A Culture of Well-being: A Natural Rhythms Podcast
Dr. Anup Mulakaluri, ND
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A Culture of Well-being is a podcast that bridges philosophy of Natural Medicine with practicality and inspiration. It is meant to guide and empower you to do something that will benefit you, your beloveds, and your community. Life is a Spiritual journey, whether we experience ourselves alone and empty or caught-up in the myriad dramas of modern life. Returning to our spiritual center, the heart, in any given moment is the essential skill required to navigate life’s, sometimes treacherous and sometimes blissful, path. May you fare-well, prosper, and be happy.
Hosted by Dr. Anup Mulakaluri.
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Apr 27, 2023
Heart Health and Wellness: Part 1
The heart, the central ticker of the human, is the most essential organ that allows life to inhabit the human body. For this reason, it’s the organ that gets most press and most attention with regards to research and treatment. And still the incidence of heart disease has only gone up in the past four decades since the Framingham studies that framed “Cholesterol” as the real problem and cause of heart disease. We have seen this rise because we have focused our attention on the wrong enemy. This series will address these controversies and offer real, natural alternatives for treatment for heart health.
For a long time, the physical function of the heart was thought to be limited to pumping blood through our blood vessels… This function ensures that every cell of the body get oxygen and nutrition; as well as, provides opportunity to get rid of waste and toxins from the cellular environment. In recent years, we have also learned much about the role of the heart in nervous system activity. Additionally, the heart is also considered to have emotional and spiritual functions. These cannot be understood through physiology; rather, a study of our language helps us to get a sense of these functions. The root of the word ‘courage’ is derived from the latin word for the heart, which is ‘cor’. Thus, the etimology of the word courage is to have “strength of heart” or “abundance of heart”. In our culture, we see the use of the phrases like “he or she has got heart” or we may hear “it takes heart” to get something done; this is describing the courageous quality of achieving something extraordinary. The heart is often recognized as central to our emotional experiences of love, generosity, compassion, and sympathy.
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Apr 18, 2023
Ayurvedic Principles #5: Daily Routines
Maintaining consistent routines is an essential part of living a healthy and balanced life. According to Ayurveda, routines are important for regulating the body and stimulating it to function optimally. This includes having a consistent sleeping and waking cycle, as well as eating meals at the same time each day. Having a consistent routine helps the body to prepare for the activities of the day, as well as to detoxify and rejuvenate itself.
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Dec 17, 2021
Ayurvedic Principles #4: Ayurvedic Constitutions
One of the many strengths of Ayurveda arises from it’s ability to individuate and customize recommendations for the individual person. In this way, each one of us is treated as unique and treated as a whole. Understanding the Ayurvedic body type or Ayurvedic constitution is a powerful tool. It is an essential requirement to adopt the principles of Ayurveda into your life.
Your Ayurvedic constitution varies based on the combination of elements that form your subtle body. These elements give rise doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, that govern the physical and functional manifestation of the body.
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Dec 2, 2021
The Legend of Chyawanprash
Chyavanprash, has inspired legend for its health benefits… Insights from modern research truly proves its worth.
· Amla (Indian Gooseberry) provides the antioxidant backbone, protecting from degenerative inflammation and oxidation.
· Dashmoola (10 roots), along with cinnamon, cardamom and pippali, improve and protect lung function.
· Chyavanprash enhances function of the heart muscle, improving blood and nutritional flow to cells, with help of herbs like haritaki and vibhitaki.
· with aid of herbs like Ashwagandha, Shatavari, Gokshura, Bala, Chyavanprash also improves sexual vigor and vitality in men and women
· In Charak Samhita, it is described as “Paramukto Rasayana” – meaning it is the best rejuvenator and anti-aging medicines.
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Nov 27, 2021
Vis: Healing Power of Nature
Natural medicines from across the world seem to agree one thing: “Just as beauty is inherent in a flower, light is inherent in the Sun, healing is inherent in a human.” The Principles of Practice of Naturopathic medicine open with this acknowledgement: “Vis Medicatrix Naturae”
This phrase states the importance of “healing power of nature” is inherent as an essential function of our physiology.
What does this mean?
Human beings are a part and product of Nature. Scientists from our ancient past saw this without the need for telescopes and microscopes. Instead, with power for observation they understood the patterns and rhythms of Nature. And recognized the effects these patterns and rhythms on our health. Based on these observations, they developed natural sciences of medicine that focused on disease prevention and healing through natural means of the body, mind, and spirit.
From a modern scientific perspective, we can say that we have evolved with nature over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. We didn’t evolve in hospitals or by using pharmaceuticals. We evolved to survive through the grace and abundance of natural resources that made up our living environment. These natural recourses are the myriads of vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, grain, animal products, herbs, and spices; also, the Sun, air, water and earth in our surrounding.
With the aid of modern science, we are capable of understanding physiological imbalances that lead to disease and pain. The long evolutionary relationship with nature allows our body to readily use the medicinal compounds from foods and herbs as building blocks and signals; these restore health and balance to our physiology. Thus, food as medicine stimulates the healing power of Nature inherent in us.
A Culture of Wellbeing, is a culture that guides us to live in alignment with our nature. It supports our closeness with nature through means of foods, herbs and spices, and time in nature… Such a Culture of Wellbeing vitalizes our life force and creates a foundation for our Spiritual development.
