If you are a Vata

Most Vatas are thin with narrow shoulders and or hips. They may find it hard or impossible to gain weight and remain chronically underweight; Or, they could be pleasingly slender and supple. Though Vata people have quite variable appetites, they can eat anything without gaining weight. If you are a Vata, type you could be hungry at any time of the day or night. love excitement and constant change. Go to sleep at different times every night, skip meals, and keep irregular habits in general. Digest food well one day and poorly the next, display bursts of emotion that are shot-lived and quickly forgotten, walk quickly. For a Vata person, mental and physical energy comes in bursts, without steadiness. you probably start things and not finish them (if you are out of balance) such people shop compulsively without buying anything. talk without coming to a conclusion, and become chronically unsatisfied. Vata people are sometimes said to spend themselves to freely, wasting money, energy, and words, but this is not true if they are in balance. Vata people are prone to worry and at times suffer from insomnia, the result of runaway thinking. Normal sleep time for Vatas is six hours or less. A Vatas typical negative emotion brought out by stress is anxiety (fear) the typical digestive complaint is chronic constipation and /or gas, nervous stomachs and unreliable digestion cramp, premenstrual pain are generally attributed to the Vata dosha.
If you are a balanced Vata person you are probably infectiously happy, enthusiastic, and energetic. your mind is clear and alert; Vata is so sensitive and quick to change that it easily falls prey to overstimulation. Vata people thrive on variety, but when things change too much, their excitement turns to exhaustion. That is why so many Vatas feel frazzled and nervous.  they have quick, acute responses to sound and touch and dislike loud noise. They have dry skin, dry hair, cold hands and feet.

The source of their restlessness is that Vata dosha is no longer setting the proper rhythms in their bodies. Instead of eating, sleeping, and exercising regularly, out-of-balance Vatas grab food when they can, skip meals, exercise by fits and starts, and go to bed at odd hours.

            Such a life is bad for all the doshas, but it is worse for Vata. Many Vata types cling to it. Sadly, they have conditioned themselves to feel that a haphazard life is the same as a stimulating one. The remedy is to begin to cultivate balanced habits, paying a little more attention to regularity every day. Suround your self with happy people, happy books, happy movies. Open your blinds and let the sun in. Vata goes out of balance  first, causing the early stages of disease. If you are feeling out of sorts Thai Therapy can help balances the doshas. My clients find it very therapeutic for mind, body, and spirit.