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Renew Your Body
Adapted from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2007).
Every intention is a trigger for transformation. As soon as you decide that you want something, your nervous system responds to reach your desired goal. This holds true for simple intentions, such as the intention to get up and get a glass of water, as well as for complex intentions, such as winning a game of tennis. In either case, the conscious mind doesn’t have to direct every neuronal signal and muscle movement to achieve its goal. The intention is inserted into the field of awareness, triggering the appropriate response.
Sit comfortably or lie down with your eyes closed. Pay attention for a moment to your breathing, easily following the rise and fall of your chest, feeling the air as it passes in and out of your nostrils. When you are relaxed, conjure up in your mind’s eye one of the most wonderful moments from your childhood. It should be a vivid scene of joy, and preferably you should be the center of some activity.
Details are important; for that reason, intensely physical experiences are the easiest to use. Feel the air and sunlight on your skin; sense whether you were hot or cold. Observe colors, textures, faces. Name the locale and the people in your scene. Notice how everyone was dressed and acted. But most important, recapture the feeling of your body as you rose up to blend into and become that moment. The old channels are never closed, they are only unused. Therefore, by changing the context of your inner experience, you can go back in time using the biochemistry of memory as your vehicle.
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add your comment »To Vik Bagai...Thank you for your return sweet message! Your writings are amazing and clearly communicate effectively to help and advance us all! Thank you........Carol
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good stuff
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My copy of "Ageless Body, Timeless Mind is almost worn out. Thank you Dr. Chopra.
When I feel stress grabbing my neck and shoulders I go into my qiet place' plug in a tape of the slow ocean and am quickly carried away to the shore. The sounds of the sea, the taste of the salt air, the scent of suntan lotion are very vivid and I become calm innediately. A friend told me the sounds of the sea mimic the sounds a fetus hears in the womb....the placental swish. That's a beautiful, comforting thought for me.
I also fall asleep at night to the sounds of the sea.
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I loved reading Vik Bagai's story and the useage of words....Golf with Deepak"....Let it be known....I too, was sitting on that lovely grass enjoying your game!!
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I have never figured the horrific past people who cannot seem to find even a moment. It seems that one holds on to the bad instead of sifting the wheat from the chaff. I believe the reason for the sad moments is to train the brain not only to sift in the future but also to only embrace that special state of mind that Deepak is talking about and to create that. Also I have noted that looking at the past from the reference and environment of today will always seem to be a nightmare. Not remembering that your self and your conscience have grown expansively one tends to be trapped in a plethoric quagmire swampland never to leave and always souled with the aroma of sinking. This is much like viewing a black and white persepctive from in a Panvasion multicolor world. The great beauty of sports and hobbies and handicrafts specially my favorite that is golf is where I use the calm peaceful serenity of this exercise by Deepak. Every swing takes me to that moment in time when the grass was green and the golf ball was shining in the sun, and the wind was breezy and the sky was bluey, and my perfectly timed shot that matched my breathing and awakened senses sailed through the sky and landed perfectly like a feather on that immaculately manicured green to mirror a single white puffy cloud sitting perched in the glorious blue endless eternal bliss. "I have to name this response golf with Deepak Chopra".....golfersaurus
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I like to think about my adult experiences acting like a child. Like rolling in the sand at the beach and listening to the ocean waves and feeling the warm sun on my skin. Also the sensual massage from my fiance before we get intimate. This is not often since I live in the south and he lives in Canada. Oh how that relaxes my soul to the most intimate part of my being.
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I think all things need to be remembered, always. This is who we are, good and bad...
I love this exercise, and use it often.
My fav memory is of finding old newspaper clipping inside the damp walls of a miner's shack built into the Rocky Mountains a freind and I fond while exploring...
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I agree with Mata Tomata, some channels do need to be closed especially, when one does not seem to remember anything pleasant from child hood.
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This technique I used when I was interning in mental health. It was so helpful to everyone that used it. I find it still refreshes me all the time. Thank you for reminding me how wonderful these exercises can be.
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This technique I used when I was interning in mental health. It was so helpful to everyone that used it. I find it still refreshes me all the time. Thank you for reminding me how wonderful these exercises can be.
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