As a natural healing system, the goal of Ayurveda is to support the body and mind through the process of self-healing with non-invasive natural ayurvedic herbs, ayurvedic medicines, and ayurvedic treatments. However, the first line of ayurvedic treatment for illness and disease is proper diet and lifestyle. Once this has been established, ayurvedic herbs are administered - followed by medicines and treatments considered appropriate for one's own unique bodily constitution, known in Ayurveda as Prakruti.

Ayurveda has a very deep understanding of the body's energy systems through it's foundational doshic theory which considers that the human body is governed by the three bodily dosha's (energies) Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. 

Ayurveda teaches that the Five Great Elements found in the universe (ether, air, fire, water, earth) are contained within the human body as energies called Vata Dosha (ether and air), Pitta Dosha (fire), and Kapha Dosha (water and earth.) 

References:

1. Vasant Lad, Ayurveda: the Science of Self Healing (Santa Fe, NM: Lotus Press, 1984), 18

2. Ibid.

3. Banyan Botanicals

Additional references:

https://www.ayurveda.com/ayurveda-a-brief-introduction-and-guide/

https://www.keralaayurveda.biz/blog/different-body-types-ayurveda

Smartphones and Dosha Imbalance

In addition to the harmful health effects associated with mobile phone radiation, smartphone lifestyle choices and behaviors can imbalance the doshas – Vata, Pitta, and Kapha.

The smartphone, as it is used by most people, helps the user to maintain a chaotic and often desperately addictive lifestyle. The smartphone allows the user to engage in lifestyle choices that are contrary to the teaching and wisdom of ayurveda for balancing the doshas.

The gunas typically associated with smartphone use are:

• Vata = quick, fast, mobile, light

• Pitta = sharp, penetrating, hot

• Kapha = dull, static, slow

For example, Vata imbalances are created by using the smartphone to watch pornography, engage in sexual activity through smartphone apps (especially late into the evening), obsessively checking for text messages or Likes, having your smartphone always turned on and always answering calls or texts, or using the smartphone to help pacify fear – which often results in increased fear. These are some of the smartphone behaviors that encourage a chaotic lifestyle and imbalance Vata dosha.

Pitta imbalances are created by using the smartphone for sending violent text messages, participating in text messaging arguments as well as social media arguing and judging, watching violent videos on the smartphone, engaging in promiscuous or predatory sexual behavior through smartphone apps, or using the smartphone as a competitive tool. These are some of the smartphone behaviors that encourage a fiery lifestyle and imbalance Pitta dosha – and can also disturb Tejas in the mind.

Kapha imbalances are created by using the smartphone while sitting or lying down for hours on end, compulsive shopping via smartphone apps, eating while watching videos or using the smartphone for long periods of time, searching for love through smartphone apps, and using the smartphone to spy on others. These are some of the smartphone behaviors that encourage a lifestyle of attachment and imbalance Kapha dosha.

Much has been written about ayurvedic diet and lifestyle concepts for self-healing. The ancient ayurvedic texts teach us about the purpose of ayurveda and how to incorporate the wisdom of ayurveda into our life for our own self-healing. Smartphone addiction, and the behaviors associated with the addiction as described above, are contrary to the teaching of ayurveda because these behaviors do not promote health, longevity, and balanced doshas. As ayurvedic physician and teacher Dr. Vasant Lad so beautifully describes, “We postpone meditation and enlightenment but we never postpone our addictions. The moment there is a desire to smoke, people smoke. They never delay. But when there is a thought of meditation we say, it is too late. I have to go to the office. I will do meditation tomorrow.”1

According to Verizon Wireless, “every cell phone user is at risk of developing an addiction to their device. Whether it’s online games, social media, text messaging, or emails, there are many ways that smartphone apps attract users and make it hard to look away.”2  Verizon’s statement gives cause to acknowledge that it is likely there are some smartphone users working in the Ayurveda profession who are among the smartphone users engaging in behaviors associated with this type of addiction.

If you want to help balance your doshas and promote good health and longevity, EMF Ayurveda does not recommend using a smartphone. Instead, switch to a corded landline (not cordless). If you have a smartphone, please switch to a talk and text only cell phone. Limit your use of the cell phone to only 5 minutes per day as recommended by Professor Girish Kumar.3 Use the device only in case of an actual emergency and get in the habit of leaving the device turned off. This important lifestyle change will help you to more closely follow the teaching of ayurveda and help you to keep your doshas balanced.

