What is Ayurveda?

Never heard of Ayurveda before? In 2-3 minutes, Ayurvedic Doctor and Kerala native from an Ayurvedic family, Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath, explains how Ayurveda works, plain and simple.

It’s simple

“Once you understand how Ayurveda works, it’s very easy to follow.” ~ Dr. Jay

“Ayurveda is a natural holistic life science from ancient India, with very simple but profound principles,” according to Vaidya, CEO and director of Kerala Ayurveda Academy’s Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath. The following are his words, as he explains it best and gave permission for his students like myself to use them, word for word. “The first principle is: while our health problems affect our body and mind systems, all the systems to help us heal these problems are also working inside our body and mind systems. Digestion is inside us, metabolism is inside us, hormones are inside us, and our immune system is inside us. Every healing mechanism is working within us at this very moment. If all the healing mechanisms are working within us, who is the real healer? Yes, we ourselves are the healers.

If we are the healers, why do we get sick? Why can’t we heal ourselves? Why do we need outside help?

There are a lot of factors influencing us every day. What we do, what we eat, how we sleep, our surroundings, our genetics, our mind, etc. When many or most of the factors support the healing mechanisms within us, the healer will be active and the disease will not happen. If many or most of the factors are supporting the disease, the disease will progress.

An Ayurvedic consultation is a process of identifying: what is your core nature – in other words, your unique constitution, from where the problems are coming, how the problems are coming, and why the problems are coming. Then we create a plan to guide you on how to support the healer within you, and how you can minimize supporting the disease. When you enhance your support of the healer within you, and minimize support of the disease process, you are empowering the healer within you. You heal the problem.

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We are the true healers

Our health problems are happening inside us. All the mechanisms to heal those problems are also inside us. Our digestion, metabolism, hormones, and immune system are inside us. We are the true healers.

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We are maintained by nature

We are born into nature, maintained by nature, and we are all going back to nature. All that we need to maintain this life comes from nature: food, water, breath, and perceptions. All the resources for healing are also found in nature.

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We can Support healing

Ayurveda identified all the natural ingredients, their qualities, properties, and their impact on our health, so that we can identify what is supportive to us and what is not supportive to us. When we enhance what is supportive for healing, and minimize what is not supportive for healing; we empower ourselves to heal.

We are all born from nature, and we are all going back to nature. Life is a period in between, sustained and maintained by that same nature.

The second principle of Ayurveda is that we are all born from nature, and we are all going back to nature. Life is a period in between, sustained and maintained by that same nature. We eat every day; where do the ingredients in our food come from? All the ingredients come from nature. We drink water every day; where does the water come from? From nature. We are breathing all the time; where does the air come from? From nature. So who is really maintaining this life? Nature is maintaining this life. This very same nature has all the resources to heal, to nurture, to nourish, to sustain.

Ayurveda is a science that identified all the natural ingredients, their qualities, properties, and their impact on our health, so that we can identify what is supportive to us and what is not supportive to us. The third principle is – if we enhance what is supportive for healing, and minimize what is not supportive for healing; we are empowering ourselves to heal. Does this make sense?”

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Dr. Jay says

If we enhance what is supportive for healing, and minimize what is not supportive for healing; we are empowering ourselves to heal. Does this make sense?

Of course there is a strong wellness aspect to Ayurveda in the form of dietary and lifestyle habits and I’m going to guide you on that.

As an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, and student of Dr. Jay, I guide you on the following, providing individualized recommendations for:

      • body constitution analysis
      • dietary changes
      • daily routine changes
      • seasonal routine changes
      • life cycle routine changes
      • simple oil therapies
      • recipes & cooking tips
      • prevention of emotional problems through diet and lifestyle, meditation, and breathing exercises

In a 90 minute consultation I get to know you and your health objectives. You then receive an email with the previously mentioned personalized recommendations, according to Ayurveda. Feel free to contact me at any time via WhatsApp or email for any clarification or questions about the recommendations, free of charge. I also provide follow-up meetings to see how you’re getting on with the recommendations, and help you to tweak or adapt them as needed to be suit your lifestyle.

For diseases, there is a strong clinical aspect to Ayurveda in the form of formulations, herbs, advanced oil therapies, pulse diagnosis and more, which my colleague Ayurvedic Practitioners and Doctors are qualified to prescribe and perform. 
In that case, I provide the aforementioned individualized diet and lifestyle recommendations, and then put you in contact with one of my colleagues for clinical treatment.

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Written by Kathryn Ossing

Kathryn guides health conscious women to align themselves with the rhythms of nature through Ayurveda, the science of life. She also brings peace to home and work environments through Vastu, the science of building, which comes from the same Vedic tradition as Ayurveda. As a Certified Vastu Practitioner and Ayurvedic Health Counselor, she inspires others to make the dietary and lifestyle changes that support their health, career, financial and relationship goals. Check out her free guide 5 Minute Mindfulness Practices for Busy Moms.

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What is Vastu?

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