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Are You Toxic? Out of Balance?
"When you're lying awake, With a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety...
And you're hot, and you're cross,and you tumble and toss...
Well, you get some repose, in the form of a doze,
With hot eye-balls and head ever aching.
But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams
That you'd very much better be waking..."
These words from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta provide a vivid description of what it can feel like to be out of balance. Anxiety, nightmares, headache, irritation, fever... it sounds as if pitta is out of balance along with some vata. The kapha version might go more like:
"When you're sluggish and dull and you slumber and snore and you're heavy and slow and lethargic..."
Nobody enjoys being out of balance, yet the truth is, we all believe we enjoy doing the things that can cause us to be 'lying awake with a dismal headache.' All the things we think we like doing but which are actually harmful for our wellbeing fall into the category of 'crimes against wisdom,' . Maybe your body type is vata and you can't understand how you ended up so anxious and nervous, with constipation and aches and pains. Chances are, you've been eating a lot of salads, drinking coffee, snacking irregularly on energy bars and chips and getting to bed late. The dry, cold and irregular qualities of your lifestyle are disturbing to your vata. If you're pitta and feeling as hot and bothered as the poem describes, look at the salt, chilies, fried foods and citrus fruits in your diet. Salty, oily, pungent and sour tastes are very disturbing to pitta, as are alcohol and marijuana. And if you're kapha and feeling sluggish and dull, think about your after dinner ice cream, sugary and starchy foods and heavy meals in the evening. Sweet, cold and heavy foods are very disturbing to kapha. They may seem comforting at the time, but they are not really worth the sluggishness that follows. An individualized seasonal detox, massage, nightly detox baths, meditation, yoga, and colon hydrotherapy will help you tune up and get back into balance in short order. Letting an imbalance go for any length of time just leads to disease, which is expensive and time consuming to un-do. Understanding that our own choices have led us to be out of balance helps us appreciate that we have the power to make a positive change.
Take the detox questionnaire - click the link and see if you need to follow the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and follow a "seasonal detox" as we move into our new season. Are you over weight, brain fogged, and exhausted? Detoxing will allow you to revitalize your energy and lose the weight.Have you ever reached a plateau in your weight loss program and can't make the needle of your scale budge? Take the quiz and you will see why. Do you have skin problems? Is your digestion sluggish? Fix it! This is the seat of all disease AND health. Do you get mood swings with your menstrual cycle? Break the viscous cycle with a gentle detoxification protocol. Do you have liver spots (age spots) on your hands and face? This is the liver telling you it needs to be cleaned out. Sleepless? This is one of the most important factors for health and is aided when you are not toxic.
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