References:

1. Vasant Lad, Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles of Ayurveda (Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Ayurvedic Press, 2002), Vol. 1: 225

2. https://www.verizon.com/articles/cell-phone-addiction/

3. https://youtu.be/Ucy6UMGXTLc

EMF Ayurvedic Health & Wellness Benefits

Benefits of EMF Health & Wellness counseling include:

• Balancing the doshas - Vata, Pitta, Kapha

• Remove toxins (ama) from the body

• Improve digestion

• Eat healthier

• Sleep better

• Feel better

• Have more energy

• Increase libido

• Improve overall health

• Reduce stress & tension

• Reclaim health & happiness

• Create an EMF healthy lifestyle

• Heal from EMF radiation exposure

EMF Harmful Health Effects

"We know that there is a massive literature, providing a high level of scientific certainty, for each of eight pathophysiological effects caused by non-thermal microwave frequency EMF exposures." Dr. Martin Pall, Ph.D

According to Dr. Martin Pall, the scientific literature shows that EMF's:

1. Attack our nervous systems including our brains leading to widespread neurological/neuropsychiatric effects.

2. Attack our endocrine (hormonal) systems.

3. Produce oxidative stress and free radical damage, which have central roles in essentially all chronic diseases.

4. Attack the DNA of our cells, producing single strand and double strand breaks in cellular DNA and oxidized bases in our cellular DNA. These in turn produce cancer and also mutations in germ line cells which produce mutations in future generations.

5. Produce elevated levels of apoptosis (programmed cell death), events especially important in causing both neurodegenerative diseases and infertility.

6. Lower male and female fertility, lower sex hormones, lower libido and increased levels of spontaneous abortion and attack the DNA in sperm cells.

7. Produce excessive intracellular calcium [Ca2+]i and excessive calcium signaling.

8. Attack the cells of our bodies to cause cancer. Such attacks are thought to act via 15 different mechanisms during cancer causation.

Reference: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/105111823620505/3

EMF Physiological Damage

Physiological damage and changes associated with EMF (AC electric fields, AC magnetic fields, and Dirty Electricity) and RF radiation are:

• DNA damage and non-repair

• Opening of the blood-brain barrier (toxins enter)

• Diabetes

• Lowered immunity

• Decreased melatonin levels

• Effects on stress proteins (indicating cell damage)

• Changes in calcium metabolism

• Changes in brainwave patterns seen on electroencephalogram (EEG).

What type of cancer from RF?

"An important lesson that should be learned from the NTP studies on cell phone radiofrequency radiation is that we cannot assume any current or future wireless technology is safe without adequate testing."- Dr. Ronald Melnick, Ph.D. Senior Toxicologist National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health.

Health effects associated with radio frequency (RF) microwave radiation from wireless technology (cell phones, cordless phones, cell towers, bluetooth, WiFi, baby monitors, and all wireless devices) are:

• Glioma (Brain Cancer)

• Acoustic Neroma (tumor on the acoustic nerve)

• Meningioma (tumor of the meninges)

• Salivary Gland Cancer (parotid gland in cheek)

• Leukemia

• Eye Cancer

• Testicular Cancer

• Prostate Cancer

• Breast Cancer

• Thyroid Cancer

References:

1. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/105111823620505/3

2. https://magdahavas.com/from-zorys-archive/pick-of-the-week-1-more-than-2000-documents-prior-to-1972-on-bioeffects-of-radio-frequency-radiation/

3. https://magdahavas.com/from-zorys-archive/pick-of-the-week-6-clinical-hygienic-aspects-of-exposure-to-electromagnetic-fields/

4. https://ehtrust.org/wireless-radiation-health-effects-chronic-oxidative-stress/

5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37021652/

6. https://ehtrust.org/new-study-links-cell-phone-use-to-prostate-cancer-and-skin-cancer/

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lA2a296XI

8. https://ehtrust.org/science-policy-and-law-of-5g-4g-and-wireless-the-health-and-environment-impacts/

9. https://ehtrust.org/high-cell-phone-use-may-impact-sperm-count-study-says/

10. https://ehtrust.org/the-majority-of-studies-on-critical-health-endpoints-finds-effects-from-wireless-frequencies/

11. https://www.saferemr.com/2014/07/is-mobile-phone-use-contributing-to.html

12. https://www.saferemr.com/2018/02/effects-of-exposure-to-electromagnetic.html

13. https://www.saferemr.com/2014/10/electromagnetic-hypersensitivity_30.html

14. https://ehtrust.org/science/top-experimental-epidemiological-studies/

15. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/12/3129#B27-biomedicines-11-03129

16. https://ehtrust.org/colorectal-cancer-and-the-great-sperm-decline-could-it-be-related-to-cell-phone-radiation-by-devra-davis/

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