**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The classic guide to using Ayurveda to harness
the healing power of the mind--now revised with updated medical
research.
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Translated as "the knowledge of life span" in Sanskrit, Ayurveda is the
5,000-year-old medical system from ancient India that has been validated
by modern breakthroughs in physics and medicine. Deepak Chopra's
Perfect Health is the original guide to applying the ancient wisdom of
Ayurveda to everyday life.
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.
