Prevention and Promotion of Health

By Kumuda Reddy, MD

No matter what your age or state of health, Maharishi Ayurveda has something to offer. From birth to old age, from serious disease to total wellness, it provides knowledge and experience to bring fullness to life.
The primary focus is the prevention of disease, and its never too early to start. From the moment of conception, through birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, this tradition provides knowledge and guidelines for how to create and maintain balance so that symptoms of disease never arise. The guidelines are always easy to follow, because they are natural. They simply remind us how to live naturally, in tune with ourselves and our environment.
If you are blessed with good health, Maharishi Ayurveda health care may help you maintain it, and teach you how to make it stronger and more invincible. If you suffer from one ailment or another, then these therapies can treat the underlying imbalance that caused the problem. Many conditions can be helped, because the treatments goal is to attack the very root of the disease.
Many patients have found relief with so-called chronic disorders such as chronic fatigue, persistent allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, lower back pain, sinusitis, skin disorders, hypertension, weight gain or loss, sleep disorders, substance abuse, anxiety or depression, menstrual or menopause problems, or migraine headaches. Chronic disorders may respond well to this approach, or a combination of this treatment and conventional care.
As people grow older, one out of three can now expect to be affected by a chronic degenerative disease. Maharishi Ayurveda is a system that can help prevent the occurrence of these diseases, and provide relief for those who have them.
The benefits have been examined by the scientific community and the results published in many professional journals. For example, according to an article in The American Journal of Managed Care, studies show that a useful tool of Maharishi Ayurveda, the practice of Transcendental Meditation, may be one way of keeping the heart healthy, because it can help keep blood pressure low. Studies show that the practice can help reduce mild hypertension as effectively as do more costly drug therapies.
Other scientific studies document improved general health improved digestion, sleep, energy, state of mind, resistance to illness as well as improvements in specific diseases. Therefore, patients with serious ailments may benefit. Research has demonstrated that programs using a combination of meditation, exercise, and behavioral modifications can reverse many chronic disorders. For these patients, Maharishi Ayurveda therapies are used in conjunction with conventional medicine.
The studies verify what we can expect from Maharishi Ayurveda prevention of disease, promotion of better health, treatment for serious and chronic complaints, a better quality of life and improved longevity. Using this system of natural health care, we can look forward to the joy of living in a healthy body even in our most advanced years. Our “golden years” can truly be golden.