Balanced and Healthy daily routine or DINACHARYA

In all creation there are no better and more powerful medicine, tools, techniques, method etc than tune in with rhythm and laws of Divine and Almighty Nature. That was boldly admit by all holistic health Doctors and Practitioners.

On extend, in which we tune our bodies, mind and spirit to nature’s master cycle, in that extend we can have optimally Wealthy, Healthy, Happy and Successful life. The Balanced and Healthy lifestyle daily routine recommends good hygiene, moderate exercise, healthy diet, efficient elimination of wastes and a positive mental outlook. This is best and most sustainable and successful method for Stress management and “Successful Balanced and Healthy lifestyle program“. Daily routine in the Sanskrit pronounce Dinacharya, ‘Din’ means day and ‘charya’ means to follow or close to.

Every single day in nature there are two cycles of change: from 6am to 6pm and from 6pm to 6am. Within each cycle there are 4 hour periods that are dominated by air (Sanskrit:vata,), fire (Sanskrit:pitta) or earth (Sanskrit:kapha) energies. We also have vata, pitta and kapha energies within our bodies in various strengths and combinations so it is good and grant success, if we can tune in Divine nature cycle with our own life activities and prevent activities that aggravate the cycle of vata, pitta, kapha.

First Cycle: 6am to 10am – Kapha, 10am to 2pm – Pitta, 2pm to 6pm – Vata
Second Cycle: 6pm to 10pm – Kapha, 10pm to 2am – Pitta, 2am to 6am – Vata

Therefore Dinacharya is basically an ideal daily schedule for us to follow, which analyzes the master cycles of nature and suggests optimal times for carrying out our daily routine. It is very helpful to follow Ayurveda daily routine or Dincharya in order to attain healthy, happy and a pleasant lifestyle. Ayurvedic Dincharya is one of the best things that we can maintain our health better and stay in balance, prevent disease and remove almost any disease. According to Ayurvedia Doctors and Sages, Dincharya is a stronger curative force than any other curative medicine.

Taking the above into account, then on extend, by which our daily routine come closer to below written recommendations, on that extend we can expect healthy and successful life, better outlook, power, wealth and economic development, fame, beauty and senses enjoyment, knowledge, renunciation and noble duties.

After print out, in special place “_____” before the each point, we can tick and write down to which daily routine we voluntary tray to follow and in which extend. For example before point “Get up early; from 3am till 5am,…” I can take write down my present desirable level 4:45am.

Healthy daily routine or Dinacharya commentaries and notes

Before bed and Night sleep time
_____ Our Health and Supreme Success in life start at moment, when we come down daytime active activities, conclude the day and have a good, health and sound sleep – regeneration and rejuvenation for now day.
_____ Sundown is the time for spiritual activities, like prayers, meditation, spiritual reading etc. It is a special time of balance between night and day and is the good time of the day for reflection between 10 and 100 min daily.
_____ Before bed sat on flour or bed for few minutes, take several deep and slow in and out breathes, or pranayama in that mode, come down the body, mind and soul.
_____ After breathing for few minutes open our diary and tick off the work which we have completed, anything which has been left or not completed add to another day and with gratitude say thank to Supreme for this day.. This will help uncluttered our mind and to allow us a more peaceful and restful sleep.
_____ Bedtime before 10pm is ideal. In some special cases, when we lacking sound sleep, it is recommended to go to sleep before 9pm.
_____ Sound sleep recommended for mature, healthy people between 6-8 hours, depend from season, work specifications, tiredness, health, individual constitution etc.

