Published 19:51 IST, November 13th 2019
Ayurveda Tips for maintaining good and healthy life of your children
Ayurveda is all about nourishing the mind, body, and soul, and becoming in tune with yourself and your body’s needs. Read ahead to know about health tips
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Ayurveda is essentially natural and holistic approach to mental health. Ayurveda is t just for ults but also for children. re are many ways be it nutrition from food, oil mass to infants in which parents, grandparents can support growth and development of children.
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Tip 1: Vedic sounds for child’s soul
Gandharva Veda music, which is also used as music rapy, harmonises doshas and is good for relaxation and inner peace, and t only for children. ways when many children are alrey under pressure, harmonising sounds can significantly contribute to relaxing both body and mind.
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Tip 2: Start day with water
Start your day and also inculcate habit of starting day for your child with warm water. From an ayurvedic point of view, drinking water helps with inner cleansing and stimulates morning bowel movements. In case of children, you can apply this recommendation starting at one.
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Tip 3: Ayurvedic morning routine for children
Similarly to ults, here are ways that children start ir day with an ayurvedic morning routine. detailed steps are as follows:
- Inner cleansing: Make sure your child takes time to empty its blder and bowel.
- Abhyanga: For babies, morning whole-body mass is carried out by parents or ar ult. Gently rub little ones with ripened sesame oil for approx. 10 to 15 minutes. Older children (as of approx. 8 years of ) and teenrs can do mass mselves and use a mass oil suited to ir dosha : (Vata Mass Oil for dry to rmal skin, Pitta Mass Oil for sensitive skin s and Kapha Mass Oil for oily skin to skin that tends to develop blemishes) – each diluted with sesame oil, if necessary.
- Stretching: For infants and young children, you can gently bring ir legs back and over ir he during morning mass. n bring ir right arm towards ir left leg and vice versa. t only is this fun for young ones, but it is also simply good for m.
- Body cleansing: After mass, shower your child. While for young children pure water is often eugh, older children and teenrs can use a shower gel or shampoo appropriate to ir dosha .
- Cleaning tongue and teeth: Besides brushing ir teeth, as usual, a tongue cleaner may be used for young children as well. While older children can use tongue cleaner by mselves with some practice, young children should get help from an ult who n gently runs tongue cleaner over tongue.
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17:04 IST, November 13th 2019