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Your Source of Health
Adapted from The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2007).
The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness.
One of the greatest limitations of the old paradigm was the assumption that a person’s awareness doesn’t play a role in explaining what is happening in his body. Yet healing cannot be understood unless the person’s beliefs, assumptions, expectations and self-image are also understood.
Although the image of the body as a mindless machine continues to dominate mainstream Western medicine, there is unquestionable evidence to the contrary. Death rates from cancer and heart disease are provably higher among people in psychological distress, and lower among people who have a strong sense of purpose and well-being.
What the new paradigm reaches us is that emotions are not fleeting events isolated in mental space; they are expressions of awareness, the fundamental stuff of life.
Awareness makes a huge difference in aging, for although every species of higher life-form ages, only humans know what is happening to them, and we translate this knowledge into aging itself. To despair of growing old makes you grow old faster, while to accept it with grace keeps many miseries, both physical and mental, from your door. The commonsense notion, “You’re only as old as you think you are,” has deep implications.
Each of us inhabits a reality lying beyond all change. Deep inside us, unknown to the five senses, is an innermost core of being, a field of non-change that creates personality, ego and body. This being is our essential state. It is who we really are.
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add your comment »I believe in this awareness with all my heart.
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Now I'm 52. With wrinkles, pain in my knees, and weighing more than I would like to. But on the other hand, in all these years, I've learned so much; read a lot of interesting books; met a lot of people who gave meaning to my life; I've seen some beautful places on earth (some on television); I know how to appreciate a good meal, a sunset, a walk in the woods; and so much more. What are these wrinkles, kneeproblems and kilo's compared to all this? I thank God every morning for Life, and no, I would not like to be 18 again, because now I know how little I knew than. I think I can call myself a happy person in general.
Have a nice day!
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I believe that if we establish peace and trust in our lives, we will accept life's progression. We need to meditate and then detach from the results.
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This is very tru and so wonderful. Thank you Deepak its so important that we be who we really are to be is in our essential state
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