Pitta Dosha Imbalance

Ayurveda looks at our mind and our body as being mixed with a combination of three dosha’s, vata, pitta, and kapha. Each one of us has our own combination in our body and mind that helps to make us the unique person that we are. It is when one of these dosha’s rise above our natural being that imbalance and illness start to happen. Pitta is based on all the transformation that is constantly going on in our body and mind. Pitta is the fire of transformation. We breathe oxygen in and it moves through our blood stream using the vata (movement) in our system, but when the oxygen becomes part of a skin cell, or a kidney it has transformed into something different then it was, that is the pitta working in us. When my daughter Lily was born I could fit her whole head and body in my hand and forearm, but now it might be more like her head and neck might fit in the same spot. Right before my eyes she uses the fire of transformation and is constantly amazing me.
If a person can not balance the pitta in their mind and/or body might find health problems like indigestion, arthritis inflammation, skin rashes, even cancer.An out of balance pitta mind might get angry and irritated easy, and look at problems in a way where others are doing things wrong and that is what is causing the problem. A person who already has a lot of pitta in their make up needs to pay attention to this the most of all. If someone is a good leader or good at taking charge of situations finds that they need to be involved and have a say in most things going on around them all the time is setting themselves up for the powerful heat that pitta will put in our bodies. A pitta type person needs to learn to balance life out by finding activities that are free of any expectations or judgments, things that might seem cooling like a walk in the woods, yoga class, and most important I believe is meditation twice a day. If a pitta person is always creating that change and leadership without the balance of letting it go they will find out too late that they have to chill out as the saying goes.