6 Keys to Self-Healing through Ayurveda
Self-healing empowers you to reconnect to the innate wisdom of your body to heal, so you can step fully into your power and thrive in all aspects of life.
Here are six foundational principles for applying self-healing and Ayurveda to your life:
1. We are a part of nature, not separate from her.
Healing happens when we reconnect to the innate wisdom of our body, which is a part of the cycles and rhythm of earth. The same elements of nature make up the physiology of our bodies—as within, so without. Learning how to synergize the internal and external balance of the elements is the foundation for long-term health and healing. This is a practice of cultivating your center, a home inside your body you can come back to again and again through the highs and lows of life.
2. Health is our natural state of being.
Our bodies are magical self-healing organisms, always working to come back to our natural state of homeostasis. Do you believe it!? If not, I don’t blame you.. I definitely didn’t always used to think my body was on my side! But now is the time to get on your own team. Appreciate the incredible gift of a body you’ve been given, your partner for life, always working around the clock every day to support you. It’s more important now than ever to deepen this internal relationship of self-trust, self-care, and self-love. Your body is your home for your life, and you have the power to make it a place you enjoy living.
3. Each body is a completely unique, dynamic expression of nature.
There is no one size fits all approach, treatment, or medication in this system of healing. Every human is a completely unique, dynamic compilation of the elements, with their own stories, beliefs and personal histories governing their reality creating their overall state of health. Understanding your unique physical and mental constitution is the key to long term health and balance. What is medicine for you, could be poison for someone else. Two people with very similar symptoms might have completely different solutions, based on the root cause of why the symptom is occurring in the first place. The more you know yourself—your constitution, emotional makeup, governing stories, patterns, strengths, & how imbalances tend to manifest—the more you can connect to your deepest truth and power in life. Self-compassion and self-acceptance are the foundational principals to create real, lasting change.
The vastness of the stars, strength of the mountains, depth of the ocean—all these same elements of nature are alive in our bodies, spirit and mind as well.
4. You are your own best healer. You hold the keys to our own health.
You ultimately know what is best for your body, better than anybody else. Self-healing encourages you to cultivate your own center of self-trust from within, and grow your external life from this space of inner knowing and support. The practice is experiential and encourages you to trust your direct experience, so you can figure out what works best for you. This is about stepping into your power and taking responsibility for your life and health, for the longterm. If we believe something or someone else can fix us, or that someone else is responsible for our pain, it can be challenging to truly heal. Being willing to continually look at and adjust our belief systems takes courage.
5. Everything is medicine, everything is poison.
It’s not about right or wrong--it’s about understanding cause and effect. We are holistic beings and every part of our being is interconnected. Following a set of rules or diet that doesn’t actually resonate with you isn’t sustainable. There is wisdom in our desires, and self-healing is about listening and understanding the deeper root of what we actually need. In reconnecting to the innate wisdom of your body, you can know what it is communicating to you and why. You can understand your cravings and desires as valuable information and indicators. If physical symptoms do manifest, you can have deeper clarity around what’s actually causing them, what your body is communicating to you, and apply realtime accessible tools to come back to your center faster.
6. Every physical health symptom has en emotional, energetic root.
When we are connected to our bodies, living in alignment with our natural rhythms and cycles, what we want and what we need can become the same thing. We can arrive in an intuitive space of desiring what is innately whole, nourishing, and supportive for us on every level. This space is our center, and it’s something we cultivate with practice overtime. We continually come back to this space through the ever changing flux and flow of life. We learn to trust our desires and where our intuition leads us. Often we are trying to meet our needs of inner fulfillment through various external sources. There might be an underlying root fear or undigested experience causing a particular action that creates physical imbalance. This approach addresses the deeper, underlaying root cause behind the physicality as well.
SELF REFLECTION JOURNAL PROMPTS:
How do you experience your body as a part of nature?
What experiences in your life have contribute to your beliefs around health, your body, and your relationship to nature?
Leave your thoughts or answers in the comments below!