| Happy Life, Healthy Life, Long Life. These where | | | | actually the process that ayurveda must follow to |
| some of the first words that I heard from my | | | | obtain the cure and ensure that the illness or |
| guru in India when I first left the path of | | | | problems do not come back. It is also a process |
| conventional medicine to look for a more natural | | | | to be followed spiritually. A happy life is what |
| and spiritual way to end the suffering that I, and | | | | must be obtained before a healthy life and a |
| so many I had lived with, have to live with. With | | | | healthy life must be obtained before a long life. Of |
| his Indian head wobble and a grand, pure smile he | | | | course there are people who may live long lives |
| repeated the phrase. "Happy Life, Healthy Life, | | | | that are neither healthy nor happy... and a healthy |
| Long Life." Even though we quickly moved on to | | | | person will not make them a happy person. No |
| Ayurvedic history, what constitutes vata, pitta or | | | | finding a happy life is the first aspect of the |
| kapha, ayurvedic medicines, pulse readings, | | | | science of life. So why in medicine, even in |
| therapies and beyond... I registered this phrase | | | | psychology, is there so little focus on helping the |
| and unconsciously registered its importance. | | | | patient encounter what will make them happy in |
| I spent months studying Ayurveda, long hours | | | | life and so much focus on the problems that keep |
| every day, with what I believe to be a very | | | | the person from their happiness. The answer is |
| special teacher and yoga with two gurus of pure | | | | simple. |
| hearts and strong wills. Yet it wasn't until I had | | | | Capitalism has turned the art of healing into a |
| left the free hospital clinic, ashram and training | | | | capitalistic campaign to produce more profits. |
| center that I really began to understand how to | | | | There is no search for the source of the problem |
| apply the basic, principal ayurvedic phrase in | | | | and the complete cure. Yet we hear miracle |
| practice. In the end it was quite simple. Ayurveda | | | | stories. People of hope and faith beating all odds |
| means the science of life. Ayu means life and | | | | to survive dire cancers, aids and others. It is very |
| Veda means science... more or less. I am bringing | | | | easy to heal any sickness in a happy person. If |
| you back to the basics because after filling myself | | | | you are not sick, it is so much easier for a happy |
| with all of the practices to heal, the ability to | | | | person to maintain their physical health. It is |
| perform well and the knowledge of more | | | | actually not at all a miracle but should be normal. |
| medicine preparations that I could imagine using | | | | If normal people searched for happiness in the |
| (note* there are more pharmaceuticals than I | | | | face of the problems they have built for |
| could imagine counting) it took me going back to | | | | themselves, we would hear a lot more of these |
| this basic phrase to really evolve my personal | | | | stories because there would be a lot more people |
| practice and mix the ayurveda into what has | | | | with faith in their ability to recover and live a |
| worked very well for me from other schools of | | | | happy, healthy and long life. Faith is the factor that |
| thought. | | | | modern medicine cannot understand in the |
| "Happy Life, Healthy Life, Long Life." At first might | | | | equation and the absolute most powerful healing |
| be thought of as a goal of Ayurveda but it is | | | | device that exists. |