psychosomatic decease Flashcards
psycho somatik
mental - body
Ayurvedic concept of health
balanced doshas
Ayurvedic concept of disease
imbalanced doshas
Yogic concept of health
balanced PRANAS, NADIS, CHAKRAS
leading to a FREE FLOW OF PRANA (opt. health)
physical, physiological, mental, emotional, spiritual
Yogic concept of disease
imbalance PRANA
Yoga: disease development
- mind: agitation (mental/ emotional) - Manomaya Kosha
- flow of energy is disturbed - Pranamaya Kosha
- disturbance persists over long time…
manifests as DISEASE - Anamaya Kosha
Drop GUNAS
- awarness
- apply practices (rise sattva)
- reach longterm sattva state
sattva in rajas and tamas - drop gunas, reach purusha
Drop Kleshas
- awarness - acknowledge they are in your actions
- get rid of the kesha’s
through kiriya yoga/ Ashtanga yoga
Homeostasis
body, always seeking to stay within it’s normal parameters
who is reacting to stress?
sympathetic nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
- stimulates the adrenal gland to release adrenalin
- reduces blood flow to organs, not required for surviving
eustress
good stress
distress
when body isn’t able to return to homeostasis cause of stress
development of psychosomatic illnesses
eustress -body unable to return to homeostasis distress -longterm psychosomatik illness
Stress Def.
subjective reaction/ respond to stimulus that could be external or internal
How to release stress?
work on attitude towards stimulus
Mind/ Pakriti influenced by
Gunas - constantly fluctuating
Kleshas - layering the thoughts
Yogic stress management
- Awarness (Doshas)
- what am I right now?
- Awarness
- actions of kleshas & gunas
- Using techniques to
- balance the doshas
- ” the gunas
- thin out & eradicate kleshas
Yamas/ Niyama + stress
they help to live a more harmonic life with outside & oneself
CITTA BHAUMI
- ksipta - very eratic
- mudra - dull, slow, inert
- viksipita - fluctuating, lot of change, gunas, stimes calm, times not
- ekagra - focused
- niruddha - empty/ cessation of fluctuation
cultivate CITTA PRASADANA
state of mental calm friendliness - happy compassion - sorrowful happiness - pure indifference - sinful