The Wheel of Healing With Ayurveda by Fondin, Michelle S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Copyright Contents Foreword by Sudha Bulusu and Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla Acknowledgments Preface: My Story Introduction: Reinventing the Wheel?

Why the Wheel? Taking Back Your Health and Your Life Taking Responsibility for Your Health Exercise: Your Commitment to Yourself

Chapter 1. A Quick Immersion in Ayurveda

What Is Ayurveda? Balance versus Imbalance The Ayurvedic Definition of Health The Mahabhutas: The Great Elements An Introduction to the Doshas The Ayurvedic Mind-Body Type Test Interpreting Your Mind-Body Type The Six Stages of Disease Creating a Symptom Plan Exercise: Identifying Your Typical Symptoms Checklist for Health: An Introduction to Ayurveda

Chapter 2. The Entire Wheel: Living Your Dharma, or Life’s Purpose

The Importance of Dharma Defining Dharma Finding Your Dharma Exercise: Discovering Dharma Intention and Desire: Creating Your Life’s Purpose Exercise: List of Intentions and Desires Checklist for Health: Dharma

Chapter 3. Physical Health

Food as Medicine An Ayurvedic Plan for Optimal Nutrition The Twelve Guidelines for an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Eating Plan Guidelines for Re-creating the Mind-Body Connection with Food Ten Guidelines for Eating Awareness Eating for Your Mind-Body Type Exercise: Your Dosha-Specific Eating Plan Daily Routine and Seasonal Routine: Respecting Nature’s Waves Moving Your Body Exercise: Creating Your Physical Movement Plan Checklist for Health: Physical Healing

Chapter 4. Spiritual Health

What Defines Spiritual? Embracing Your Spiritual Self Going from Tunnel Vision to Funnel Vision Cultivating the Act of Witnessing Awareness Exercise: Internal-Dialogue Assessment Meditation: Anyone Can Do It Thinking Thousands of Thoughts a Day Do Nothing or Do Everything? Wondering How It Works Living a Spiritual Life Checklist for Health: Spiritual Healing

Chapter 5. Emotional Health

Do You Run Your Emotions, or Do Your Emotions Run You? Tools for Establishing a Healthy Emotional Life Emotional Clearing for Each Dosha Exercise: Your Emotional Healing Plan Checklist for Health: Emotional Healing

Chapter 6. Healing Your Past

What Is Your Story? Exercise: The Stories from Your Past Exercise: Your New Reality Understanding Why You Have a Past Finding the Lesson and Moving On The Seven Main Chakras: Opening Blocked Energy Let Go of Your Past by Taking Three Lessons to the Future Exercise: Your Three Lessons to Take to Your Fulfilling Future Checklist for Health: Healing Your Past

Chapter 7. Relationship Health

We Are Social Beings Meant to Be in Relationships with Others Life Is Not Balanced without Healthy and Loving Relationships Twelve Traits of Healthy Relationships Exercise: Taking Inventory of Your Relationship Using the Twelve Traits Communicating Compassionately Minding the Doshas in Relationships Creating the Relationships You Desire Steps to Attract the Right Mate Checklist for Health: Healing Your Relationships

Chapter 8. Occupational Health

Chapter 9. Financial Health

Your Financial Situation and Your Health Getting Rid of a Poverty Mind-Set Exercise: Taking Stock of Your Beliefs about Money Honoring Money as Energy: Giving to Receive Exercise: A Commitment to Financial Giving Your Plan to Abolish Debt and Create Wealth in Your Life Checklist for Health: Healing Your Finances

Chapter 10. Environmental Health

Maximizing Healthy Sensory Input Outlining the Environments in My Daily Life Exercise: Space-Clearing Commitment The Dosha Response to Environment Reconnecting to the Outer Environment: Living outside Our Boxes Exercise: Ways You Can Live Outside Your Boxes Checklist for Health: Healing Your Environments

Chapter 11. Breaking a Spoke of the Wheel

Dealing with Illness While Learning an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Healing from Addictions What If You Get Stuck on One Spoke and Cannot Move On?

Chapter 12. Rolling Smoothly: Enjoying the Ride

Karmic Action: Doing What’s Right On Being Gentle, Humble, Loving, and Kind

Appendix: Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskar) Notes Glossary of Sanskrit Terms Recommended Websites and Ayurvedic Resources References and Recommended Reading Index About the Author