Detoxification with Ayurveda: Holistic cleansing for body, mind and soul

The guidebook “Ayurveda Detox” by Balvinder Sidhu deals with the current topic of “detoxification” from the perspective of the Indian healing system. This system understands detoxification more comprehensively than other methods, as all levels are included. When we rid the body of waste and toxins, this also means a spiritual cleansing.

The price of the modern lifestyle

In our western culture with its fast-paced lifestyle, time outs, cleansing rituals and regular cleansing processes are hardly part of everyday life anymore. So it is not just the body that builds up old burdens over time. Thoughts and feelings also have to be processed. If this does not happen, "digestive disorders" can also occur here. In the long term, this creates mental and emotional blockages, which can then manifest themselves as complaints. The latter is not just limited to the body itself; a person's immediate environment also "coalesces" over time and is blocked by old burdens, as external circumstances are often just a reflection of the internal state.

The new guide by Ayurveda expert Balvinder Sidhu introduces the millennia-old holistic healing concept that identifies causes and connections for illnesses that are often hidden from conventional medicine. The focus is on Ayurvedic detoxification, because regular cleansing on a physical, mental and spiritual level is the basis of health.

Health as a holistic concept

The Indian health science Ayurveda is based on knowledge that is at least 2,500 years old. Despite this, or perhaps precisely because of this, this healing art is incredibly progressive and beneficial, especially when dealing with the so-called modern diseases of civilization.

For Balvinder Sidhu, who was introduced to Ayurvedic medicine by her family, it is astonishing how we take illnesses, a drop in performance and the like for granted and simply accept them after a certain age. From an Ayurvedic perspective, it is the other way round: health, vitality and beauty into old age are not an exception, but the natural state of human beings: "Of course we age. But we can grow older in such a way that we feel completely comfortable in our physical, mental and spiritual home, our true self." Humans are therefore part of their environment, part of nature. And they consist of body, mind and soul. All three levels are connected and therefore influence each other.

More and more western doctors are also realizing how helpful this approach is in the treatment of many diseases. People are healthy as a whole when they are in their natural balance. However, the organism is only able to maintain its balance and stay healthy if it is given regular rest periods in which it can cleanse and regenerate itself.

Cleansing as the basis of balance

Every Ayurvedic therapy therefore begins with a thorough cleansing. This creates the basis and makes the body, mind and soul receptive to further supportive measures. The Ayurvedic detoxification concept is much more comprehensive and effective than other comparable methods: "It leads to clarity on all levels and thus enables you to live a self-determined life," says the therapist, who has been running the "Kaya Veda" institute in Augsburg for around 30 years.

From an Ayurvedic perspective, humans, like nature, are made up of the five basic elements of ether (space), air, fire, water and earth. These elements correspond to the three life energies or "doshas" Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Vata represents ether and air, Pitta stands for fire and water, Kapha connects water and earth. Every person is born with an individual distribution of doshas. This shapes their appearance, their mental and emotional abilities, their preferences for certain foods and many other characteristics that are often summarized under the terms "personality" and "character". A person's dosha constitution can become unbalanced over the course of their life, for example during periods of stress or due to unfavorable eating habits. The aim of Ayurvedic therapy is then to restore the ideal balance of the doshas (prakruti) in the respective life situation.

Book tip:
Balvinder Sidhu: Ayurveda Detox - Holistic detoxification and purification - Ayurvedic intestinal care - Tips for every type and every day. Mankau Verlag 2019, paperback, 13.5 x 21.5 cm, 158 pages, 12.95 euros (D) / 13.40 euros (A), ISBN 978-3-86374-499-1.

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