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Modern psychology seeks to conquer fear and anxiety in all its forms. However, some amount of fear is natural and healthy. In Ayurveda, unhealthy anxiety must be transformed into healthy anxiety that is natural and appropriate for health. We suggest...
When thick blood blocks circulation to the brain, a person may be more prone to panic attacks. Heavy, rich foods such as ice-cream make the blood thick.
Impulsive & extroverted states are considered heart heat in Chinese Medicine. Alcohol and other hot, vasodilating foods can stimulate similar states, as can summer heat. Alcohol should thus be avoided in peak summer months.
People who are easily bored find life and the world generally insufficient for their ambitions. This in some sense is a rejection of the way things are naturally. So a bored person feels the need to make life more exciting than it is. Boredom amounts...
Saddness is often related to excess sweet taste in Kapha individuals. Sweet or rich blood becomes thick and difficult to circulate, congesting the lungs and heart area. The lack of good circulation creates a subjective feeling of heaviness and...
Are you harboring bitterness towards the world and how it was made? Grieving is the process of tempering ones passions back to...
Crying, saddness and depression are often related to excess sweet taste in Kapha individuals. Sweet or rich blood becomes thick and hard to circulate, congesting the lungs and heart area. The lack of good circulation creates a subjective feeling of...
Depression is a common and serious mental illness that is, fortunately, very treatable. It is characterized by feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities generally. These feelings can decrease your ability to function at work and at...
We all live in a state of deprivation experienced as shame. Shame is how our soul communicates to us. Relief from shame is a joyful soul. When shame is poignant, the soul anxiously pines for relief, to be blessed, or for a sign of grace. This anxious...
Difficulty expressing desires points to obstruction in the throat chakra, responsible for mediating communication between the rational mind, the heart, and base level desires. You may feel a lump in the throat during situations that provoke your...
The emotion that spearates humans for all other animals is shame. Shame brings us the ability to be self-conscious. We experience shame as a raw psychological pain. Our knee-jerk reaction is to escape the experience of our own unworthiness as quickly...
God gives each of His children many gifts - beauty, intelligence, athletic skill, artistic creativity, charity, social grace, and many others. Yet when we look in the mirror we see our soul - our very being - is more precious than any of these...
The liver is a very sensitive and self conscious organ. Feeling unliked can undermine our ability to trust others. Since trust is at the core of human relationships, feeling unliked can become a self fulfilling prophecy. Relationships work best when we...
Relationships offer many benefits and opportunities for self-growth. However, it's also common for relationships to experience strife and challenges. Understanding your tendencies can help increase harmony in your relationships.
Judgement implies an individual is confident in their analysis of another's behavior. This confidence may mask an underlying inability to empathize with an individual. Judgement may be unnecessary to decide consequences, or you reaction to another's...
If you are easily insulted or hurt, it may be a sign that the liver is sensitive. Shame is generally stored in the solar plexus and as well pelvic floor. A person who is easily insulted might have upper GI pain or tenderness, as well as anxiety,...
The emotions we have are the body's natural holistic way of appreciating the meaning of events that happen in our lives. The intensity of our emotions, however, correlates to imbalances in the blood. Kapha people naturally experiences more terror,...
If you are easily insulted or hurt, it may be a sign that the liver is sensitive. A calm liver gives a person a smooth, patient, & resilient personality.
Emotional trauma is an event that is overwhelming to the nervous system. The event need not be significant in the eyes of others, and may even seem trivial to ones-self. Nevertheless, it overwhelms the person's nervous system and makes them unable, or...
Trauma offers us the opportunity to understand and respond more deeply to all human suffering. Trauma can be transformed into blessing and gift. Among the various steps of moving beyond trauma, the willingness to become vulnerable again may be the most...
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.
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.
Founder of Joyful Belly Ayurveda, John Immel, answers the question ‘What is Ayurveda?’
