Healthy for Everyone? One-Size-Fits-All Health Tips.

Elizabeth says some remedies seem to be best practices for everyone such as mindful eating mindful movement or Ginger it is fair is it fair to generalize what seems to work for many and then develop a list of go-to remedies for beginners yeah it is not that we wouldn't customize and adapt but instead to build our toolbox of remedies to start with right okay so yes Elizabeth there are some go-to remedies that pretty much everyone could do and you gave an example already of mindfulness mindfulness is objectively good regardless of your circumstance for the most part okay and naturally we're going to ask but wait isn't ayurveda always to the individual isn't it always unique to the circumstances and the answer is no it's not always unique to the circumstances there are some things that are objectively good right well what are those things I'm going to say that um uh some examples for a uh for example uh we know this already life is always good right health is always good mindfulness is always good truth is always good Beauty happiness are always good right so uh things uh remedies that are very close to those things are very good in fact The Closer You Are to those things the closer the remedy is to those things the more good they are okay and this is why I would say that these objectively good things that uh uh like the ones you've mentioned above are very close to ends rather than means right the ends do we know what we mean by the ends versus the means the ends is the goal and the means is how you get there so so health is the goal of ayurveda and so everything is for that so if there's a remedy that is very close to health itself then it's very very good and some things are like that let's go through these a little more carefully uh these transcendentals which are goals uh have the nature of being object actively good always and then means that are close to them what are the means that are close to them okay life is always good in fact uh existence is the definition of the good and the classical philosophical way of saying that is um bonam convert ends the good is convertible to me to being meaning that if we want to know what is ultim Ely good it is going to be that which has ultimate being or existence right the more something is a source of life and existence the better it is right getting waxing poetic here waxing philosophical the closer something is to the source of life and existence the more good the better it is right this is the definition of the good as existence being bonum is convert to OD ends all right ends means being bonum means good like a bonus right okay so health and energy are very good if something gives you Vitality if something gives you energy if something gives you health those things are very good because that's very close to existence and source of life that makes them very good that's why people get addicted to coffee they get addicted to coffee because energy is very good but unfortunately coffee doesn't give you energy it burns up energy so you feel energetic but you're losing enery energy that's why it's an addiction and not a good itself right so we could say life is always good but life is not always reduced to personal health you can have greater life through death right that's possible suppose a person sacrifices themselves for the good of many then they have a greater life than even being alive a parent does this for their children I have more life through my children than my own body right I have more life through my children than through my own body okay truth and reason is always good in fact classically truth is convertible to being as well Veritas convertor odd ends is the classical philosophical statement here that says if we were to ask ourselves what is truth the answer would be whatever is the source of life and existence is truth itself because that's what has ultimate being is there any other possible measure of what is true no what has real life right if we were to say uh you know uh you know that 1+ 1 equals 2 is eternal statement that can't be destroyed so that has more truth than say the existence of the squirrel in my backyard right um the squirrel can you know P come and can can come and then pass away uh 1 plus 1 equals 2 does not so you might say the statement that there exists a squirrel in my yard right now is true but we can't say that the you know squirrel will always exist right so we can kind of create this measure of Truth by um you know by uh whether something is corresponds actually truth is a relation of the mind to reality something in my mind a statement in my mind is true is true if it corresponds to reality and something is true in reality a measure of truth and reality is um a degree of participation in true TR true uh in the in source of life and in the source of life and existence right these are deep philosophical questions uh which are hidden in Elizabeth's uh uh question but there worth mentioning I think there's some good ground to cover so because truth is always good mindfulness and contemplation is very good right because mindfulness and contemplation help us uh uh discern the truth now mindfulness can also be a hindrance right if somebody if a burglar were to break into my house and I'm trying to protect my kids and reason decides that it's time for me to fight right I should have enough mindfulness to come to the conclusion I must you know protect my family from the burglar right but the moment I decide to fight I'm not going to sit in contemplation and oh what is the best way to fight the burg I'm not going to be doing that I'm going to be moving quickly quick action is needed mindfulness can be hindrance in that so it's so mindfulness is not the objective good truth is but mindfulness is very good okay right the classical statement on truth is also another uh is that uh truth is the mind's relation to being right is another sort of piffy way of saying saying that uh beauty is is always good beauty is actually defined as the pleasant apprehension of the good now we can reduce Beauty to vanity if we're talking about uh you know the uh uh popularity of some good look of some uh the popularity of a certain kind of look right that could feed a person's vanity that's not what we're talking about with beauty here what is true beautiful is something uh that where where we can