Authors: Deepak Chopra
ISBN-13: 9780395755150, ISBN-10: 0395755158
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: None
Bestselling author Deepak Chopra is widely recognized as one of the world s leading authorities in the field of holistic medicine. His belief that the mind, body, and spirit are closely interknit has won him legions of followers.
Dr. Deepak Chopra, author of the best-selling Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, offers his thousands of fans a newly revised edition of Creating Health, his groundbreaking book about the healing power of the mind. First published in 1987, Creating Health introduces the basic premises of Ayurveda, the six-thousand-year-old tradition of health care from India, and guides readers toward a sound understanding of the mind-body connection. Dr. Chopra is considered the preeminent spokesman for Ayurveda, which he blends with Western medical philosophy to create an intelligent and balanced approach to health. Dr. Chopra has revised Creating Health for the many people who are turning to alternative methods of health care as a result of the escalating crisis in traditional care. This edition incorporates a number of advances based on Dr. Chopra's recent work and new perspectives, including the techniques of mindfulness meditation, a simple but powerful form of breath-focused meditation.
A Note on the Revised Edition | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | How to Be Perfectly Healthy and Feel Ever Youthful | 3 |
2 | Ill Health | 4 |
3 | High Blood Pressure, Heart Attack, and Stroke | 6 |
4 | Cancer | 18 |
5 | Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse | 29 |
6 | Weight Control and Obesity | 36 |
7 | Chronic Fatigue | 41 |
8 | Gastrointestinal Disorders | 45 |
9 | Sexual Inadequacy | 48 |
10 | Sleep and Insomnia | 53 |
11 | Stress and the Burned-out Syndrome | 57 |
12 | Emotional Illness and Depression | 62 |
13 | The Psychophysiological Connection - Some Dramatic Case Histories | 66 |
14 | All Health Originates in One Place | 79 |
15 | Happiness and the Brain Chemistry of Health | 81 |
16 | Thoughts, Impulses of Intelligence - The Human Mind, a Reservoir of Intelligence | 85 |
17 | Evolution | 89 |
18 | Health - The Sum of Positive and Negative Impulses of Intelligence | 92 |
19 | Living and Longevity - The Problem of Aging | 94 |
20 | From Man to Superman | 105 |
21 | Self-awareness | 111 |
22 | Living in the Present | 114 |
23 | Ego Gratification | 117 |
24 | The Importance of Job Satisfaction | 120 |
25 | Channeling the Unconscious Mind - The Force of Habit | 123 |
26 | Diet and Destiny | 129 |
27 | Rhythms, Rest, and Activity | 139 |
28 | Having an Open Mind | 143 |
29 | Wonder and Belief | 146 |
30 | The Way of Compassion | 150 |
31 | A Vision of Wholeness and Love | 155 |
32 | Reality, Manifest and Unmanifest | 161 |
33 | The Nature and Range of Intelligence | 167 |
34 | The Mechanics of Creation | 173 |
35 | Techniques of Meditation | 181 |
36 | Intuitively Ethical Behavior and Higher States of Consciousness | 186 |
37 | One Is All, and All Is One | 196 |
Epilogue: The Future | 203 |