do that. Ayurveda will keep your body in balance so you should never reach the stage where any disease is irreparable.
And you can help yourself too, right now, by listening more closely to your body.
What is your body telling you?
Our body is wise. When something isn’t right inside our body, it finds a way to let us know.
Most of us don’t listen to our body until the symptoms are too obvious to ignore, and by that time the disease is often so well established it is harder to treat. But if we’d listened to our body earlier, when the very first signs and symptoms began to appear, we could have dealt with the problem far more easily.
So, here are ten questions that will give you insight into what your body is telling you. If your answer to any of them is “yes”, please don’t ignore it. Ayurveda can treat the condition and help you become perfectly well again. The sooner you begin practicing Ayurveda; the faster your health will repair.
1. Have you noticed any sudden hair loss?
2. What are your energy levels like, and how quickly do you feel tired during the day?
· Do you have to push yourself out of bed when you first wake up in the morning? Are your energy levels very low? Do your eyes feel heavy?
· How quickly do you become tired during the day?If you start your day in the morning, do you feel drained by late afternoon or evening? Does tiredness affect your concentration? Do you feel irritated and grumpy, or experience low mood, because you’re so tired?
3. Do you clean your tongue regularly? If you do, check every couple of hours to see if your tongue is coated again. If your tongue coats fast after cleaning, it means your digestion is extremely weak.
4. Do you get regular mouth ulcers, heartburn, or notice a sour fluid in your mouth?
5. Do you feel bloated after eating? Is bloating a frequent issue for you? Do you find yourself belching or burping a lot?
6. Do you have full-body aches? Do you notice isolated aches throughout your body – for example, in the neck, shoulder, lower back, knees, hips, or ankles – or do all your joints ache at the same time?
7. Do you feel dehydrated? Do you feel dizzy? Do you feel as if you’re not drinking enough water, or do you need to drink water all the time?
8. Do you usually wake up a couple of times or more during the night to pass urine? When you use the toilet, do you have loose motions or are you constipated?
9. Do you think your skin is becoming drier, or is your complexion changing? Take a look at your nails. Are they brittle, or are they healthy?
10. Do you have any regular headaches, or are your headaches especially severe?
If you answered yes to one or more of any of these questions, your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong. It’s letting you know there is a problem you need to fix before it becomes more serious. Please don’t ignore what your body is telling you because, if left untreated, any of these signs or symptoms could convert quickly into a severe illness.
The good news is,Ayurveda can treat all of these issues and more. It can restore your body to balance and put you on the road to perfect health.
Email me via the contact form on my website, or direct message me via any of my social media accounts, and I’ll be very glad to help.
Until then, stay healthy, stay happy, and stay safe.
Dr Rohan Nagar
