How Can Ayurveda Help You Relieve Stress in 3 Simple Steps?
Updated: 5 days ago
Stress can take a serious toll on your health, which is why it's so important to find easy and effective ways to deal with your worries. Thankfully, you can get natural stress relief with Ayurveda. Ayurvedic practices can help you to manage stress symptoms before they cause problems for you.
Whether you're dealing with internal or external stress, Ayurveda can help. These are a few simple ways you can relieve tension and manage your stress.
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What is Ayurveda and Why Does it Work So Well?
Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that translates directly as the “knowledge” (veda) of “life” (ayu). Ayurveda is a branch of the Vedic tradition - an ancient Indian knowledge system, and the oldest wisdom tradition in the world - which is based on the idea that all of life, from the mundane to the majestic, is inherently connected and divine
Ayurveda is often thought of as only one component: Ayurvedic medicine. While Ayurveda is a profound approach to holistic health and healing, this is just one small dot on the vast map of this ancient tradition. Ayurveda is a path, a system of living, a spiritual journey that lasts a lifetime.
Ayurveda uses food as medicine, herbs, and lifestyle practices like meditation and breathwork to balance the dynamic energies within our body – creating harmony throughout our inner and outer worlds.
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How Can Ayurveda Help You Relieve Stress in 3 Simple Steps?
1. Use Ayurvedic Herbal Remedies
Ayurvedic herbs have been used for healing for centuries, and they can be particularly effective when it comes to relieving stress. Herbs that can help relieve anxiety include:
Jatamasi
Vacha
Brahmi
Bhringaraj
Ashwagandha
These herbs have proven health benefits and can help you find tranquility when you're feeling overwhelmed. Which herbal remedy is correct for your depends on your constitution, current condition, location, season and stage of life. Herbal remedies are best determined by an experienced Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner.
As with all herbs, the tenet of Ayurveda is that what works well for one person may be incorrect for another. To know what herbs are correct for you, schedule a consultation with a seasoned Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner. (Herbs are listed for informational purposes only.)
“I have implemented small changes that you recommended. I'm ecstatic to report that all my anxiety has completely disappeared. It feels like magic! I was not expecting such a speedy turnaround in my overall outlook and mental wellbeing.
The best way I can describe it is feeling infinitely more balanced, which has seeped into all areas of my life - work, home, personal relationships, etc. I will keep implementing small changes and building healthy habits.”
–Anonymous, Minnesota
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2. Find Friendly Dosha Balancing Foods
The mind and body are closely connected, and the foods you eat can have a significant impact on your stress levels. If you're trying to determine which foods you should include in your diet, you'll want to identify your predominant dosha.
Knowing your dosha will make it easier for you to choose foods that can keep your body in balance. For example, if you have a pitta imbalance, cooling foods can be a big help. Fruits and vegetables are especially important for people with a kapha imbalance. Find out more about your body so that you can identify the foods that it needs.
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3. Start Meditating and Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing
It'll change your life. Daily meditation is one of the most effective ways to keep your stress levels in check. Meditation can help you to focus on the present rather than worrying about the future. It can also make you more aware of what you're feeling, allowing you to keep your emotions in check.
Once you build healthy meditation habits, you'll be able to increase your patience and your tolerance levels. You'll have all the tools you need for stress management.
Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing and Change Your Life
Diaphragmatic breathing is the foundation to pranayama, breathwork practices. It is the most important breathwork to practice and master. Before trying other pranayama practices, diaphragmatic breathing needs to be automatic. Ready to reclaim your calm by shifting from flight-fight-freeze mode to the rest, restore, relax side of your nervous system? Click here.
Three of the most common concerns clients have are anxiety, fatigue, and poor sleep. Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing and Change Your Life. When we chest breath, the lungs are not fully utilized. Why does that matter? It makes us feel anxious and tired because the gas exchange between the air we breathe, and our blood is not optimal. When we breathe diaphragmatically, we breathe more efficiently, the gas exchange is better, and we feel calm and relaxed.
Sounds too simple to be true, but it's not.
There is a saying, "The mind is more in the body, than the body is in the mind." The Saumya 3 Step Meditation Process shifts us from fight-flight-freeze mode, to rest-restore-relax mode. Give it a try for forty days and observe the changes. The more grounded and relaxed we are, the smoother life flows.
"The breath is the connection between the mind and body, so by training the breath, we become calm, focused, and grounded, we slow down the aging process by decreasing stress. These practices are so simple and easy to have as part of our daily life. We actually feel and look younger."
- Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
1. Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing and Change Your Life. When we re-learn to breath diaphragmatically, we move from the flight-fight-freeze mode, to rest, restore, relaxation mode from where we want and need to live.
2. Daily Guided Practices: 11 minutes in the morning and in the evening, as anchors of your daily Ayurveda routine.
3. Ayurveda Daily Routines: --Ayurvedic Morning Routine | 6 Rituals for a Calm and Centered Day
"Choose a couple of practices from the routines that provide you with the greatest support. Perform them while applying our two minute meditation technique and your mundane tasks, just transformed into a mellifluous meditation. This is meditation applied to daily life." - Veena, Saumya Ayurveda
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-Molly Rossini, Minnesota
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“Veena has helped me several times at various stages of my life to rebalance my doshas, and to bring me back to greater vitality. Veena’s herbal protocols and food recommendations are easy to follow and effective.
Combined with her beautifully guided relaxation and meditation practices, Veena offers a truly holistic to achieving and maintaining harmony in body, mind, and spirit—and living more peacefully and joyfully in an increasingly more erratic world.”
--Gabrielle Allen, California
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Veena is a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and meditation teacher, and monk.
She is President Emeritus and teaching faculty of the Meditation Center.
Veena fell in love with the traditional medicine used in her family’s home, learning herbal remedies at her grandmother's knee.
These childhood experiences were the seeds of a lifelong passion. For over 30 years, Veena has dedicated her life to the world’s oldest healing system: Ayurveda.
She draws on this ancient wisdom to help others find their compass to a healthy life – and support those left wanting by Western medicine.
An experienced Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Veena’s deep, intuitive knowledge of Ayurveda empowers her clients to reclaim their fullest, most vibrant lives –mentally, physically, and spiritually. Veena individualizes treatment plans to each person, rather than offering a one-size-fits-all approach, so it fits your life and becomes woven in your lifestyle, naturally.