AYURVEDA • MEDITATION • YOGA • WISDOM • RECIPES

AYURVEDA • MEDITATION • YOGA • WISDOM • RECIPES

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Meditation for Trauma Recovery

Trauma can bring about a number of neurological changes, but meditation can help in overcoming a traumatic experience, making a person calmer, peaceful, and relieved of stress.  Meditation helps to calm a mind affected by pain and deep stress which a disaster inevitably brings. A study on war veterans affected with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Kapha-Balancing Recipes

Do you sometimes feel a dip in physical energy? Especially in winter, about 1 in 15 people suffer from seasonal affective disorder, also interpreted to be winter tiredness. Or, do you worry that your clothes aren’t fitting as well due to sudden weight gain? If either or both of these are happening, it sounds like

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Ayurveda 101: Seven Dhatus

Within a span of nine months, a single sperm cell and a single egg combine and evolve into a human being, with a pair of limbs, hands, fully functional body organs though delicate—when you think about it you cannot but marvel about the ways of this creation. The ancient classical Sankhya philosophy states that only

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10 Ways to De-Stress the Body

You have sales targets to meet and the job market is unforgiving as is. You are sitting in front of your computer, your body tense, breath shallow, mind full of worries and anxieties, and an endocrine system pumping stress hormones into the system. This increase in heart rate, dilating pupils, body flushed with cortisol and

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Adrenal Fatigue

Do you know someone who is into gaming and can spend the entire weekend fighting off orcs or blowing up vehicles and enemy bunkers? What is it that gets them all revved up, and how does all this sustained exposure to violence in video games, films, and media in general affect their bodies and minds?

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What are Gunas?

It is baffling how there are entire days when you—the most active, dynamic, and goal-oriented person—cannot bring yourself to be productive, even if you wanted to. You try to scream to the world, “But I am not that person. I am not like that.” And then, you end up blaming yourself for feeling the way

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