Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution (Your Ayurvedic Constitution Revised Enlarged Second Edition) by Dr. Robert Svoboda

Author:Dr. Robert Svoboda [Svoboda, Dr. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 0965620832
Publisher: Lotus Press
Published: 1998-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

EXERCISE

Exercise may be passive like massage, active like aerobics, or both passive and active like Hatha Yoga. Exercise increases the body’s stamina and resistance to disease by facilitating the action of the immune system. It clears all channels, promotes circulation and waste disposal, and destroys fat. Regular exercise even reduces anxiety and produces a sense of well-being by stimulating the release of endorphins and enkephalins, which helps explain why exercise can be addictive.

V people become addicted to vigorous exercise because it temporarily exhausts them, preventing them from thinking at their normal hyperspeed rate, and because exercise temporarily increases their pain threshold. Pain reduction is important to the normally pain-sensitive V person. Excessive vigorous exercise exhausts the body, however, which disturbs Vata. Also, the dullness of mind which vigorous exercise engenders is only temporary. The rebound effect makes the mind work even more vigorously and chaotically afterwards, as if to make up for lost time.

Many V people are attracted to running or jogging, practices that put great pressure on their inherently weak joints. Joint injuries in V people are more likely to become complicated or to result in arthritis than similar injuries in other types. Some Vs are attracted to sports like handball, which require the intense bursts of energy that Vs have in abundance. V people who do invest in such overactivity, however, eventually experience total energy wipeout. Mild, regular exercise like Yoga, Tai Chi or walking is always better for V people than is intense exertion. Contemplative exercises like Yoga and Tai Chi are especially good for V types because they promote mental equanimity.

Vs tend to be fidgety anyway, and the energy that a confirmed fidgeter burns off in a day is equivalent to that expended in jogging several miles. Rhythmic exercise is always better for V types than are chaotic workouts. For example, regular weight training with light weights is far better for V types than is sporadic aerobic exhaustion. V people who are addicted to jogging and running may find an alternative in a rebounder. Participatory exercise like folk dancing may also satisfy their requirements for motion.

Since V people hate routines and love to try new things they should feel free to begin with any sort of exercise they please. Once they have created an exercise habit they should then tone down the vigor and enhance the stabilization. External sources of heat like steam baths and hot tubs further stimulate their circulation. VP people require less heat than do pure Vs but should generally observe V-type exercise guidelines.

P people love vigorous exercise like weightlifting because it feeds their aggressiveness and makes them all the more intense, irritable and driven. Competitive sports like tennis excite them because they are naturally competitive and love the thrill of competition. An optimal exercise for a P person provides this competitiveness without permitting it to reinforce the natural P egotism. Team sports like basketball and volleyball which emphasize cooperation and downplay individual heroics, or sports like backpacking which permit you to compete against yourself, are best for P types.

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