A Book Review on "Quantum Healing - Exploring the Frontiers of Mind-Body Medicine" by Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is a well-renowned medical doctorprimordial sound are implored to initiate healing.
trained both in India and the U.S. Currently inMeditation brings awareness of thought patterns
endocrinology, he was also the former chief ofwhile primordial sound uses one vibration to heal
staff of New England Memorial Hospital inanother. Usually Om, pronounced AUM, is the
Stoneham, Massachusetts and the foundingvibration or sound used to represent the collective
president of the American Association ofvibration or sound of all living things and is a way
Ayurvedic Medicine. His insights on both Westernto connect to your true undistorted self.
and Eastern medicine give him a more completeAyurveda differs from Western Medicine in that it
and well-rounded understanding on the origin ofbelieves the war (disease) begins inside the body.
disease.Louis Pasteur's germ theory, the cornerstone of
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, thoughtWestern Medicine, believes the war (disease)
nature cured disease and although modernbegins outside the body. However, if even Louis
medicine is necessary for emergency purposes, itPasteur himself admitted that his controversial
has recently taken a 90° turn away fromtheory was wrong on his death bed. Don't you
Hippocrates original vision. The turn has beenthink its time for us to give up his theory?
toward drugs and surgery, but many of today'sLove and compassion are our highest qualities and
modern diseases can be prevented within this state, we cannot contradict ourselves. True
maintaining a healthy mind and body. Theselove and compassion for ourselves and all other
solutions lack long-term sustainability and lack thebeings enables us to live in accordance with
intelligence of the body. Understanding thisnature. One way we manifest love and
requires a different approach called "quantumcompassion for all is with what we eat. We can
healing". Deepak Chopra describes quantum healingeat in support of nature and ourselves, but the
as "the ability of one mode of consciousness (theultimate gatekeeper of health is the mind.
mind) to spontaneously correct the mistakes ofCarcinogens, stress, chemicals, fatty and
another consciousness (the body)."processed or sugary foods, and diets high in
The Quantum perspective began with Einstein,animal protein can all induce cancer, but ultimately
who found that nature was not always predictablethe body can restore itself. In the medical field,
and expanded upon Newton's straight-line physics.spontaneous healings are rare and not
Planck discovered the measurable nature ofwell-understood. Such unpredictable recoveries
energy, which transforms non-matter into matter,occur at the quantum level & are beyond what
time into space and mass into energy. Later Irishmodern science can measure or record, they are
physicist, John Bell, and English astronomer, Sirformless.
Arthur Eddington, both believed in a connectionThe wisdom of the ancient Rishis of India was
between our thoughts and the universe. Anrecorded in the ancient Vedic texts & predated
invisible force turns thought (non-material) intothe Egyptian pyramids by thousands of years.
form (material). We know neurotransmittersThese texts revealed many of the concept found
perfectly match up the mind with the body andin quantum healing and Ayurveda. The Rishis
DNA builds RNA, a mirror-image copy of DNA,discussed three subjective states of
which carries out tasks in the body. From theconsciousness: waking, sleeping and dreaming and
quantum perspective, as we think and feel, wea fourth, non-subjective state attained only during
create chemical changes in the brain that set-offmeditation or prayer. This fourth state is known
a chain reaction of bodily responses. Both goodas our most natural state and from here we can
and bad thoughts alter the field of intelligence anddestroy our illusions and rest in our own true
thus the body for better or for worse. In thisnature. The Rishis also believed that all beings
way, our stream of consciousness is the freewere not restricted by time and space, but were
circulation of intelligence between the mind andinfinite. So think and feel from the heart not with
body.the head, think good thoughts and feel good. Act
Ayurveda is a medical perspective wherebyin accordance with nature and nature will always
symptoms are controlled by attention. Inprovide for you in many ways. "In the deeper
Ayurveda, every part of the body correlates toreality beyond space and time, we may be all
certain herbs, colors, minerals and even sounds.members of one body.
The use of meditation and techniques such as