Speaker 1: In Aravader and in the Budgey tradition, it's believed that energy, attitude, intention,
Speaker 1: and feeling you have whilst cooking is infused into the food.
Speaker 1: The energy is then absorbed and digested into the person
Speaker 1: receiving it. So cooking with love, devotion and kind energy
Speaker 1: is essential for optimal digestion. Food cannot only nourish the body,
Speaker 1: but it can also nourish the mind and soul. To
Speaker 1: Welcome to a Really Good Cry podcast.
Speaker 2: A Really Good Cry is here to help you understand
Speaker 2: your body, feel confident in your skin, manage your emotions,
Speaker 2: and take back control of your health. Because growth doesn't
Speaker 2: always start with answers, Sometimes it starts with a really
Speaker 2: good cry.
Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and welcome back to this week's episode of
Speaker 1: A Really Good Cry. Now, if you clicked on this episode,
Speaker 1: it means that you want to learn more about Aravader
Speaker 1: and that honestly makes me so happy because Irada has
Speaker 1: absolutely changed my life.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Irada is such an in depth and intricate life science
Speaker 1: and I'm definitely not an expert. I'd say I'm still
Speaker 1: quite a beginner, a continuous student in it, but I
Speaker 1: have done my Arabadic health counselor one degree. I did
Speaker 1: it at the California College of aravader And the deeper
Speaker 1: and deeper I get into it, the more I believe
Speaker 1: in it. And honestly, even if you just understand the foundations,
Speaker 1: it can change your life phenomenally. Can't think of the word,
Speaker 1: but it could change your life a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. I graduated it as
Speaker 1: a dietician and nutritionist, but when I studied Arabada, it
Speaker 1: just you know, when your childhood home feels like home.
Speaker 1: It felt like home. For my health, I felt understood. Finally,
Speaker 1: I felt like everything that I wanted to learn about
Speaker 1: my body I could understand, and everything just made sense.
Speaker 1: It was a deeper way to truly understand my body
Speaker 1: and understand my environment. And what I absolutely love about
Speaker 1: it is that it teaches you how to look after
Speaker 1: yourself rather than relying on someone else to tell you
Speaker 1: what to do, and how to tune into your body,
Speaker 1: and how to recognize the science and symptoms that something
Speaker 1: just isn't quite right, and what the daily tools are
Speaker 1: to prevent ill health or heal your body. You know,
Speaker 1: there are quite a few people who are skeptical about
Speaker 1: holistic therapies and sciences, and whenever someone comments on a
Speaker 1: video I share about how spices or herbs can heal
Speaker 1: the body or can help with the health issue, I
Speaker 1: get quite a lot of lashback. And I do get why,
Speaker 1: because we have been trained from such a young age
Speaker 1: to only believe that we should trust in something that
Speaker 1: has been proven or done by the medical system, where
Speaker 1: the conventional medical system only if it's been clinically tested
Speaker 1: or approved by a conventional doctor. And although I absolutely
Speaker 1: see the reasoning behind that, clinical studies are also not
Speaker 1: always accurate. They're often biased, and the results are based
Speaker 1: on the people funding them, or they've only been tested
Speaker 1: for in the grand scheme of things is a short
Speaker 1: period of time. Irarada, on the other hand, has been
Speaker 1: passed down for more than five thousand years, and so yes,
Speaker 1: there may not be many scientific clinical studies down on
Speaker 1: the effects of cumin or ashwaganda or even tumoric as
Speaker 1: there are of conventional medicine, because let's be honest, they
Speaker 1: are extremely expensive to do. But the proof is in
Speaker 1: the fact that it is still uses medicine even now
Speaker 1: after five thousand years. It's cheaper than most medication, and
Speaker 1: most of the people talking about the benefits are generations
Speaker 1: of family healers or just family recipes and remedies that
Speaker 1: their grandma has passed down to their children to heal
Speaker 1: their own families with absolutely no financial benefit or bias.
