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As an individual with a predominance of Vata in your constitution, you embody the qualities of Air & space in your physical, emotional, and mental aspects. Your physique is often characterized as light and airy, with a slender frame, small bones, and a delicate build, which can present challenges in gaining weight. Vata skin tends to be rough, dry, and delicate, with small pores, often feeling cool to the touch. This dry, cold, and dynamic Vata nature also heightens your sensitivity to cold environments.
Are you the one who usually reaches for a sweater or blanket as soon as the temperature drops in the room?
With a Vata-dominant mind, you possess excellent communication skills and a creative, imaginative spirit. However, an imbalanced Vata may lead to difficulties in maintaining focus, resulting in a wandering mind. Mental imbalance in Vata can manifest as excessive stress, rapid agitation and anger, dramatic emotional fluctuations, and feelings of low energy and exhaustion due to Vata's ever-shifting nature.
If you are a Vata-dominant person and want to keep your Vata in balance,
we suggest below daily regimen (dinacharya)
Skincare
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Diet
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A Vata-dominant person should take oils, good fats, and protein-rich food. Calcium-rich diet for strong bones and hair includes sesame seeds, walnuts, almonds, green leafy vegetables, spinach, kale, cabbage, soyabean, green beans, flax seed, cooked garlic, and basil. Spices like bay leaf, cumin, black pepper, and dry ginger must be used in regular cooking.
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Taking at least one teaspoon of ghee with each meal helps digest and properly absorb dietary nutrients.
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Using sesame oil in cooking during colder months can help with strength and body weight.
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Regular or long hours of fasting are not recommended. Take freshly prepared food in hot or warm conditions. Warm water is good for drinking.
Lifestyle Rituals
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Abhyangam: Since a Vata body type is usually dry, rough, and cold. Massaging with warm sesame or medicated oils works best as it helps improve the stability of all body parts and makes them strong and firm.
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Padabhyangam: A foot oil massage helps with cracked feet and de-stressing.
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Shiroabhyangam: Regular head massages with warm medicated oils can help a Vata person compensate for hair dryness and roughness. It helps improve scalp and hair health.
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Swedanam: Body steaming called swedanam must be practiced. The oil penetrates deeper into the skin as steam opens the pores. If the facility for steam therapy is not available, you can do the oil massage by yourself and take a warm shower after 30 minutes.
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Jivha Nirlekhanam (Tongue Scraping): Daily tongue cleaning removes dead cells and food particles, enhancing taste buds and promoting better digestion.
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Nasyam: Administering medicated oils into the nostrils via Nasyam, an Ayurvedic practice, benefits sensory organs, enhancing visual acuity, focus, hair vitality, and respiratory well-being. Perform Nasyam after morning brushing or an hour after meals.
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Grounding practices like deep breathing, slow thinking, pranayama, and yoga are key for a Vata person.
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Try to be consistent with journaling and methodical work.
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Take your time with things. Try to refrain from speaking before doing analytical thinking.
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Regular reading of self-help books, warm water baths, and regular gentle yoga or walking will keep your Vata under check.
