Going Towards the Nature Is Going Towards the Health: Sustained Balance

By Shaman Melodie McBride, Dr. Anagha Yardi and Dr. Ashutosh Yardi

This is the fourth book in our series, and it covers the element of fire, the action of life. This book will incorporate what you do in everyday life using the Ayurveda and Yoga that you have learned in our previous books, adding the cycle of life and the duel body type theory, or the True You.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524576998

Shaman Melodie McBride

Shaman Melodie McBride Instructor and Advanced Yoga Certifications from Yoga Vidya Gurukul Ashram/School in Timbak, Nashik, India. Melodie holds an Associate’s Degree in Applied Sciences specializing in electronics, harmonic and vibrational therapy practices. Professor at Eastern Idaho Technical Collage. Shaman Melodie has a triple Mastership in Usui/Tibetan/Karuna Reiki through the International Center for Reiki Training, 30 + years as a Herbologist, amazing intuitive ability, and is deplumed in Fixed Star Astrology to assist her clients in formulating and executing their own personal wellness plans. Dr. Mrs. Anagha Yardi B.A.M.S.—Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicines and Surgery, Ayurvedacharya From University of Pune, Consulting Ayurved Physician, Specialty in Panchkarma, Herbal remedy, Diet, Mental health, Herbal skin care, Ayurvedic Gynecology Received “Ideal Woman Award” and honored by Health minister on Women’s Day. Visited Japan Singapore, Russia for lectures and demonstrations on Ayurveda and Diet. She has been conducting workshops on Ayurveda cooking, health and diet.

Book preview

Introduction from Drs Yardi

Hello! Namaste’!

We are glad to introduce you to our fourth book in the series of Going towards the nature is going towards the health. Thanks to our readers who are inspiring us to write consistently on the topics from ayurveda, yoga and its applied view.

Those who have read our previous three books, know very well about the five basic elements of nature and about body types. Among the five basic elements the third one is the ‘Fire’ element. Fire is the energy for metabolism, digestion, and the conversion of one substance into another in our body. We hope our readers will also try to digest, analyze, and convert these ancient principles from ayurveda and yoga into applied form in their daily life. Which is important in our hurried and worried life in this jet age.

Now, we are going to go a little deeper into body type knowledge. Most of our readers are interested more in how to apply this knowledge in our day today life. Though you know your body type and your nature, and emotions there are still many situations in your life which are influencing your body and mind. Season, food, our job, nature of work, age, and our various illnesses are all affecting our life. Along with this, the persons whom we met and spend time together, our relatives, our friends, partners, spouse, friends, and opponents are many of the personalities also influencing on our body and mind. How we are responding to them and how they are responding to us is a big swaying factor in our life.

This book will guide one how to understand others, how to response them, how to adjust and behave with others as per there body type. Even how to adjust with nature, seasonal changes, and food changes.

For all this we should have more knowledge about mixed body types. In previous books we have already focused on vata, pitta and kapha dominating body types. Now here we will see the dual types of these vata, pitta and kapha energies. It will help to reduce some confusions in our mind about the body type.

Using ayurveda and yoga we will evaluate who you really are and who really others are! Also take time to understand how to adjust ourselves and with others through learning dual body types and their nature.

The supreme power or the Nature is playing a game in our body using the playing cards of five basic elements and the three Doshas vata, pitta, kapha. Just come, join, understand and enjoy the game of nature. Hence, we are saying that ‘Going towards the nature is going towards the health.’

Best wishes,

Many blessings

Dr. Mrs. Anagha Yardi and Dr. Ashutosh Yardi.

PART 1

We begin part one with historic comparisons. We will compare five different historic world leaders that have made an impact in our society. These individuals will be partially body typed through our body type test and the analysis of their diet. These opinions are in no way complete since the historic figures are deceased, and cannot be evaluated in person. The doctors and I believe the comparisons would be greatly helpful for synergistic analysis of the effects of diet and environment from the past and now, into the modern day. This exercise is designed to help the reader associate with a like figure and become familiar with the body type test. It is not a diagnosis. So have fun with it. Just enjoy this way of learning and understanding of the body type principle.

Disclaimer—

1) In this part the name and information of the historical personalities are taken from various stories and information available on the internet from sources mentioned in the bibliography.

2) The effort we have completed here to check some body type points of these personalities and the checked body type points are given from what we have read and seen in images of the historic figures. It may change with additional information about them.

