Find yourself in the wind...

For the new year, I decided to enlighten myself with an ayurvedic approach to living. Ayurveda is an alternative form of medicine born in India. I'm still learning about it, but from my understanding, everything is made up of elements or energy forms, and how you interact with those elements affects you. I went in for my initial consultation where my ayurvedic practitioner asked me questions about my lifestyle, what I eat, when I go to bed, etc. and took the pulse readings of each of my different organs to assess the element levels in each of them. When I went back for my follow up appointment, I learned that I'm predominately in the vata dosha, which is characterized by the wind element and includes qualities such as movement, dryness, and cold. I was fairly balanced in the other two doshas pitta (fire) and kapha (earth). I somewhat agree with these findings, but am still analyzing and assessing my own feelings of the analysis. She told me that I have a lot of creative energy and that the energy in my body did not match up with how my mind sees myself. In times such as these - when your body and mind don't agree- is when she sees cancer come into the picture. She told me that I need to find a way to release my creative energy and that she thinks that the reason I am here is to discover who I am. I sincerely hope that I can discover even just a part of who I am through this process and learn and grow into the full potential of who I am supposed to be. I'm looking forward to finding myself in the wind...