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A person with relationship issues has difficulty maintaining long term intimate relationships, or experiences frequent conflicts, misunderstandings, dissatisfaction, or stress within personal interactions—whether romantic, familial, or social—that negatively impact emotional well-being or daily life.
These issues might manifest as frequent arguments, lack of trust, communication breakdown, emotional distance, or a persistent sense of being unfulfilled or unsupported. Such struggles often indicate deeper underlying differences in expectations, values, boundaries, or personal needs that require attention and resolution.
Relationships offer many benefits and opportunities for self-growth. Numerous studies highlight the importance of prioritizing relationships for happiness. However, it's also common for relationships to experience strife and challenges. Understanding your tendencies can help increase harmony in your relationships.
Vata tendency in relationships is characterized by a lighthearted and pleasant personality, but can also be erratic and chaotic. In an attempt to avoid pain, Vata individuals tend to make impulsive choices. Their main goal should be to stay focused enough for follow through.
Pitta tendency in relationships is marked by smart, analytical individuals who have difficulty ignoring faults and problems, which can be uncomfortable for others. Instead of hyperfocusing on solving particular issues, they benefit greatly from a practice of appreciating others. Pitta individuals need to focus on winning hearts, not arguments, and avoid losing sight of the big picture.
Kapha tendency in relationships is peaceful and patient, but may ignore problems that need to be solved. In situations of conflict, Kapha individuals tend to withdraw and may experience depression, unresolved anxiety, and feelings of oppression. Their main goal should be to lean into discomfort and address problems head-on.
Forgive Your Parents
It may be strange to think that your relationship with your parents could be affecting your relationships overall.
But, learning to love starts with learning to love your family. Because when you love a person long enough, they start to feel like family, and you begin to see and know everything about them, warts and all.
Until you can forgive and love your parents, you cannot begin to love anything or anyone.
Building Trust
Trust is the foundation of relationship. But what establishes this trust? Do you ask individuals to trust in you, or do you follow some objective standard? What about your significant other?
You / Your Feelings / Your Understanding - This is more individualistic, but less reliable.
Some objective standard - This is less individualistic, but two people can unite according to a standard. This also allows a person to grow into something greater than themselves.
Harmony in Marriage
To increase harmony in a marriage, it's important to understand what makes each spouse happy. Men typically value respect, public community, and appreciation for building a container for marriage (i.e. overall vision for the family's future, home construction, career building).
Women frequently want to be cherished. They value direct emotional investment in the children and the individuals themselves. They crave support and appreciation from their spouse in domestic chores and homemaking.
Each spouse should contemplate the means to satisfy these emotional needs in the other on a daily basis, which can differ from spouse to spouse. This should include both appreciation and supportive involvement in these activities.
Divide responsibilities rather than sharing them. Studies show this improves marital harmony. Families where only one spouse is responsible for providing an income tend to enjoy happier marriages than two income families, for example. This doesn't exclude spouses from supporting one another in their designated responsibilities - but it does mean deferring to and helping them in this area. In another example, one spouse may be responsible for cooking meals, but this doesn't exclude the other spouse from helping with meals.
Praying together daily gives both spouses an intimate window into the deepest desires and purposes and the person they love - as well as connecting and harmonizing them to the source of all things.
DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body.
The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care.
Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
HOW TO ADDRESS ISSUES IN STAGE OF DISEASE #2
STRUGGLES IN RELATIONSHIPS IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE #2 - AFFECTING BLOOD & EMOTIONS
Affecting Blood: Initially, imbalances are localized, often in the digestive tract.
As an imbalance grows, it starts to affect your body systemically, via the blood.
If you have symptoms in this category it means that your imbalances are starting to spread,
have entered the bloodstream, and are now systemic.
Pay particular attention to the biocharacteristics, tastes, and doshas out of balance systemically,
so you know how to strengthen your body as a whole, and reduce physical stress on your organs.
At this stage of imbalance you will begin to experience generalized discomfort, imbalanced emotions,
and may develop sensitivities to temperature.
It may take several weeks of strict adherence to a specific remedial diet to clear blood level imbalances.
