I was listening to an interview today where a teacher of mine Cate Stillman said she was smitten with Ayurveda. I agree with the sentiment. Smitten is an old fashioned term that means bowled over or head over heels in love with. As I was listening, I realized that I get that. I feel an unexpected connection to this ancient evolving science of Ayurveda, I really do.
My practice of Ayurveda is my prime support for my ongoing recovery from and chronic Lyme and related autoimmunity. I practice and share it at a level I live in and am comfortable with. I spoke about some of the basics at the Central Mass Lyme conference to engage with the community of people dealing with lyme and offer support from my healing journey.
Ayurveda has a power to engage with life simply and easily. This energy and potential understanding draws you in. It is riveting. You connect to the elements and basic qualities of the universe that show you how you fit into the very fabric of the universe.
Ayurveda works on understanding who you are and building life around that understanding. Start with the elements and see them in your own nature. These same elements are at work in the people you love and the people who drive you crazy.
We are all made up of the 5 elements of nature, earth water fire air and ether. We are part of a whole that is larger than the individual, but each a unique part. We are built of these elements. We live out the seasons of the year and the seasons of our lives working to balance the forces that shape us to build the best Mary, Susan or Jeremy we can be.
From this simple approach, Ayurveda reaches far and wide to explain, human experience, health, illness and to build approach to healing. The practice slips into your life at the most basic level of daily living and influences perspective and thinking.
My experience of Ayurveda is that you can add value to your life and improve your health and connection to the whole by wading into Ayurveda how ever deeply you choose. If you understand your elements and qualities and work to balance them this creates space for healing and light.
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous” – Aristotle. Ayurveda is a thing of nature.
If you go deeper into the principals and the specifics of the science, you find an opportunity to become a truer higher vibration expression of you. You can embody the principals and follow the science at the depth that is aligned right now. Then engage more deeply with the whole through Ayurveda when it is aligned to do so.
I was talking with Dr. Lisa Barrett about how Ayurveda has helped me heal, during the “Healing Autoimmunity” virtual summit. If you know someone struggling with chronic lyme and or autoimmunity this is a great source of ideas and help.
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