Avoid Burnout: Ayurveda Living for Summer

Summer brings longer days and shorter nights.

It's associated with fire, heat, light, and has an intensity to it.

Depending on your body type it may bring a sense of harmony (or) it can aggravate your tendencies towards over-doing, stress, anger, heartburn, skin irritations and sleeplessness that lead to burn-out.

Let's be honest. As modern humans we are addicted to our doing-ness. 

When we look at summer burnout, we have to look at ourselves internally and how we’re orienting to the moment. External influences like diet play a part, but are we perpetuating heat energy within ourselves too? We need to examine relationships and projects and how we’re responding to them.

In Ayurveda, it is said that like increases like and that opposites balance; this helps explain why summertime stirs something different in each of us. If you know your constitution, you can actually take even more personalized steps to…