Morning
_____ More healthy sleep and morning, if we can get up peacefully by our inner-heart clock without external alarm-clock and other help.
_____ Get up early; from 3am till 5am, at least 2 hours before sunrise is recommended, if we can’t manage that, then we can try at least 30 minutes before. This is the time that vata is dominant, and is the most fresh and pure time of the day and it helps to tune the body, mind and soul to nature.
_____ Don’t jump off from our bed as soon as we wake up. Take a moment or two to mentally identify our position on the bed, the room and the thoughts running through our mind. Touch and feel our body for a while and take two or three deep breathes before we slowly get off.
_____ Rinse the mouse, teeth, face, hands, feet, and then drink plenty water in room temperature. Hot or cold water can stop our bowels and elimination case constipation. It is helping cleans out bowels and elimination of the accumulated wastes before sunrise.
_____ The last portion of the night being ruled by vata is involved in the process of elimination. Before dawn is the best time to eliminate the body’s physical waste.
_____ Very unhealthy suppress the natural 13 physical urges. If we suppress the natural physical urges as elimination, hunger, thirst, sleep, sneezing, yawning, vomiting, flatus and ejaculation as it leads to discomfort and during course of time to indigestion, constipation, lost of sleep etc and many others various diseases.
_____ Clean our teeth and scrape our tongue, Ayurveda considers a coating on our tongue as an indication to toxins in the colon.
_____ Daily self massage with oil (coconut oil– cooling, seamen oil– neutral, mustard oil – heating effect on body) from up to down of body: our scalp, forehead, temples, hands and feet on average for 5 – 10 minutes. The oil massage makes the skin supple, balance vata by reducing its cold, dry, light, rough and erratic qualities, enhances blood circulation, encourages quicker removal of metabolic wastes and relaxes the body. Body massage is one of the best ways to prevent aging and develop immune system and flexibility in body and mind.
_____ Bathe in comfortably warm water and purify our bodie’s 10 sense organs. Cold water bath shake body and increase stress level in body, mind and spirit, warm (not to hot water, not to cold) water bath positively energise, comfortably hot water bath relaxes and sluggish us.
_____ Put a two three drops of Gee or seamen oil in the each nostril (nose) and then frankly massage with finger each nostril to purify the sinuses and sense of smell.
_____ Always recommended to wear neat, clean and fresh all clothes, at least underwear.
_____ Do some brief yoga asanas, pranayama, exercise, aerobics, walking, swimming, stretching, breathing exercise etc like Surya Namaskar. Regular daily exercises increases the body’s stamina and resistance to diseases by facilitating the immune system, clearing all channels, promoting circulation, elimination process and destroying unhealthy fat. The early morning exercise removes stagnation in the body and mind, strengthens the digestive fire and gives an overall feeling of lightness and joy as it fills the body with good prana. Exercise can be done moderately as too heavy, too aggressive and too much exercise aggravates vata resulting in imbalance. Doctors daily recommend 30 – 40 minutes for Health Maintenance. Can be in one run or deviated 10-30min morning, 10-30min evening. Can be done before, after or/and in middle of spiritual activities.
_____ Time for Spiritual, Transcendental and Religious practises like meditations, prayers, chanting of Holy names, Deities Worship, reading of spiritual scriptures etc up to 1-3 hours, but at least for 15 minutes. These activities are ideal for disciplining the body, mind and removing stress and strain. These activities help in satisfying the mind’s hunger, controls desire and are the key to longevity and immortality. Daily transcendental activities help in maintaining health of body, mind and soul. It increases the general awareness, provides clarity to the thoughts.

Breakfast
_____ Drink 1-2 glasses of warm around one hour before and one hour after each meal. This will help to get freshness and new energy, and help for digestion and metabolism process and to stimulate our bowels to move.
_____ Directly before and after every meals rinse hands, all face, eyes, noose, ears, mouse, teeth, and gargling throat and rinse feet. It is possible rinse feet up to knees, and hands up to ankles.
_____ Eat breakfast consisting of a diet balanced according to our personal requirements.
_____ Make a habit to pass urine after each meal. This will help to have more peaceful and productive time after meals.
_____ Please do not start our work or business activities event planning, before breakfast. After breakfast health peacefully come down.
_____ Then helpful at least 5 minutes to plan our day in our diary, prioritize our work load etc

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Employment
_____ Since work consumes at least one-third part of our lives and success or failure in our profession affects self-confidence, self-worth, it is important that the nature of work match well with our natural nature or prakriti.

