Reading Time: 3 minutes They say “you are what you eat,” and this is especially true if you’re trying to live an Ayurvedic lifestyle. A key tenet of Ayurveda is the practice of using your diet to balance the energy within your body. While you should consult a professional to understand your personal dosha and needs, we’ve identified some Ayurvedic foods to ease anxiety. …
Ayurveda Your Way Out Of Burnout
Reading Time: 4 minutes The emails are rolling in, the client load is picking up, and the list of tasks feels never-ending. It’s amazing and liberating to be an entrepreneur! But you may find that the time you spend on your venture is easily pulling you away from your own well-being. Good news! It IS possible to knock out goals, nurture your business, and …
Top 10 Ayurvedic Herbs And Their Benefits
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ayurveda is a centuries-old Indian medical system. It seeks to maintain health and wellness by keeping the mind, body, and spirit in balance and avoiding sickness rather than treating it. To do so, it employs a holistic strategy that incorporates diet, exercise, and lifestyle adjustments. Ayurvedic herbs and spices are also utilized in this goal. Here are just some ayurvedic …
How to Improve Sleep with Ayurveda
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s been a long day, but finally your tasks are done. The moon hangs high in the sky, the lights are turned down low, and your bed is begging you to take the load off and lie down. But as soon as your head hits the pillow, a nightmare of sorts begins. No matter how hard you try, you can’t get …
The Ultimate Self-Care Tool: Gratitude Journaling
Reading Time: 5 minutes You know how an hour-long yoga practice is sort of magical in how it can transform your day? Well, gratitude journaling has the same type of magic … and the power to shift your entire life. I have cultivated a gratitude practice, interwoven with my yoga practice, for more than a decade. It started for me as I was emerging …
Why Is Spiritual Health Important?
Reading Time: 2 minutes If one cannot define spirit as a tangible entity, how can one define its spiritual health? Well, let us, first and foremost, take a look at what spirit is not, shall we? Spirit is not of this physical nature we live in because it is incapable of being identified by the five primary senses. It isn’t energy either because energy …
How Is Ayurveda Connected to Veganism?
Reading Time: 7 minutes BY RUDRI PATEL written for Livekindly.co Although it’s now easy to accept veganism as a mainstream diet and lifestyle, the concept began several centuries ago in the East. Veganism and spirituality have a long, symbiotic history. Respect for animals and the earth are rooted in many Eastern religions, and the modern plant-based diets of today owe their origins to a rich cultural history …
Benefits of Saffron and Incorporating it into your Routine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Famously the most expensive spice in the world, saffron is certainly worth its weight in gold. This illustrious, golden-red spice comes from the stigma of the saffron crocus, and it can take thousands of flowers to produce a single pound of saffron. But beyond its pricey reputation, the benefits of saffron are numerous, and it has traditionally been used as …
How to Improve Fertility with Ayurveda
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ayurveda and Fertility According to Ayurveda, there are four primary factors of fertility – bija (the seed), nutrition (ambu), the field (kshetra), and timing (rtu). Out of these four, bija is the most crucial. It refers to the reproductive tissues (sperms, ova, and secretions from supporting organs like the prostate glands, etc.) Ayurveda defines seven dhatus or tissue structures. The …
Ayurveda For Skin Imbalances
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many of us have experienced the frustration of skin irritation, whether mild or severe. In this article we will talk about Ayurveda for skin. Ayurveda explains these irritations as having an imbalance in the doshas. Ayurveda is a medical system from ancient India. It is based on the idea that health comes from a balance between three doshas or body …