Speaker 1: So if you're skeptical about holistic medicine, the only way
Speaker 1: you are ever going to really know is by trying
Speaker 1: it and giving it a go. Now, many things can
Speaker 1: be studied and quantified, you can be told something a
Speaker 1: thousand times, but the only way you'll really know is
Speaker 1: by experiencing it. Also, I'm not saying avader is always
Speaker 1: a complete substitution for Western allopathic medicine. There are so
Speaker 1: many instances where diseases have progressed too far and they're
Speaker 1: best treated with drugs or surgery. But irata can be
Speaker 1: used in conjunction with western medicine to optimize health and
Speaker 1: make you less prone to disease, or to help rebuild
Speaker 1: the body after being treated with drugs or surgery. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let me give you your Iravado one
Speaker 1: oh one, and if you want to know more after
Speaker 1: hearing this podcast, like I said, I studied the California
Speaker 1: College of Aravader. They have some great in depth courses
Speaker 1: and also give your altar. My first Arabadic teacher. She
Speaker 1: has some courses in New York City and I think
Speaker 1: online as well. She has a wonderful cookbook called What
Speaker 1: to Eat for How You Feel. There's also doctor Vussant
Speaker 1: Lad he has many books on aravader. Vadio Mishra, an
Speaker 1: incredible teacher who is no longer here on this earth,
Speaker 1: but his lectures live on on his website. So there
Speaker 1: are many places that you can study Aravada and learn
Speaker 1: a little bit more about it. So iravader Ira means
Speaker 1: life and Vada means knowledge. It is considered the science
Speaker 1: of life. It is the oldest alternative medicine system to
Speaker 1: exist and it originated in India more than five thousand
Speaker 1: years ago. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Living in an ibadic lifestyle is not just about food
Speaker 1: as many people think it is. It is a conscious
Speaker 1: way of living and empowering yourself with the necessary knowledge
Speaker 1: to bring about self awareness of your body, mind, and soul.
Speaker 1: Aravada teaches us how to tune in into our bodies
Speaker 1: and how to adapt our life in order to create
Speaker 1: an internal and external environment that is most supportive in
Speaker 1: optimizing our own health. Our Vadas referred to as preventative science,
Speaker 1: whereas western medicine is more curative. Once you get the
Speaker 1: condition or the disease, here's how you can treat it.
Speaker 1: But in irader it teaches you how to one recognize
Speaker 1: the signs and symptoms before reaching the point of disease,
Speaker 1: and two how to eat, sleep, live, and breathe to
Speaker 1: prevent disease in the body, and if when disease does
Speaker 1: come knocking, how to find and treat the root cause
Speaker 1: rather than just put an a band aid on it
Speaker 1: for it to only show up again later. Another aspect
Speaker 1: of Irada that is key is that every single body
Speaker 1: is treated as unique. We're all so different the way
Speaker 1: we look, our personality, our DNA, and how we react
Speaker 1: to foods and how we eat. It doesn't make much
Speaker 1: sense to have medicines, treatments, dietary recommendations as a one
Speaker 1: size fits all. Iravada actually sees each individual as an India. So,
Speaker 1: for example, even when it comes to food, the way
Speaker 1: my body may react to a specific vegetable may be
Speaker 1: completely different to the way that my husband does or
Speaker 1: my friend might and Irader accounts for these differences. When
Speaker 1: it comes to treatment, both approaches have great benefits, and
Speaker 1: I think using a combination of modern medicine and knowledge
Speaker 1: and tools from Irada is such a perfect balance for healing. Now,
Speaker 1: Irada sees the elements as the fundamental building block of
Speaker 1: humans and nature. Every single thing in this universe is
Speaker 1: composed of different combinations of five elements. Earth, water, fire, air,
Speaker 1: and ether. The five elements support these different areas in
Speaker 1: our body and mind. So Earth is solidity, it's structural
Speaker 1: parts of our bodies like muscle, fats, bones, nails, and teeth.
Speaker 1: In our mind it shows up as the power to
Speaker 1: withstand and endurance. And by the way, as I'm going
Speaker 1: through these elements, think about how you visualize these elements.
Speaker 1: It really does match what they actually do in our
Speaker 1: body too. Now, when you think about water, what do
Speaker 1: you think of fluidity? The fluidity in our body, the mucus,
Speaker 1: our digestive juices, lymphatic system, the saliva in our mouth,
Speaker 1: and in our mind it's the feelings and emotions that
Speaker 1: flow through. Fire is heat and transformation in our body, digestion,
Speaker 1: vision and blood. And in the mind it's passion, intelligence,
Speaker 1: and sometimes anger. Air is movement. Of course, it is wind.
Speaker 1: When you think of air, what do you think of
Speaker 1: You think of the gusts of wind or the gentle breeze.
Speaker 1: So that our body manifests our respiratory system, our joint movement,
Speaker 1: all the subtle and gross movement in the body, and
Speaker 1: in our mind. It can manifest as anxiety too much movement.
Speaker 1: Ether is actually space, so all the space in between,
Speaker 1: the organs, in between our bones, all the little space
Speaker 1: spaces and nooks and crannies in our body. And it's
Speaker 1: also sound in the mind, it's silence. Now, if you
Speaker 1: think about each element, it really does make sense. And
Speaker 1: just as everyone has a unique fingerprint or DNA in
Speaker 1: our vada, it says each person has a unique constitution.
