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Considering that even conservative estimates from governmental and private organizations has established the terrifying reality that medical doctors and medical errors/negligence are credited with causing more than two hundred thousand unnecessary deaths in America, it is both heartening and promising to see that hundreds of thousands of people every year are waking up to the number of deaths and injuries from toxic therapies.

One result of such expanding awareness is the growth in popularity of natural alternatives and remedies, complementary and natural medicines, to where more than one in four hospitals in America offer alternative therapies to their patients. It's hard not to notice the growing number of people who are opting to try natural approaches and remedies because reaching for the more toxic alternatives such as chemotherapy and pharmaceutical drugs.

Mister Shortcut wants you to recognize and remind yourself that the death process in every life form begins at the moment growth stops.
Don't even go past that until you realize how profoundly true this is, how much it affects you personally.

Here you have a solid fact of life, a PowerGem, if you will, that allows us to directly impact how long and strong we are living. Death begins when growth stops.   Realizing this alone might be sufficient to inspire you, in seeking health and happiness, to commit yourself to at least a few more exercises to engage and expand flexibility. Mind, body, and soul. Engage your eyurveda as a preventative! Stop, or at least slow down the death process by engaging in continual growth.

Expand your mind and your base of knowledge so that you will be in a far stronger position of someone who is qualified to make intelligent decisions about their own health and the health of their loved ones.

Expand your body's health by expanding your flexibility. Surely ninety-nine percent of us, or close to it, are capable of stretching at least one set of muscles each hour.

That means exercise it more than you have been. Point your elbows in front of you and stretch, or lean your toes far forward. Stretch. Stretch. Stretch. Flexibility is even more delicious when it is regained. Why lose it in the first place? Ayurveda and flexibility are similarly grounded. Stretch more, in mind, body, and spirit. Is that scientific enough yet? Let's continue.

Practiced in India for the past five thousand years, Ayurveda, or Ayurvedic Medicine (meaning "science of life"), is a long-established comprehensive system of medicine combining natural therapies with a highly personalized approach to the treatment of disease. Each individual is different, which compels an intelligent person to realize that the approach must be as unique as the individual. Ayurvedic Medicine places equal emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and strives to restore the innate harmony of the individual.

The first question an ayurvedic physician asks is not 'What disease does my patient have?' but "Who is my patient?'" explains Deepak Chopra, M.D., a Western-trained endocrinologist who has introduced Ayurvedic Medicine to the general reader through a number of popular books. "By 'who,'" adds Dr. Chopra, "the physician does not mean your name, but how you are constituted."

"Constitution" is the keystone of Ayurvedic Medicine, and refers to the overall health profile of the individual, including strengths and susceptibilities. The subtle and often intricate identification of a person's constitution is the first critical step in the process. Once established, it becomes the foundation for all clinical decisions.

To determine an individual's constitution, ayurvedic doctors first identify the patient's metabolic body type. A specific treatment plan is then designed to guide the individual back into harmony with his or her environment, which may include dietary changes, exercise, yoga, meditation, massage, herbal tonics, herbal sweat baths, medicated enemas, and medicated inhalations.

The Three Metabolic Body Types:     Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
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Ayurvedic Medicine is founded on the concept of metabolic body types, or doshas. The three metabolic body types are known as vata, pitta, and kapha. They include distinctions of physique similar to the Western view of body types as then, muscular, and fat, but Ayurvedic Medicine considers them to have far greater influence on a person's health and well-being than do physical attributes alone.

Dr. Chopra describes the ayurvedic body type as a blueprint which outlines all of the innate tendencies built into a person's system. One's dosha and the characteristics which reveal that person's dosha, make it much easier to understand why one person, for example, will have no reaction to inordinately high or low humidity or chili, or, for that matter, loud noise or milk, while another will be not able to tolerate them.

Most people can be fairly classified as being a mixture of dosha characteristics (such as vata-pitta), with one usually more predominant than another. Each of the body types flourishes under a specific diet, exercise plan, and lifestyle.

The Vata Body Type - Ayurvedic

According to Dr. Chopra, the primary characteristic of the vata metabolic type is changeability. Unpredictability and variability - in size, shape, mood, and action - is the vata trademark. Vatas tend to be slender with prominent features, joints, and veins, with cool, dry skin. Moody, enthusiastic, imaginative, and impulsive, the vata type is quick to grasp ideas and is good at initiating things but poor at finishing them. Vatas eat and sleep erratically and are prone to anxiety, insomnia, premenstrual syndrome, and constipation. Vata energy fluctuates, with jagged peaks and valleys.

