Reenergize your body and renew your clarity
According to Ayurveda, from appetite to elimination, cultivating optimal digestion is your first defense against disease.
Do you tend towards lethargy and sluggishness, especially in the early Spring?
Is there a heaviness in the stomach?
Is your appetite slow, yet you tend to overeat?
Is your thirst sparse?
Is your digestion prolonged and mucus-forming?
Is your elimination thick, oily, sluggish, or slow?
To you who answered yes to one or more of the questions above, any of the three items below are for you.
Everyone else reading this can benefit significantly from exploring either of the first two.
Use a tongue scraper. This will not only remove toxins from the tongue but also inform you about which of your eating patterns are serving you (as you learn a little bit about your tongue).
Drink warm (instead of cold) water, especially with your meals. This will help move toxins from the deeper cells in your body into the digestive tract — the place from which they can then be eliminated.
Reduce the amount of rich and heavy foods you consume and enjoy a light diet consisting of easy-to-digest foods such as sautéed veggies cooked with mustard seeds, ginger, turmeric, and pippali (long pepper).
Select one as your ‘Exploration of The Week’ and do it daily!
Key Message: The small things you choose to do regularly will transform your life.
Yes, I’d love to hear how this goes for you.:-)