Speaker 1: It's an individu your combination of physical, mental, and emotional characteristics.
Speaker 1: This constitution is determined at conception by a number of
Speaker 1: factors and it remains the same throughout one's life. This
Speaker 1: constitution is called your dosher. Now, many people come up
Speaker 1: to you and they're like, key time, what my dosha is?
Speaker 1: And it's a very common thing that's known. If you
Speaker 1: have heard of Arabada, it really is like our DNA.
Speaker 1: It is the main thing that someone will assess you on.
Speaker 1: And once you know this, you can adapt so much
Speaker 1: of your life in the best way possible to create
Speaker 1: harmony in your body. So there are three main doshes Butter, pitter,
Speaker 1: and kaffer. They are all present in our body, but
Speaker 1: in different ratio. So we all have these doshes in
Speaker 1: our body, but they're just in different combinations. So each
Speaker 1: dosher is actually made up of two of the elements.
Speaker 1: So vater is air and ether, Kuffer is earth and water,
Speaker 1: and pitter is fire and water. So you could, for example,
Speaker 1: be sixty percent kuffer, twenty percentter, and ten percent pitter.
Speaker 1: Now let me break down each dosha for you, and
Speaker 1: also bear in mind that when you think about these doses,
Speaker 1: think about the qualities of the two that are combining.
Speaker 1: So tuffer earth and water stagnant heavy. When you think
Speaker 1: about vater, it's air, and ether it's movement, it's light.
Speaker 1: When you think about pitter, it's fire and water. Fire
Speaker 1: is hot, energetic. And so let me break down each
Speaker 1: dosia for you so you can truly understand a little
Speaker 1: bit more about them. So vaa is the energy of movement.
Speaker 1: As I said before, pita is the energy of digestion
Speaker 1: or metabolism, and kaffer is the energy of lubrication and structure. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, we have the qualities of vaster, pitter
Speaker 1: and kafa in us, but one is usually primary, one
Speaker 1: is secondary, and the third is usually the least prominent.
Speaker 1: Simply put, the cause of disease in Iobta is due
Speaker 1: to an excess or deficiency of vater, pitter or kafa.
Speaker 1: So so many things can disturb our constitution and take
Speaker 1: us in and out of balance. Pretty much every single
Speaker 1: thing that we let into our senses or environment either
Speaker 1: helps to balance us or take us out of balance.
Speaker 1: Once these factors are understood, one can take appropriate actions
Speaker 1: to minimize or take away their effects, or at least
Speaker 1: eliminate the causes of imbalance, and we establish one's original constitution. So,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, balances the natural order and
Speaker 1: imbalance is disorder. Health is order, disease is disorder within
Speaker 1: the body, there is a constant interaction between order and disorder,
Speaker 1: and we kind of move through each one regularly. When
Speaker 1: you understand the nature and the structure of disorder, then
Speaker 1: you can re establish order, which makes sense. When you
Speaker 1: understand what the problem is, then you can find the solution.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what the problem is, how will
Speaker 1: you've ever find the solution? And so identifying what these
Speaker 1: imbalances are is really important. Now are you still aware
Speaker 1: of me? I know this a little bit complicated, but honestly,
Speaker 1: I also recommend getting a pen and paper route or
Speaker 1: writing notes if you're really interested in absorbing this information.
Speaker 1: It took me, you know, a whole course to actually
Speaker 1: feel like I understood it even to a basic level.
Speaker 1: So I totally understand if you're confused, but try to
Speaker 1: stay with me. So not to complicate things further, But
Speaker 1: we actually have two constitutions, the one we are born
Speaker 1: with and that does not change. So our original constitution,
Speaker 1: which is called procrithy and our vicuity, which is the
Speaker 1: current state of health or imbalance. So your procrithy is
Speaker 1: your original constitution, your og makeup your og dosha, and
Speaker 1: your vicuity is your current state of health or imbalance,
Speaker 1: and that's your current dosha. Now, procrithy represents your blueprint
Speaker 1: of health. Think of it like your genetic predisposition in
Speaker 1: our Veda. It determines how your body functions, what imbalances
Speaker 1: you're prone to, your likes, your dislikes, your mental and
Speaker 1: emotional character, and what will help keep you balanced. Your
Speaker 1: procerthy never changes, but it can go out of balance
Speaker 1: due to diet and lifestyle choices. So why is it
Speaker 1: useful to know your procerthy. It's useful as a guide.
