The Simple, Healing Cleanse: The Ayurvedic Path to Energy, Clarity, Wellness, and Your Best You

Cleanse your body while still feeling well-fed, healthy, and balanced!

Most cleanses promise everything from clear skin, to zero belly fat, to nirvana. But one thing missing from many of these empty promises is true nourishment. Derived from Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga and an ancient medicine from India, The Simple, Healing Cleanse is an informational guide to a traditional, accessible four-week cleanse that will help you build more body awareness and consciousness around food.

With 50 basic, cleansing recipes and meal-planning tips, this cleanse is easy even for the busiest bee with a minimal amount of time to spend in the kitchen. You’ll learn how to incorporate the concept of your Ayurvedic type (dosha) to build a foundation for healthy, life-long dietary choices, bring balance to the body and mind, and cultivate vibrant health. The Simple, Healing Cleanse will help you find simple ways to give your digestive system a break, to simplify your diet without crazy, unhealthy restrictions, and simply find lightness, clarity, and ease in a scattered, noisy world.

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Understanding Your Body-Mind Type

Ayurveda uses this individuality as a basis for understanding health. Each of us requires different foods, exercises, activities, and daily practices to maintain health or restore it when we lose balance. Understanding your body-mind type can empower you to make choices every day to help improve your health even if you have a chronic condition.

Ancient seers, or rishis, observed nature and noticed that the human being is a microcosm of the macrocosm. The forces present in nature are parallel to forces that shape our internal universe. Three fundamental principles govern movement, structure, and transformation. The principle of movement is like a wind or breeze, the principle of structure is like earth, and the principle of transformation is like fire. These three principles are cogs in the machine of creation and in the body and mind. When they are associated with the internal organization of the body and mind we call them doshas.

Why Do We Need To Cleanse?

According to ayurveda, a balanced digestive fire is one of the most important elements responsible for health in the body and, therefore, an imbalanced digestive fire is the first step in creation of disease. As we explored in the previous chapter, an imbalance of Breeze, Fire, or Mountain can lead to disruption of the normal digestive fire and formation of poor-quality tissues. This disruption can also lead to the production of a substance much like glue that can affect the proper functioning of the body. When this happens, cleansing is the only way to restore balance.

Magic In The Kitchen: Tips for effortless cooking & recipes for basic cleansing

The rice cooker is the ultimate in one-pot cooking. Ayurveda explains that foods that are cooked together are more digestible. That means that a grain, a bean, and an assortment of vegetables cooked separately are harder to digest than the same ingredients cooked together in one pot of soup. I found that doing this improved the quality of taste as well as the texture of my dish. Another big benefit of the one-pot cooking: fewer dishes to clean!

If you do not think you have time in your day to prepare all of your own meals, think again. Five minutes in the kitchen is all you need to prepare a pot of kitchari and press the button on the rice cooker. If you take some time once or twice a week to prepare the basic ingredients—like chopped vegetables and spice mixes— then fifteen or twenty minutes is all the time you need in the kitchen. You can prepare 80 percent of the recipes in this cookbook using a rice cooker.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fair Winds Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159233749X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592337491
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches