Part 1
We know that since cars were invented people need to maintain them every 10,000 kilometres or they break down and will not run so they get the car serviced. What is the service? For example, battery, oil, tyres, water, brakes, spark plugs. To keep the car moving we need energy, now its petrol, in the future it may be electricity.
Similarly living in a house requires maintenance, growing food, tending a garden, running a business, managing a family, being in a loving relationship. What all these things have in common is that they require some ongoing tending and maintenance.
Yet when it comes to the health and well being of human beings we seem to forget that we need maintenance.
What do we mean?
First, we often take for granted that our body, mind and emotions will just keep running well no matter how much we neglect it. For example, we neglect to eat fresh quality food most of the time, take time for reflection, walk in nature to replenish the cells, get enough night’s sleep. We get anxious, depressed, manic, stressed, etc.
Simple? Apparently not because we live in a chaotic, complex, and distracted world.
Why is this so?
Is this because we don’t understand the essentials to keep our ‘beings’ in a healthy state, is it ignorance of what to do and even if we did know would we do anything different, or is it because we constantly get distracted by the context, culture we live in and the beliefs that we adopt that drive our actions. Or is it something else?
What’s all this got to do with Ayurveda?
Over thousands of years many sages, yogis, medicine people, whether by interest or purposeful design, we really don’t know, observed that human beings were connected with and part of nature, and that nature appeared to be made up of five elements, the basic building blocks of the universe. When these components were configured in highly complex structures, shapes began to form, and the beginning of life on earth resulting from cooling of the earth, air to support life and water to grow food.
The sages of ancient times past studied these phenomena, and thus the study of Life had its kernels in the beginning of a Science of Life. It is what we call Ayurveda, The Science of Life.
Evidence is emerging that the universe is made up of the elements that have certain properties. This is not lost on some modern scientists and researchers of today, who with each passing day, are discovering these ‘miraculous’ properties and providing an ‘evidence base’ for some of the esoteric practices of eons past.
Of course, it is simplistic to think that because we have some knowledge we can solve the world’s problems. In fact this may never happen, however, we can say, that if we look in the right places, there is evidence we have ‘the know how’ to live a purposeful, happy, healthy life.
So what is preventing this from happening?
The questions and answers to this conundrum may take decades if not eons to fathom, but what we do know is Ayurvedic sages and pundits developed sophisticated diagnostic models to work in with nature and the elements of diagnosing and therefore understand that if the body and mind were back into a balanced state many of the lifestyle diseases would not have a basis to develop, providing a foundation for living a fairly healthy, yet simplistically balanced life.
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