"LONELINESS", every one has experienced it!
Some befriend it and some fight it, but no one has escaped it. Let me talk about it here this time with some hypothetical situations and then the medical side of it when it comes to Ayurveda and may be some juxtaposition of modern science.
Let us first identify what is loneliness? It is a peculiar state when an individual can find himself isolated without a company, even if he is a part of a crowd. It is a state of mind in which a person goes into a withdrawal and hallucinates being in a state where he enjoys his imaginations which can be dreamy to feel happy, and, or inflict upon self damaging physical and mental well being of self.
That sounded suicidal in either frames, and how many of us did realize we enter into this self infliction mode more often than not.
Sometimes loneliness comes to you because of accidents because you lose someone in life early or late. This someone is in a way emotional dependence and the world around moves on, but the individual ends up stagnating.
Sometimes it is a dream and goal under achieved which leaves the individual with the same feeling.
Why is it dangerous?
This is dangerous because it allows you to create multiple worlds around, with shifting adaptation to achieve consolation and a masochist happiness which is least realized coming to one with severe damages to mental health leading to physical health.
How does it hurt health ?
This is a long discussion beyond the scope of this article. I would attempt touching a few dots on the outside.
When a person enters loneliness and creates those artificial worlds around self, the person hallucinates happiness and in doing so he attempts to achieve Satva is how Ayurvedic mental health physiology would define loneliness.
The state of loneliness comes with an over drawn Tamas.
Let me try to simplify Satva, Rajas and Tamas which form three pillars of mental health, and have often been misguided by sages in Indian philosophy and mythology.
Satva is a state assumed to be of purity which in its most simplistic state, can be identified by a behavior where the individual does not apparently seek options to things and is seemingly in a familial world without any conflict of desire. This is perhaps a state in influence of Serotonin.
Rajas is a state where the influence of Adrenalin is a direct relation as the behavioral dynamics reflects in all three actions of fear, fight and flight.
Tamas is a peculiar state because here the influence is complex and draws an individual to a mized behavioral influence with probably coexisting expressions of adrenalin and acetylcholine, adrenalin, acetylcholine and dopamine, adrenalin, serotonin and dopamine, serotonin and dopamine, and other possibilites. Each of these combinations is capable of producing a different sense of isolation and allow hallucination. These can be of 7 kinds from being most passive forms to boisterously ambitious and violent expressions.
Both these extremes are when a person may be into depression and may be self inflicting or socially violent to the extreme of being schizophrenic.
The in-between states need medical attention more often than not which is not addressed. We should be talking about these, because this is when it becomes important and noticeable that a person walks into drug addiction, asocial or antisocial behavior and all depends on his surroundings, and how they respec his existence.
Often the negligent attitude leads to creation of loneliness. Negligence is itself rajas induced tamas environment and is a classic example of what Ayurveda says prakruti (constituent dosha's of the prakruti) add on to the individuals (age related natural doshic constitution and assumes a reflection of altered satva, rajas and tamas constitution arthmetically) which leads to altered behavior. According to Ayurvedic models spanning assumed age of 120 years the doshic influence moves along a scale of Satva - Satva Rajas - Rajas - Rajo Tamas - Tamas (0 to 120 years). An alteration to these natural states influenced by the factors as above only prepones Tamas.
This influences balance of Kapha - Kapha Pittaja - Pittaja - Pitta Vataja - Vataj and together reflects as numerous metabolic upheavals across the spectrum and thus reflect as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and anything that is a part of a lifystyle.
As a lifestyle architect I have been fortunately exposed to these altered states and find loneliness to be a major influence on human behavior and human health.
You must be seeking a solution too here?
If i read my reader right, it is a natural expectation, but sadly the solution is in deciphering the complex permutation and combination of Vata-Pitta-Kapha-Satva-Rajas-Tamas which is prakruti analysis and then mapping and juxtaposing it against a natural normal which is evaluated against a constant of age to the least, and thereafter evaluating the gap between the two.
This is where and what Ayurveda attempts to achieve in all its treatment models. Which is why a prakruti analysis leads to an appropriate minimal medication and appropriate lifestyle modulation to achieve appropriate solutions. Hence the solution lies in prakruti analysis and loneliness finds a solution in appropriate behavioral modulation and moderation, so as to achieve perfect mental health.
This is prakruti analysis, an art which needs to grow beyond nadi pariksha and various models of texts into a statistical form which is relatable..
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