Discover Your Body Type
Discover Your Body Type
Body-type test (air, fire, and water)
Your constitutional body type by performing a simple test to discover the balance of air, fire, and water. Answer the questions below, and for each positive answer, mark with scores as follows:
Never, in the range 1 – 2
Occasionally, 3 – 4
Always, 5 – 6.
Total up the scores to determine body type.
- Air type: Vata
- Preference for less sleep ___
- Skin tends to dry ___
- Cold hands and feet ___
- Walks, think and speak quickly ___
- Very active mind with lots of ideas ___
- Impatient ___
- Grinds the teeth during sleep ___
- Easily worried ___
- Not easy to put on weight ___
- Performs activities quickly ___
- Easily excited ___
- Speaks at improper times ___
- Dislikes cold and cold food ___
- Easily changes mood ___
- New ideas and quick learner ___
- Hard to make decisions ___
- Poor appetite for food ___
Air body-type total score: ___
- Fire type: Pitta
- Perspires a lot (sweats easily) ___
- Likes sour and cold food ___
- Compulsive eater ___
- Quickly pleased and irritated ___
- Often angry but without showing it ___
- Premature white hair ___
- Gives to charity ___
- Interrupts others’ speech ___
- Tendency towards body odour and easily tired in hot weather ___
- Good appetite; eats lots of food ___
- Rosy colour lips and cheek ___
- Enjoys a challenge ___
- Very direct and to the point ___
- Prone to loose stomach ___
- Uneasy about missing food ___
- Highly critical of others ___
- Dislike of spicy food ___
- Perfectionism ___
- Intelligent and stubborn ___
Fire body-type total score: ____
- Water type: Kapha
- Acts slowly ___
- Very patient ___
- Very calm ___
- Likes sweets ___
- Hypersensitive to criticism ___
- Sleeps soundly ___
- Good memory ___
- Dark hair ___
- Dislikes cold and damp weather ___
- Good at handling money ___
- Very forgiving ___
- Tendency toward inflammation of eyelids ___
- Very secretive ___
- Eats slowly ___
- Skips meal without discomfort ___
- Tendencies to put on fat and weight ___
- Tendency to over-sleep ___
- Soft skin ___
- Tendency towards excess mucus and sinus ___
Water body-type total score: ____
- Add up the three scores, and the category with the highest score determines your constitutional type. [E.g., Fire 80; Air 61; Water 29 = Fire dominant]
According to Ayurvedic medicine, Air type is known as Vata. Fire type known as Pitta and water type known as khapa
- After knowing your type, select foods and make lifestyle helps you achieve the right balance for health, peace, and harmony. Create order in health and preserve life.
- A strong imbalance leaves you prone to disorder; for example, excess water means being prone to cold; excess Air means being prone to hyperactivity, and excess Fire means being prone to inflammation.
Advice on your body type action plan, diet plan, meditation, and yoga exercises
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