Will you take the red, or blue pill?

Ok so let’s say that western medicine is the blue pill and Ayurveda is the red pill.​​

Ayurveda can be described like Morpheus said in The Matrix, “going down the rabbit hole”.

It’s the hidden truth and to be honest how boring would The Matrix be if Neo took the blue pill. So come on, let’s take the red pill weeEEeeEe!

Now look, western medicine certainly has its place within society. If we didn’t have the wonders of medicine half of us would be dead.

And while we’re being honest, I might add that in the past, when I’ve experienced excruciating back pain, you’re damn right I made good friends with Ibuprofen. It helped, I’m not a hero.

Ayurveda doesn’t judge. It embraces all health care disciplines and modern medicines as it understands that each person is an individual case, with an individual treatment plan. Ayurveda simply wants the best outcome for every person, long term.

But, flick over the blue pill coin in western medicine for a minute, and there is an insincere side to it.  Where prescriptions benefit the symptom solely and not the cause, draping a blanket over the eyes of the disease.

You get a headache, you take a pill. You get high blood pressure you take a pill. However it’s not fixing the root problem and before too long the symptom is back with vengeance.

The question that needs to be raised here is Why? Why did the person get high blood pressure?

Where did it manifest in the body, what system is overworked, or underworked? Basically what isn’t working properly in the human system that has lead to the symptom of high blood pressure appearing in the first place.

In Ayurveda they connect all the dots. What’s going on in your mind is affecting your body and vice versa.  We are complex beings and deserve complex diagnosis to figure out what’s really going wrong with us.

Ayurveda works from the mindset that we as human beings are made up of all the same chemical compounds that surrounds us; trees, ocean, plants and animals. Atoms.

So it should come as no surprise that like a migrating flock of birds, our bodies too want to naturally flow with the seasons, by eating the right foods for your dosha, finding routines that settle and calm the mind and above all staying balanced.  

When we go against our natural currents and become disconnected from listening to our bodies, we forget to seek out the clarity of mind instead turning to numbing and pressing ‘pause’ on the mind, which in turn avoids our natural rhythms of correcting our natural balance of homeostasis.

One example of how the mind can play a part in manifestation of disease, is stress. Oh yes, that little chestnut.

Emotional turmoil can trigger all kinds of imbalances in the body, and once your mind is overrun and out of control, give it a couple of years of frantic misguided mindsets and suppressed emotions, stress or anxiety attacks, and voila the body is riddled with imbalances that start knocking over all our systems, such as nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, reproductive, you name it.

We are such complex beings, it’s hard to whip up and explain to you in a neat little article just how meticulous Ayurveda is in dissecting the root problem of someone’s condition or disease, because it becomes such a personal journey of self discovery once you decide to heal yourself through using Ayurvedic principles.

And that’s why this analogy of The Matrix and Ayurveda works. So go on, become like Neo, venture down the rabbit hole and start unravelling the code that has made you the way you are today.

In the words of Morpheus “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it“.

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