The Pitta Body Type

The pitta metabolic body type is relatively predictable. A person of the pitta dosha usually of medium build, strength, and endurance. He or she is well-proportioned and easily maintains a stable weight. Often fair-skinned, the pitta type will commonly have red or blond hair, freckles, and a ruddy complexion. Pittas have a quick, articulate, biting intelligence, and can be critical or passionate with short, explosive tempers. With a mind and eye looking toward efficiency and moderation in most diurnal habits, the pitta type eats and sleeps regularly, eating three meals a day and sleeping eight hours at night. Pitta types tend to perspire heavily and are warm and often thirsty. They suffer from acne, ulcers, hemorrhoids, and stomach ailments.

The Kapha Body Type

"The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed," says Dr. Chopra. The kapha body type is solid, heavy, and strong. With a tendency to be overweight, kaphas have slow digestion and somewhat oily hair, and cool, damp, pale skin. Everything kapha is slow - kapha types are slow to anger, slow to eat, slow to act. Their sleep preferences tend to run to the type of sleep wherein they sleep very seriously: long and heavily. Kaphas tend to procrastinate and be obstinate. A kapha body type will be prone to high cholesterol, obesity, allergies, and sinus problems.


The Three Doshas and Health

Although each person's metabolic type is determined by a predominant dosha, all three doshas are present in varying degrees in every cell, tissue, and organ of the body.
According to Vasant Lad, M.A.Sc., an ayurvedic physician and Director of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the doshas are located in specific areas of the body (NOTE: an assertion not fully proven to the level of Shortcuts Route For Life , so is submitted herein as "theory with some fair evidence"

  • Vata is motion that activates the physical system and allows your body to breathe and circulate blood. The seats of the vata are the large intestine, the skin, the ears, the pelvic cavity, the bones, and thighs.

  • Pitta, the metabolism processes food, air, and water and is responsible for ramping up the hundreds of enzymatic activities throughout the body. The seats of pitta are the small intestine, stomach, sweat glands, blood, skin, and eyes.

  • Kapha, the structure of bones, muscle, and fat that holds the body together, offers nourishment and protection. For example, the chest, the lungs, and the spinal fluid that surrounds the spinal cord are the seats of kapha in the body.

When the doshas are nicely balanced in accordance with an individual's constitution, the result is vibrant health and energy. But when the delicate balance is disturbed, the body becomes susceptible to outside stressors, which may range from viruses and bacteria to poor nutrition and overwork. Any significant - and sometimes even an insignificant - Significant (and sometimes minor) imbalance in the doshas is the first sign that mind and body are not perfectly coordinated, notes Dr. Chopra. He points out that once people understand the characteristics and qualities ascribed to their body types, they can take appropriate measures, through practical changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment, to restore dosha balance, which will prevent disease and ensure continued good health.

The Disease Process According to Ayurvedic Medicine

Ayurvedic Medicine, as the Shortcuts Route For Life understands it, defines health as a soundness and balance between body, mind, and soul, and an equilibrium between the doshas. According to Ayurvedic Medicine, there are seven major factors that can disrupt physiological harmony - genetic, congenital, internal, external trauma; seasonal, natural tendencies or habits; and magnetic and electrical influences. Virender Sodhi, M.D. (Ayurveda), N.D., Director of the American School of ayurvedic Science in Bellevue, Washington, says that "disease is the result of a disruption of the spontaneous flow of nature's intelligence within our physiology. When we violate nature's law and cannot adequately rid ourselves of the results of this disruption, then we have disease."

There are pathologies recognized as being genetically based. For example, when placed in a particular environment, a predisposed individual may have a tendency to develop a health problem prompted by his or her surroundings. This genetic susceptibility can be triggered in the womb by the mother's lifestyle, diet, habits, activities, and emotions. Thus do individuals possess natural tendencies to adopt certain habits, such as overeating and smoking.

From birth, stressors - both inner and outer - challenge an individual's health. For example, hot, spicy food can induce an ulcer or damage the liver. Disease can also have an emotional cause, such as deep-seated, unresolved anger, fear, anxiety, grief, or sadness. External traumas and injuries can also play an influential role.

Ayurveda also takes into account how the seasons and time of day influence health. Dietary and other therapeutic suggestions are often prescribed with this in mind. To say that summer is a pitta season means that pitta qualities are at their height during this time. Summer's bright light and heat can induce inflammatory conditions such as hives, rash, acne, biliary disorders, diarrhea, or conjunctivitis in pitta individuals. Vata's season is autumn, and because autumn reflects windy, dry, and cold qualities, vata people tend to develop neurological, muscular, and rheumatic problems such as constipation, sciatica, arthritis, and rheumatism. Winter's deep cold and biting wind brings out more kapha characteristics, and stresses the kapha respiratory system with colds, hay fever, cough, congestion, sneezing, and sinus disorders. Spring is both pitta and kapha; the coolness, budding leaves, and beautiful flowers of early spring enhance kapha's constitution; late spring promotes pitta.

