| Deepak Chopra is a well-renowned medical doctor | | | | primordial sound are implored to initiate healing. |
| trained both in India and the U.S. Currently in | | | | Meditation brings awareness of thought patterns |
| endocrinology, he was also the former chief of | | | | while primordial sound uses one vibration to heal |
| staff of New England Memorial Hospital in | | | | another. Usually Om, pronounced AUM, is the |
| Stoneham, Massachusetts and the founding | | | | vibration or sound used to represent the collective |
| president of the American Association of | | | | vibration or sound of all living things and is a way |
| Ayurvedic Medicine. His insights on both Western | | | | to connect to your true undistorted self. |
| and Eastern medicine give him a more complete | | | | Ayurveda differs from Western Medicine in that it |
| and well-rounded understanding on the origin of | | | | believes the war (disease) begins inside the body. |
| disease. | | | | Louis Pasteur's germ theory, the cornerstone of |
| Hippocrates, the father of medicine, thought | | | | Western Medicine, believes the war (disease) |
| nature cured disease and although modern | | | | begins outside the body. However, if even Louis |
| medicine is necessary for emergency purposes, it | | | | Pasteur himself admitted that his controversial |
| has recently taken a 90° turn away from | | | | theory was wrong on his death bed. Don't you |
| Hippocrates original vision. The turn has been | | | | think its time for us to give up his theory? |
| toward drugs and surgery, but many of today's | | | | Love and compassion are our highest qualities and |
| modern diseases can be prevented with | | | | in this state, we cannot contradict ourselves. True |
| maintaining a healthy mind and body. These | | | | love and compassion for ourselves and all other |
| solutions lack long-term sustainability and lack the | | | | beings enables us to live in accordance with |
| intelligence of the body. Understanding this | | | | nature. One way we manifest love and |
| requires a different approach called "quantum | | | | compassion for all is with what we eat. We can |
| healing". Deepak Chopra describes quantum healing | | | | eat in support of nature and ourselves, but the |
| as "the ability of one mode of consciousness (the | | | | ultimate gatekeeper of health is the mind. |
| mind) to spontaneously correct the mistakes of | | | | Carcinogens, 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 predictable | | | | the 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 of | | | | well-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 Irish | | | | modern science can measure or record, they are |
| physicist, John Bell, and English astronomer, Sir | | | | formless. |
| Arthur Eddington, both believed in a connection | | | | The wisdom of the ancient Rishis of India was |
| between our thoughts and the universe. An | | | | recorded in the ancient Vedic texts & predated |
| invisible force turns thought (non-material) into | | | | the Egyptian pyramids by thousands of years. |
| form (material). We know neurotransmitters | | | | These texts revealed many of the concept found |
| perfectly match up the mind with the body and | | | | in 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 the | | | | consciousness: waking, sleeping and dreaming and |
| quantum perspective, as we think and feel, we | | | | a fourth, non-subjective state attained only during |
| create chemical changes in the brain that set-off | | | | meditation or prayer. This fourth state is known |
| a chain reaction of bodily responses. Both good | | | | as our most natural state and from here we can |
| and bad thoughts alter the field of intelligence and | | | | destroy our illusions and rest in our own true |
| thus the body for better or for worse. In this | | | | nature. The Rishis also believed that all beings |
| way, our stream of consciousness is the free | | | | were not restricted by time and space, but were |
| circulation of intelligence between the mind and | | | | infinite. So think and feel from the heart not with |
| body. | | | | the head, think good thoughts and feel good. Act |
| Ayurveda is a medical perspective whereby | | | | in accordance with nature and nature will always |
| symptoms are controlled by attention. In | | | | provide for you in many ways. "In the deeper |
| Ayurveda, every part of the body correlates to | | | | reality 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 | | | | |