Six stages of disease

I am going to tell you how to balance your dosha. First I want to explain how it all happens. I have said this before, all illness's start with a trauma of some sort. A sudden mental, physical or spiritual shock,  the death of  a spouse, can create havoc in the body, crippling the immune system and opening the way for illness. Other things can traumatize the body as well, a fall, car accident, surgery, and so on. According to the ancient texts, the disease process has six stages. The first 3 are invisible and can be tied in to either the body or the mind; the last three are easily detected by the patient and his doctor. Each stage represents a loss of balance, but its appearance changes as the process continues: 1. Accumulation-begins with the buildup of one or more doshas. 2. Aggravation-excess dosha accumulates to the point that it starts to spread outside its normal boundaries. 3. Dissemination-the dosha moves throughout the body. 4. Localization- the wandering dosha settles somewhere it doesn't belong. 5. Manifestation-physical symptoms start at the point where the dosha  has localized. 6. Disruption- a full-blown disease erupts. Because Ayurveda works at such  a subtle level of our bodies, symptoms can be relieved that are often very mysterious by Western standards, including pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and so on. Western medicine tends to say that these illness's originate in the patients head. When really they originate at the early stages of dosha imbalance. It is easy to mange them while they are still in stages 1, 2, or 3. Most often if I can get a traumatized client on my mat, for a Thai Yoga Therapy session with in 3 days of the trauma. I can balance the doshas and the body will return to normal. This does not mean after 3 days you can't be helped. I have had very good success with people who have been out of balance for years. It just takes longer and we have to use diet, exercise and meditation to restore the body to balance. Next blog, how to balance the Vata.
                                       Nancy, Certified Thai Yoga Therapist