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The educational system of a country acts as a foundation on which its population grows, learns, and gets assimilated into the country’s workforce. This has far-reaching effects that trickle down into almost everything that happens within that country. High standards of education almost always correspond to higher standards of living, higher GDPs, low unemployment rates …

Using food to avoid feelings of anxiety, fear, depression, excitement, anger, sadness or self-hatred is a sign of dangerous underlying problems. If your eating is a tool to make yourself instantly feel “better,” addiction is likely to occur in the form of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Do you feel you have no control over when, what and how much you eat? Do you ever find yourself eating and can’t remember making the decision to pick up food? Do you eat because you’re bored or just because everyone else is? These are self-destructive eating patterns, rooted in self-loathing and/or a feeling of no control over your life.

The ancient Indian science of Ayurveda is growing in popularity. Have you heard of it? Ayurveda is the ‘science of vitality’. It utilizes diet, lifestyle practices and certain routines, as well as herbs and body therapies for health maintenance, disease prevention and to even reverse chronic issues. At the heart of Ayurveda is the Ayurvedic …

If you want a deeper, more restful night of sleep each night, there are a few basic habits you can follow to make that happen. Learn what they are in the short “Energy Feed” below, or keep on reading… #1. Eat an early, light dinner. Your digestion slows down in the evening hours, and your body isn’t …

“Ayurveda is all about digestion. The food we eat, the beverages we drink, the sights we see, the books we read, the conversations we have and emotions we feel. How do you digest your life experiences?” One of the Ayurvedic principles that helps digestion is the element of Fire. Fire is warm, transformative, purifying, sharp, …

International Yoga Day is June 21, 2016. Show your support for yoga and put the ‘aum’ symbol over your Facebook photo. Why? Yoga is an opportunity to experience inner transformation, peace and lasting happiness. It’s popularity has surged over the past twenty years, and it’s now being practiced all over the world. The sound ‘aum’ …

Did you know that the seasons are governed by the five elements? As we enter fall, we are shifting from fire-dominated summer to wind-dominated autumn. All of nature is a dance between the elements – earth, water, fire, air and ether. Everything we see is comprised of these five elements and the balance of these …

In today’s world women are facing a major crisis. And that crisis manifests as hormonal burnout, adrenal fatigue, stress, anxiety and weight gain. Have you experienced this? The underlying cause of these symptoms is even more insidious. And that’s a deep sense of a lack of self worth. Today, women are stressed. They are doing the …

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Are you experiencing heaviness, bloating, and pain upon elimination? Do you also suffer from inexplicable chest pain and headaches? Do you feel tired all the time, yet have difficulty sleeping and not know why? These are all signs that your elimination system could be compromised. Unlike the popular elimination diets promoted by modern, western science …

(As originally posted as “Featured Today” highlight and in the “Popular Lately” section on Elephant Journal)

“Eat well and get plenty of exercise.”

We hear this blanket statement of ‘health’ all the time in the health and wellness world. Doctors prescribe it, the media promotes it, and so we practice it.

We work out and we feel better. We even come to crave the release of endorphins that accompanies our exercise routines. It makes us feel so good that the more we do of it, the better we will feel, right?

Having fallen (hard) for the endorphin release that comes with a great workout in the past, I can say from hard-earned experience that getting more exercise does not always equal gaining more health. 

My first foray into Yoga was unintentional. I had a dance injury and still wanted to move my body while I recovered. I quickly became more interested in the connection between the mind and Yoga, even more so than the physical aspect of the practice. I recognized at a young age that the body is …

I was a smoker for more than half my life. That is until 298 days ago when I quit smoking and became a non-smoker. My decision to start learning about Ayurveda gave me the push to quit. I knew that smoking wasn’t in line with this life change. I would feel this dichotomy regularly, yet …

Sage is a Middle English word based on an Old French word that translates as “be wise”.  The Latin root is sapere. In Vedic times such wise people were called ŗśi`s, Ones Who See. Wisdom is conjective. It is whole brain. The ancient reptilian conjoins with the superior limbic, which conjoins with the mammalian neocortex, …

By Vedika Global Anchor Teacher Vaidya Abhijit Jinde, M.D. (Ayu)

According to Ayurveda, treating the symptoms of a disorder only takes you halfway to health. It is only by discovering and addressing the causes of illness or disease, in addition to treating the symptoms, that a patient can be restored to an enduring state of health.

In the following case study, we will see the efficacy of this two-pronged approach in a patient who suffered from recurring symptoms of sinusitis.

Patient Background & Symptoms

A 35 year-old woman came to me with recurring complaints of severe nasal congestion with sneezing, watery eyes, headaches and heaviness in the head. The symptoms were so severe that she was having difficulty breathing and sleeping. She had been enduring these symptoms for about two years. Previous treatment had given her only temporary relief from symptoms, as the causes were never addressed. 

How many times a day do you hear someone complain of being exhausted or stressed? Maybe when a friend asks you how you’ve been, your standard reply is “busy” or even “tired.” It’s a common complaint. This is particularly true at the end of the year when people are racing around like crazy, trying to …

Ayurveda is gently flowering in the wake of the yoga boom and is quickly becoming more and more popular. Seasonal Ayurvedic cleansing or panchakarma is merging into the culture and yogis and yoginis want in and that’s no wonder. Panchakarma just makes sense. There’s no deprivation of food. What you do eat (a mono-diet of kitchari)  …

Balance Anxiety: 5 Essential Tips Anxiety is a familiar friend of mine. The minute I become conscious each morning, Anxiety comes to visit and starts scanning through every facet of my life, looking for something to fix or worry about. When it finds something it holds on tight and freaks out. My heart starts to …

Sexual health can be a confusing subject. While study of television programming found that in an average day, 70% of programs had sexual content;[1] up to 48% of teenager are engaging in intercourse[2]; sexuality among older adults is marginalized and even denied to some degree. Dr. Caroline Roberston describes that “the frenetic pre-occupation with sex …

One of the biggest health fads sweeping the nation at the moment is the sugar-elimination diet. When people started turning up at our Zen retreats last month with ‘fructose intolerance’ and ‘no sugar’ as a dietary requirement (and I am the chef) I thought it was about time I attempted an impartial investigation of the …