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Your body is precious. It is your vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Our body orchestrates an infinite number of functions all day long, almost entirely below the level of our conscious awareness. If we had to remember to breathe, pump our blood, digest our food, eliminate toxins, create new cells, regulate our temperature, and maintain the delicate homeostasis of dozens of intricate systems, we wouldn’t survive for more than a few moments.
While our body is a miracle of self-regulation, we are much more likely to enjoy health and happiness when we nurture it with love and attention, tuning into what we really need and making choices that nourish our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Here are are few foundational practices that you can begin to use in your daily self-care routine.
1. Eat for Your Mind-Body Type:
In Ayurveda, there are three mind-body types, or doshas, and the types of foods that are optimal for you depend upon your individual dosha. The foods that keep one person in balance and energetic may not be the right choices for someone with a different dosha.
2. Meditate and Rest:
Meditation takes you beyond the mind’s busy thought traffic to the silence and peace of expanded awareness. Meditation allows you to experience a profound sense of relaxation that dissolves fatigue and stress.
3. Rediscover the Pleasure of Moving Your Body:
Our bodies are designed for movement, yet many of us associate exercise with pain, boredom, or drudgery rather than with lightness and feelings of wellbeing. We may completely avoid exercise or, if we do manage to “will” ourselves to exercise, we may remain disconnected from our body and our feelings as we move.
4. Cleanse and Detoxify on a Regular Basis:
No matter how consciously we live, modern life exposes us to a variety of toxins, from pollutants in our food, water, and air, to the more subtle toxicity of negative media and the hyper-stimulus of cell phones, and the Internet. It’s important to get regular detoxification treatments to eliminate the physical and emotional toxins that can deplete our digestive powers and the function of our mind-body physiology.
5. Treat Yourself to Yoga:
Yoga is another timeless practice for nurturing and connecting to your body, mind, and spirit. Here are just a few of the healing benefits yoga offers:
Relief from stress, Stronger immune function, Increased flexibility and balance, Greater strength and Improved mood.
Learning from Human body: Self-Discipline
