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How
to Whack-Out/Balance Vata
How to Whack-out Vata
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Worry.
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Fast.
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Don’t get enough sleep.
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Eat on the run.
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Keep no routine whatsoever.
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Eat dry, frozen, or leftover food.
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Run around a lot - travel in planes, trains,
car; or jog.
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Watch disturbing television while eating
or before sleep.
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Never lubricate your skin.
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Work the graveyard shift.
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Avoid tranquil, warm, moist environments.
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Use drugs, especially cocaine or speed.
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Have major abdominal surgery.
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Never drink water.
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Drink lots of fizzy sodas.
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Repress your feelings.
How
to Balance Vata
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Keep warm.
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Choose warming food and spices.
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Avoid extreme cold, and color or frozen
food and drinks.
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Take it easy on
beans, use seaweed or hing in cooking them.
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Minimize your intake of raw foods, especially
raw apples and members of the cabbage family.
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Make sure food are warm, moist and well
lubricated. Emphasize such food as soups, warm drinks;
steam vegetable an whole grain with a oil or ghee.
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Emphasize sweet, sour and salty taste
in foods.
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Keep a regular routine, create a safe,
nurturing, calm an secure environment for yourself as
much as possible.
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Lubricate skin with sesame oil or your
personal abyangha oil.
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Drink plenty of pure, fresh, tepior warm
water daily.
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Be careful of combining too many food
at the same meal.
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Calm Vata nerve with meditation, Pranayama,
herbs, massage, rather than sweets.
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Use Vata balancing digestive herb in cooking
and your personal churna.
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