Thursday, October 16, 2008

(Oct 14, 2008) Personalized Ayurvedic Assessment

Prepared by an Ayurvedic RYT, AHE, in Toronto
I am a robust pitta(3)-kapha(1.5) prakriti with excellent structural stability and a vast pool of emotional resource beginning to quiver under a hyper-competent intellectual/professional persona; vata is over-excited on the level of reproductive power and manas by spiritual emergence. Pitta-type psychological drive has served me well in terms of artha but cannot stop for kama or contemplation or simple rest because of a long-standing fear that foundations are insecure. And so they are with regard to worldview: it is hard for me to believe that I am loved and lovable: such ideas are challenging to my identity.

Nourishment Fixation
Lifelong fixation upon nourishment has been a touchstone for anxiety, doubt about the beneficence of the universe, doubt of self-worth, doubt in the purpose of material life, and recently transformed into a spiritual tool of considerable value, but which carries some of the old purpose: food is a way of purifying, testing or proving or perhaps even punishing the body. It will be useful to nurture the understanding that food is just food, simultaneously mundane and divine, with the knowledge and gusto that dogs and cats have.

My Mother
My mother is in my head (this is literally true in Vedic astrological chart). It will help to examine, as I meditate “whose thoughts are these?” It will be helpful when I do my forgiveness ritual to specifically write out every single accusation levelled at me by my mother, and to see how many, if not all, have become self-accusations. Perhaps I will eventually reclaim her love by understanding her wrathful nature in a tantric sense.

My Body
My body is fairly clean. The raw diet has done well on many levels: it has eliminated many toxins (clean tongue, improved skin, feeling of lightness). However, I do have four physiological issues and one personal issue, which I will not detail here. I received a “doable” individualized diet recommendation which I also will not detail either.

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