Staying Healthy

Is it possible to maintain perfect health without spending a single cent? Yes! just check your constitution and follow the basic diet, sleep pattern and exercises and stay healthy all year round.

Know your constitution:

To stay healthy, one must live in harmony with nature - with a natural balance. To practice this art of living with a natural balance, it is important to know one's own unique constitution and follow a suitable lifestyle.

It is so simple and anyone can do it! It makes life so much more enjoyable. To prevent disease and maintain optimum health, check your constitution.

Healthy eating:

In addition to determining the constitution, there are a number of important factors for maintaining good health, related to the diet. This includes foods eaten, time difference between two meals, combination and quantity of foods, cleanliness and proper eating.

• Food should be fresh, hot, tasty and easy to digest.
• There should be at least a four hour difference between any two meals.
• Restrict the number of items in one meal. The items taken in one meal should not contradict each other. For example, (milk and orange juice).
• A feeling of tiredness or heaviness in the stomach after eating, indicates improper eating practices.
• Food should be taken only when hungry and strictly according to digestive power.
• Do not eat while watching television or while reading. Eat in peaceful and pleasant surroundings.
• Do not rush eating or eat too slowly. Chew the food thoroughly.
• Fruits should not be mixed with meals. Either take a separate meal constituted only of fruits or eat fruits as a snack between two meals.
• Do not drink water one hour before or after meals though it is fine to drink it in small quantities with meals.

Proper sleeping:

Proper, regulated sleep is very important to maintain the balance of functions in the body. "Early to bed and early to rise" is the key to good health. For an average person, six hours sleep is sufficient. Excessive sleeping contributes to disease.Adequate exercise

Regular exercise according to your constitution is extreamly beneficial for good health. Yoga is advised as the best type of exercise as it takes care of physical, mental and spiritual health. Yoga and Ayurveda go hand in hand, as the aim of both these sciences is to give perfect health and attain liberation through God consciousness.

Cleansing:

Even after strictly following the above mentioned procedures, some toxins still accumulate in the body as a result of various metabolic activities. It is necessary to eliminate these toxins from the body, as they foster many diseases specially when their quantity increases beyond a certain limit. To maintain efficient physical functioning and to stay healthy, regular elimination of these toxins is required. Ayurveda recommends fasting for one day, and the Panch karma elimination therapies. Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation therapies are prescribed to maintain optimum health and an active lifestyle even in old age. There are many Ayurvedic rejuvenation preparations available, which can be taken according to season and personal constitution.

In daily life, many activities act as rejuvenating tonics in themselves. Good social conduct, morality, good manners and good character are some important factors.

Overall, these guidelines offer an easy way to stay healthy. What’s more is that following these guides does not cost anything and helps you lead a more productive life.