Vata-Pitta Health Rx — Calm Your Cortisol Loop and Nervous System

Week of October 26th: For Vata–Pitta types, your nervous system runs too fast and too hot. You wake up with racing thoughts that quickly turn into irritability, your mind won't stop spinning but you also feel heat building underneath. This agitation shows up most in your Mind & Mood—overthinking everything, snapping at people, unable to calm down.In this week's Vata–Pitta Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi go deeper into the Cooling Sheetali Breath practice from Week 1—teaching you the nuances that make it even more powerful at calming your agitated nervous system.This week, practice Cooling Sheetali Breath for 3-5 minutes WITH your morning light—inhaling slowly through a curled tongue (or pursed lips), pausing, then exhaling through your nose—because cooling and slowing your overheated, racing system is what finally calms both the anxiety and the irritability and protects your Mind & Mood.Listen now to learn:Why Vata–Pitta's nervous system runs too fast and too hot—and how this creates the anxious-then-irritable pattern you experienceHow to refine your Cooling Sheetali Breath practice so it actually calms your agitated cortisol loopThe common mistakes that keep Vata–Pitta types stuck in morning agitationWhy this practice WITH light changes everything for your Mind & MoodYour Turn: Try the refined Cooling Sheetali Breath practice this week and notice—do your racing thoughts slow down? Is your body cooler? Tag @myarvasi on Instagram and share what shifted.