Our body knows how to heal itself. All that is necessary is to awaken the body's inner intelligence, which already knows how to heal, restore balance, and vitality. Maharishi Ayurveda � (MAV) is a complete healthcare science designed to enliven this inner intelligence of the body. It gives people the knowledge and the tools to activate that healing response within them. In addition, anti-aging and maintaining youthfulness are an important emphasis in Maharishi Ayurveda. In fact, they are the main aspect of this treasure house of ancient knowledge.Maharishi Ayurveda represents the original and most authentic form of Ayurvedic wisdom revived through 50 years of intensive research by the foremost Vedic scholar of our time, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in consultation with hundreds of Ayurvedic experts throughout India. MAV has been awarded recognition by India's Council of Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians, more than 300,000 members) for its global leadership and purity in reviving the knowledge of Ayurveda in its most authentic form.Maharishi Ayurveda is a wise and effective compliment to modern medicine, for stress-relief and stress-management, anti-aging, as well as many chronic disorders. Why does it work so well?Maharishi Ayurveda's approach is not of fighting disease or suppressing symptoms, but rather, enlivening the body's own healing response.
MAV works with the body to help restore its strength and normal functioning. It is in fact an approach to creating health, rather than just treating disease as other healthcare systems do.What this means for individuals is getting beyond the fragmented approach that harms one part of the body as it helps another - i.e. prescriptions for chronic disorders that are required to be taken for a lifetime with unfortunate harmful side-effects.A far better approach in Maharishi Ayurveda is to enliven the body's inner intelligence - awaken it in both body and mind, through developing higher states of consciousness, dissolving stress, and rebalancing the entire nervous system; to undo the disease rather than suppress it with a drug.
That complete knowledge of Nature's healing intelligence inside of us is what Maharishi Ayurveda reactivates within us.Another reason why MAV works so well is its highly individualized approach. All treatments, including dietary, herbal and lifestyle guidance programs, are tailored and customized to each individual's needs, based on two things: the individual pulse, and body type. For example, at The Raj MAV Spa, one of the first things that happens to a visiting guest is the initial evaluation by a MAV expert trained in the ancient science and art of nadivigyan, Ayurvedic Pulse Assessment. Three fingers are placed on the pulse on the wrist and feeling the rhythms at various levels of pressure, convey to the expert the entire state of health in a guest. Balance and imbalances at the deepest levels of the body's biological intelligence, digestive and metabolic weaknesses, toxicity, blockages, fertility and vitality levels, conception, all this information and more is revealed through the pulse.
Ayurvedic Pulse assessment is really a powerful tool for prevention of disease, as trained experts often can detect chronic disorders in their infant stages of development, before they develop into more difficult cases of disorder in the body; and recommend effective treatments to purify and re-balance before the danger evolves into something more complex and difficult to cure. Another important piece of information gained from the pulse is the body type, there are seven, called the prakriti.The body type predisposes us to certain imbalances, so MAV treats all imbalances according to body type. One treatment is when herbal oils are used in special four-hand massages, (abhyangas) the Ayurvedic enemas, (bastis) and treatments are selected based on the pulse; and of course there are dietary, herbal, and lifestyle guidance programs as well. In this personalized way, maximum life-transforming effectiveness is achieved in results which modern medicine cannot begin to approach. For example, a disease like multiple sclerosis in one person may be caused by a specific imbalance as detected in the pulse, and by an entirely different set of circumstances in another person's pulse.
Hence, treatment for the two individuals is different and the same drug is not used to suppress symptoms in both individuals, but rather an entirely different individualized approach to restoring balance, removing toxins, and activating the natural healing response in each individual is used.Nowadays there are so many fragmented approaches to health: herbs, nutritional supplements, different types of meditation and yoga; quite a smattering of numerous techniques and products are available. That can be confusing. Not that they're not helpful on some level, but there are sometimes important missing parts and pieces and no coherent system to connect and integrate them all.Maharishi Ayurveda offers a complete system of theoretical knowledge and practical techniques from the ground up that's completely compatible with the vision of Nature's intelligence as it supports life.Maharishi Ayurveda offers a Code of Behaviors for Prevention, and a whole system of herbal formulas and treatments for specific diseases that are profoundly effective.
Nevertheless its primary purpose is longevity of life and maintaining youthfulness. But most importantly, MAV also offers systematic, reliable techniques that give people the inner experience of perfect balance and health at the deepest level within each of us, where Nature's cosmic intelligence resides; in what Physics calls the Unified Field of all the Laws of Nature, and what Ayurveda calls the Veda; a field of perfect balance that is self-interacting, and easily, effortlessly accessed and enlivened in mind and body with these systematic techniques. The most fundamental of these techniques is the well-documented and highly scientifically researched Transcendental Meditation Technique or TM technique (www.tm.org.)
As brought to light by the tireless efforts of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in his revival of this precious knowledge,the TM technique is an integral part of Maharishi Ayurveda, since in theory consciousness is at the basis of physiology. The physiology is in fact, just an expression of consciousness, and therefore purifying and restoring balance on the level of both consciousness and physiology, are most effective and mutually enhancing. The two are seen as inseparable parts of the wholistic knowledge MAV represents.More than five thousand years and hundreds of great vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians) have contributed to the revival of Maharishi Ayurveda in our modern age, from many generations of family dynasties that have preserved the knowledge and passed it on through oral tradition.
The fifty-year mission of Maharishi in consultation with this great tradition has been to revive the precious knowledge of Ayurveda in its highest, most authentic, and therefore most wholistic and effective form. In so doing, his vision was to recreate the enlightened, disease-free Vedic civilization in our modern age. This then is the vision of Maharishi Ayurveda. It is backed by an impressive amount of scientific research to prove its effectiveness, which is why medical doctors around the world are now recommending Maharishi Ayurveda to their patients for effective treatment of many chronic disorders.The main institutions offering authentic Maharishi Ayurveda treatments and products in the United States are The Raj, MAV Health Center and Spa, and its sister spa, The MAV Lancaster Ayurvedic Health Center. In addition to treatments, Vedic authenticity is expressed in the authentic herbal preparations, which accompany treatments, or can be used independently of them.
