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    Ayurveda: The Path to Happiness
    Ayurveda: The Path to Happiness
    Ayurveda: The Path to Happiness
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    Ayurveda: The Path to Happiness

    By Dr. Partap Chauhan and Jessica Richmond

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    What happiness really involves is feeding our body, mind, and soul with good food so we can be peaceful and at ease and enjoy our basic nature. Based upon the jewels of Ayurveda and ancient Indian philosophies, this book gives you simple, yet effective ways to usher perpetual and genuine happiness into your life. Learning how to live an Ayurvedic lifestyle, using this book as your guide, helps you to become a master in conducting yourself through the maze of life’s variables. It strengthens your ability to guide yourself along a chosen path of self-care and self-empowerment of body, mind and soul. “Ayurveda” is a Sanskrit word that means knowledge (Veda) about Ayus, which is a combination of body, senses, mind, and soul. Ayurveda describes the normal healthy state of the body, mind, and soul. Ayurveda also describes how the body and mind become sick, as well as how they can be brought back into their normal healthy state. We have instruction manuals for our car, television, and computer. Whenever there is trouble with these technologies, we refer to the manual in order to fix them. Ayurveda provides an instruction manual for human beings. It explains that when we do not follow a rhythm or routine in our daily life, we will not be in harmony. The purpose of Ayurveda is to return us to our original, natural rhythms. Ayurveda is not complicated. It explains things such as how you should sleep and eat, when you should sleep and eat, when you should wake up, how to relax your mind, and how to exercise. Ayurveda explains when you should do things, as well as how and why, all in order to take advantage of the natural flows of nature, so you can align yourself to ride the current, instead of paddling upstream against the current. In this book, you will learn about what your body type is, a daily routine to care for yourself, and what foods are best for your type. The principles described are simple, easy to practice, and effective. Their effects can be seen within a few weeks. So get started on the path to happiness, getting to know, enjoy, and embrace your divine nature. Dr. Partap Chauhan is an author, public speaker, TV personality and master Ayurvedic physician. He currently serves as the Director of Jiva Ayurveda India and spearheads all its medical and pharmaceutical activities. His TV shows are broadcast on leading Indian channels. They have a consolidated viewership of more than 100 million people. As one of the most traveled Ayurvedic physicians in the world, Dr. Chauhan has been dedicating himself to popularizing Ayurveda across the globe since 1994, having conducted workshops and lectures in over 40 countries. He set up the world’s first Ayurvedic website, www.jiva.com, in 1995. Jessica Richmond was a high-flying executive who burned out of corporate America by the age of 32. To regain her health, she spent nine years learning and applying ancient healing remedies from India to heal her body, mind, and spirit. Today Jessica facilitates her clients’ journey of self-healing using her skills as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga teacher, and Psychotherapist. She invites you to join her on the sometimes humorous, sometimes painful, and always loving journey towards the discovery, understanding and healing of yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Hunter
    Release dateDec 7, 2014
    ISBN9781556505621
    Ayurveda: The Path to Happiness
    Author

    Dr. Partap Chauhan

    Dr. Partap Chauhan is an author, public speaker, TV personality and master Ayurvedic physician. He currently serves as the Director of Jiva Ayurveda India and spearheads all its medical and pharmaceutical activities. His TV shows are broadcast on leading Indian channels. They have a consolidated viewership of more than 100 million people. As one of the most traveled Ayurvedic physicians in the world, Dr. Chauhan has been dedicating himself to popularizing Ayurveda across the globe since 1994, having conducted workshops and lectures in over 40 countries. He set up the world’s first Ayurvedic website, www.jiva.com, in 1995.

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    Ayurveda - Dr. Partap Chauhan

    AYURVEDA

    The Path to Happiness

    By Dr. Partap Chauhan and Jessica Richmond

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    Hunter Publishing, Inc. at Smashwords

    Copyright (c) 2015 by Hunter Publishing, Inc.

