answer it one time for your ideal state ~ the way you enjoy life most...

answer a second time based on how things have been letely.

Results from the first one will be close to the way you were born (prakruti), results from the second will be how the energy has gotten discombobulated since then (vikruti).

www.chopra.com/doshatest.asp

Remember "dosha" actually refers to the way energy moves through the body and the descriptions are as close as it can come to describing how that manifests.

In Ayurveda we really are what we eat. Maya Tiwari has a wonderful book ~ Ayurveda: A Life of Balance ~ which gives some great guidelines on foods based on predominant dosha and how to calm them as well as lots of recipies (Amadea Morningstar also has a couple of cookbooks).

I don' t want to upset anyone by sharing this poem. I just wanted to share it.


Why Me ( a cows untold story/poem)

Remembering my youth
Your hand would gently feed me
Giving sweet green clover
Grazing on the plain so free

Talking of my beauty
"You're the apple of my eye"
Rumbling with pleasure at
Gentle strokes around my thigh

Getting a bit older
Pampering continued more
Changing the feed given
Reminds me of kin done for

Sunning out in the field
All content in middle age
Being led to a warehouse
Dragged without cause to a cage

Not liking my new place
With legs cramped as they can be
Staring blank at a wall
The moldy wood all I see

Looking to right and left
Noting loving family
Crying soft to myself
Did I wrong unknowingly?

Where did I go astray
Unconditional my love
Will this be my new home?
Maybe punished from above?

I thought reprisal came
Shuffling in my stall today
I listen closely but
don't hear the words, "It's okay"

Leading me down the lane
To a room so red and slick
You tie me to a post
The stench unbearably thick

You stared me in the eye
Licked your lips around a smile
Sharpening your curved knife
With sparks flying from the file

Stepping closer to me
You grab my head from above
Struggling to escape
But held firmly by your glove

A lifetime of pure joy
Fulfilling as it could be
Is this my life's purpose?
If so, then I ask, "Why me?"

YAY!

if i remember correctly(i haven't looked in a while) but mine says to eat red meat- and that's just not going to happen

The best diagnosis comes from someone trained in ayurveda...

one way to know for sure is to eat according to your dosha...

if you're on the mark it feels great!