Ayurveda Tells Us We Are All Connected
How are we linked to all life forms and to our environment? Despite all the technological advances in our world and any amount of material success we are all made from the same elements as ancient men.
Progress in science and corresponding levels of human brain activity, of reason and thought have allowed us to develop in certain ways.
We have advanced from ancient man in our capacity to identify and use a wide range of resources, to break the constraints of our immediate surroundings and time zones, and in our use of knowledge.
We have vast reservoirs of information at our disposal.
None of this alters the fact that we are natural beings in a natural world, regardless of any technical advances.
Ayurveda sees the world composed of 5 elements, ether / space, air, fire, water and earth.
Each and every living thing is composed of these elements.
These five elements are within all living things in the form of vital energies that can fluctuate according to our state of balance as individuals and the seasons of nature, thus affecting health.
We consists of trillions of cells that themselves contain the same ingredients as every other living thing.
This may be hard to believe, but it's true.
Scientist have known for a long time that things aren't what they seem and that the real differences between things isn't what they are made from but how they use the basic ingredients.
Life is now recognised, at the quantum level, to consist of pulses of energy that differ in frequency between life forms, "non-living" matter and between different levels of awareness.
At the sub-atomic level we have the same ingredients, as a flower, or a bird, a rock or a drop of rain.
We have the elements of earth, water, fire, air and space within our bodies in the form of acids, enzymes, fluids, tissues, and the movement and function of muscles and organs.
These elements and our pulse of life are sustained by nutrition in the very broadest sense and we get that from food, from our breathing and from the attention we give to ourselves.
We flourish when given the right kind of attention and wither when given the wrong kind.
Progress in science and corresponding levels of human brain activity, of reason and thought have allowed us to develop in certain ways.
We have advanced from ancient man in our capacity to identify and use a wide range of resources, to break the constraints of our immediate surroundings and time zones, and in our use of knowledge.
We have vast reservoirs of information at our disposal.
None of this alters the fact that we are natural beings in a natural world, regardless of any technical advances.
Ayurveda sees the world composed of 5 elements, ether / space, air, fire, water and earth.
Each and every living thing is composed of these elements.
These five elements are within all living things in the form of vital energies that can fluctuate according to our state of balance as individuals and the seasons of nature, thus affecting health.
We consists of trillions of cells that themselves contain the same ingredients as every other living thing.
This may be hard to believe, but it's true.
Scientist have known for a long time that things aren't what they seem and that the real differences between things isn't what they are made from but how they use the basic ingredients.
Life is now recognised, at the quantum level, to consist of pulses of energy that differ in frequency between life forms, "non-living" matter and between different levels of awareness.
At the sub-atomic level we have the same ingredients, as a flower, or a bird, a rock or a drop of rain.
We have the elements of earth, water, fire, air and space within our bodies in the form of acids, enzymes, fluids, tissues, and the movement and function of muscles and organs.
These elements and our pulse of life are sustained by nutrition in the very broadest sense and we get that from food, from our breathing and from the attention we give to ourselves.
We flourish when given the right kind of attention and wither when given the wrong kind.
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