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Treat the Whole Person
People exist as a multi-dimensional
entity, involving the physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual planes of being. Additionally, each individual
interacts with and is affected by their daily environment.
All these areas must be addressed in any successful healing approach.
 DR DEEPAK CHOPRA WRITER OF `QUANTUM
HEALING`
Deepak Chopra is a physician whose unhappiness with western medicine led him to search for an
alternative. An endocrinologist who is a former Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts,
and who has taught at Tufts and Boston University Medical Schools, Dr. Chopra was introduced to the ancient methods of Indian
healing, known as Ayurveda, by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man who has done more than any other to bring traditional meditation
to the West.
Chopra proved an apt student, and has become a master teacher as well. He is the founding president
of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and has written and lectured widely, authoring the bestselling Quantum
Healing,as well as Creating Health, Return of the Rishi, Perfect Health, Unconditional Life, and Ageless Body, Timeless Mind.
Dr.Chopra has initiated collaborations with medical associations in the Russia, Poland, Hungary and Brazil. He
has spoken at the U.N. in New York, the World Health Organization in Geneva, the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Australia, the National Institutes of Health in Washington, and at medical schools
worldwide.
Chopra has been instrumental in developing the practice of Ayurvedic medicine, which may well be the
world's oldest living system of healing, in the United States. He is the Medical Director of the Sharp Institute for Human
Potential and Mind-Body Medicine in La Jolla, California, and lectures and teaches worldwide.
Holistics and Quantum Mechanics
The most advanced
theories of matter and energy in the field of Modern Physics, called Quantum Field Theories, are virtually identical to the
descriptions of Qi and Prana given in the ancient texts, many of which are thousands of years old.
Reiki
Relevance .
Reiki
is the "Universal Life-Force-Energy". The "Ki" part is the same word as Chi or Qi, the Chinese word for
the energy which underlies everything. Reiki is a system for channeling that energy to someone for the purpose of healing.
Reiki : How it Works
The body is composed of energy. This
energy makes up the body, and also pervades it in more subtle forms. How free flowing this energy is corresponds
to the health of the body, as well as the state of emotions and mental activities. . Reiki Rebalances the Energy in the Individual . How
does Reiki do this? Reiki practitioners are attuned to higher vibrations of energy that correspond to healthy states of being,
as well as higher states of consciousness (as defined by spiritual advancement techniques such as yoga and meditation). Reiki
practitioners are channels for these higher vibrational energies they bring these energies into the energy field of the individual
during a Reiki treatment session.
 DEEPAK CHOPRA INTERVIEW Quantum
Healing
DR: What led a western-trained medical physician such as yourself to pursue the ancient Indian practice
of Ayurveda?
DEEPAK CHOPRA: Just an unhappiness with the mechanical approach of contemporary medicine, which says
that there is a magic bullet in the form of a pill for everything we have.
And the fact remains that none of our medical
interventions either get to the root cause of disease, or make a significant difference in mortality or morbidity. They just
alter its expression.
It's frustrating to see patients again and again, and to keep giving them sleeping pills,
tranquilizers and antibiotics, for their hypertension or ulcers, when you know you're not getting rid of the problem or
disease. The word "cure" is not even used. You are just treating the patient. "Curing" is a term that
all physicians avoid. Our training is not oriented toward that.
DR: Can you explain what you mean by "quantum healing?"
DEEPAK CHOPRA: Quantum healing is
healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory level.
Our bodies ultimately are fields of information, intelligence and energy. Quantum healing involves a shift in
the fields of energy information, so as to bring about a correction in an idea that has gone wrong.
So quantum
healing involves healing one mode of consciousness, mind, to bring about changes in another mode of consciousness, body.
DR: How important is meditation in achieving and maintaining health?
DEEPAK CHOPRA: Meditation is a very
important aspect of all the approaches that one can use in quantum healing, because it allows you to experience your own source.