Blood cleansing herbs may reduce symptoms.
A several day cleanse may shorten the recovery time.
(See all disease stages on JB)
AVOID DIETS, LIFESTYLES & HERBS THAT AGGRAVATE THESE BIOCHARACTERISTICS
According to Personalized Medicine Systems (Ayurveda and Greek medicine), aggravation of any of these
body types
and biocharacteristics may lead to 'Struggles in relationships'.
Reduce the foods and lifestyle habits that aggravate these qualities (when dystempered).
Click on the biocharacteristic to learn what foods and
lifestyle habits should be reduced.
Symptoms Tell A Story
The first step to healing is learning patterns from your symptoms.
Symptoms are clues that reveal underlying imbalances.
Symptoms show you where your body is weakened.
Ultimately, all disease has a root in tissues too weak to defend itself.
Ayurveda describes these patterns of weakness using doshas & biocharacteristics.
If you notice a biocharacteristic or dosha appears next to many of your symptoms,
it helps you establish a pattern that may be systemic.
BIOCHARACTERISTIC
FOODS TO AVOID
DO YOU HAVE THIS IMBALANCE?
BITTER
ABOUT BITTER BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes and is laxative, and drying.
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Biocharacteristics of 10,247 People Reporting Struggles in relationships
On average the biocharacteristics
of people reporting Struggles in relationships were less aggravated than 57% of other symptoms.
From the 10,247 people who reported Struggles in relationships
average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:
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24.8% avg client level
18.0% (1,848) of cases
6,802 have Pungent constitution
Risk Factors of Struggles in relationships
Below you will see general risk factors as well as the greatest risk factors, i.e. those who were also more likely to report Struggles in relationships.
Overall, 29.41% of people surveyed reported Struggles in relationships.
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1658 cases with both
+1.4 times more likely
16% of cases
11.1% (5,106 cases)
WHAT'S NEXT?
DISCOVER YOUR BODY WITH YOUR FREE INDIVIDUALIZED BODY MAP
Find ideal foods, herbs and lifestyle tips.
See your imbalances, and locate intervention points.
Your body map contains a complete analysis of your Ayurvedic imbalances, organ by organ.
Give your chart to your functional medical doctor or any alternative health practitioner.
Ayurveda strengthens the body while opposing disorders. It takes a holistic,
systemic approach that looks at the whole body. Ayurveda
shows how to interpret signs and symptoms of imbalance, and how to address them
using diet, lifestyle adjustments, and herbs. It shows a person how to optimize their health on a continual basis. You can't
take the doctor home with you, but you can take Ayurveda home with you.
Ayurveda is the most advanced and easy to use home system for self healing.
HOW DOES AYURVEDA WORK?
Ayurveda starts by identifying your body type,
which identifies certain tendencies in your body to get sick (as well as identifying your strengths).
It uses body type to determine the likely root causes of your disorders.
Next, Ayurveda analyzes the nature of your disorder.
It fits all your signs and symptoms into a pattern, expressed as a combination of biocharacteristics (gunas).
For example, you may have a heat disorder, a cold disorder, or an oily disorder, etc.
This simple categorical approach shows you how to correct systemic imbalances and strengthen your body as a whole.
On Joyful Belly, we've created an extensive categorization of food so you can easily match food to your imbalanced biocharacteristics.
By eating an optimal diet that balances your biocharacteristics, your whole body is strengthened
and the conditions that created the disorder are removed. Once the root causes of the disease
are removed, the disease lessens in strength or disappears altogether. Additional remedies -
such as herbs and lifestyle practices - focused on the specific disorder, can greatly enhance
your healing.
GET STARTED
To get started on your Ayurvedic journey, we first recommend that your find your body
type by taking our free quiz. In Ayurveda, every solution is based on your unique body type, so
by taking this quiz, you’ll get the best results.
5 WAYS TO HEAL YOUR BODY WITH AYURVEDA - FREE REPORT!
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It shows you simple, practical ways manage your health.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle through constitutional nutrition (Ayurveda & Greek Medicine).
His approach is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs the Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, medieval Catholic philosophy,
& botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John, his wife Natalie and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
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