Speaker 1: Your property helps you to understand your strengths, your weaknesses,
Speaker 1: and your lifelong tendencies. For example, if you're naturally a vacter,
Speaker 1: which remember was air and ether, you will always have
Speaker 1: a tendency towards dryness and anxiety. So only grounding practices
Speaker 1: long term. And so when you know your doses, you
Speaker 1: can say, okay, if I have these qualities that are higher,
Speaker 1: I know that I am more prone to this, this,
Speaker 1: and this, which means that throughout my life I have
Speaker 1: to be aware of it and I need to know
Speaker 1: how to balance these out whenever I see those symptoms
Speaker 1: coming along. And so it helps you to stay ahead
Speaker 1: of issues before they start. And usually a lot of
Speaker 1: disease comes when it's been building up for a long
Speaker 1: period of time. It doesn't just happen. And so if
Speaker 1: you're naturally for example, pitter, which was fire and water,
Speaker 1: you'll be more prone to inflammation too much heat in
Speaker 1: the body, too much fire, So you'll want to avoid
Speaker 1: foods that overheat your body or being feeling too stressed out.
Speaker 1: And so for example, you'd want to avoid eating too
Speaker 1: many hot foods, foods that create too much inflammation in
Speaker 1: the body, especially when it's the hottest season outside that's
Speaker 1: when you'd probably feel it the most. Your property also
Speaker 1: guides you towards your best lifestyle choices. So a Kaffer person,
Speaker 1: which was water and earth, thrives on movement because their
Speaker 1: natural composition or their natural dosha is heavy. If you
Speaker 1: think about water and earth together, what does it create mud?
Speaker 1: And so your natural tendency is to go towards feeling
Speaker 1: lazy lethargic, which means to rebalance that you need constant
Speaker 1: movement and stimulation in the body. Whereas a vatter person
Speaker 1: air and ether, if you think about that, too much
Speaker 1: movement happening in the mind, and they need routine and stability,
Speaker 1: and a pitter person to fire and water need cooling
Speaker 1: things around them, calling in the activities that they're doing,
Speaker 1: whether it's calming their mind, but also calling internally, whether
Speaker 1: it's calling foods or spices or herbs. So that's your property,
Speaker 1: your original og constitution, your blueprint dosher And then there's viquity.
Speaker 1: Now this is your imbalanced state or your current state
Speaker 1: of health. It refers to the imbalances that you're facing
Speaker 1: caused by whatever we are experiencing through our senses. So
Speaker 1: whether it's changes in environment, whether it's the climate, the
Speaker 1: food we eat, the things we listen to, the things
Speaker 1: we see every single day, the sense that we smell.
Speaker 1: Every single thing we allow into our senses can either
Speaker 1: increase or decrease the elements. And so discovering your current
Speaker 1: state of balance will show you the present level of
Speaker 1: your doughsha in your system. So the one question that
Speaker 1: I had when I was learning about this was does
Speaker 1: this mean that procrity? The first one I spoke about
Speaker 1: is your ideal health or your optimal health. What if
Speaker 1: you're born with a health condition, how can that be
Speaker 1: your ideal state of health? And in our radar, what
Speaker 1: they say is just because it's your blueprint, it does
Speaker 1: not mean it's your ideal state of health. So if
Speaker 1: you're born with a condition, the goal is always to
Speaker 1: bring your body and mind and spirit to the highest
Speaker 1: level of balance possible for you. So just because you
Speaker 1: were born in a specific way, it just shows you
Speaker 1: the things that you are more prone to. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it is your ideal state of health. It
Speaker 1: is just your blueprint. So while your constitution is set,
Speaker 1: your health is something that can always be optimized. The
Speaker 1: goal is not always to return back to your procrethy,
Speaker 1: your birth constitution, but rather to maintain balance in your
Speaker 1: body and your mind as life evolves, whether it's life circumstances, diet, stress, aging,
Speaker 1: and all the environmental shifts. Irada focuses on creating harmony
Speaker 1: within your body at any given time. So once who
Speaker 1: are aware of both your procerity and your vicuity, the
Speaker 1: goal is just to adjust your lifestyle and dietary habits
Speaker 1: and practices in order to balance. The real aim is
Speaker 1: dynamic balance, constantly observing, constantly adapting your lifestyle and diet
Speaker 1: and routines to keep your dosha in check, even if
Speaker 1: that means adjusting away from your procerity at times to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and vibrant. So really the focus is your viquity,
Speaker 1: which is your current state of health, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to rebalance that. So you might ask which is more important?
