Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Vijnana, as talked about by Grasp Charaka, is among the essential instruments or therapies included underneath Sattvavajaya Chikitsa – Ayurveda Psychotherapy. Vijnana really means scientific or scriptural information. When utilized in Sattvavajaya Chikitsa, Vijnana software is used to instill scriptural, scientific or worldly information within the minds of people who find themselves embarking on the journey of discovering psychological solace or these affected by psychological / psychiatric diseases. So, Vijnana is a healing and preventive possibility in psychotherapy.
Definition of Vijnana
Vijnana is outlined as ‘Shastra Jnanam’ which suggests scriptural, scientific or textual information.
Texts and scriptures are thought of as essential testimonials and characterize ‘truth’. This data helps the individual to take his path in the direction of attaining true information, to grasp the thoughts, the character of imbalances and stress graph the thoughts is present process and to enhance his or her capabilities of coping up with the imbalances.
Scriptures educate one in regards to the paths of pravrutti i.e. indulgence or engagement in worldly affairs and Nivrutti i.e. renunciation which helps them in discriminating between good and unhealthy and adapt them into their lives after correct judgement. This additionally teaches the folks about the proper methods of responding and behaving in response to varied stimuli and triggers.
Vijnana, as a remedy, might be correlated with CBT i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Remedy. Vijnana helps in decreasing and destroying the rajas and tamas doshas of the thoughts and will increase the Sattvika attribute over a time frame and helps in eliminating psychological issues.
Completely different meanings of Vijnana
The time period Vijnana has totally different meanings. They’re –
– Profane information or understanding
– Discernment
– Judgment
– Consciousness
– Notion
– Comprehension
Vijnana as a remedy goals at enhancing the above mentioned entities associated to the thoughts.
Purpose and objective of Vijnana remedy
As already defined, Vijnana remedy goals at instilling consciousness of scientific and scriptural information within the thoughts of the individual and places him in a pathway whereby he would usually follow what she or he has gained from this data.
With enhanced vijnana one would acquire management over the thoughts, the doshas of the thoughts i.e. rajas and tamas, expertise enhancement of sattvika guna, would avoid the prajnaparadha – committing aware errors and sins or mental blasphemy and eliminate psychological issues.
Scriptural Information allows an individual to assume in a sensible and scientific means. It’s a type of complete worldly information procured from the experiences of smart males and sages documented within the scriptures.
Vijnana varieties an essential department of Sattvavajaya Chikitsa, identical to Jnana. Dhairya, Smriti and Samadhi are the opposite three therapies. Jnana means non secular information. It differs from Vijnana. Vijnana is extra scientific and refers to Laukika Jnana. Laukika Jnana means worldly information.
This contains the information of –
– science
– artwork of dwelling and mixing with the earthly world
– texts and scriptures
– actions of physique and thoughts
– interrelationship of physique and thoughts
– social conducts
– private conducts
– guidelines of weight-reduction plan and way of life
– what to keep away from and what not whereas affected by some ailments
– bodily and organic occasions and plenty of extra issues which falls underneath the umbrella and purview of scientific, scriptural and worldly information
Although not all at a time, the information of those elements are slowly launched to the affected person in order that he learns them comprehensively and begins admiring and accepting them. This may assist in clarifying his doubts about worldly issues and would offer deeper insights into his issues. This might assist in erasing his or her apprehensions and would additionally calm the thoughts.
Vijnana thus refers to particular and expert information which relies on the details about the worldly phenomenon and the best way the world works and worldly affairs happen obtained in a scientific means. Promotion of this worldly information and inserting the parts of the identical within the affected person’s psyche is part of sattvavajaya chikitsa.
It contains improvement and makes use of of behavioral methods for treating psychiatric and in addition psychosomatic ailments. The jnana might be reworked right into a vijnana. This occurs when the previous will get processed and passes the standards of scientific rules which incorporates –
– formation of speculation
– evaluation of details
– repeated and reproducible commentary
– and all these put into sensible utilization
Accepted jnana known as vijnana. Thus, vijnana contains systematic understanding of the world / nature and the actions, which incorporates dwelling and non-living worlds and in addition the worlds inside and outdoors us. A lot of the understanding of worldly affairs relies on a correct understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship between the issues as seen and perceived by our senses and thoughts.
