Every interaction with your environment is a form of ingestion requiring some kind of digestion. Whether you ingest a mystery novel, a romantic conversation, or a strawberry ice cream cone, each experience realigns your bodymind in one direction or another. The better you digest, in every sense of the word, the less stress you place on your psychophysiology. Eating is one form of ingestion/digestion, but it involves far more than food. As you start to consider all the ways that Ayurveda strengthens and reinforces your digestive capabilities, it's good to keep in mind the primary reason for eating à la Ayurveda: to become fully happy and satisfied, not by decreasing the pleasureable production of happiness through a balanced physiology.
Ayurvedic doctors, known from ancient times as vaidyas prescribe food as the first preventive medicine. Each patient's individual psychophysiology is taken into account and the patient is offered knowledge of ahara, which means proper diet. According to the Ayurvedic texts, ahara should (1) purify your physiology, leading to (2) a strong mind promoting clear thinking, which then produces (3) useful activity, which leads to (4) the fulfillment of your desires. In this way, a good eating routine can bring you the greatest happiness and satisfaction in life.
The first consideration is why we as adults have to learn to eat properly again. What happened to our innate ability to eat right?
Fonte:
LONSDORF, N., BUTLER, V., BROWN, M., A Woman's best medicine. N.Y.: Tarcher/Putnam, 1995, p. 93