Speaker 1: Do I focus on my procrity or my vicuity? Biquity
Speaker 1: is actually more important for immediate health. It tells you
Speaker 1: what you need balance today, what needs to change today.
Speaker 1: Procerity is important for long term wellbeing. It helps you
Speaker 1: to understand your body's natural tendencies and what will keep
Speaker 1: you at optimal health over a lifetime. It gives you
Speaker 1: the picture of how your body is designed to function.
Speaker 1: So think of property as your blueprint and riquarity as
Speaker 1: your daily weather report. You need both to navigate your
Speaker 1: health effectively. You know, the fun part about learning the
Speaker 1: basics of your doses and aravada is that eventually you
Speaker 1: can guess what dose is someone is just by looking
Speaker 1: at them, or notice what imbalances they have just by
Speaker 1: observing them. So the first one is pure observation. So
Speaker 1: let's go through Vasha first, shall we. Body type and
Speaker 1: structure is thin, small framed, bony, maybe has dry skin.
Speaker 1: It basically has is quite petite and possibly a little
Speaker 1: bit more fragile. When it comes to their skin and
Speaker 1: their hair, it's a bit drier, rough skin, brittle nails,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Usually butters also have thinner hair,
Speaker 1: like It may not look thinner in terms of how
Speaker 1: much of it there is, but each hair follicle is thinner,
Speaker 1: or they do find it hard for their hair to
Speaker 1: grow thicker. When it comes to digestion, a vastera has
Speaker 1: irregular appetite, sometimes bloating, gas constipation. You know everything that
Speaker 1: wind and air bring into the body when it comes
Speaker 1: to my and in emotions of ata is creative, anxious,
Speaker 1: sometimes forgetful. I can definitely relate to that and a pitter.
Speaker 1: Their body type is medium build, muscular, warm skin, prone
Speaker 1: to redness. Their skin and hair is generally sensitive skin
Speaker 1: prone to acne, maybe early graying, a reddish complexion digestion.
Speaker 1: A pitter has a strong appetite, fast digestion, but can
Speaker 1: be prone to acidity. You know, too much fire in
Speaker 1: the body when it comes to their mind. In emotions,
Speaker 1: a pitter is focused intents and can sometimes when imbalance,
Speaker 1: get irritable. A Kafa body is one that is solid,
Speaker 1: solid structure, maybe denser bones, maybe a larger build and
Speaker 1: smooth oily skin. Their skin and hair are thick hair
Speaker 1: and they have softer features, more subtle features. Their digestion
Speaker 1: can sometimes be slow a bit sluggish, can feel heavy
Speaker 1: after eating, and personality wise, a cuffa can be calm, loving,
Speaker 1: but may also feel a little bit stuck while get
Speaker 1: stuck in lower moods at times, so when you're hearing
Speaker 1: those you might be like, oh, I think a bit
Speaker 1: of this and a bit of that. It definitely can
Speaker 1: be or one might really stick out to you more
Speaker 1: than the others. The second form of analysis that a
Speaker 1: doctor will go through is your tongue. The tongue tells
Speaker 1: you so much about your body. You have no idea.
Speaker 1: When it's a vatter imbalance, it can be dry or cracked.
Speaker 1: When there's a piture in balance, your tongue can be red,
Speaker 1: inflamed or might have ulcers. When it's a cuffer imbalance,
Speaker 1: your tongue might have a thick white coating excess mucus
Speaker 1: on there. So your tongue can tell you a lot
Speaker 1: of what's going on in your body. The next thing
Speaker 1: is sleep patterns. A vater is a lighter sleeper, can
Speaker 1: wake up often. A pitter can sleep well but may
Speaker 1: end up waking up feeling really hot, and a kaffer
Speaker 1: has a deep, longer slumber and because sometimes find it
Speaker 1: difficult to wake up and feel lethargic even when they've
Speaker 1: had a good night sleep. The next way of assessing
Speaker 1: is what food cravings you're having in your food preferences. Generally,
Speaker 1: a vatera craves warm, grounding foods, soups and stews to
Speaker 1: balance out the lightness of their body. Pitchs crave cooling foods,
Speaker 1: the foods which are calling to the body, the foods
Speaker 1: that don't cause inflammation the body. A kaffa craves light,
Speaker 1: spicy foods that balances out the heaviness.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: The last things I assis is how you poop your
Speaker 1: stolen elimination vata. Imbalance can be hard dry stores with
Speaker 1: it of constipation, a pitre can be loose stores freak
Speaker 1: and bowel movements, and a kaffa has slow digestion and
Speaker 1: kind of heavy oily stores. TMI. But you know thought,
