Marta Lucchini

Tag: prakriti

  • vata

    vata

    The function of this dosha is the movement, it works like a fan cause is cold and dry.

    The characteristics of this dosha are:

    Dry: vata people need more water than others (2-3 l/day), herbal tea, juice, lemon and water, sesame or olive or almond oil, dry nuts and seeds, is good to eat food with water and oil.

    Light: slim, gaining weight takes time and loosing is easy, gain weight on belly and face. It’s necessary a protein based diet with no beef and pork, is not good to eat raw vegan, is better hot food than cold.

    Cold: during winter they have cold hands and feet, poor blood circulation. They need hot and cooked food, is better to avoid very cold aliments.

    Mobile: vata people are very active and they think a lot, hatha yoga and yin yoga are good for them and meditation too.

    Irregular: they have irregular habits, overall regarding food and sleep. Light sleep, they need to sleep 7-8 hours per day and is better to eat three times for day.

    Subtle: instability, insecurity, fear. They are very intelligent but they need to learn how to express themselves. They need meditation on muladhara-vishudda chakra, the first to be rooted and the second to express and communicate better.

    Astringent: dry and choking taste, they need green fruit, bread, they need to eat less astringent, pungent and bitter, for that is good dry fruit, spices that stimulate the mind, green leaf vegetables.

    The menstruation: long cycle, brief duration, painful, sometimes it can disappears cause of physical activity, not a lot of blood.

  • the three mahagunas

    the three mahagunas

    Mahagunas are the mental qualities:

    • SATTVA: calm mind, awareness
    • RAJAS: mental stimulation
    • TAMAS: dullness of mind, darkness

    There are three types of food correspondent to those mental qualities:

    • Sattvic food: natural sweet taste, making and eating fresh, no over eating, boring. Examples:  all the sweet fruits, vegetables, lentils, beans, milf and dairy products, virgin oil, seeds, cereals. The sattvic food don’t stimulate the mind.
    • Rajasic food: every kind of processed and refined food, processed sweet, salt, sour, pungent, like spices, tea, coffee, non veg (except pork and beef). It brings a feeling of guilt, sometimes the better medicine is say no.
    • Tamasic food: leftover, re heating, overcooking, overeating, overheating, irregular eating, drugs, alcohol, beef, pork.

    Two laws are crucial to understanding how the gunas work: the first law is the law of alternation, that means that the gunas interplay, never is one dominant over the other gunas; the second law is the law of continuity, the gunas tend to hold their particular natures for a certain period once they come into dominance, substances stabilize on the level of one of the three gunas, once tamas becomes rajas, or rajas becomes sattva they will continue in that same quality.