Vijnana thus varieties a deeper understanding of nature and its phenomenon. It means to say that if we totally perceive the qualities and properties of something we will comprehensively use them in order to meet our wants.
From well being perspective
One ought to know the way one’s physique works. One also needs to know the way the thoughts works. Later he ought to attempt to perceive how the physique and thoughts work together with one another. If one comes to grasp how the skin world interacts with one’s physique, she or he may perceive what measures needs to be taken in order to rectify and proper any downside which has taken its origin on account of defective interplay between them.
She or he additionally will get a clue about how one can forestall these issues and miseries in future. When one understands these mechanisms, he would discover methods to maintain the thoughts comfortable, settled and calm in true sense.
Vijnana can be a thoughts phenomenon whereby we try to grasp many issues of their proper sense, to grasp pure phenomena in a scientific means. By realizing this we will sync and mix with the character and the world round us and be comfortable.
Vijnana mainly trains one to understand, perceive, course of, modify, save, re-design and execute the knowledge and information gained from the identical. This may give readability in the direction of the actions to be taken on the premise of this data.
With exact information comes exact understanding, which is the premise of exact and significant actions in sync with the perceived information. With such a scientific and scriptural information and the readability of plans of motion, an individual won’t are inclined to do prajnaparadha i.e. obsessive purposeful errors or sins. Since this data enhances sattva high quality, rajas and tamas – that are the doshas of the thoughts, can be underneath management and steadiness and so do dhi, Dhriti and smriti parts.
In a wholesome individual, vijnana will assist in nurturing the already persisting information and improve the knowledge and can forestall diversions, imbalances and perversions in rajas or tamas, dhi, Dhriti or smriti. Therefore the psychological steadiness and well being will keep intact. Then again, in an individual with diseased or disturbed thoughts, vijnana, when instilled regularly, will assist to deflect these imbalances in the direction of the optimistic facet, heal the thoughts, develop and enhance comprehension and to eliminate psychological issues.
So, vijnana as a remedy, is each preventive and healing in motion.
Vijnana v/s social expertise coaching
Correctly introducing the affected person or his psyche to the outer world and its affairs and actions, the phenomenon included therein does embrace social expertise coaching. ‘Social skills training’ suits into sattvavajaya chikitsa and is broadly used for a lot of neurotic circumstances together with melancholy.
Deficits in social expertise
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Inadequate reinforcement
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Disturbed habits / behavioral deficits
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May be corrected by social expertise coaching
Biofeedback – It’s a technique wherein an digital (often) instrument is used to offer suggestions to the affected person relating to his or her physiological actions which aren’t usually out there to at least one’s aware thoughts. Examples embrace –
– EKC
– BEG
– Pulse price
– Blood strain monitoring
– EMG
– GSR and many others
This suggestions helps the affected person to regulate these responses. By this technique leisure is well achieved.
Different elements which assist in instilling and nurturing the vijnana
Understanding the beneath talked about ideas defined within the scriptures and the scientific base of their rationalization and usually adapting them in a single’s life, as a matter of follow, will assist in complete prevention and treatment of psychological issues. Although not talked about, they will grow to be essential sport altering members of Ayurveda psychotherapy i.e. Sattvavajaya Chikitsa. They’re –
– Sadvritta – conditioning oneself to mix with and be a component and parcel of society wherein she or he lives
– Sadachara – indulgence in noble conducts
– Achara Rasayana – adapting behavioral remedy and fine-toning one’s habits
– Dinacharya and Rutucharya – practising and adapting to every day routine and seasonal routine and transitions as defined in scriptures
– Mastering the vegas – mastering to deal with the expressions of pure physique and thoughts expressions / urges
– Mastering the arishadvargas – to overcome, management and empower the irregular psychological expressions and high-end feelings – the six enemies of the thoughts i.e. kama – need or lust, krodha – anger, lobha – greed, mada – ego, moha – attachment and matsarya – jealousy.
