Five Easy Ways to Thrive This Summer
Simple and Effective Ayurvedic Strategies for Optimal Summer Health
School is out and the summer sun shines late into the evening. We open doors and windows to allow summer breezes, carrying the divine fragrances of our blooming gardens, to flow through our houses. What are your favorite summer activities? Are you the type of person who can’t get enough sun or the type who hides inside for fear of overheating? Each one of us responds a little differently to summer’s light, hot, and active qualities. These qualities that many of us love about summer can also be detrimental to our mood, hair, eyes and skin.
Let’s learn Ayruveda’s art of making the most out of summer! This survival guide will give you the essential tools for staying healthy and weathering the summer season with grace. Each season has a distinct personality. When a season’s personality is understood the season can be embraced in a sustainable and healthy way. The beauty of Ayurveda is that small, simple changes to our lifestyle and habits can have profound changes.
Your Environment Influences Your Body and Mind.As my teacher has said, “If you stay in a barbershop long enough, you are going to get your haircut.” We are tied to and influenced by our environment, and we face similar challenges to those who are also in our environment. However, we are all unique individuals and are influenced differently by summer’s qualities.
Summer is known for its heat, long days, bright sun and sometimes its humidity, but these characteristics vary depending on location. Generally, the heat of summer will dry you out; the bright sun will create intensity and sharpness; and the long days will inspire you to be productive. While small doses of each one of these may be exactly what you need, most of us find summer to be too much of a good thing.
In Ayurveda the senses are considered to be gateways between the external and internal environment. Through our senses the external environment can get through the protective covering of our body and enter our internal environment. By taking measure to support the skin, eyes, ears, nose, mouth and digestive system we minimize the detrimental effects of the environment and optimize our internal landscape.
Let’s learn Ayruveda’s art of making the most out of summer! This survival guide will give you the essential tools for staying healthy and weathering the summer season with grace. Each season has a distinct personality. When a season’s personality is understood the season can be embraced in a sustainable and healthy way. The beauty of Ayurveda is that small, simple changes to our lifestyle and habits can have profound changes.
Your Environment Influences Your Body and Mind.As my teacher has said, “If you stay in a barbershop long enough, you are going to get your haircut.” We are tied to and influenced by our environment, and we face similar challenges to those who are also in our environment. However, we are all unique individuals and are influenced differently by summer’s qualities.
Summer is known for its heat, long days, bright sun and sometimes its humidity, but these characteristics vary depending on location. Generally, the heat of summer will dry you out; the bright sun will create intensity and sharpness; and the long days will inspire you to be productive. While small doses of each one of these may be exactly what you need, most of us find summer to be too much of a good thing.
In Ayurveda the senses are considered to be gateways between the external and internal environment. Through our senses the external environment can get through the protective covering of our body and enter our internal environment. By taking measure to support the skin, eyes, ears, nose, mouth and digestive system we minimize the detrimental effects of the environment and optimize our internal landscape.
