Wild List of Vata Imbalances
- Veena Haasl-Blilie
- Sep 3, 2023
- 6 min read
Updated: 15 minutes ago
Have you wondered if you might have a Vata imbalance? 😟30 signs and symptoms of Vata imbalances in the body and mind and 20 resources to help you maintain or regain dosha balance. Even if your primary dosha is Pitta or Kapha, you may still have excess Vata in your body and mind. Here's our list of the most common Vata imbalances. And 3 steps to transforming your daily life.
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What is Vata Dosha?
Vata: Governs Movement
Vata dosha is characterized by space and air. The essential engine of the universe, Vata governs all functions of movement within the mind, body, and outer world. Like the elements it embodies, Vata’s physical properties are cold, dry, mobile, subtle, and light.
Vata’s powerful mobile nature is the source of creativity, expansion, openness, eagerness, and ingenuity. However, when Vata falls out of balance, we may feel scattered, ungrounded, tense, and anxious.
Wild List of Vata Imbalances
30 Signs of Vata Imbalances
Body:
Dry skin, hair, lips, joints
Dry digestive tract: gas, bloat, constipation
Dry, scanty, irregular periods, or absent flow. When your period is present, imbalanced Vata manifests as anxiety, insomnia, sharp or stinging cramps, and blood discoloration
General sense of feeling cold, hands and feet especially
Poor circulation
Tight muscles, twitches, muscle spasms and feeling clenched
Tics and tremors
Aches and pains here, there, and everywhere at times
Palpitations
Tinnitus
Dehydration
Weight loss, difficulty gaining weight, and weight loss and hair loss
Fidgeting or other extra movement such a bouncing legs
Dislike of cold and wind
Difficulty with loud noises
Light, interrupted sleep
Difficulty sleeping, with waking, or difficulty and staying asleep
Feeling weak, fatigued, loss of vitality
Astringent taste, dryness in the mouth
Sense of wanting to run or runaway
Lack of focus or forgetful
Difficulty concentrating, remembering
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Mind:
Anxiety, nervousness
Panic attacks, fear
Restless, agitated
Dizziness
Feeling ungrounded, spacey, scattered, overwhelmed
Excess worrying and thinking in general (“cannot shut my mind off, it just keeps talking.’)
Feeling sped-up, racing mind
Confused
Shaky
Excessive talking
This is a partial list of excess Vata in the mind and excess Vata in the body. Do any of these vata imbalance symptoms sound too familiar?
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Ayurveda for Dry, Burning Eyes | Vata and Pitta and Your Peepers
Anti-Aging with Ayurveda: 10 Ways to Prevent or Reverse Signs of Aging
Guided Practices To Move From Flight=Fight-Freeze To Rest-Restore-Relax
Do any of these Vata dosha symptoms look familiar?
3 Steps for Grounding Vata
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
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