How to prepare for summers with Ayurveda?
Summer can increase a tendency for dry skin. If Vata is strong in your nature or if you have undergone a time of high stress or disturbed sleep, then dry skin may more likely occur for you when it is hot. During summer, the increased heat can lead to dehydration causing your skin to become drier, especially if you are busy and forget to drink water regularly.
Summer is the time when Pitta dosha increases with the rising heat outside. This can increase internal heat so that your mind and body become aggravated or imbalanced. You may find yourself feeling more critical, impatient with others with outbursts of anger as frustration bubbles over. Physically, the excessive body heat increases the tendency for skin disease due to inflammation, heartburn, and Peptic ulcer. If you have an illness that ends in “it is”, then this condition is likely to worsen as summer arrives.
Here is a four-step programme for enjoying summer
1. Adopt moderation
Adopt moderation in your lifestyle by balancing work hours with times to relax, meditate, chill, and connect with loved ones.
• Consider making appointments in your diary for quality time with loved ones and friends and enjoy connecting with them outdoors
• When the weather is hot, stay out of the midday sun and exercise indoors or during the cooler hours of the day
• Holidays in natural settings (beaches, lakes, a forest, or bush area) are cooling for the mind and body
2. Choose a Pitta-balancing diet and avoid stimulants
Adopt moderation in your food choices by reducing or avoiding caffeinated drinks, alcohol, and spicy, sour or salty foods as they increase the heat within.
• Favour Pitta-pacifying foods: www.getbalance.co.nz/pitta-pacifying-diet
• Drink Pitta tea during the day. It is delightful and warm and can be taken as a base tea to which sweet juice is added. Add the Pitta seasonal spice mixture to your lunch and dinner to help balance the Pitta qualities in you during summer. Consider taking Aci-Balance to help balance digestion. It has a balancing effect when digestion is too sharp and also if digestion has become low. Take one tablet after your main meal.
3. Nourish your mind and body
To help balance body heat, hypertension, asthma, general weakness, and lack of assimilation, take one dessertspoon of the sweet and balancing herbal tonic called MA3323.
• Take MA3323 prior breakfast, dinner, and at bedtime. It is my favourite herbal and has a wonderful effect on the mind and body.
4. Chill down for a great sleep
When the weather gets hot, it can be unsettling for sleep. The Pitta element increases at night from 10 p.m. onwards, making it difficult to go to sleep. It can also be the cause of waking you up in the night.
• Be sure to use natural fibres for bedding and aim to be in bed by 10 p.m.
• Gently rub your feet for five minutes with coconut oil or ghee (clarified butter) at bedtime. Remove excess oil with a soft cloth or paper towel. This helps you to enjoy a deeply relaxing sleep, so you will wake feeling rejuvenated.
• If you find your sleep is more unsettled when the weather warms up, consider taking two tablets of Deep Rest prior bedtime.
Summer can increase a tendency for dry skin. If Vata is strong in your nature or if you have undergone a time of high stress or disturbed sleep, then dry skin may more likely occur for you when it is hot. During summer, the increased heat can lead to dehydration causing your skin to become drier,...
Summer can increase a tendency for dry skin. If Vata is strong in your nature or if you have undergone a time of high stress or disturbed sleep, then dry skin may more likely occur for you when it is hot. During summer, the increased heat can lead to dehydration causing your skin to become drier, especially if you are busy and forget to drink water regularly.
Summer is the time when Pitta dosha increases with the rising heat outside. This can increase internal heat so that your mind and body become aggravated or imbalanced. You may find yourself feeling more critical, impatient with others with outbursts of anger as frustration bubbles over. Physically, the excessive body heat increases the tendency for skin disease due to inflammation, heartburn, and Peptic ulcer. If you have an illness that ends in “it is”, then this condition is likely to worsen as summer arrives.
Here is a four-step programme for enjoying summer
1. Adopt moderation
Adopt moderation in your lifestyle by balancing work hours with times to relax, meditate, chill, and connect with loved ones.
• Consider making appointments in your diary for quality time with loved ones and friends and enjoy connecting with them outdoors
• When the weather is hot, stay out of the midday sun and exercise indoors or during the cooler hours of the day
• Holidays in natural settings (beaches, lakes, a forest, or bush area) are cooling for the mind and body
2. Choose a Pitta-balancing diet and avoid stimulants
Adopt moderation in your food choices by reducing or avoiding caffeinated drinks, alcohol, and spicy, sour or salty foods as they increase the heat within.
• Favour Pitta-pacifying foods: www.getbalance.co.nz/pitta-pacifying-diet
• Drink Pitta tea during the day. It is delightful and warm and can be taken as a base tea to which sweet juice is added. Add the Pitta seasonal spice mixture to your lunch and dinner to help balance the Pitta qualities in you during summer. Consider taking Aci-Balance to help balance digestion. It has a balancing effect when digestion is too sharp and also if digestion has become low. Take one tablet after your main meal.
3. Nourish your mind and body
To help balance body heat, hypertension, asthma, general weakness, and lack of assimilation, take one dessertspoon of the sweet and balancing herbal tonic called MA3323.
• Take MA3323 prior breakfast, dinner, and at bedtime. It is my favourite herbal and has a wonderful effect on the mind and body.
4. Chill down for a great sleep
When the weather gets hot, it can be unsettling for sleep. The Pitta element increases at night from 10 p.m. onwards, making it difficult to go to sleep. It can also be the cause of waking you up in the night.
• Be sure to use natural fibres for bedding and aim to be in bed by 10 p.m.
• Gently rub your feet for five minutes with coconut oil or ghee (clarified butter) at bedtime. Remove excess oil with a soft cloth or paper towel. This helps you to enjoy a deeply relaxing sleep, so you will wake feeling rejuvenated.
• If you find your sleep is more unsettled when the weather warms up, consider taking two tablets of Deep Rest prior bedtime.
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