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Nov 21, 2021
Ayurvedic Principles #3: Doshas Around Us
Doshas in our environment can influence physical dosha. Environmental effects on dosha are of two kinds. One, the objective experience of natural elements in any given environment (i.e. weather, season, animals, plants, etc.) Second, the subjective experience caused by human or artificial elements of our environment (i.e. lighting, aroma, furniture, memory or emotional connections, people, etc.) Either of these have the capacity to influence our physiological doshas, positively or negatively. Therefore, language of doshas creates a bridge for relating how the environmental experience might affect and change the physiological experience.
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Show notes on Daily practices by Dosha:
* Kapha pre-dominates 6am-10am and 6pm-10pm
* Pitta pre-dominates 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am
* Vata pre-dominates 2am-6am and 2pm-6pm.
* Waking by 5-6am, starting our day with spiritual practice and light exercise helps to ground the Vata dosha and causes energetic momentum to arise with the Kapha dosha. This gives the best yield of energy and high productivity for start of our day.
* As Pitta (fire) is strongest at 12pm, heartiest meal of the day between the hours of 12-1pm is most efficiently digested. This gives additional boost of energy and keep momentum through 6pm.
* As the Kapha hours start again by 6pm, metabolic activity starts to slow down and switch direction from outward focus to inward focus. We are invited to slow down and unwind for the day. Eating a relatively lighter meal by 7pm for additional energy.
* Going to sleep by 9-10pm, gives 7-8 hours of rest and restoration.
* Also, if we are resting, 10pm-2am Pitta-time promotes optimal daily detox for the body.
* From 2am-6am, the Vata takes the toxins processed through the pitta-time and moves them to the channels of elimination. These are ideally removed through urinary and bowel elimination during the late Vata/early Kapha hours between 5-8am.
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Nov 16, 2021
Ayurvedic Principles #2: Doshas
The elements that make up the universe are the same that combine to form the 3 Ayurvedic doshas that govern the structure and function of the body…
* Air and Space combines to make Vata
* Fire and Water combine to make Pitta
* Water and Earth combine to make Kapha
To understand the physiological activities and implications of the Dosha is difficult without understanding the elements which cause that dosha. So, let us discuss them individually in brief.
Qualities by Elements:
* Space: Clear, Light, Subtle, Soft, Immeasurable, Expansive
* Air: Mobile, Dry, Light, Cold, Rough, Subtle
* Fire: Hot, Sharp, Light, Dry, Subtle, Illuminating, Transformative
* Water: Cold, Flowing, Unctous(Moist), Liquid, Smooth, Adhesive(Sticky)
* Earth: Heavy, Dense, Hard, Stable/Static, Slow moving, Inertia
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Nov 12, 2021
Ayurvedic Principles #1: Five Elements
According to the Ayurvedic theory, we are part and product of the Universe. Therefore, we are made of the same stuff that makes up the universe… This is may not be a surprise anyone. However, understanding Ayurvedic physiology requires and extra dose of imagination regarding this fact of our universal belonging.
According to Ayurveda, the Universe is made of 6 basic elements (and so are we). These elements represent observable natural activity of the universe rather than any specific objects... Read more: https://ayurvedicseattle.com/principles-1-ayurvedic-elements/
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Jun 2, 2021
The Genius of Ayurveda
A traditional medicine of India, Ayurveda has a legacy that spans more than 5,000 years. It was first described in The Vedas, which are a broad collection of ancient spiritual texts that originated in India. Guiding principles for Ayurvedic physicians were codified by sages and scientists through observation of natural laws. The principles and concepts have been passed down for hundreds of generations. Through this time, Ayurvedic therapies have been applied, modified, refined, and optimized to keep up with the changing world, but still maintain the fundamental principles and adherence to natural laws.
In today’s world, Ayurveda serves as the bridge to a shared past. It guides us to live in close relationship with our own nature—optimizing the powerful healing resources of the body, mind, and soul from within. Living in this close, balanced relationship helps to develop the awareness of our deepest, heart-felt desires and helps us in finding a soulful and heart-centered way to express these desires in our lives.
The Ayurvedic culture draws us closer to the seat of empowerment through insightful knowledge and time-tested therapies. This practice will grant clients individualized means to express this power for the benefit of self-health and health for others.
Additionally, Ayurveda sees divinity and beauty in nature and recognizes humans as an integral part. Thus, its principles serve as guide posts for balancing human physiology and psychology to help attune the individual with their nature. Ayurveda supports the expression of our own inner divinity and beauty, and therapies are individualized to match the nature of the individual to specifically help cultivate health, balance, and happiness from the inside.
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Jun 2, 2021
A Culture of Wellbeing -- Introcast
A culture is a container, like a basket, woven with the threads of beliefs and behaviors. Culture informs us who we are and where we belong… “A culture of well-being” informs us what is best for our health and wellness at all times – it is something that is adapted from models like Ayurveda; individualized, then applied to cultivate optimal well-being and freedom from dis-ease. Ayurveda provides a models for diets, daily routines, spiritual practices, thoughts and beliefs, and even a secular model of spirituality that can be adopted by all aspirants.
This podcast is called “A Culture of Well-being” – Through it, I hope to offer solutions-based discussions on the Healthcare topics. Integrating ancient wisdom with modern insights to offer a unique perspective on removing the obstacles to health and optimizing the conditions for well-being by cultivating the healing power of Nature from within...
Nature complements life and life is meant to complement Nature. This is so; otherwise life wouldn’t exist on our Earth. The many millennia of an evolutionary relationship with the Earth have given rise to an intricate healing system that interacts and responds to our natural environment, foods and natural
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Feb 20, 2020
A Culture of Well-being: A Natural Rhythms Podcast (Trailer)
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