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The Wellness Sense

A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emotional Health Based on Ayurvedic and Yogic Wisdom

Author: Om Swami

Contents

Acknowledgements

About This Book

1. Introduction
2. Mother Nature And Your Body

• The Five Great Elements
  • The Five Elements and Our Body
• The Seven Tissues
  • Rasa
  • Blood
  • Muscle
  • Fat
  • Bones
  • Marrow
  • Shukra

3. The Three Physical Humours
   • The Three Doshas and Their Properties

• Vata
• Pitta
• Kapha

4. Your Physical Constitution

• What Determines Your Constitution
• Evaluating Your Dosha
• Physical Attributes
• Mental Attributes
• Dual Constitution

5. Your Mental Constitution

• Ignorance
• Passion
• Purity
• The Four Types Of Digestive Fires

6. We Are What We Eat

• The Three Types Of Food
• Oxidative Damage And Tamasic Foods

7. Medicine Cures, Food Heals

• The Six Tastes
• The Four Stages Of Food

8. The Eating Sense

• Three Types Of Eaters
• Five Aspects Of The Eating Sense
• Seasons And Diet

9. What To Eat

• Acidic And Alkaline Foods

10. Life Cycle Of A Disease

• Five Causes Of A Disease

11. The Four Killers

• Ama
• Indigestion
• Sugar
• Stress

12. Mental Afflictions

• Fear
• Anger
• Hatred
• Jealousy
• Greed

13. Physical Cleansing

• Colon Therapy
• Oesophageal Cleansing
• Respiratory Cleansing
• Sinus Cleansing

14. Fasting And Pancha-Karma

• Types Of Fasting
• Pancha-Karma

15. Mental Detoxification

• Visualization For Physical Health
• Erasing Psychic Imprints
• Witness Meditation – For Mental Health
• Mindfulness – Journal For Emotional Health

16. In A Nutshell

• Appendix 1: Acidic And Alkaline Foods
• Appendix 2: The Five Sheaths
• Appendix 3: The Three Bodies
• Appendix 4: The Ten Energies Further Reading Also By Om Swami