Feeling lost with your health?

I did too so I started to learn Ayurveda.

The knowledge of Ayurvedic medicine allows us to learn or relearn about ourselves, regardless of the spatial or temporal environment in which we live. It is particularly relevant today because we live in an era of rapid change, necessitating a form of resilience.

Our senses and cognitive functions enable us to understand the functioning of our bodies, as well as our environment. However, contemporary lifestyles often disrupt our senses; they are frequently overstimulated with too much noise, light, and chemical odors. They can also be impoverished, such as the sense of touch, which is increasingly lost, a vital reason for accepting our bodies. As a result, we experience states of indigestion or inflammation, our immune system cries out for help, and diseases spread.

This imbalance of the senses disturbs our minds, leading to misunderstandings about life and mental imbalances. With too many thoughts, our vital energy is disturbed, depleted, or misdirected. Our emotions no longer guide us to self-knowledge or liberation but become anchors that immerse us in the illusion of permanence.

With depleted energy and overly sedentary lifestyles, we stagnate. Both body and mind become stiff. In this mental fog, how can we find the right methods to take care of ourselves? How can we discover our talents and benefit our community? How can we take care of our families if we do not take responsibility for our own health?

So, in this confusion, we seek short-term comfort, not realizing that it definitively solves nothing. We seek salvation without practice, relying on blind faith without questioning, where the doctor is a god who cannot be questioned, and the prescriptions are like sacraments given to believers.

But this doctor is not omnipotent; they cannot even say, "I made a mistake," always under the threat of potential lawsuits. The doctor has become a reference, a medical secretary, and sometimes the salesperson of a corrupt system. They have neither freedom nor space to evolve, meditate, or question... how could they listen to their patient when their own intelligence is no longer required?

I appreciate the holistic aspect of Ayurveda because all medicine comes from there. We will not progress far if alternative medicines criticize and shun general medicine, and vice versa. Alternative medicines need recognition and regulation, while general medicines need space to learn to listen and put the patient at the center of the equation. Both can work together if communication is restored... who knows, it is good to be a gentle, utopian dreamer; perhaps one day, thoughtful, apparently antagonistic approaches will be combined, without any futile identification or entertaining emotion, to grasp a truth much greater than we had imagined finally. 

Scientific progress is not made alone; it requires that scientists of life meditate and communicate together... who knows, maybe one day.