According to Ayurveda - The Five Senses Are The Doorways To Our Internal Physiology
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According to Ayurveda, the five senses are the doorways to our internal physiology. Your brain has ten billion nerve cells, and over one trillion different electrical circuits. Your five senses fill these circuits day and night with a ceaseless perseverance. But the brain is only one part of you. As Diane Ackerman writes in The Natural History of the Senses,
Most people think of the mind as located in the head, but the latest findings in physiology suggest that the mind doesn't really dwell in the brain but travels the whole body on caravans of hormones and enzymes, busily making sense of the com¬pound wonders we catalogue as touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision.
Choosing the precise medicine for your one trillion circuits and 10 trillion cells can make the difference be¬tween inner serenity and inner chaos, between health and disease. This chapter discusses the underlying rationale for the five-senses therapy Dr. Thomas uses in her clinical practice to restore and maintain balance to the doshas. The simple practices suggested here are among the most pleasurable and effective in Ayurveda and include making use of fragrant essential oils, tasty spices, wondrous musical compositions, and special massage points.
Dr. Thomas often begins Ayurvedic therapy with five-senses therapy because it is so easy and pleasurable for her patients to use—and because of its speedy effect. For example one patient says that "after Dr. Thomas had me use light, sound, and aromatherapy, I immediately felt better: more relaxed, balanced, and energetic." The five-senses therapies are even more effective if you use them in conjunction with other fundamental Ayurvedic practices, as this patient discovered: "Five days after I began light therapy, raga music, vata aromatherapy, using herbal oil for daily self-massage, and following the vata stabilizing diet, I could feel the energetic shift happening."
You, too, can use these easy at-home techniques as adjuncts to the basic prevention, rejuvenation, and longevity practices In addition to general balancing, the five-senses therapies are also useful for treating specific conditions, as recommended in the A–Z sectionof Dr. Thomas' book. Remember, while a single-sense therapy used alone is often helpful and provides symptom relief, using all five together will penetrate more completely to the underlying cause of the condition.
Copyright © Dr.Helen Thomas 2007. All rights reserved.
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