Discovery Call

• Do you feel a lack of control over events in your life?

• Have you become cynical or critical at work?

• Do you drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started?

• Have you become irritable or impatient with co-workers, customers or clients?

• Do you lack the energy to be consistently productive?

• Do you find it hard to concentrate?

• Do you lack satisfaction from your achievements?

• Do you feel disillusioned about your job? Anxious?

• Has your desire disappeared? 

• Are you using food, drugs or alcohol to feel better or to simply not feel?

• Have your sleep habits changed?

• Are you troubled by unexplained headaches, stomach or bowel problems, or other physical complaints?

We are one with the universal rhythm of nature. Our biological functions ebb and flow with the tides of nature as we perpetually exchange energy and information with the universe around us.

The cycles of nature influence our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing on many levels. When we lose touch with our body‘s intrinsic rhythms, we experience discomfort or fatigue. 

From a lack of sleep to having too much to drink, low libido is caused by a number of physiological, emotional, and lifestyle factors. 

A state of physical or emotional exhaustion involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity. We accumulate toxicity in our mind and body whenever our life experiences are not completely metabolized. Our physical emotional digestive systems must function in a strong and healthy manner in order for us to extract optimal nourishment from our environment. 

Conscious awareness helps us identify where we are storing toxicity in our physiology.

Conscious communication is the very first step of healing our emotions. It requires us to bring our full attention to them as they course through our mind and body. This means acknowledging the sensations as well as feel them in our body and listening to the messages they convey. Learning to communicate directly with the important people in our lives, starting by yourself, reduces stress and liberates our life energy. 

Once identified, gentle cleansing and balancing procedures can eliminate accumulated impurities in body and mind. Harmonizing our internal rhythms with those of the environment enables us to receive maximal nourishment with minimal stress. 

Key points are: 

Paying attention to cues from our inner and outer environments enables us to recognize and respond to these early signs.

Every cell, tissue, and system in our body expresses a rhythm, with periods of dynamic activity alternating with time of quietness. When our internal rhythms are in tune with the rhythm of nature, we experience vitality and joy. When we are out of sync with our environment, we notice mental and physical distress and feel disconnected.

Life moves in recurring cycles of rest and activity. Because human beings are expressions of nature, we are governed by her seasons, cycles and rhythms. Almost all plants and animals on this planet are entrained with nature‘s rhythmic cycles:

Circadian rhythms: the 24 hour cycle of night and day created by the earth spinning on its axis

Seasonal rhythms: the 12 month cycle caused by the rotation of the earth around the sun

Lunar rhythms: the monthly cycle of the moon revolving around the earth

Tidal rhythms: the gravitational influence of the moon on the waters of the earth

Michelangelo’s genius as a sculptor lay in his ability to see a finished statue inside a rough block of marble. His challenge was not to make a sculpture but to release the one that was already there, imprisoned in the stone. Essentially that is what we do when we bring yourself back to balance. In the practice of Ayurveda we try to bring people back into balance and at the same time let their true nature shine through – the two processes are really the same. According to the ancient texts of Ayurveda, the disease process has six distinct phases or steps. The first three are invisible and can be tied in to either the body or the mind, the last three carry over symptoms that can be detected by both the patient and his doctor. Each state represents a loss of balance, but its appearance changes as the process continues:

Accumulation: the process begins with the buildup of one or more doshas

Aggravation: the excess dosha accumulates to the point that it starts to spread outside its normal boundaries

Dissemination: the dosha moves throughout the body

Localization: the wandering dosha settles somewhere it does not belong

Manifestation: physical symptoms arise at the point where the dosha has localized

Disruption: a full-blown disease erupts

One Important Caution:

The points given here are intended for prevention only! They are not suitable for treating diseases or as a substitute for a doctor’s care. If you have any symptoms of illness, restoring your body-mind balance is vital, but it is not the whole story. You need a complete examination by a trained physician, who will guide you in a complete medical regime suited to your specific situation! For all of us in good health, however, the following information is invaluable and unique. The points I am able to share with you today were collected over many years of consulting the ancient Ayurvedic texts, collecting the wisdom of living ayurvedic authorities in India, using the very own experience with thousands of patients in the United States at the Chopra Center, as well as the synthesis of my personal experiences as dedicated practitioner. 

Please be flexible about the advice being offered here. These are not rigid rules to be agonized over. You can waste a lifetime running after the goal of balance and never attain it, because the body-mind nature shifts by the hour, by the day, even by the minute. And yet balance is the easiest thing of all. Nature has already endowed our body with the proper instincts for it.

For most people, the worst temptation is diet. Each of us is probably a little fanatical about foods we think must be good or bad for us. Because Ayurveda has so much to say about food, it can be easy to support an obsession with diet. 

One thing I truly love with Ayurveda is: it doesn’t dictate that one food is „right“ and another „wrong“. Instead, only by listening to your body-mind nature you discover right and wrong. Every day is a new conversation between you and your body; the following suggestions indicate the kind of talk your body type generally likes to hear. But seen in the proper light, all this new information is just a way to wake up our body.