If being a healthy, happy, radiant soul glowing from within sounds appealing to you, then you should hop on the Ayurveda wellness trend asap! This Indian tradition and practice is becoming popular in modern-day medicine, beauty, wellness and more.

What Exactly is Ayurveda?

Ayurveda is the lesser-known science of yoga originating in India more than 5,000 years ago. This is an approach to holistic and natural healing through the mind-body connection. With great wisdom, it helps people become vibrant and healthy while maximizing their full human potential.

It all started with written compositions of Vedic Rishis (spiritually enlightened composers) on how to heal your mind and body while becoming one with the universe.

This approach to health and wellness is more focused on healing emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually as opposed to solely physically like traditional health. The benefit of this is manifesting your desires and living a life of bliss, balance, and wisdom.

This can be done through eating intuitively, utilizing natural remedies, and exercising mindfulness in your everyday life.

When you reach a state of health mentally, spiritually, and physically, you move towards self-actualization which is the highest point in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (the ultimate goal of Ayurveda).

Why You Should Hop On the Ayurveda Wellness Trend

So by now, you understand that Ayurveda is a holistic approach to healing yourseld physically, mentally, and spiritually. But where does this ancient science come into play in our modern times?

1.) Conscious Consuming

Intuitive eating or conscious consuming is gaining popularity rapidly in our health world. In order to have a healthy outside, you must have a healthy inside.

To be at your healthiest physically, it is important you are taking into consideration what you put into your body.

Following an Ayurvedic diet makes sure you are getting all the proper nutrients you need in order to function at your maximum capacity. It also allows your three Doshas (biological energy throughout your mind and body) to remain balanced during the four seasons of our life.

2.) Safer Beauty Products

Because Ayurveda uses mainly natural Earth-derived elements for healing, beauty products are now becoming safer than ever. Beauty brands are incorporating Ayurvedic healing herbs into skincare lines to bring your skin the maximum healing potential possible.

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3.) The Ultimate Self-Care Routine

If you are into the occasional or maybe even daily self-care routine to make you feel clean and glowy, Ayurvedic wellness is for you! From floral baths to self-oil-massages (abhyanga), to oil pulling, your body will thank you.

Ayurveda focuses tremendously on morning and nightly rituals in order to maximize your productivity and feeling of happiness throughout the day. Intense self-care rituals such as oils pulling, tongue scraping, abhyanga massages, and nasal cleaning assure you will be thriving hygienically.

4.) High Vibe Living

Have you ever had that feeling that you were almost high on life and you felt as if everything was flowing effortlessly and falling into place? Now imagine if you could feel that way every single day. That is the beauty of Ayurveda.

Your body contains Prana (universal life energy) that flows through you when you are experiencing this feeling previously described.

Your prana is located in your brain’s hypothalamus and sends out signals to your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. This makes it very connected to your emotions.

When you take time to meditate and practice mindfulness, it cultivates space for prana and slows your release of the stress hormone (cortisol). This then allows for the “happiness molecule” serotonin to be secreted leaving you with that feeling of your life flowing with bliss.

5.) Connection with the Universe

Ayurveda places emphasis on connecting with your higher self in order to feel connected with the universe. The spiritual side of Ayurveda allows you to strengthen that connection in your everyday routine.

Your three cosmic forces are similar to the three Doshas but on a spiritual level. You require all three of these essences in order to be a balanced human.

These three vital essences (Ojas, Tejas, and Prana) allow you to dive deeper into qualities of your self such as health, well-being, peace, patience, radiance, intelligence, courage, creativity, and flexibility.

As you strengthen your connection with your higher self, you can reflect on which essence needs improvement in order to ground yourself and be connected with the flow of the universe and collective consciousness.

Your Happiest Healthiest Lifestyle

Ayurveda, or the “science of life” is a concept spreading like wildfire as more beauty brands (such as Sephora and Neiman Marcus), wellness centers, and spas are utilizing the practice.

Living a healthy lifestyle is a goal of many people, yet most solely focus on the physical aspect of working out. If you work out every day, but still talk to yourself negatively, you are not truly healthy, do you see?

Health is much deeper than physical and the Ayurveda wellness trend is something to consider as you move forward with your health and wellness goals.

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