What we do all day, what we eat, how we spend our day in the environment, all these things have a great impact on our health. But where we sleep at night, what kind of bed we sleep on, whether it is comfortable or not, or what direction we sleep using, these things are also effective on our health.

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Here are some reasons why Ayurveda recommends you sleep on the left side:

Facilitated drainage of the lymphatic system - The left side of the body is the dominant lymphatic side. Most body lymph fluid flows into the chest duct, located on the left side.

The Heart Pumping Down Blood Easier -

It makes sense that if you sleep on the left side, lymphatic drainage to the heart will be assisted by gravity, reducing the amount of work the heart has while sleeping. The largest artery exits at the top of the heart and makes an arch to the left before going down into the abdomen. Sleeping on the left, gravity helps the heart pump blood into the downstream aorta.

Helps blood circulation back to the heart -

sleeping on the left also allows most of the intestines to hang beyond the thin walls of the inferior cavity (the cava vein) that brings the venous blood back to the heart. Interestingly, the cava vein lies on the right side of the spine, so that when you lie on the left side, most of the abdominal organs fall further than the cava vein. Again gravity makes the job easier for the heart.

Better elimination -

Sleeping on the left allows gravity-driven food to move easily from the small intestine through the valve. As the night goes on and you continue to sleep on the left, the waste matter moves more easily into the downstream colon. With gravity and a comfortable sleep on the left, the downstream colon is filled with waste matter, which is then easily eliminated completely every morning.

Support for healthy spleen function -

The spleen is very similar to a large lymph node, except that in addition to filtering the lymph, it also filters blood. When lying to the left, drainage back to the spleen is again facilitated and assisted by gravity.

Promotes proper digestion -

The stomach and pancreas (which secrete digestive enzymes) hang on the left side. When lying on the left side, the stomach and pancreas hang naturally, allowing for optimal and efficient digestion.

Helps free flow of bile -

Liver and gallbladder hang on the right side. Resting on the left allows the liver and gallbladder to freely hang and excrete precious bile, by gravity, into the digestive tract to emulsify fats and neutralize acid from the stomach.

Ayurveda: How to eat properly

Many places in the world, it is common to eat with your fingers. It is understood that each finger represents one of the five senses, which correlates with the five elements. Taking food with your hands allows all the senses to be stimulated and involved in the eating process. Interestingly, in Sanskrit, the word for emotion and taste is the same. That word is "race," and it also means lymph.

According to Ayurveda, we experience our food with all our senses and this multiple experience gives an emotional charge to the food we consume. Since the food we eat provides the building material for our cells and tissues, you can imagine that this building material has a different emotional charge depending on the experience of all the senses during the meal.



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In Ayurveda, great emphasis is placed on how we eat something. In fact, consciously slowing down eating and relaxing while eating is considered much more important than when and what you eat. According to Ayurveda, the key to a healthy diet is to become aware of what you eat through your senses. Coupled with sensory experiences, a mindset or emotional state at mealtime will give an emotional boost to food.

If one eats in a relaxed, calm (satvic) way, the food will be positively charged. If the mind is over-stimulated, agitated, or upset (rajasty) as you eat, the food will be filled with stress and haste. If the mind is depressed or withdrawn (tamasic) as you eat, the food will be negatively charged.

This is not a metaphysical, purely energy charge; the emotional charge from each of the five senses during a meal actually gives a charge to a subtle Rasa, or a nutritional substance or food. This subtle lymphatic fluid that is pumped energetically during nutrition by the senses is called Sara.

These emotions are transmitted through the Sarah and become the first digestive fluid that ahara breeds, or nourishing lymph, is nailed at this stage. Depending on the emotional charge, this race or lymph fluid will affect the population of good or bad bacteria in the intestinal tract. The more this nutritional fluid is filled with stress and negative emotions, the greater the population of bad bacteria and the less good in the intestinal tract.

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