Based on your results, we recommend that you focus on balancing pitta through lifestyle practices, dietary choices, and herbal support.
Lifestyle Recommendations
Pitta can be rather intense, and very much likes to be in control, so adapting your lifestyle to balance these tendencies can be truly transformative. Favor experiences that are mentally and physically cooling, soothing, sweet, nourishing, and stabilizing to the mind and body. Here are a few ideas:
Embrace Relaxed Effort by showing a willingness to slow down, make mistakes, and truly enjoy yourself. Invite this energy into any aspect of your life that needs it—work, exercise, relationships, and so forth.
Follow a Pitta-Pacifying Daily Routine with choices like balancing work with play, creating consistency, and retiring before 10 p.m.
Practice Pranayama, which can have a profoundly calming effect on the entire system. Just ten to fifteen minutes of simple yogic breathing exercises each day can be life-changing. Sheetali and Nadi Shodhana are especially good for balancing pitta.
Diet Recommendations
Favor a diet of fresh, whole foods (both cooked and raw) that are cooling, hearty, nourishing, and comparatively dry. This helps to decrease internal heat, prevent inflammation, balance the digestive fire, ground the body, and absorb excess liquid and oil. Pitta does not generally view eating as an especially “productive” activity, so you can also balance pitta by consciously slowing down, and giving your full attention to each meal. Here are some additional tips:
Favor Pitta-Pacifying Tastes. To balance pitta, choose foods that are:
Sheetali Pranayama, also known as Cooling Breath, is a breathing practice that very effectively cools the body, the mind, and the emotions. Sheetali comes from the Sanskrit root sheet, which means ‘cold’ or ‘frigid’. Sheetal translates roughly as ‘that which is calm, passionless, and soothing’.
Alternate Nostril Breathing, also known as Nadi Shodhana, is a powerful breathing practice with wide-reaching benefits. Get easy-to-follow instructions here.