The Ayurvedic term for health means “established in one’s self” - Swastha. Health is a condition of order, illness is disorder. Order and disorder are in constant reciprocal effect in our body.

According to Ayurveda one recovers, if one recognizes the disorder and strives to redress order. As long as there is an equilibrium between the three Doshas we are healthy.

What makes us ill?

According to Ayurveda there are three causes which lead to a disturbed equilibrium.

• The overstimulation of our sense organs. Noise, hecticness, wrong nutrition, no rest … or the opposite: So few stimulations that we live from day to day.
•  We misuse our senses and our thinking, e.g. if we live with too high expectations, trouble us constantly with negative thoughts.
• We do not live in the rhythm of our time and lose the feeling for right moment or the appropriate life phase.

The Organism Reacts

• Accumulation: The result is an imbalance of one or two Doshas
• Reinforcement: The imbalance leads to further imbalance and increases.
• Distribution: The at first limited disturbance begins to expand. The energetic power spreads.
• Localization: The energetic force settles in one part of the body.
• Manifesting: First light symptoms of disease show up there
• Consequences: If the self-healing forces are not sufficient, there is a danger of chronic illness