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Fire
Up Pitta
How to Fire Up Pitta
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Pack too much into your daily schedule.
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Play highly competitive sports and vow
to always win at all costs.
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Eat highly spiced, hot and oily foods,
include lots of garlic, chili, tomatoes and salt especially
in the summer.
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Drink lots of alcohol.
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Be critical of yourself and others.
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Eat lots of meat, especially beef and
pork.
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Deny your heart.
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Get too busy and skip your meals.
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Live in a hot, humid climate such as Texas;
avoid cool, soothing relaxing environments.
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Get involved with an argument at least
once a day.
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Surround yourself with over-stimulating
people, activities and colors.
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Don’t be grateful for the good in life.
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Try to control everything.
How
to Soothe and Cool Pitta
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Learn forgiveness, for yourself and others.
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Keep cool, especially in summer, and at
noon.
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Emphasize sweet, bitter and astringent
tastes in foods and herbs.
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Take a moment to be grateful for the good
things in life, at least once per day.
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Be good to your liver.
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Cilantro is your friend, so is aloe and
peppermint tea.
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Surround yourself with cool, soothing
colors such as blues, greens and pastels, and green
plants in your environment.
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Enjoy soothing, calming music, and scents
such as sandalwood, rose and lotus.
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Meditate daily, in the moonlight if you
can, with a drop of sandalwood on the third eye.
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Practice pranayama - cooling lunar breath.
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Choose relaxing, non-competitive activities
such as swimming, yoga, walks in nature.
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Turn off the news, violent tv shows, leave
work at the office at the end of the day.
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Follow your heart!
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