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Perfect Health : The Complete Mind/Body Guide

The world's leading spokesperson for a growing movement of physicians who believe that many of today's health problems can be alleviated by combining Western medicine with ancient Eastern healing methods presents a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide to total physical and mental well-being. 55 line drawings.

Quantum Healing : Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine
Quantum Healing shines with the mystery, wonder and hope of "miraculous" recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses. Dr. Chopra brings together the most recent research on this topic from Western medicine and the Ayurvedic medical tradition.

Perfect Weight : The Complete Mind/Body Program for Achieving and Maintaining Your Ideal Weight
Eminent physician and best-selling author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra now offers readers a complete mind-body program for achieving and maintaining their ideal weight. Perfect Weight shows how to eliminate food cravings and compulsive eating habits, discover a new way to exercise, and maintain health and vigor.

The Chopra Center Cookbook: Nourishing Body and Soul The Chopra Center Cookbook includes thirty days of delicious and balanced meal plans and more than 250 easy-to-make, sumptuous recipes for all occasions. The Chopra Center Cookbook is rooted in both the latest cutting-edge nutritional science and the world’s most ancient health system, Ayurveda, related to yoga. Ayurveda recommends that we all partake of the six tastes of life–sweet, sour, bitter, salty, astringent, and pungent–and the recipes in this book are balanced to appeal to all six tastes for optimal digestion and enjoyment.

The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health People around the world are increasingly working with their own bodies to restore balance. They're using medicines found in nature to avoid the side effects of antibiotics and turning to traditions that have passed the test of time. The oldest medical system of all is Ayurveda, which dates back 5,000 years to its origins in India. In The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook, Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., draw on the forty most important herbs of Ayurveda, from aloe and amrit kalash

Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living (Perfect Health Library Series) Or the millions of Americans whose digestive disorders fail to respond to conventional medical treatments, Dr. Chopra offers an alternative approach based upon the principles of Ayurvedic medicine. Among the topics covered are the relationship between emotions and intestinal functions, biological rhythms and neuromuscular integration, and the importance of diet.

Chopra on Ayurvedic Nutrition
Chopra has also emphasized the importance of a proper diet in order to maintain total health. Again, the Ayurvedic approach to nutrition is a consciousness- based approach, so that more important than any approach is "awareness of one's interaction with food as part of conscious universe." This awareness exists on many levels: the awareness one has when putting the food into one's mouth, the awareness of the cook who has prepared the food, even the awareness of the farmer who has grown the product, all these influence the life energy or life force or prana of the food. When one eats pre-packaged or canned foods, Chopra believes, it does not provide the eater with the utmost feeling of energy because it is missing the life force/life energy, which is an expression of consciousness in Ayurveda.

Another important aspect of Ayurvedic nutrition is the emphasis on taste as an indicator. Knowledge about nutrition is obtained through taste and the effects of food in terms of awareness: whether particular foods make you feel heavy or light, congested or energized, hot or cold.

Chopra also maintains the importance of fasting and enemas as a vehicle for detoxification and purification.