Spiritual Ayurveda: 10 Free Ways to Lose Stress & Find Peace

Lets keep it simple; life is stressful enough without adding more stress learning new ideas...who has time? Spiritual Ayurveda offers simple, free tips to make life less stressed, more peaceful and rewarding. Adopting even one of these ideas into one’s lifestyle, engenders a greater sense of well being.

Cause of Stress & Peace

The spiritual Ayurvedic view says stress comes from working against the universal laws of nature (divine love/harmony). Using one’s intuition to see what one needs (instead of wants), they go with the flow of nature, eliminating friction that results in stress.

Here are 10 free tips to relieve stress and find greater inner peace and joy. Following one or more of these ideas can also prevent and heal illnesses caused by stress. There are five physical tips, and five mental tips.

A) Physical Tips

1. Breathe

Sounds simple enough, but when a parent is driving one kid to dance class, and planning who picks up another child from karate; who’s preparing dinner, finding time to write a paper for work...when a person can catch themselves, and takes a breath – a few seconds – exhaling, ‘aaahhhh’ – stress relieved, mind is clearer. Getting stressed doesn’t solve anything; a good life-manager breathes, remaining calm and focused.

2. Eat 2-3 healthy meals a day

Having a healthy diet (healthy foods, meals, snacks) beneficial for one’s Ayurvedic dosha keeps one balanced. Eating organically further helps by not feeding one’s family harmful chemicals, pesticides, steroids antibiotics, and genetically-modified foods.

The body needs healthy food energy to prevent illness. Vayu and Pitta folks need 3 meals a day. Kaphas usually feel best skipping breakfast. Vayu doshas remain most balanced when eating smaller meals/snacks every 3-4 hours

3. Walk outside

This attunes one with nature, breaks up the work pattern, and allows for family quality time or quiet reflection.

4. Yoga stretches

Whether one sits all day at work or constantly ‘on the go’, people need a break. Yoga restores inner strength and mind-body coordination, reconnecting to one’s soul. Classes, DVD, or home-practice – even for 10 minutes twice a day – brings needed energy, clarity, and joy.

5. Giving/Sharing

Helping others allows for instantly feeling greater joy; people get more from giving than receiving. There are many ways to help family, community, planet, and world peace.

B) Mental Tips

Following the above Body Tips is the foundation for the more profound Mental Tips:

6. Personal Quiet Time

Peace goes and stress comes when neglecting one’s natural needs. Taking 10 minutes of ‘alone time’ once or twice a day for quiet reflection restores and reconnects a person with their peace and goals. ‘Alone time’ allows the mind to breathe.

7. Gratitude

Before bed, thinking of things one is grateful for during the day (eg, health, food, family, friends, breathing, sunset), fills the heart with love and devotion, nurturing humility, health, and courage. Keeping a gratitude journal is often inspiring and instructive to see how deeply the heart has opened over time.

8. Harmony Thoughts

As one thinks, so is their reality. So, observing the quality of one’s thoughts reveals their world view. Are the thoughts peaceful or negative? When hearing oneself complaining, arguing, judging, or angry, Spiritual Ayurveda advises entertaining grateful, peaceful, thoughts. Alternately, changing actions (eg, walking, hobby, helping others), even for a short break, allows more harmonious thought currents to flow in the mind. The more one’s thoughts are harmonious, the more peaceful their world.

9. Life Purpose & Life Visions

Imagine a person won the 10 million-dollar lottery today, never had to work a day in their life; what would they ‘choose’ to do with the rest of their life? What are their God-given talents? What do they love to do? How and where would they live? The spiritual Ayurvedic suggestion is to start living as much of those visions as they can, and each day they will be living more of their visions. Each day they will feel life more meaningful, peaceful, and joyous.

10. Devotion (Bhakti)

Spiritual Ayurveda says the goal of life is to feel inner peace and joy of the soul 24/7 by caring for others and the planet. The highest spiritual idea for this is ‘devotion to God's children and God’ (or spirit, nature, ethics - whatever a person calls their higher good). Choosing thoughts and actions coming from deep devotion for others enhances one’s peace and joy.

Conclusion

Spiritual Ayurveda says stress causes most mind-body disorders. Intuitively living in harmony with natural law reduces friction, allowing for inner peace and joy to flow unimpeded; healing and prevention are automatically addressed. So, choose a tip, lose your stress; discover life divine.