A patient recently sent me an email saying “I’m not doing Ayurveda anymore”. Such a statement reflects that the person has failed to understand the essence of this ancient system. For, Ayurveda envisages a vision for healthy being. Ayur means
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According to Yoga Psychology, there are three additional levels of development, experience, or being, which are beyond the five primary needs of Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy. Abraham Maslow introduced a model of developmental psychology that has become extremely well known not
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One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver
Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her
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Ayurveda and allopathy should be complementary to each other. A proper integrated system of medicine means qualified doctors from both streams work together. If an allopathic doctor thinks that a particular ailment will respond well to Ayurveda, he should refer
