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How Your Environment Impacts Your Healing Journey
“You cannot heal in the same environment that made you sick.”
You may have heard this quote before. If you are feeling uneasy, mentally ungrounded, or starting to notice digestive or skin issues, then most likely something is happening in your day to day that has begun creating imbalances in your system.
It means you need to change your regular lifestyle. This is where the concept of Dinacharya comes in.
Understand the concept of Dinacharya.
Let me introduce the concept of Dinacharya. “Din” means day, and “charya” means conduct, behavior, or practice.
Why is daily practice so important?
Our minds need stability since they are so minute; our minds move at fast speeds and can take us anywhere just with a thought. Our bodies respond to the mind think about when we have an anxious musing, our heart starts to race, our palms may become sweaty, and our breath changes. Having daily practices gives grounding to this powerful force of the mind. When our minds are stabilized, we can easily allow the mind to do its craziness with ease, with less reaction.
This is done in a very subtle way. For instance, can you shift that anxiety to excitement in the body? The shift is linear; they have the same bodily response, but when the mind perceives one as pleasurable versus anxiety, our subsequent behavior and thoughts are drastically different.
How do Daily Rituals make minds more stable?
Taking care of our day, especially by including morning and evening rituals, gives the playground of our mind to become more stable. We become more aware of our habits, emotions, and places where we are being pulled from the center of ourselves. When we bring awareness to what is not aligned with our true selves, we can start to understand why our bodies may be responding with dis-ease in our physical body.
How to start?
Start small with practices like warm water upon waking, adding in a few minutes of breath work (pranayama), and journaling your thoughts. All of these can be done in under ten minutes before you hit the ground running. Best to give yourself a full 20 minutes to the spirit, mind, and body. If you can’t do all three for 20 minutes each, then initiate in baby steps. You can slowly build as you witness how these little ways of caring for yourself start to shift your awareness.
We are in a time where we need ourselves more than ever. Once you master creating these times for your mind, body, and spirit, then you can move on to eating Ayurvedically for your dosha imbalances, taking herbal supplements, and doing a more individualized plan.
Start here, start small — let’s turn this energy of chaos into a way to propel ourselves into change. The energy of August astronomically is calling us to slow down and really analyze “why” we act as we do, especially in our everyday actions. We are a microcosm in a macrocosm. Use these energies to create the life you know you deserve.
Beginning from within, we can become the world we want to see.
Observing simple rituals daily has helped regulate my emotions and ground me in the present moment. Thank you for reinforcing my efforts. 🙏🏼