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Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
Paperback
A decade ago, Deepak Chopra, M.D., wrote Perfect Health, the
first practical guide to harnessing the healing power of the mind, which became
a national bestseller. The book described how breakthroughs in physics and
medicine were underscoring the validity of a 5,000-year-old medical system from
ancient India known as Ayurveda ("the knowledge of life span" in Sanskrit).
Perfect Health went on to describe how to apply the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda
to everyday life. In celebration of this classic work we have created this new
edition, revised and updated to include the latest medical research.
Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires
that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings
every five days, for instance. Our skin is new every five weeks. Each year,
fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced.
Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are
being created anew each day. Ayurveda tells us that freedom from sickness
depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then
extending that balance to the body.
Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine
tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader's mind body type:
thin, restless Vata; enterprising, efficient Pitta; tranquil, steady Kapha; or
any combination of these three. This body type becomes the basis for a specific
Ayurvedic program of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration,
exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each
individual, to reestablish the body's essential balance with nature; to
strengthen the mind body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to
transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging--in short, for achieving
Perfect Health.