Ayurvedic Psychology

Description

Ayurvedic Psychology, an ancient art, is coded in the language of its times. It is best understood by us when we decode it in the language of our times.

Our minds, incredibly complex, are too often seen as a science project and not as individual works of art; reflecting our feelings, thoughts, and emotional states. They act as the lenses through which we experience both our world and ourselves. Psychology, the study of the mind, is most useful when seen as an art. Specifically the art of living a healthy, happy and productive life.

When we see the art in today’s psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, psychosomatics, we see how we ourselves function. Individual expressions that have undergone stressors that move us, at least in our minds and often in our social minds, into pathologies and diseases. This is, more often than we like to acknowledge, exaggerating our distressing situations into what we imagine them to be: full blown pathologies. Or at least experiencing them that way. We forget that the answers lie in changing our relationship with our minds into one of love, compassion, kindness and equanimity rather than the fear and loathing we usually harbor towards it and that causes us to keep stuffing it with thoughts, ideas, beliefs and tasks so we never have to be alone with it. And this is what is also missing in our relationships with each other. Ayurveda teaches us that healing our own minds is actually a service to our world.