About the Book

PERFECT HEALTH, PURE AND INVINCIBLE, IS THE STATE WE HAVE LOST. REGAIN IT, AND WE REGAIN A WORLD.

In this volume, essential ideas from the work of Deepak Chopra are arranged to create a transcendent experience for the reader, a journey into healing. Along the path, we discover that what we think and feel can actually change our biology. We learn to go beyond self-imposed limitations that create disease, and to seek that place inside ourselves that is at one with the infinite intelligence of the universe, the source of life. By the end of this book, our consciousness will have been altered by the experience of the journey itself. Such change has the power to transform our lives, to grace us with the gifts of lasting peace and perfect health.

Dr Deepak Chopra is the bestselling author of twenty-one books, including Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Path To Love. He is director of educational programmes at the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California.

About the Author

Acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the field of mind/body medicine, Dr Deepak Chopra trained as an endocrinologist in India and the United States, and now runs the Chopra Center for Well Being in California. He has written over 50 books, which have been translated into 35 languages. He lectures and conducts seminars and workshops around the world, is a regular guest on e.g. CNN, and is a regular blogger on huffingtonpost.com, belief.net, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Health and Intent Blog. Visit his website at www.deepakchopra.com.

Other books by Deepak Chopra

AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

RESTFUL SLEEP

PERFECT WEIGHT

PERFECT DIGESTION

BOUNDLESS ENERGY

THE WAY OF THE WIZARD

THE PATH TO LOVE

OVERCOMING ADDICTIONS

HEALING THE HEART

THE LOVE POEMS OF RUMI

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS

FOR PARENTS

I

Perfect health, pure and invincible, is a state we have lost. Regain it, and we regain a world.

 

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It’s an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time—a state of positive well-being.

 

The healing mechanism inside us perfectly matches the one outside. The human body does not look like the green meadow, but its breezes, its laughing water, sunlight, and earth were merely transformed into us, not forgotten.

 

We all need to be healed in the highest sense by making ourselves perfect in mind, body, and spirit. The first step is to realize that this is even possible.

 

To create health, you need a new kind of knowledge, based on a deeper concept of life.

 

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

 

The reason why not everyone manages to take the healing process as far as it can go is that we differ drastically in our ability to mobilize it.

 

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them. You don’t have to work to achieve a silent mind; you don’t have to work to find the old wounds. All these things are a given, once they are uncovered. The uncovering begins wherever you are now, but its goal is always the same—the revelation of wholeness that unites body, mind, and spirit as one.

II

Health and disease are connected like variations on one melody. But disease is a wrong variation, a distortion of that theme.

 

The cause of disease is often extremely complex, but one thing can be said for certain: no one has proved that getting sick is necessary.

 

Our culture chooses to believe that disease is basically created on the material level.