Depression, Anxiety & Ayurvedic Mind-Harmonisation

Drugs for depression, anxiety, and attention problems are given out in huge numbers almost like a new panacea.

Apparently we can change our brain chemistry and balance our emotional state with drugs alone.

We aren’t being taught to first consider natural alternatives or lifestyle changes. 

In this approach, we are also losing sovereign composure over of our own brain chemistry.

We are now becoming dependent upon and perhaps even addicted to drugs for our sense of well-being and to maintain “balance” in our physiology throughout the circumstances of life.

This doesn’t only refer to anti-depressants, chemical sedatives, benzodiazepine (anti-anxiety), Methylphenidate (ADHD), or amphetamines alone, but we can develop an unsustainable relationship with nutraceuticals, supplements, narcotics, psychedelics, and our bi-monthly “plant-medicine ceremony.”

All the above certainly have their time and place in mental disease or imbalance, and no doubt can be extremely useful. I have seen them to be lifesaving for patients in my clinic. 

But I believe overall we need to create a greater perception for a holistic way of balancing the mind and nervous system and treating mental illness. 

Luckily, nature did not leave us without natural medicines for the mind. There are special herbs that support improvement of the mind, mental state, senses, brain and nervous system.

There are a group of herbs in Ayurveda called “Medhya Rasāyanas” thathave been taken for millennia to “rejuvenate wisdom”, expand states of consciousness, promote deeper meditations, rejuvenate the mind and improve brain function.

And now, they have a new application in our modern age – to mitigate mind disturbance from screens, social media, work, relationships, collective stress, mental toxins, media etc.

One of my favorite Medhya Rasāyanas for this application is the powerful herbal formula “Bliss” by One Eleven Health.

But it is not just about supporting the body’s nervous system and mind with herbal rejuvenators, we also have to consider other such factors for balancing mental health for a radiant mind and body:

1. A suitable meditation practice for that individual
2. Light cycles – what light are you exposed to in the day and after sunset?
3. Prana (Life-force) content of food, water, and air
4. Sun-exposure
5. Time in nature
6. Counseling
7. Relationships and community
8. Time in energetic vortexes of healing (vāstu / Vedic architecture)
9. Electromagnetic fields
10. Sleep
11. Activity, work, service, role in society and community (dharma)
12. Working with a quality health practitioner
13. Body-work therapies and treatments

Please reach out for any support in balancing your mind and emotional state. You have the capacity to and birth-right for emotional and mental stability, we have to enliven the memory of that.

How do you promote the health of your mind and nervous system? Please comment below to inspire others.