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Your Body Constitution
According to Ayurveda, the five elements (fire,
earth, water, air & space) in their biological form combine
to form three basic energies in the body. These three basic energies
are the primary life forces or biological humors, called doshas
in Ayurveda. These three primary doshas are vata,
pitta and kapha.
They help regulate physical functionings within our body, besides
providing us with our individual physical characteristics.
The constitution of a person is primarily determined
by the dominant dosha. Your predominant dosha could be any one
of the three, a combination of any two or all the three in a balanced
form:
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• Vatta |
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Vata-Pitta |
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Pitta |
• Vata-Pitta-Kapha |
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Vata-Kapha |
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• Kapha |
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Pitta-Kapha |
Your Psychological Constitution
The mind and body are equal partners in terms of health and happiness.
Just as the three doshas represent our physical constitution type,
there are three gunas or qualities that reflect our psychic makeup.
These three gunas are:
• Sattva (peace, harmony, tolerance),
• Rajas (passion, ambition, spontaneity) and
• Tamas (ignorance, inertia, sloth).
Sattva is the ideal state of mind, which Ayurveda promotes as
the ultimate psychic state of being that the other two should
always aspire towards. For attaining this ideal state, Ayurveda
prescribes enhancing one's Sattvic qualities, while working towards
a steady minimization of the other two.
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