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    All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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    DEDICATION

    INTRODUCTION

    CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS AYURVEDA?

    LEARNING ABOUT AYURVEDA

    AYURVEDIC CONSULTATION

    PANCHAKARMA

    AYURVEDIC TREATMENTS

    CHAPTER 2 DISCOVERING YOUR BODY TYPE

    THE ELEMENTS

    TAKE THE BODY TYPE SURVEY

    ELEMENTAL TYPE

    CHAPTER 3 AYURVEDIC SELF-CARE: UNLOCKING THE ANCIENT SECRETS OF LONGEVITY

    DINACHARYA

    CHAPTER 4 FOOD AS MEDICINE

    WHAT YOU EAT

    WHEN YOU EAT

    HOW YOU EAT

    CONCLUSION

    ABOUT THE AUTHORS

    DEDICATION

    To my mother and father, who have given me this heart, nurturing it with love and kindness since before the day I was born. To my first spiritual teacher, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, who has gracefully guided my heart to love and serve. Let this book be one of the ways. – Jessica Richmond

    To both my mother and father who were my first teachers and inspired me to help others. And to my Ayurvedic teacher, Vaidya Nanak Chand Sharma, and my spiritual teacher, Sri Haridas Shastri ji Maharaj, who taught me the authentic knowledge of life (Ayurveda) and inspired me to spread this knowledge all over the world, so that we can build a healthy, happy, peaceful and loving society. – Dr. Partap Chauhan

    INTRODUCTION

    The world today is becoming busier and more hectic, as we are pursuing education, careers, partners, bodily images, and material objects, with little time to ponder the basic reason for doing so! Ask people why they are throwing themselves into this whirlwind of constant, frantic grind, and the answer seems to be, happiness. People want happiness. It is this drive for happiness that keeps us working so hard for money, a better degree, body, job, house, car, partner. However, with each of these things, no matter how much better they are than what you previously had, they will only promise you temporary spells of happiness, with no lasting benefits.

    Have you ever noticed how happy you feel after you get something you have been desiring? And have you noticed that you do not stay that happy forever? It is not too long until your mind creates another desire that you start hankering for... and you feel unhappy until you get it. This cycle goes on and on for most people’s lives. The internal dialogue usually goes something like this: I see something that I want that I don’t have. I really want that thing. I need it. I will be so happy if I have it. How can I get it? I will get it. I will work to get it. Life will be so much better if I get it because I will have something that I am lacking and that I need, for my happiness. I got it. I’m so happy! Well, at least for a little while. But I also need that other thing to make me happy. I will get it! And on and on and on. Are you familiar with this? It is what goes on in most of our heads most of the time.

    The problem with this is that we are missing one of the essential truths about ourselves that we were born knowing. If any baby could talk, they could tell you what it is. Our basic nature is happiness. We already have what we are working so hard to attain. In fact, when we feel those temporary spells of happiness because we have attained our goals, it is only because our mind becomes still for a short period of time because it is not desiring something. And so we are given a short window into our innate nature of happiness. And so, it is not because of the thing we attained that we are happy. It is because our mind became quiet when it got that thing. It is one of life’s paradoxes – working so hard to achieve what we already have, when all we really have to do is be still and quiet to experience what we are killing ourselves to get. What we have been chasing, and thinking an external source can give us, is actually inside us all along.

    What happiness really involves is feeding our body, mind, and soul with good food so we can be peaceful and at ease and enjoy our basic nature. Based upon the jewels of Ayurveda and ancient Indian philosophies, this book gives you simple, yet effective ways to usher perpetual and genuine happiness into your life. Learning how to live an Ayurvedic lifestyle, using this book as your guide, helps you to become a master in conducting yourself through the maze of life’s variables. It strengthens your ability to guide yourself along a chosen path of self-care and self-empowerment of body, mind and soul.

    Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word that means knowledge (Veda) about Ayus, which is a combination of body, senses, mind, and soul. Ayurveda describes the normal healthy state of

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