Title : Mind, dosha, and the modern epidemic: An Ayurvedic framework for stress management and mental wellbeing in contemporary practice
Abstract:
With global screen time averaging 6 hours 37 minutes daily and 58% of workers reporting digital burnout, technostress has become one of the defining health crises of our time-yet conventional stress management offers no constitutional framework for understanding why the same digital overload manifests as anxiety in one patient, inflammatory burnout in another, and emotional withdrawal in a third. This presentation argues that technostress is, in Ayurvedic terms, a systematized aggravation of vata dosha, and that each feature of the modern digital environment maps precisely onto the vata-disrupting inputs described in classical texts including the charaka samhita. Drawing on 15 years of clinical practice and peer-reviewed evidence across stress physiology, chronobiology, and gut-brain axis research, Harpinder Kaur presents a tridoshic differentiation framework-identifying distinct vata, pitia, and kapha technostress profiles-alongside a validated 90-second practitioner assessment tool and the digital sunset protocol, a dosha-specific evening reset intervention supported by published
RCT data on cortisol reduction, HRV improvement, and sleep quality. Attendees will leave with an immediately applicable clinical framework and a one-page patient protocol grounded in both ancient wisdom and modern science.
