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Food and Mood: What Is Nutritional Psychiatry?
Relevance of Ayurveda for having foods to create peace and wellness Imagine two people, person A and person B Person A typically eats simple carbohydrates, high sodium, and high saturated fat, with small amount of vitamins, minerals, and fibre, mainly from packaged...
Relevance of Ayurveda for Preventative Health and Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease
Trends of Chronic and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) From the last few decades, there has been a global concern on raising trends of chronic and non-communicable disease (NCD), an epidemic of lifestyle related diseases like diabetes, obesity, heart diseases,...
Why your mindset is everything?
If you need to unlock levels of wisdom, intuition, creativity, and capacity that is not realised yet by you, but you know it is there within you, then what beliefs, values, and mindset must change, and what needs to be born, stay or remain firmly established?How do...
Eating foods for Peace and Wellness
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” You are what you eat! “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” - An Ayurvedic Proverb Are you eating because you are hungry? Other reasons for eating food include...
Small Things in Life
Everyone wishes and seeks Peace and Joy. And only after the mind maintains a calm and equanimous centre, we can hope to achieve this. Some may be born that way but most of us require conscious effort to achieve it consistently. And if we are just covering it but...
Stay Healthy during the Festive Season
Eating and Consumption tips for wellness during the festive season. Best to be prepared! Here are a few tips on how you can prepare for this season. 1. If going for a party, snack healthy before you go. This way you will eat more food that you want to eat and less of...
What is Health? An Ayurvedic Definition
Health is that condition of the body, in which all its functions are efficiently performed without any difficulty. It is the condition of comfort, ease, ability to eat, move and perform other functions of life. It is the state which results from harmonious...
Detoxification: 7 Homemade Detoxifying Tea You Can Try
The effectiveness of Ayurveda is based on its holistic approach. In its assessment of a person’s health, Ayurveda considers not only physical aspects, but also its interconnectedness with environmental, emotional, mental and spiritual factors that influence our...
A Dilemma relating to Mental Health
Inevitability of miseries and sufferings: There is no such thing as exclusive happiness or sorrow; because there never is one without the other, even though people pretend as if the opposite is true, and that a constant state of happiness is the way to be. There is a...
Psychological vulnerability needs to be handled during pandemics and uncertain times
During this crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, it is quite natural to experience a wide variety of mental concerns. There is no country, skin colour, community or religion that is immune to a virus. There are two pandemics that seem to be going on in the world - the...
Cholesterol: Ayurvedic Diet and Lifestyle Tips and Herbal Remedies
What is Cholesterol Cholesterol is a fatty acid that is a part of circulating lipids in the body. The body needs cholesterol to build cell membranes, vitamin D, hormones, and bile acids and salts. It is obtained both from the diet and produced within the body, mainly...
Corona Virus – Raising Immunity with Ayurveda
Schools shut down, shopping malls closure, workplaces closed with people working from home, airlines grounding fleet, markets in mess, even some countries in a lockdown - this is the global impact caused by the COVID-19 Corona virus. When Coronavirus affects a person,...
Feb 2020 Wellness Events Report
Ayurveda Awareness Centre (AAC) along with Saraswathi Maha Vidhylaya (SMV), presented three Wellness Events in Perth in Feb 2020, with our mentor and teacher Dr Rajen Cooppan. Health and Wellbeing in Fast-Paced Life This event is designed for busy people who have no...
Ayurveda – The Science of Life
WHO [the World Health Organisation] recognises Ayurveda as an ancient and holistic system of health care with texts said to be about 6000 years old. It is said to be in existence in oral form for about 40,000 years. Ayurveda is one of the traditional systems of...
Gut Health – What is Leaky Gut? How to Improve Its Health?
The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, said it himself: "All disease begins in the gut”. Gut health is buzz word at the moment. Here we are looking at one of the gut issues, called Leaky gut, also known as increased intestinal permeability. It is a digestive...
Sprouts: An Ayurvedic Superfood
Sprouts are superfoods that you can easily include in your daily diet! Ayurvedic practitioners, nutritionists, and holistic health coaches highly recommend the power of sprouts because of its nutritional value and numerous health benefits. Sprouts are considered as...
9 Obstacles That Distract our Thoughts & Our Life’s Progress
The sanskrit word for obstacle is antaraya, which means impediment, or “to come between”. Obstacles come in many shapes and sizes, both physical and mental. The 9 obstacles that distract our thought are, disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation,...
Spring Cleaning: An Ayurvedic Routine for Mind-Body Health
Spring is so promising that after the cold season, we are all excited to open our windows and greet the sun! The flowers are starting to bloom and the bees; bats, and snakes are waking up from hibernation as well. It’s truly an amazing new beginning with nature,...