Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The force of Pitta or The Fire in your Mind

The elemental forces or "doshas" are the tension created between the elements to keep the elements playing nicely. You are some unique combination of the 5 great elements. Because you may have a predominance of certain elements, you exhibit certain characteristics in your body and mind.

If you resonate with the force of the Fire in your mind it means that you predominantly express characteristics of the Fire in your thinking patterns and personality. The force of the Fire is the tension created when the elements Fire and Water combine. This force in Ayurveda is known as “Pitta”. You do have the other forces of Wind (Vata) and Earth (Kapha) in your mind; however, their expression is not your first response.

To understand how your mind behaves, you only have to think of the elements that combine to make the force of the Fire; Fire and Water. Fire is hot, bright, intense and abrupt. Water is cool, smooth, nourishing, moist and oily. There is more Fire than Water in the force of Fire or Pitta. Your personality exhibits these qualities.

You probably exhibit the following characteristics in your personality.

The Fire in all minds is the process of discernment. Combine that with a predominance of Fire (Pitta) and you have a person who is very good at making decisions, managing others and leading. In a balanced state, this is a person who is “large and in charge”…a dynamic speaker, leader and motivator. Even in balance, this can also be troublesome as you may find that you take on the problems of the world and the responsibility to solve them.

Because of your determined mental state, you are prone to suffer from work related stress. You may find that you feel you are the only one who can do things the correct way and that those around you are not as intelligent or capable. The lesson for the Fire is to learn to delegate through leadership and to allow other’s the freedom to be who they are.

You stay focused. Fires have incredible follow through. They don’t necessarily want to do the work of completing a project, but they like to see a project from start to finish. Fires have the ability to plan long-term and love goal setting.

You are fabulous at leading others to do tasks. In fact, you should be working in a job where you are in charge of others. Fires suffer enormously when working for a company or boss who micro-manages. If working for another, Fires need to be empowered and set free to make decisions and follow through. A Fire will be led only by someone that they greatly respect, admire and are learning from.

You take care of others. Fires are passionate about family, friends and the world. They truly see themselves as humanitarians and desire to solve problems for others. They are self-reliant and rarely ask for help from others, but constantly offer it.

You can be very reluctant to share your emotions and fear that the emotional ups and downs in life are a sign of weakness. Others may not realize how badly you are hurting as you are very good at masking your pain. You hate mistakes and perceive that they are the fault of others incompetence. You prefer to do everything yourself so that it is done the “right” way. Sometimes you feel very stressed by the heavy load of responsibility you carry. You will find that you need periods of intense physical activity followed by rest to release your stress. You crave nature especially water.

You probably love your routine, are very disciplined and very organized. Fires like their offices and homes to be neat and organized. Fires tend to get up and go to bed at the same time each day as well as eating meals in a routine fashion. Fires can be vain and are disciplined in their physical practices gravitating towards energy releasing activities such as running, hiking, biking and lifting weights.

Fires are good with money. When purchasing, a Fire will go for the big ticket item that is luxurious.

Fire minds tend to have very passionate and active dreams.

The following are some examples of situations that you may be prone to due to your Fire nature. Don’t worry that you are doomed to experience these. Living in a balanced state will allow you to manage these conditions:

Stress

Tension

Stomach upset

Heart attacks

Migraines

Acid reflux

Excessive sweating

Bad breathe and bad body odor

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