Winter care

During winters, the digestive fire is stroger  hence it is capable of digesting any food stuff irrespective of its heaviness and the quantity.
During winter, if proper quantity of food is not taken, it affects the quality of Rasa Dhatu (nutritious fluid generated as a product of digestion). It leads to Vata imbalance.
Therefore, during the winter one should take foods from these groups..
Oily , sour and sweet, fermented liquid prepared with ripened fruit  can  be consumed with honey. Desi  cow milk and its milk  products like ghee, paneer, curd, buttermilk .
Sugarcane and its juice products like Jaggery, jaggery powder and  sesame oil, fresh rice and grains hot water.

With these kind of food products we should use these healthy habits to make yourself fit and healthy for  throughout  a year. 

·     Oil massage :    We should regular oil massage to body, palm massage, head massage to avoid dryness. Proper breathing practices with regular yoga practice to balance vata in this season for the  body detoxification.

·         Try to sit in Sunlight to get Warmth for the muscles and vitamin D absorption in our body  .

·         Try to include all the 6 kind of taste in your daily meal (Sweet, salty,sour,bitter,astringent, pungent)to improve your nutrition absorbation.{will let know details about this in the  next post}

·         We should have covered our body with warm clothes and blankets specially while sleeping to proper relaxation and detoxification  for our body and mind. Try to take at least 6-8 hour sleep compulsorily in winters but not more than this  as in winters don’t allow to sleep in the daytime.

·        One should avoid food and drink which are light and are prone to Vata vitiation (Dry foods). One should not expose himself to cold wave.
Eating less or skipping meals are not recommended.

Enjoy winters

How and why; correct fasting

Eating is important but not eating is also important as for remove toxins for best gift of mother nature (our beautiful body),like every religion suggest to do fasting once in a week or some special days like Ramjan, Ekadashi, Good friday etc.

How we can do fasting.

It is like promoting detox our body , many researches said about fasting that we should do once or twice in a week fasting to improve our brain function and metabolic disorders ,remove free radicals from blood and boost our immunity but during fasting you have to do proper rest and having water or some raw vegetables or fruits to help the system to detoxify with enema practice,wet packs too.

Who can do the fast?

Who they are determined to do, can do proper rest on that day. Please avoid pregnant ladies, lactating mothers or planning to conceive baby, Kids, underweight persons, undergoing any surgery recovery etc.

How we do fast:

We can do fast with fruits, vegetables if possible organic; we can do it on water or lemon water, single fruit. We can do once in a week or twice in a week or intermittent for fasting with self determination with positive approach.

Basic fasting pattern:

Intermittent like fasting any 14-16 hours of fasting on any time of the day as per your conveniences.

Water fasting, fruit fasting with many fruits or one fruit at a time,vegetables fasting, lemon water fasting,etc.

For more details you can contact your nearby naturopathy consultant .

What we should do during fasting:

Generally during fast we promote body to detoxify, please do proper rest  because body does regeneration or rejuvenation during sleep as our many studies said.  If you are busy on that day please avoid it that day. We should practice it with water, or what we choose for fasting methods. We should try to do enema to make it more effective, and have some cold or mud packs to abdominal area to make it more fasten.

Why it’s not for everyone; for those who is occupy with all time mental food thoughts ;). It’s all psychological  but it has to be self datermination not by forced..

 Please have healthy organic, fresh food when you break the fast. Slowly start the normal food under expert supervision to make intestines more healthy and comfortable.

Benefits of fasting:

• ·        The most important benefit is to cleanse our vital body (Annamaya kosha) and make mental control (Manomaya kosha) over cravings.
•      It helps to release extra fat from the body, revitalize the skin and organic body organs.
• ·        Fasting make us free from free radicals from the blood: it’s good for cancer, and other degeneration diseases.
• ·        We can remove all the side effects of medicines that we are taking or have taken earlier.

·        So we can improve our vital energy with fasting to make us healthy.

Now we have the basic fasting therapy to make balance of panchmahabhoot in our body to become healthy.

Happy and healthy fasting.

How to take correct breath

Procedure of correct breathing...as we inhale navel comes out and we exhale the breath navel goes in..so that diaphragm muscle easily move to help our lungs expand and contract to take proper and deep breath.. please check with yourself from a magazine.

Lie down on a mat , put a magazine on your navel. When you inhale magzine has to move up and we exhale our breath magzine has to move down .it's a simple exercise to correct your breath.

Please check and correct your breath to improve the vital force..

It's so important to improve prana level in our body..it's a basic health key to become physically, mentally healthy and happy..