3) These are just guidelines for understanding the subject. We are not claiming any fixed opinion or final diagnosis about any historical personality.

4) We respect the work, position, life events and everything that these great personalities had done in their life. People know them or people can imagine the picture, portraits, and stories of these personalities hence as an example we have given their names and stories.

5) This is just an experiment for learning the body type subject. There is no claim or any intension to discuss personal things about these great personalities. It’s taken just from historical information just for understanding the subject of body types.

Chapter 1

Jeanne D ‘Arc (Joan of Arc)

When Joan was young, she lived as a very happy child. The 100 year war in France was going on all around her village but she was unaffected. She played under the large poplar trees with the other children watching the flocks of sheep. Joan and her friends loved to pretend they were fairies and dance in the fields of wildflowers with the smells blending of the village vineyards.

Born on January 6, 1412 (estimated) in the town of Domremy, France, Jeanne D’Arc was the daughter of a father who owned cattle and horses and a mother who was devout in Catholicism. The maid Joan knew the religious dowry taught by her mother, but could not read or write.

Most of us know the story of Joan of Arc, that she was a brave young girl who fought for France, the coronation of the King, and in the end at the age of 19 was wrongly burned at the stake. This is not about that story. This is about how Joan ate, what she looked like, her body type, and her mind type.

Because Joan was only described by the individuals she rode with and people of the villages she passed through, that is what our estimate, or body type, will be calculated by. There was one existing portrait of Joan and according to French archives it was destroyed.

Let’s begin by what Joan ate as a child. They had poultry and eggs, pigs, sheep, cattle, and fish in her village. They grew fresh vegetables and they had a vineyard. The water that she drank was from a natural spring and the villagers were known to have long lifespans. This was according to the witnesses that were brought in after Joan’s death in 1450-1456. It was known as the trial of rehabilitation of the ‘pensive dark-haired girl.’

This quote reaffirms to what her escorts told of her. With a description of her as being a beautiful dark-haired fair white skinned maiden in perfect health. It was also stated the Joan was tall enough to where man’s clothing and she was strong enough to yield a sword in full armor.

We know that her speech was straightforward and that she was focused in her cause. It was said that she had the army that she led take mass and would not fight on Sunday. Joan was strict with language being proper, with no vulgarity, and while they fought there were no liaisons with women. Hence, Joan giving the same moral values and discipline was a testament on how strictly she followed her beliefs.

It is better if one could check their body type under the supervision and guidance of a knowledgeable Ayurvedic doctor.

Check Your Body Type – Not all the questions are answered because assumptions are not all Known.

Chapter 2

Albert Einstein

There is so much information on Albert Einstein, but again not a lot of people knew about his diet or that for many years vegetarianism was a practice he held in high esteem.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930 from Einstein.

Albert Einstein Born March 14 in Ulm, Germany. A year later his family moved to Munich. Growing up in a Jewish middle class household he would have had a diet that consisted of vegetables, fish, chicken, breads, and cakes. The milk, butter, creams and dumplings with heavy sauces where a staple in Germany at that time. It was known that Einstein ate in this manner for many years.

The following information gives us a clue to how this lifestyle influenced his development as a youth and into his adult years.

By his own admission, Albert Einstein, ‘started to talk comparatively late … certainly not younger than three’, and also had ‘poor memory of words’, during his childhood years. For the last 39 of his 76 years of life, physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) suffered from chronic illness. His health problems were primarily related to multiple complications of digestive system disorders; liver ailment, stomach ulcer, inflammation of gall bladder, jaundice and intestinal pains. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

This may be the reason Einstein turned toward a vegetarian diet in the last year of his life. It does indeed show us that he took an active part in researching a healthier way in which to eat.

This was from a letter written to Hans Muehsam by Einstein, and dated March 30, 1954, which was about one year before Einstein died. This indicates he adopted a vegetarian diet at the end of his life.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Previously, on August 3, 1953 Einstein had written the following in a letter to Max Kariel, suggesting that he was still eating meat at that time:

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Diet is just a part of the body typing. We also have many pictures of Einstein available in various stages of his life with some that show full body, standing, front view. These again give us clues to his body type.

Let’s not to forget mention that in his quotes he was an intelligent, concerned, kind individual who himself states;

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein 1952

Albert Einstein changed how we view our world. He researched and asked the questions until his death. Look at his chart, you may find a different outcome from information that you know about him. That is what this comparison is all about. To ask the questions.

Check Your Body Type – Not all the questions are answered because assumptions are not all Known.