Exercise According to Your Dosha

Regular exercise is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. Through exercising in accordance with your underlying make up, you have the ability to keep your body young and vibrant. Exercise also helps bring clarity to the mind and improves the flow of energy or prana in your body.

According to ayurveda exercise should not strain or over-exert the body, it recommends exercising up to one-half of your full capacity.

Here a few activities recommended for each dosha.

Tips for a Restful Sleep

When we sleep the mind goes inwardly, the senses withdraws from the outside world and we connect to our unconscious minds. By remaining relax while in sleep, we can tap into our ability to derive valuable insight into our waking lives.

Dietary Tips for the Kapha Dosha

When Kapha is in a state of imbalance you can use this tips to bring your energy and vitality up.

• Favor foods with bitter, pungent and astringent tastes.
• Favor light, dry and warming food.
• Eat fewer sweets, sour and salty food.
• eat less in quantity and frequency.
• Eat at regular times each day.

Dietary Tips for the Vatta Dosha

My delicate and sensitive friends can use a few tips in their diet to prevent imbalances.
Here a few:

• Favor food with sweet, sour and salty taste.
• Favor heavy, moist and warming food.
• Eat fewer bitter, pungent and astringent food.
• Enjoy 3 or 4 smaller meals at regular times each day.
• Eat a balance breakfast each day.

Dietary Tips for the Pitta Dosha

You can do some simple dietary changes in your diet to balance pitta dosha.

 Here a few suggestions:

• Favor foods with sweet, bitter and astringent taste.

• Favor cool, dry and slightly heavy foods.

• Eat fewer salty, sour and pungent foods
• Eat at regular times each day.

Psychological Attributes of Each Dosha

Psychological attributes of each Dosha
Vattha Dosha	Pitta Dosha	Kapha dosha
In balance: Creative, strong communication, artistic, adaptable, alert, emotionally sensitive, enthusiastic, imaginative, perceptive, spiritually inclined, spontaneous, heightened intuitive abilities, compassionate, sensitive to subtle energies, charismatic, multifaceted in interest and abilities.	In balance: Strong sense of discernment Ability to focus on single objectives at hand Organizers and great planners Perform well under pressure Speech is clear and articulate Natural leaders Geared for success as well as high achievers Funny Willful, determined and ambitious.	In balance: Compassionate, patient, sweet, forgiving, gentle, emotional stable, loving, inherent desire to help others, calm, mild mannered, loyal, nurturing, accepting of others, strong stamina and endurance, romantic, homebodies: love to feed and entertain. Sensual, community oriented, strong long term memory, good listeners, deeply satisfy with life.
In Imbalance: Overly active thinkers, restless: cannot sit still, incline towards fear, anxiety depression. Spacey and ungrounded, additive personality, emotionally delicate, quick to judge or make decisions, shy and introverted, disorganized: poor planning. Lack of confidence and boldness, tent to procrastinate, moody and emotionally volatile, talk fast and breathlessly, grasp things quickly, but soon forgets	In Imbalance Stubbornness Manipulation Overly intense Arrogant Jealous Controlling of others Suppressive of emotions Egotistical: enjoy power trips Loud and aggressive Tendency to erupt with anger Materialistic	In imbalance: Greedy, unchanging set of ways, hoard material things, easily attach to people and things, easily taken advantage of, possessive, take on other people’s problem, fearful of letting go, overly passive, lethargic, unable to express thoughts and emotions, envious, give up easily, slow to understand/grasp things, depressed for long periods of time, introverted, complacent; living life in the surface.
Mental imbalance: Depression, anxiety, insomnia, bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia.	Mental imbalance Relating to Pitta is burning out. They overextend in their potentials and they root their relation to life in anger, fear, anxiety, jealousy, obsessive-type behavior, and deep-seated emotional problems.	Mental imbalance: Store emotions, kapha individuals tent to realize that they have a psychological problem, therefore, unlikely to make self-motivated steps in the healing direction.

Nettles: the Queen of minerals

Nettle is a herb that delivers a painful sting, so hikers tend to steer clear of it. But the leaves of this prickly plant pack a range of health-benefiting properties. Here's how this natural herb can be used as an alternative medicine and food. Nothing ore regarding that a fresh nettle pie or soup when we feel weak and need some herbal minerals and comfort.

Healing Properties
Nettle is particularly effective as a diuretic, so it helps

Brahmi: the herb of intelligence

A revered herb in India, this potent brain elixir has been known in Ayurvedic medicine to be a tonic for the brain. It enhances memory and cognition, boosts mental alertness, clarity and concentration and increases learning capacity.

Used by many students in India while studying for exams, Brahmi is touted as the herb for intelligence. It has been used for many different nervous system disorders, improving overall nervous system function. Current research is now supporting what has long been known by traditional healers about this mentally rejuvenating herb.

Elderberries: Close to your Lungs

Used for its antioxidant activity, to lower cholesterol, improve vision, boost the immune system, improve heart health and for coughs, colds, flu, bacterial and viral infections and tonsilitis. Elderberry juice was used to treat a flu epidemic in Panama in 1995.

Shatavary: The grace and the strength of the woman

One of the most powerful rejuvenating herbs in Ayurvedic medicine, Shatavari is commonly used in India for conditions affecting the female reproductive system, including the mood swings and irritation associated with premenstrual syndrome, as well as menopausal hot flashes.

Sometimes translated as “she who possesses 100 husbands,” Shatavari also has a reputation as a fertility-enhancing plant that improves the health of both male and female reproductive tissues.