Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide

What you can do is find the balance that is right for each dosha in you. The doshas function on a sliding scale, with too much or too little at either end of the scale and a point of balance in the middle:

Open yourself to the gifts of Nature through your five senses: • Walk barefoot on the earth for a few minutes every day. Have your attention on your feet and the earth with the intention to absorb nourishment from the earth. • Walk along natural bodies of water. Allow the cooling, coherent influence of water to infuse your being. • Allow the light

To have living knowledge, there must be a knower, an object that it knows, and the process of knowing that connects the two.

You need to switch off this automatic pilot. The way to do that is surprisingly simple: smoke consciously and pay attention to the act of smoking. The best method, which has helped many of our patients to quit in a short period of time, is as follows: • When you catch yourself lighting up, stop for a second and ask if you really want this cigarette

Each of us is the victim of memory—that’s how the Ayurvedic masters diagnosed it thousands of years ago.

At the source, everyone has healthy desires. In Sanskrit, this is called sattva, a word often translated as “purity.” A better translation of sattva is “the impulse to evolve,” and I will demonstrate why.

Sweet Lassi

Vata types are sometimes said to spend themselves too freely, wasting money, energy, and words,

Vata is balanced with a mixture of warm, sweet, sour aromas like basil, orange, rose geranium, clove, and other spices.