By MAPI Staff Writers

The modern world is stressful.

Ayurveda understands the need to create inner calm in this world without diminishing your alertness. Ayurveda offers herbal support to accomplish this – without brain fog. Scientific research shows that Ayurvedic herbs can reduce stress and anxiety, create calm and heighten alertness.

Reduces Generalized Anxiety

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Spring flowers, ragweed, dust, mold or pet dander can cause your immune system to overreact to harmless natural substances. The result can too commonly be allergies. Millions each year suffer from an overactive immune response to dust and pollen in the air.

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Ayurveda and High Performance

There are three fundamental Ayurvedic principles or goals that support ‘high performance’ – whether physical or mental. They are broadly summed up in three lifestyle strategies:

1. Reducing ama (toxins)

2. Balancing and strengthening digestion (agni)

3. Significantly lowering stress

Under each of these key areas are a wide variety of tactics and sub-categories. Each of these three plays a powerful role in supporting high performance and wellness, short and long term, according to Ayurveda.

By Linda Egenes and MAPI staff writers

When spring rolls around, it’s a relief to shed winter hats, boots and coats. But for most of us, it’s not so easy to shed the extra pounds that we may have put on over the winter.

Yet spring is the perfect time to detox and lighten up. According to Maharishi Ayurveda, the wet, cool weather of spring is called Kapha Season, associated with the cool, heavy, slow Kapha dosha.

If you stay sedentary and continue eating the heavier foods of winter, you could be headed for the kinds of Kapha disorders prevalent in spring — respiratory issues, allergen reactions, sluggishness, dullness of mind and weight gain.

Try this invigorating daily routine to help shed pounds and toxins in spring.

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In Ayurveda, the inability to process emotions in a timely manner is seen as the main cause of emotional imbalances. So the Ayurvedic emphasis is on efficiently processing emotions.

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We’ve all heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” To most people this means simply that the vitamins, carbs, and proteins in food build the cells, blood and bones of your body.

But in Maharishi Ayurveda, “You are what you eat” means something far more subtle and powerful. Food is known to directly influence your consciousness and feelings. It can create bliss or anger, contentment or restlessness, thoughts of the sacred or the profane. The quality of the food you eat literally creates your state of mind, emotions and consciousness.

By Kellen Brugman

Sophia Loren, one of the world’s legendary beautiful women, and one with a still-radiant complexion at age 77, once said, “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.” To put an Ayurvedic spin on her statement, beauty is how you feel and function inside, and it reflects in your skin.

By Kellen Brugman and MAPI staff writers

By Linda Egenes and MAPI staff writers

Americans spend millions every year on expensive power bars and shakes to power up sagging energy levels or to replenish themselves after a workout.

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Winter doesn’t have to be hard on skin.

As odd as it may seem, winter is actually the best time of year to nourish the skin, because it is dryer and more receptive during this cold season. This illustrates one of the great underlying principles of Ayurveda: it takes advantage of the natural tendencies available in every season for rejuvenation and purification. In warmer seasons, the skin is naturally detoxifying more, and therefore is less absorbent. In winter months, it’s just the opposite.

By MAPI Staff Writers

Nothing warms and nourishes quite like a hot bowl of delicious soup on a cold fall day. Ayurveda loves soups. They are easy to make, they are nutritious and easy to digest, and they are perfect for the light evening meal recommended by Ayurvedic experts (vaidyas). Because they are so easy to digest, soups are ideal for children. Made with fresh organic fall vegetables, grains, pasta, beans, dhals, herbs and traditional Ayurvedic spices, soups make great Ayurvedic dietary anchors. Enjoy your soup with freshly-made chapatis (flat breads) on the side, and it will be a meal you’ll want to return to.

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Feeling heavy, lethargic, fatigued, worried or a little down? According to Maharishi Ayurveda, irregular elimination (known commonly as occasional constipation) can cause you to feel off-balance mentally and physically. You may think it’s not a big deal to skip a morning, yet regular elimination makes a huge difference in how you feel during the day.

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When I was a teenager my skin was a huge challenge. Blemishes and an oily nose were two problems I remember—not to mention blotchy coloring. Now that I’m more worried about wrinkles than acne, I’ve found out something that brings my quest for healthy skin full circle—antioxidants.

An Interview with Sankari Wegman, Ayurvedic Consultant at The Raj Ayurveda Health Spa

For many women today, it’s hard to find a moment to breathe, let alone take care of your health. Whether you’re working in the office or in the home, raising your children or caring for elderly parents—it’s a balancing act just to get through the day.

Yet taking care of yourself and staying in balance mentally and physically is central to meeting all the demands of your family and career.

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On a typical day in America, 125 million people wake up feeling exhausted. For 50 percent of the nation’s population, getting a good night’s sleep is difficult.

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Weak Agni Can Mean Easy Weight Gain

According to Ayurveda, weak agni leads to the condition whereby even very small amounts of food tend to cause weight gain.

What happens in this case is that weak agni allows ama (impurities) to be created, which accumulates as fat tissue. The Ayurvedic solution is to balance agni, increase the metabolic rate and eliminate the ama.