Perfect Health--Revised and Updated
The Complete Mind Body Guide
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The classic guide to using Ayurveda to harness the healing power of the mind—now revised with updated medical research.
Translated as “the knowledge of life span” in Sanskrit, Ayurveda is the 5,000-year-old medical system from ancient India that has been validated by modern breakthroughs in physics and medicine. Deepak Chopra’s Perfect Health is the original guide to applying the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to everyday life.
Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance. Our skin is new every five weeks. Each year, fully 98 percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. Ayurveda tells us that freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then extending that balance to the body.
Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step program of mind body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader's mind body type: thin, restless Vata; enterprising, efficient Pitta; tranquil, steady Kapha; or any combination of these three. This body type becomes the basis for a specific Ayurvedic program of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total plan, tailor-made for each individual, to reestablish the body's essential balance with nature; to strengthen the mind body connection; and to use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging—in short, for achieving Perfect Health.
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In 1985 the authors went to Madagascar to look for a rare lemur, the aye-aye. Adams ( The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) was on assignment for the London Observer, while zoologist Carwardine recorded their experiences for BBC Radio. Three years later, the pair undertook other journeys to report on endangered species. They sought out the Komodo dragon, the world's largest living lizard, in Indonesia; the kakapo, a large, flightless parrot, in New Zealand; the white rhinoceros in Zaire; blind river dolphins in China; rare bats and birds on Mauritius. Strategies to save these creatures include captive breeding programs (Mauritius), removal to offshore islands free of predators (New Zealand, Mauritius) and sequestration (China). Adams and Carwardine here relate the details of their serious quests in lively fashion. Whether stalking the kakapo over rough terrain or searching for condoms in China (to cover their underwater microphone), they keep their sense of humor. This is an excellent choice for readers who enjoy natural history, travel and adventure. Photos. 75,000 first printing; author tour.
