Ever surprise what we would be capable of study bone well being from our historic ancestors? I’ve. And I’m doing that now as I mirror on my latest interview with Ayurvedic grasp and best-selling writer Acharya Shunya. On this interview, I ask Acharya to debate the traditional Vedic perspective on the hyperlink between emotional stress, fear and concern and osteoporosis. What I study will help every a part of us all — our physique, our thoughts and our spirit!
Ayurveda is the 5,000-year-old well being science from India, and the subject of Acharya’s award-winning e book, Ayurvedic Life-style Knowledge. As a grasp of Ayurveda, Acharya confirmed my decades-long scientific commentary that stress, fear and concern weaken bone. And, going a step additional, Acharya weaves into our dialogue profound but sensible historic options to calm concern and reestablish steadiness. She graciously presents varied time-honored mind-body self-awareness practices to calm our apprehensive, fearful minds, selling body-wide bodily, emotional and psychological steadiness. My interview with Acharya will calm, uplift and encourage anybody who harbors fear or outright concern about osteoporosis.
This inspiring interview with Acharya Shunya was broadcast on October 5, 2023. I’m providing it to you, assured that you’ll discover many helpful bone-strengthening knowledge pearls from the traditional science of Ayurveda. Let’s set the stage with a couple of cross-cultural observations, so to benefit from this interview.
Concern, Fear and Bone: Glimpses of Ancestral Knowledge
1000’s of years earlier than modern neuroscientists like Dr. Candice Pert found the “molecules of emotion,” the traditional well being sciences of each India and China codified the affect of feelings on well being.
Via eager commentary of Nature and deep religious consciousness, ancestral wisdom-driven medical programs corresponding to Ayurveda and Conventional Chinese language Drugs (TCM) declared that psychological stress and unfavourable feelings, significantly concern, and its youngster fear, created system-wide imbalance. Adverse feelings, they declared, weakened the physique’s total system, and particularly eroded the strongest of all tissues, the bones.
Conventional Chinese language Drugs (TCM)
Because the renown Qi Gong Grand Grasp Dr. Nan Lu as soon as instructed me as we squeezed right into a crowded elevator in his New York Metropolis workplace, “Susan, you’ll by no means clear up the issue of osteoporosis as a result of osteoporosis is instantly associated to concern and concern abounds on this tradition.”
Because it seems, historic conventional Chinese language drugs, like Ayurveda, developed a medical system primarily based on 5 primary elemental constructing blocks of life. In TCM these are fireplace, water, steel, earth and wooden. Every ingredient has its personal set of qualities and duties, every interacting with all of the others, and every ruling a specific meridian vitality pathway.
This life-encompassing and life-explaining TCM concept was often called the “5 Ingredient Concept.” What’s attention-grabbing to me about this complicated medical mannequin is that these ancients discovered concern to be the emotion most damaging to bone. This unfavourable affect was because of the pernicious impact that concern had on the kidney-adrenal meridian system — the energetic system controlling bone. Even at this time, many of the conventional Chinese language medicines for bone are natural formulation that deal with kidney imbalance.
The Historic Well being Science of Ayurveda
After which there may be Ayurveda, the traditional medical system which most fascinates me. Ayurveda, like conventional Chinese language Drugs, views the body-mind-spirit complicated as one built-in unit. As with Conventional Chinese language Drugs, Ayurveda relies on the precept of steadiness and concord inside the physique, thoughts and spirit. Alteration to anyone a part of the system impacts the entire. As you’ll hear in my interview with Acharya Shunya, Ayurveda additionally hyperlinks osteoporosis with concern and fear.
The Ayurvedic mannequin additionally accommodates 5 primary elemental constructing blocks of life. These are house, air, fireplace, water and earth. When discussing human well being, these 5 components are collapsed into three “doshas,” that’s, three distinct vitality patterns or structure sorts. These “doshas” or constitutional sorts are “Vata,” related to the weather of air and house, “Pitta,” related to fireplace and water, and “Kapha,” related to the weather of earth and water.
As Acharya and I talk about the hyperlink between concern and osteoporosis, you will notice that one specific physique sort, Vata, is extra liable to creating osteoporosis. Comprised of air and house components, Vata is fast paced, drying and changeable just like the wind, and inclined to fret and nervousness. (Thus, my weblog title reference to the “winds of fear.”)
Having a level of “Vata” imbalance myself, after I step again and quietly observe my ideas, I discover gusts of fear. I really feel the “winds of fear” and have come to understand that if I put my consideration to them they develop stronger. If, nonetheless, I calm down and take a couple of deep breaths after which consciously direct my consideration to extra nice ideas, the winds of fear fade away. I’ve come to understand the facility of selecting what I wish to put my consideration on. How about for you? Have you ever ever felt the “winds of fear” and in that case, how do you deal with them?
What Is Your Dosha Constitutional Steadiness?
In preparation for this interview with Acharya Shunya, let’s return to the subject of “doshas” or constitutional sorts and lay just a little groundwork for the interview.
Beneath is a chart itemizing typical qualities of every dosha constitutional sort. Most of us have some qualities of every dosha, with one predominating. These of us manifesting extra “Vata” qualities are extra liable to develop osteoporosis. In preparation for the upcoming broadcast of my interview with Acharya Shunya, you may take a minute and take a look at the chart under. What number of traits of every physique sort describe you?
If you’re a part of my “Skinny and Frightened Tribe,” or in any other case involved about bone well being, Acharya’s discuss on the traditional well being science of Ayurveda will empower you with easy practices for charting your transfer from fear and concern to fear-free, self-empowered mindfulness. I’m charting that path for myself — why not be part of me!
Extra details about Acharya Shunya and Ayurveda:
Her Web site: awakenedself.com
Her Books:
- Ayurveda Life-style Knowledge: A Full Prescription to Optimize Your Well being, Forestall Illness, and Reside with Vitality and Pleasure, Sounds True, 2017.
- Sovereign Self: Declare Your Inside Pleasure and Freedom with the Empowering Knowledge of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita, Sounds True, 2020.
- Roar Like a Goddess: Each Girl’s Information to Changing into Unapologetically Highly effective, Affluent and Peaceable, Sounds True, 2022.
