You Asked Vaidya…
May more of our readers have written asking all kinds of different questions. Vaidya will be responding to them in our upcoming newsletter. So please stay tuned.
In this issue, he responds to a quick timely questions from Gail H. about Daylight Savings Time: “Anything Vaidya might suggest for adjusting to the change in time?”
Vaidya responds:
Daylight-saving time (DST) is the practice of setting your clock ahead by one hour to provide extra daylight in the evenings. It is a man-made practice that disrupts our body’s metabolic connection to the sun, and may also interfere with our sleep patterns. We have to re-train our bodies to follow an unnatural rhythm. Whenever routine goes off – if we eat late or go to bed late, the first thing that gets affected are the vibrational or energetic suns channels, or our “nadi-
s.” When the nadi-s’ flow gets disrupted, Vata dosha goes off. So the first thing to do is to pacify Vata dosha. Nadi-s are our primary connection to Mother Nature. We communicate with and receive Prana from the cosmos through our nadi-s. So in this case, when our connectivity goes off, it means we need to open our nadi-s more to receive more of Nature’s pranic flow, to enhance the coordination between the environmental cosmic energy and the body’s localized energy. This is the SVA perspective on resetting your internal clock with the DST change.
During the months of DST, you will be tempted to eat later than usual – if you usually were hungry at noon and ate your lunch at noon, you will now feel hungry only at 1pm, which is when the sun will be highest in the sky. This will disrupt your whole routine. So what you can do is advance advance your daily routine by half an hour, eat half an hour earlier, sleep half an hour earlier, to get closer to the original time your body was already attuned to.
You can also make an herbal tea to help with channel-opening and Vata pacification:
- 2 pinches Calamus Root
- 2 rose buds
- ½ tsp coriander
- 2 fresh mint leaves
Bring to a quick boil, filter and enjoy.
