Whole Healing = Successful Living

The day before my graduation as a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist I participated in the workshop called “The Yoga of Success” given by Dr. Marc Halpern at the California College of Ayurveda. Having had no business background this was my opportunity to learn how to become a successful Ayurvedic Practitioner. Or at least get to do what I love and have immersed myself into learning in the past three years. I cannot live my Dharma and serve my life purpose if I am not accessible to people who need my service. This is a simple fact as well as step #1 toward growing a business.

In the workshop we went through Ayurvedic & Yogic psychology similar to what I have already learned in the past. There was a practical component of how to organize and plan our life into a success through business planning and marketing. There are many books out there written by well-known holistic practitioners and business coaches that communicate the same principle of success.

The foundation of success is the alignment between our goal and the higher purpose or God’s goal. The message that truly struck me at the workshop was just that. This alignment does not only apply toward our career or success in material wealth but success in every aspect of our life including health and relationship. Ayurveda’s uniqueness in its understanding of disease and treatment firmly follows this principle of alignment.

Whenever a person has discomfort, symptom or disease there is a misalignment in how the person lives her life. Dr. Halpern, true to his crusade of teaching this principle to the mass urged the freshly graduates of his program never to be dragged into chasing symptoms and diseases. If a person wants to treat a disease in the most efficient way she should choose the strongest drug. In this course of treatment there is no difference in the principle of the treatment whether the person chooses Ayurvedic herbs or allopathic drugs. The goal of treatment remains the same-- treating a disease.

Ayurveda’s goal is to treat an individual as a whole being and not as a disease. Disease arises to tell us that we are living out of harmony and out of the alignment with our life’s purpose. As long as we are living the same way we have been living we will continue to have dis-ease no matter how well we try to treat it. Many people turn to alternative medicines and Ayurveda after they found that the drug they used to take did not “get rid of the problem”. We can go about chasing disease in various ways and still left with the same unresolved problem.

We have the potential and the power to heal ourselves. By recognizing the lifestyle that is out of alignment with harmonious living and replace the old habits with the new supportive ones you can realize perfect health and successful life. Today, start by taking an inventory list of your five-senses intake. You are what you eat, see, hear, touch and smell. Do they support your health and peace of mind? If you are not sure, ask yourself how you feel physically, emotionally and mentally.

You can take an alignment check up by answering truthfully to the following simple questions.

Do you love life right now?
Do you enjoy your work and career?
Are you successful at whatever you are doing right now?

We all have some room for improvement. The meaning of life pertains to continuous growth and expansion of consciousness. Educate yourself by reading books on Yoga and Ayurveda. Get help by connecting with an Ayurvedic Specialist. Concentrate on what you can do and not what you can’t do. Focus on your whole being and not your disease. If you have time to complain about anything be it your physical illness, your financial position or your co-workers, means you are focusing on what you cannot do. You are making yourself unavailable for success. Choose to be on a successful path in health and in life.

My gratitude for the teaching of Dr. Marc Halpern.