A Balanced Body Can Achieve True Optimal Body Weight

The principles of good health can be related specifically to body weight. Remember, the two are inseparable. You cannot achieve your true optimal body weight if you are not healthy.

According to the ancient science of Ayurveda, every human being is a complex experience or interplay of three processes – mind, body and spirit. All these three together are an expression of your life force or dosha or Prana.

Your every waking and resting moment is therefore an expression of your dosha according to your body type and state of physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

The human body is traditionally classified into three body types – ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph. Ayurveda does not define body type according to musculature. Instead, each of the three body types is a combination of the five elements of the universe – air, fire, water, earth, and space. These body types are Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Each individual’s body type is unique to that individual.

We are all born with some of the characteristics of all three types, but in different proportions. It is therefore important to identify your body type to determine what is good for you and what works for your body.

Good health and happiness is a constant quest for equilibrium. This means that your mind, body and spirit must be in harmony with each other. With time, you will be able to tune in to each of these three aspects of being.

Modern lifestyles, especially in the Western world, have taken us so far from our natural state of good health that we accumulate too much baggage inside.

Stress, processed foods, pill-popping and over-stimulating ourselves have placed a burden on all our body, its organs and systems, and they end up clogged, congested polluted and toxic. The result is a body in distress, struggling in vain to find a sense of balance and equilibrium.

When you contrast this with conventional weight-loss procedures, you will notice that what is good for one person isn’t always good for everyone. That is why judging health by common yardsticks doesn’t work very well.

For instance, a particular food or even medical drug impacts differently on different people. One size does not fit all. Diet plans, exercise regimes and weight-loss programs are tailored to broad classifications. They rarely take into account individual differences.

Also, with their focus on losing weight rather than on health and well-being, they tend to ignore the basic principle – that restoring the body, mind and spirit to its natural equilibrium would result in weight loss and a state of vitality and happiness.

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This is an excerpt from my book FEEL GREAT, LOSE WEIGHT