uh immediately appreciate the good through it right so what is objectively beautiful uh what is objectively beautiful that which makes the good visible the good in something visible okay so this goes to another correlation the job of the artist is to make the Magnificent visible right this is true art you might say true art job of the artist is to make the Magnificent visible okay it's hard to see what is truly good if we could all see what was truly good elections would be effortless right we wouldn't have to go through all the stress and fighting back and forth of you know this that or the other thing and all the Shades of Gray and trying to figure out who's the best candidate blah blah blah if the Magnificent were if if the good were easy always easy to see we would uh have an easy election uh in this country next week but you know with all likelihood uh there's likely to be you know riots on the day of election and uh and because of the difficulty of seeing the good well Beauty makes the good visible and that is uh is always good to make it visible and uh on a personal level you would say beauty is the pleasant apprehension of the good so that means you know uh trying to to become beautiful is a good thing but we can see how that could quickly in the case of beauty quickly turn into a terrible thing uh a terribly vain thing okay happiness happiness is always good in fact happiness is the goal of all all Human Action we want health because we believe health will make us happy but health is not happiness we want wealth because we think that wealth will make us happy right there are some people that Focus all their energy on wealth and some people focus all their energy on health some people focus all their energy on Glory this is I'm using the classical uh popularity would be the modern definition of that right some people focus on honor or Perfection right health wealth uh Power was the other one power will make us happy right these are the classic five great distractions from the from the good from the from the um you know when I say the good I mean the uh from the good right there you might say distractions or sub substitutions substitutions of the whole good because these are great in fact I would say five very good things that nevertheless become uh distractions from the whole good right we can immediately see the goodness of power wealth Health Glory and Honor right we can immediately see the goodness of all those things the problem is is when they are Pursuit as ends uh in and in of themselves when we start to worship wealth Health glory honor or power they become not very good but all those could be means to help us on the road to happiness if they are kept in check okay so happiness is always good and these five substitutes are very good but so easily become Idols in themselves that destroy the person right contemplation of the means to happiness very good but none of that as good as happiness itself if you're thinking about how to get to happiness all day long that's very different than being with a happy thing right like I could I could be you you know trying to get to happiness all day long and fail to just sit with my child uh and enjoy uh enjoy uh my children to give a personal example here of something that you know is only too easy to forget to do right how many parents in the struggle of trying to help their children be happy forget to just be happy with their child right all right good okay all right so we've talked about some things that are always good and that can be Pinnacles of uh you know of a sort of universal go-to remedies for for beginners and uh and so where do we put these things generally we put them in daily routine or dearia that's where we say oh this is always good for everyone to drink a glass of water in the morning right uh to be a little mindful in the beginning of your day start your day off by prioritizing your action towards the ultimate aim of human life life which is happiness and reorganize your task list in that priority so that you start the day a free person liberated where you choose using reason what will create happiness for you before you check your email and and your email decides the uh priority of your day yeah some parents uh want for their children I see in the chat here that some parents force their children to do things like play the piano now I'm not going to say that parents shouldn't Force children to do things because parents can see the objective good in many cases where children cannot due to uh life experience but uh What uh Melissa is referring to as stage parents here is apparent trying to um project their addictions uh to these distractions onto their children and to have their children you know if they were not uh found themselves Unworthy of the glory that they were seeking uh try to uh you know get their children to live it out for them right so that uh that can be uh and of course if uh someone's if a parent is forcing a child to do something uh they have to be very careful as well to be reasonable about it and uh and not uh make the child hate what they are forcing them to do right so uh yeah yeah then then music which is beautiful becomes a torture okay all right good so there's uh just some background there on the universal uh Universal good Kate says I would love to know more about false liquidity I am still trying to grasp the concept but when we see excess fluid in the body right we see here she's using definition two excess fluid in the body is definition two which I see as the false uh uh X excess fluid in the body is definition two the false way of interpreting is which is which is the incorrect right um definition two is incorrect and so I think that's the cause K of your confusion around false liquidity but let's get to that uh okay because isn't this when we see excess fluid in the body but that's stagnant and therefore dense okay stagnant doesn't mean therefore dense like suppose you have thin blood and your heart stops working then your blood will be stagnant but not dense right stagnancy tends to become dense so we would just you know again just for precision's sake so that we know how we're not conflating these terms uh we would say and tens to come from dense fluids right just want to be clear here stagnant excess flu in the body comes from she's saying could come from stagnancy which tends to come from density for