Speaker 1: I share that with you, and an expert will also be
Speaker 1: able to read your pulse, So they listen to your pulse,
Speaker 1: they put their three fingers on different pulses in your arm,
Speaker 1: and they're able to detect the imbalance of vatter put
Speaker 1: in kaffa in different parts of the body, which is
Speaker 1: really cool. Like the vater pulse is irregular and a
Speaker 1: little bit like a snake. The pitter pulse is strong
Speaker 1: and forceful like a frog, and the Kaffer pulse is slow,
Speaker 1: deep like a swan. And so it's kind of cool
Speaker 1: that literally just by hearing, because each pulse is linked
Speaker 1: to different parts of the body, they're able to really
Speaker 1: assess it in that way. I've had doctors do my
Speaker 1: pulse and they really know the different areas that I'm
Speaker 1: struggling with, or which or guns are not doing as well,
Speaker 1: or what my digestion is. Like I'm like, WHOA, you
Speaker 1: kind of know too much about me too fast. I also,
Speaker 1: by the way, have a Doosha quiz on my website
Speaker 1: that you can take, so please go there and if
Speaker 1: you need a little bit more clarity, definitely go and
Speaker 1: check that out. It will really help you to understand
Speaker 1: exactly what doshie you are to start your journey. So
Speaker 1: let's get into these three doses a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I recommend as I go through them, trying to keep
Speaker 1: a note of which one sounds most applicable to you
Speaker 1: right now. So, if you heard Butter before with the
Speaker 1: things that I was mentioning, and it sounded familiar butter doses.
Speaker 1: You know, they have a thinner hair, drier skin. They
Speaker 1: may get cold easily. They're typically energetic, quick thinking, and creative.
Speaker 1: But when out of balance, they can become anxious, scattered,
Speaker 1: prone to digestive issues, prone to circulation issues, dry skin,
Speaker 1: cracking joints, insomnia, and if you're hearing those things, you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I think I have all of those.
Speaker 1: To balance a utter, I really recommend grounding, warm nurturing
Speaker 1: practices like eating warm foods, staying hydrated, andablishing a calming
Speaker 1: evening routine. For a pitter, which you remember as far
Speaker 1: and water, it is the energy of transformation, digestion and metabolism.
Speaker 1: When imbalanced, a pitter can become irritable, aggressive, overheated, and
Speaker 1: prote inflammation and heartburn, migraines, rashes, bruising, sharp hunger, and
Speaker 1: difficulty sleeping. Balancing pitch involves cooling, calming practices. Try yoga
Speaker 1: instead of a heated workout, try to go for a
Speaker 1: walk instead of doing a hit workout, and eating soothing,
Speaker 1: hydrating foods that are not too spicy or intense. CAFA,
Speaker 1: we know what that is, Earth and water. Now, people
Speaker 1: with predominant caffo. Doosh are often calm, patient and have
Speaker 1: a nurturing feel to them, like Mother Earth. But when
Speaker 1: out of balance, it can lead to sluggishness, weight gain,
Speaker 1: respiratory issues, a resistance to change, lack of motivation, and
Speaker 1: heaviness in mind and body. And sometimes you just feel
Speaker 1: like you need to sleep a lot more and you
Speaker 1: can get quite congested. To balance, Cafe I Radied recommends
Speaker 1: invigorating exercises, doing the hit workouts instead of going for
Speaker 1: a walk, having spicy of foods, adding us of spice
Speaker 1: into your foods to help stimulate and awaken your senses,
Speaker 1: and mental stimulation to help reduce this heaviness of mind too.
Speaker 1: One thing I really emphasizes is to always remember that
Speaker 1: like increases like and opposites balance each other, and that
Speaker 1: there are actually these twenty main qualities that most of
Speaker 1: what we eat or do can fall into. There's heavy, light, slow, sharp, cold, hot, oily, dry, smooth, rough, dense, liquid, soft, hard, stable, mobile, gross, subtle, cloudy,
Speaker 1: and clear. You don't to remember these at all, but
Speaker 1: how these qualities affect your body. All these ingredients, foods,
Speaker 1: your environment. The seasons have a combination of these qualities,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to the food that you eat,
Speaker 1: it goes beyond the physical aspects of heat and coal
Speaker 1: that we're used to. These qualities refer to the effects
Speaker 1: that it has inside of your body. The sensations food
Speaker 1: creates are subtle, which is why you need to tune
Speaker 1: into your body and become familiar with how to identify
Speaker 1: these qualities in everything around us. So let's take an example.
