I came across this amazing website called the Joyful Belly. It is a website which is great for creating the perfect recipes for your ayurvedic constitution. Amazing!
It has a large selection meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which you can click on to get the ingredients. If one of the ingredients does not suit your ayurvedic constitution then you can click on it and change it to something that does work.
About Joyful Belly – Making Ayurveda easier. Joyful Belly creates yummy, healthy recipes using Ayurveda. They are an encyclopedia of food complete with ingredients and health tips. They make it simple to enter your doshas and create a personal Ayurvedic diet online, complete with a grocery shopping list and your own personal recipe book shipped to your door.
There is also a lot of other useful information on the website.
Below is a short 4 minute video of Pukka Herbs in the UK. It is an inspiration to see what they are doing, along with their concern for sustainability and quality.
They also have an excellent website at http://www.pukkaherbs.com/ from where you can purchase their quality products.
Although the heart-healthy and cholesterol benefits of garlic have been long-known, it has now been revealed that ginger could prove as good.
A major cause of Atherosclerosis, a major cause of coronary heart disease, happens when the fatty cells and bad cholesterol stick to the artery walls, leading to inflammation, preventing blood circulation. Ginger reduces the stickiness of blood platelets, while also promoting circulation.
Dr. Isaac Mathai, Medical Director, Soukya International Holistic Health Center, say that ginger has the property of reducing cholesterol absorption in Liver and blood, thereby reducing cholesterol levels.
To add to this, research has proved that herbs like ginger are much safer and better than non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory drugs. The February 2006 edition of ‘Alternative and Complementary Therapies’ reveal that herbal anti-inflammatories work on multiple-target mechanisms in the body, making it less potent than pharmaceuticals. In the process, the side-effects linked to drugs are also limited.
Eating small quantities of ginger a day, say as much as 50gms, would be sufficient, say experts. However, to achieve maximum benefits, add a little water, mash it with a metal object in a steel or brass cup. Drop the mashed pulp into boiling water and use the decoction for tea or in curries while cooking.
Breath is one of the most precious gifts we have been given, yet it is something we take for granted and thus give it very little attention or thought.
In Ayurveda, which takes its philosophy from many of the Indian philosophical systems, such as the Sankya tradition, and Vedanta, breath is taught as being our connection with the divine. Learn to breath properly and this connection with the divine, your soul or spirit become much stronger. In the world today breath is an important part of our Yoga practice and is often used as a technique to calm our emotions and mind when we are stressed or angry.
In truth breath is the key to life. To become conscious of our breathing is the first step to really waking up (being more aware of what is happening within and around us). It is not some trick or is it something that requires a special training. The first step of the process is simple:
Step 1
We have become unconscious breathers and as a result we hardly breath at all. So the first step is to actually learn how to breath properly. The best way to do this is to make one self comfortable:
Hold your hands on your belly-button and then start to breath in
When you breath in, visualise yourself breathing into your belly-button and feel your hands expand out as your tummy expands with your deep in-breath.
When you breath out feel your tummy empty. Do this slowly and feel your belly-button sink back into your body towards your spin.
Repeat this simply exercise for five minutes.
Initially you might feel a bit high which is a result of all the extra oxygen that you have sent through your body because you have filled your lungs to their full capacity (rather than just breathing through the top layers, which is what we usually do).
Practice this exercise for a few weeks. Do not do it too long at first as it will take your body time to get used to all that extra oxygen. It is a simple exercise you can do anytime and almost anywhere. Take five minutes when sitting in front of your computer, or when you are on the bus. You can also do this while walking.
I came across this amazing website called the Joyful Belly. It is a website which is great for creating the perfect recipes for your ayurvedic constitution. Amazing!
Breath is one of the most precious gifts we have been given, yet it is something we take for granted and thus give it very little attention or thought.