example lymphatic stagnation makes a person puffy due to excess fluid in the body okay again let's uh I want to just make sure that we're saying this in a completely clear way it is not due to excess fluid in the body but lymphatic stagnation causes a buildup of X of fluid or because you can't eliminate it essentially causes a buildup of fluid in the body which makes a person puffy right just want to get the the thinking of this right we're going to close our eyes and imagine the pathogenesis and we were say dense quality for example results in lymphatic stagnation we can see the thickest molasses plasma and it's sticky and not moving causing lymphatic stagnation we can do this with our eyes closed right and because it's not getting eliminated and not flowing back but the heart's pumping more of it into the tissue we're getting puffiness okay so now we're CL very close to answering the question right fact we already have answered it if there was Liquid quality as in the first definition thin fluids if there was low viscosity there would be no stagnation at all um so low viscosity is a remedy to stagnation uh yeah okay all right so in the presentation false uh liquidity is just the term that we're using uh for something that appears to be liquid but isn't okay so John can I ask a question yeah is it possible to have excess liquid that is thin excess liquid is often thin but but if you have no I'm not going to say that no it's not excess liquid tends to come excess liquid tends to come from dents like confa people with edema have edema because their fluids are dense excess liquid typically comes uh from uh from dense excess fluid buildup typically comes from dense stagnant blood not thin blood so excess liquid oily and dense quality are similar dry uh or excess water sorry I want to say excess fluid yeah not excess liquid excess fluid oily and dense quality are similar dry low viscosity and liquid goona are similar right is that clear to everyone you're still confused and I'm telling you the confusion is just about uh the the uh vocabulary it's because when you close your eyes and see uh the word liquid in English people think of water that's not what we want to think about it what we want to think about is a person drinking uh a milkshake and some restaurants make the milkshake thick and some restaurants make the milkshake thin so if you imagine a child drinking milk a milkshake that was more milk instead of more ice cream right like if you blend the ice cream and the milk together if you put a lot of ice cream it becomes dense if you put only a little bit of ice cream it's mostly milk it's more like liquid right so you're thinking liquid you close your eyes and think of a person drinking milk through a straw d you close your eyes and think of a person drinking a thick milkshake through a straw and they're like sucking you know the milk through the straw so hard they give their cheeks hickeys right you end up with like you know you ever have a milkshake where you're sucking so hard it's like your your your cheeks hurt it's literally giving your cheek a hickey that's how you want to think of dense liquid push out the vision of water all together and think about it in regard to milkshakes and you'll have a easy time with it yeah a spoon exactly because it won't go through the straw you need a spoon right if you need a fork when you're drinking your milkshake it's too dense well except a spoon though all right good so again false liquidity here uh it means simply something that appears to be associated with liquid gona but isn't there's all kinds of examples of false goas in uh or all kinds of clinical scenarios where there are false gooners take for example uh dry skin dry cold skin of a person with hypothyroid you see their skin they have hypothyroid which means low metabolism um and with low metabolism you have a lot of weight gain and uh you have uh because of low metabolism you tend to the person tends to have a lower heart rate and low muscle tone generally so their blood doesn't circulate as well because their heart rate's low in fact uh their blood doesn't circulate well in the skin and they get cold and then because they're [Music] cold their capillary beds uh uh constrict and that makes their skin dry right think about it hypothyroid low metabolism makes you chilly and then your capillary beds close in the skin and you uh and then so your skin uh is cold and dry because there's no blood in it no blood in it you can imagine this with your inner eye always imagine the these uh pathogenesis these these uh development of the doas because this cold dry skin is not Vata most people say you look up in a textbook what's dry skin Oh dry skin V well not when it's a thyroid dry skin and thyroid dry skin uh the cause is Kaa this is false dry and also not false cold but false dry that makes sense okay okay good so when you see the word false it just means looks like it's real dry but it's not real dry it's false dry okay Laura my question is related to the following rich blood that's high in sugar salt protein and results in low osmotic pressure in the blood okay so we got rich and low yes we're all good so far osmotic pressure pH exists when two quantities of fluid and a different concentration of solid particles are separated by a membrane which doesn't permit the passage of the particles but it does permit the passage of the fluid usually water okay so that's definition what happens is that this situation creates a pressure gradient causing water to move from the side with lowest concentration to the side with highest concentration until both concentrations are equal yes okay so maybe blood has a high osmotic pressure not low in order to be able to attract water no uh it is low pressure things attract right something that has high pressure pushes things away think think about it if something's under high pressure it wants to leave if something is low pressure it's saying come to me right so high pressure equals pushes away low pressure equals come to me attractive okay I see uh Melissa you're putting in the chat how does false dryness work so I gave the example before did you uh are you you still have a question about this after I gave the thyroid or you want me to just write it out maybe if I write it out it'll be hypothyroid is low metabolism low metabolism is cold right cold means Vaso constriction of the skin