Speaker 1: If you have black pepper on your salad. Even though
Speaker 1: it is a cold salad and the black pepper isn't heated,
Speaker 1: the actual post digestive effect is heating we think about
Speaker 1: when you've had black pepper. It creates like heat in
Speaker 1: the body. Sometimes it can cause acid in the body
Speaker 1: too because it's too heating. So it doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: the dish is cold or hot, it still has a
Speaker 1: heating internal effect. Same thing as chilis, paprika, cinnamon, they're
Speaker 1: all heat inducing spices. On the other hand, if we
Speaker 1: have some more milk with spices like cardamom, pennel, even
Speaker 1: though the milk is warm, the spices have a cooling
Speaker 1: effect on the body, a deeper effect. A deeper cooling
Speaker 1: effect on the body and the organs tissues in the mind.
Speaker 1: So one thing you could try out in this coming
Speaker 1: week to become familiar with this is to take note
Speaker 1: of everything that you're eating and the effect that it
Speaker 1: has on your body. Think of it like a little
Speaker 1: experiment to take a mental note or even keep a
Speaker 1: little notebook documenting how it makes you feel by using
Speaker 1: these twenty descriptive qualities as your guide. Some other iratic
Speaker 1: essential principles that I think I should tell you about ugny,
Speaker 1: digestive fire, and our vada. Everything is about your digestion,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what Socrates said all disease begins in
Speaker 1: the gut. It's believed that good digestion is the foundation
Speaker 1: of good health. Ugny or digestive fire, is responsible for
Speaker 1: transforming the food that we eat into energy and nutrients.
Speaker 1: So when ugne is strong, we can digest our food well,
Speaker 1: absorb nutrients, and eliminate toxins. But if ugny is weak,
Speaker 1: it can lead to poor digestion, toxicity and illness. And
Speaker 1: so really keeping our gut health in check is so important.
Speaker 1: Another concept is odds. Vitality in the body is a
Speaker 1: vital energy that gives us strength, vitality, and immunity, and
Speaker 1: it's said to be the result of balance, digestion, and
Speaker 1: a healthy lifestyle. When adjust is strong, we feel energize,
Speaker 1: clear headed, and resilient to stress. Poor lifestyle choices, stress
Speaker 1: and unhealthy habits can deplete our odges, leaving us feeling
Speaker 1: fatigued or run down. I'm sure we can all relate
Speaker 1: to that. And I'm going to tell you these simple
Speaker 1: food rules that Irada has. They're short, simple, and if
Speaker 1: you're not following anything, try and follow some of these.
Speaker 1: They're short and quite easy to follow. And even if
Speaker 1: you don't want to know about your doses, just following
Speaker 1: some of these simple rules can make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: So Number one is eating un till you're satisfied, not full.
Speaker 1: I know what does that even mean? In our radio,
Speaker 1: it recommends that we eat until we're three quarters satisfied,
Speaker 1: not full. Overeating increases the production of free radicals in
Speaker 1: the body. Overloads are digestifier, which, by the way, consciously
Speaker 1: eating and being attentive to your body during the process
Speaker 1: can help to avoid and help provide the right nourishment
Speaker 1: your body needs. Number two is eating your dessert before dinner.
Speaker 1: I know you're happy about that one. If you're having
Speaker 1: something sweet, eat it before a meal or between meals
Speaker 1: as a snack, not as a dessert. Eating sweets at
Speaker 1: the end of a meal can actually dampen your digestion,
Speaker 1: making it sluggish, and it can lead to bloating, heaviness,
Speaker 1: or sluggish metabolism. If you eat sweets after a meal,
Speaker 1: they actually sit on top of the heavier foods and
Speaker 1: they ferment, leading to gas, bloating, and all the not
Speaker 1: great stuff that we feel. Sometimes sweets are actually always
Speaker 1: digested first. Our body prioritizes that, so if any other
Speaker 1: food is in your system, your body will stop digesting
Speaker 1: it in favor of the sweet stuff. The undigested food
Speaker 1: will then for men and eat to toxins and so
Speaker 1: you know, of course, have a bit of dessert. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fun fact that ideally you
Speaker 1: should have your dessert before dinner, or just have dessert
Speaker 1: for dinner. Thirdly, take only small liquids during your meals.
Speaker 1: Half a cup of warm water max. Do not drink
Speaker 1: cold water with your meals. Drinking large amounts of liquid
Speaker 1: during your meals can actually slow down your digestion and
Speaker 1: make it less efficient. The added fluid I'll use the
Speaker 1: stomach acids that are meant to be digesting your food.