The Art of Ayurvedic Diagnosis
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ayurvedic physicians have traditionally relied on the powers of observation rather than equipment and laboratory testing to diagnose disease. Diagnosis is based on physical observation, questioning the patient as to personal and family history, palpation (feeling the body), and listening to the heart, lungs, and intestines. This approach is changing, however, as physicians integrate ayurvedic traditions with modern diagnostic methods.

ayurvedic physicians invest particular attention to the pulse, tongue, eyes, and nails. Whereas Western medical doctors use the pulse to determine heart rate, ayurvedic doctors describe three distinct types of pulses: vata, pitta, and kapha. They can distinguish twelve different radial (or wrist) pulses: six on the right wrist (three superficial and three deep) and, similarly, six on the left wrist. By focusing on the relationship between the pulses and the internal organs, a skillful practitioner can feel the strength, vitality, and normal physiological tone of specific organs at each of the twelve sites.

The tongue is another diagnostic site. By observing the surface of the tongue and looking for discoloration and/or sensitivity of particular areas, an adept practitioner can gain insight into the functional status of internal organs. For example, a whitish tongue indicates a disruption of kapha and accumulation of mucus; and a black to brown discoloration indicates a vata disturbance. A dehydrated tongue is symptomatic of a decrease in the plasma, while a pale tongue indicates a decrease in red blood cells.

ayurvedic physicians routinely perform urine examinations to help them diagnose doshic imbalance in a patient. An early morning midstream sample of urine is collected, and its color observed. Blackish-brown indicates a vata disorder; dark yellow, an imbalance with pitta. If the urine is cloudy, there is a kapha disorder. When a person is constipated or is not drinking adequate amounts of water, his or her urine will be dark yellow. Red urine reveals the presence of a blood disorder.

Normal urine has a typical uremic, or musty, smell. A foul odor, however, indicates toxins in the system. Acidic urine, which creates a burning sensation, indicates excel pitta. A sweet smell to the urine indicates a diabetic condition. An individual with this condition may experience goose bumps on the skin surface while passing urine. Gravel in the urine shows stones in the urinary tract.

Disease Management in Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic Medicine holds that in order to restore health one must first understand and correctly diagnose the disease or bodily imbalance. After diagnosis, there are four main methods by which an ayurvedic physician manages disease: cleansing and detoxifying, palliation, rejuvenation, and mental hygiene.

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Characteristics and Tendencies of ayurvedic Metabolic Body Types

Ayurvedic Medicine And Vastu - Shortcuts Route For Life Blends Well

No treatment of or statements about Ayurvedic Medicine can really be complete
with the introduction of vastu into the numerous subjects that are part of ayurveda.
Where Ayurvedic Medicine is reputed to be the oldest medicine we have ever known,
even so, Ayurvedic Medicine is still subordinate to the huge power of vastu.
Vastu is the oldest formal science known to Mankind, it is quite huge.
No education is completed without practiced knowledge of vastu.
Most everything in your own life is influenced largely by vastu.
Vastu is the line of energy that determines prosperity or lack.
When you learn the simple vastu bidigital o-ring finger test,
you will be able to test everything coming into your field,
you can always tell what is good or bad for your health,
and, you will know one of the great secrets of all time.
Vastu can amaze you more than anything else in life.
Prosperity, versus lack of prosperity, in everything!
Learn vastu, so you can learn to remediate vastu.

Vastu hugely influences the Shortcuts Route For Life
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Vata

Pitta

Kapha

  • Thin
  • Prominent features, joints
  • Cool, dry skin
  • Hyperactive
  • Moody
  • Vivacious
  • Eats and sleeps irregularly - often at varied hours
  • Imaginative
  • Nervous disorders
  • Constipation
  • Enthusiastic, infectious energy
  • Intuitive
  • Cramps
  • Anxiety

 

  • Medium build
  • Fair, thin hair
  • Warm, ruddy, perspiring skin
  • Prefers orderliness and efficiency
  • Intense
  • Short temper
  • Doesn't miss a meal
  • Lives by the clock
  • Intelligent
  • Ulcers, heartburn
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Warm, loving
  • Passionate
  • Articulate
  • Acne
  • Perfectionism

 

  • Heavyset
  • Thick, wavy hair
  • Cool, thick, pale, skin that leaning to the oily side
  • Slow, graceful
  • Relaxed
  • Slow to anger
  • Eats slowly
  • Sleeps long, heavily
  • Affectionate
  • Obesity
  • Allergies, sinus
  • Forgiving and tolerant
  • Compassionate
  • High cholesterol
  • Procrastinator

 

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