Noon or midday
_____ Best time to eat lunch is between 12 noon and 1pm as this is the peak Pitta period and Pitta is responsible for digestion. Ayurveda recommends that lunch be the largest meal of the day. Try to eat fresh food and make an effort to eat consciously, concentrate on how the food tastes and on fully chewing up to 30 times our food.
_____ After meal healthy to take a short walk to aid digestion for 5-10 min or at least 100 steps.

Evening
_____ 6pm – If we do physical type work healthy recommendation spend an least 20 minutes doing relaxing yoga or meditation, if our work is not physical then at least 20 minutes physical yoga, exercise etc would be beneficial.
_____ Evening meal recommended to be lighter than lunch and be taken before sunset, at latest before 7pm or/and at least three hours before bedtime as gives the body ample time to digest the food. Sleeping just after the dinner with a heavy stomach is not conducive to a health, digestion process, sound sleep etc and increase unnecessary sensual and sexual desires.
_____ Many in the habit to take only hot milk in diner or even skipping dinner at all, especially the transcendental practitioners as the dinner sometimes is interfering with our spiritual practise, meditation etc.
_____ After meal healthy to take a short walk to aid digestion for 5-10 min or at least 100 steps.
_____ Sundown is the time for spiritual activities, like prayers, meditation, spiritual reading etc. It is a special time of balance between night and day and is the good time of the day for reflection between 10 and 100 min daily.

Night sleep
_____ To take glass of comfortably hot milk, bat not so hot to bearn our tang, with cardamom, black paper or ginger 10-15 minutes before sleep improves and deepen sound sleep. It poor health situations, it can be deluded with water up to 10% milk and 90% water.
_____ Before go to bed or just before sleep, healthy washing the hands, feet and face improves and deepen sound sleep.
_____ Before bed sat on flour or bed for few minutes, take several deep and slow in and out breathes, or pranayama in that mode, come down the body, mind and soul.
_____ After breathing for few minutes open our diary and tick off the work which we have completed, anything which has been left or not completed add to another day and with gratitude say thank to Supreme for this day. This will help uncluttered our mind and to allow us a more peaceful and restful sleep.
_____ Good to massage the soles of the feet with oil before going to bed, particular if we have: no sound sleep, disturbed sleep, dreams etc. This will calm the system, gives mental relaxation and promote well-being.
_____ Before sleep good to thank to Supreme for giving and providing everything we have in our life. This is also a good practice to stay mentally happy and healthy.
_____ Fall in sound sleep before 8pm ideal, 9pm good, 10pm is good enough, if we are strong and our health still quite good. In some special cases, when we lacking sound sleep, recommended go sleep even before 6 or 7pm. “Early to bed, early to rise, make one healthy, wealthy and wise.” as English proverb recommend us.
_____ Night is the natural time to sleep and mid-day catnaps recommended not are more than 15 minutes long except for the very young, very old, very weak and those intoxicated, diseased, exhausted or traumatised peoples.
_____ Sleeping on the right side is the most relaxing and good for yoga. On the left, it is most digestive and increases body temperature, interest in food, sleep and seances gratification.Sleeping on the back indirectly and on the stomach directly encourages disease. Sleeping with crown of the head facing east or north and feet into the west or south promotes the best relaxation, rejuvenation, meditative and healthy sleep.
_____ Sound sleep recommended for mature, healthy people between 6-8 hours, depend from season, work specifications, tiredness, health, individual constitution etc.

The Daily Routine are one of most influential in our offered “Successful Balanced and Healthy lifestyle program“.

The material in this article is based on Ayurvedic Dr. Liladhar Gupta lectures cycle “Self Healing class” [Listen or/and download] and His website: http://www.ayurvedaasitis.com. And based also on Ayurveda professionals Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Sunil V.Joshin, Dr. Nanasaheb Memane recommendations and others resources.

Your ever well-wisher with love and encouragement BVG Janaka das
1 Jun 2011 – http://bhls.wordpress.com

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