Speaker 1: Eat food prepared with love. It is so important. Cooking
Speaker 1: with love and positive intention can really affect how your
Speaker 1: body digests it. That's why our mum's food or our
Speaker 1: grandma's food tastes so different because it has love infused
Speaker 1: into it. And actually I learned this in Iraida, and
Speaker 1: I never forget it when I'm cooking now. The energy
Speaker 1: that you are feeling gets absorbed into the food that
Speaker 1: you are cooking, and then the people eating it also
Speaker 1: feel that, and so it's really important. Actually, and that's
Speaker 1: also why I have never eaten meat, and why I
Speaker 1: don't even have dairy, because the energy of that animal
Speaker 1: is being infused into what it's producing, into the milk,
Speaker 1: into the blood, into the organs that it has. And
Speaker 1: when you're eating that, you're also eating their distress and
Speaker 1: they're suffering. Number five, Eat without distractions. If you're eating
Speaker 1: while watching TV, working, chatting increases the chances of overeating
Speaker 1: and not chewing your food adequately. This means your body
Speaker 1: will not be able to actually efficiently digest the food. Also,
Speaker 1: we have to remember that food is the main source
Speaker 1: of nourishment for our bodies, So it can be a
Speaker 1: sint of respect to just honor the food gently and
Speaker 1: giving it its moment without distractions. I mentioned this when
Speaker 1: it came to drinking with your meal, but avoid cold
Speaker 1: drinks and ice beverages. Your digestion is like a fire,
Speaker 1: so drinking cold drinks dampened your digestifier, which means you're
Speaker 1: making it even harder for your body to digest the
Speaker 1: food that you eat. Number seven avoids snacking. I know
Speaker 1: it's shocking because people tell you to have little meals often,
Speaker 1: but actually interrupting the digestive cycle with more food over
Speaker 1: and over again, it leads to incomplete digestion, which again
Speaker 1: leads to accumulation of toxins in the body. You have
Speaker 1: to give your body at least three hours gap so
Speaker 1: that it allows the full cycle of digestion of the
Speaker 1: food that it already has. There. Add spices to your
Speaker 1: food Number eight. Spices contain properties that actually ate in digestion.
Speaker 1: I took about spices all the time. A spice box
Speaker 1: would eventually become your medicine box, as it has for me.
Speaker 1: Spices have so many medicinal qualities and they are absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible for you. It is the underlying medicine that keeps
Speaker 1: your body an immune system healthy. Now, when nine walk
Speaker 1: after you eat glucos gotta says this, But so deesiraradar.
Speaker 1: Sitting or lying down after a meal is a big
Speaker 1: no no. Sitting down squashes your digestive tract and so
Speaker 1: it slows down the process of digestion, which can lead
Speaker 1: to indigestion. So instead, go for a little walk, a
Speaker 1: little stroll, a little dowd in the park, and then
Speaker 1: come home and then you can sit and lastly eat
Speaker 1: your largest meal in the afternoon. Our body is in
Speaker 1: tune with nature, and so just like the sun, our
Speaker 1: digestion is the strongest at midday, and so the afternoon
Speaker 1: is the best time to have your heaviest meal. There's
Speaker 1: one last thing that I absolutely love. I mentioned it
Speaker 1: earlier about cooking with love, but in Sanskrit there's a
Speaker 1: word called pusha. It means food that is cooked with love,
Speaker 1: fused with devotion, and offered to God and sealed with
Speaker 1: the prayer of gratitude. It's such a beautiful way to
Speaker 1: practice presence in something that we do as part of
Speaker 1: our daily routine. In our vader and in the Bugey tradition,
Speaker 1: it's believe that energy, attitude, intention, and feeling you have
Speaker 1: whilst cooking is infused into the food. The energy is
Speaker 1: then absorbed and digested into the person receiving it. So
Speaker 1: cooking with love, devotion, and kind energy is essential for
Speaker 1: optimal digestion. Food cannot only nourish the body, but it
Speaker 1: can also nourish the mind and soul to and so
Speaker 1: those are some of the basic principles of avada. Now,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's so much more that I could
Speaker 1: go over with you, but I think I've given you
Speaker 1: enough to chew for a little while, and I want
Speaker 1: to overload you just so we don't want to overload
Speaker 1: our digestive system. I hope that's given you a little
Speaker 1: insight into it. Like I said, I have a quiz
Speaker 1: that you can do to help you understand more, and
Speaker 1: I'll also share some books that I recommend on our
Speaker 1: podcast Instagram page, a really good cry so that you
Speaker 1: can go do a little bit more research and understand
Speaker 1: yourself a whole lot more. I hope this was useful.
Speaker 1: Sending us so much love and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening.
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