What is the importance of knowing you Ayurvedic body type ?
While every individual is born with five elements, the constitutional makeup and the relative proportions of each element are a little different, and our lifestyle also differs based on our Doshas .
Ayurveda Body Type Test - Prakriti Analysis
Although there are only three doshas, they can be combined in ten possible ways to arrive at ten different body and behavioral types.
• 3 single - Dosha types (Ekadoshaja)
o Vata
o Pitta
o Kapha
• 6 two - Dosha types (Dwandwaja)
o Vata - Pitta
o Pitta - Vata
o Pitta - Kapha
o Kapha - Pitta
o Kapha - Vata
o Vata - Kapha
• 1 three - Dosha type (Tridoshaja)
o Vata - Pitta - Kapha
Typically, one of the three Doshas predominates and determines your constitution or mind-body type. By understanding our individual habits, emotional responses, and body type, we can go for Ayurveda treatments focused on alleviating any Doshic excesses (illness) via powerful herbs and or via the improvement of general lifestyle practices such as Pranayama, Meditation and Yoga Postures.
When you have an excess of a Dosha,
it throws your system off balance. For example, with excess vata, there can be mental, nervous and digestive disorders, including low energy and weakening of all body tissues. With excess pitta, there is toxic blood that gives rise to inflammation and infection. With excess kapha, there is an increase in mucus, overweight, Oedema, lung diseases, amongst other. The key to managing all doshas is taking care of vata, as it is the origin of the other two .
When we eat the proper food and follow the lifestyle that suits our Ayurvedic body type. We have better chances of staying fit, healthy and happy for a long time.
Once you identify which
Dosha you have the most of, you want to look into PACIFYING that Dosha. In a sense, calming and balancing that Dosha, with the goal of being balanced in all 3 Doshas.
The balance of these tri-energies is known as a state of health and their imbalance is disease. Anything which restores this balance is good for health.
So
specific diet, exercise, behavior or medicine can be recommended according to prakriti to restore this balance and provide health.
World Health Organization has defined health as follows – “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease ".
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