When you experience your own source, you realize that you are not the patterns and eddies of desire and memory that flow and
swirl in your consciousness.
Although these patterns of desire and memory are the field of your manifestation,
you are in fact not these swirling fluctuations of thought. You are the thinker behind the thought, the observer behind the
observation, the flow of attention, the flow of awareness, the unbounded ocean of consciousness.
When you have
that on the experiential level, you spontaneously realize that you have choices, and that you can exercise these choices,
not through some sheer will power but spontaneously.
DR: What aspects of contemporary lifestyles do you feel are
most harmful to people's health?
DEEPAK CHOPRA: The most harmful is the loss of simplicity, and the loss of
trust. The experience of alienation, fragmentation, isolation....this ultimately leads to all of the problems, like contamination
of our environment, hostility towards each other, poor nutrition, and hard work, too much work . A work-oriented society,
a success oriented society, in which we believe that somehow, material objects are the only source of our happiness.
DR: How do you find time for medical practice, writing, travel and family life, and still get to bed early, as you recommend
in your books?
DEEPAK CHOPRA: That's a good question. I in fact don't believe in the existence of time.
That's one thing I have to tell you, and the other is that I don't take myself or what I am doing seriously. I believe
in the ancient saying that this is a recreational universe, for those who want to share God's one great passion, beauty.
I experience beauty in everything I do, and when I experience it emotionally, then I know intellectually that
it must be the truth. So if I don't go to sleep by ten, it doesn't bother me, because I'm not tired. Most of my
writing I do in planes, when I have plenty of time.
I meditate whenever I have a chance, and that is actually
more frequently than most of my patients meditate. I see patients about 50% of my time at this clinic. That too is a source
of great joy to me, talking to people and interacting with people. In fact, I have learned more from my patients than from
anybody else.
DR: What has surprised you most in your practice of Ayurvedic medicine?
DEEPAK CHOPRA:
What has surprised me most is that when given insight, even a little bit of insight, patients find themselves empowered to
do the impossible.
DR: Your father is a medical physician in India. How did his values influence you with regard
to your choice of a career, and also regarding your outlook on western and eastern healing methods?
DEEPAK CHOPRA:
My father was a great source of inspiration for me, because he was such a wonderful father, who never in his life have I heard
raise his voice. He brought up his two children as princes, told them that their birthright was to have all their desires
fulfilled.
He was a very strongly western-oriented doctor, however. He is a cardiologist, very well-known in India.
But he is also a very fun-loving person. I still remember going on vacations and picnics together, going to Shakespearian
dramas together.
I never wanted to be a doctor. I always wanted to be a writer and journalist, but when I got to
college, I felt that I also had to be a doctor, because that was a very important part of my childhood experience, watching
my father heal people. He has that ability.
Not only as a great, great cardiologist, but also as someone who cares
about his patients. Even when he is not in the hospital or office, he cares about them, he thinks about them, he talks about
them to his children and his wife. Not giving away any confidential information, but just wondering how he can help them.
He has always been a great source of inspiration.
He was not, however, inclined very favourably toward Ayurvedic
medicine until I introduced him to it. Now he is the most enthusiastic researcher on Ayurveda in India.
 The Spiritual
and Physical Aspects of Reiki In the
West Reiki is primarily seen as a Complementary Therapy. But at it`s roots Reiki is for personal development,
self awareness, and was approached as a way towards greater understanding of the human condition. For some it was
a quest for enlightenment. . However ... One of Mikao Usui's students was a man
called Dr Hayashi,a retired surgeon commander from the Imperial navy, a Christian. Dr Hayashi was not so interested in the 'spiritual path'
side of Reiki, and he concentrated on Reiki as a treatment technique. Dr Hayashi taught Mrs Takata, and Mrs Takata brought
Reiki to the West. Physical,
Mental, Emotional ... it is still the one energy. Each of these states interact and affect each other. Reiki
energy is transferred through the Reiki Practitioner to the client. This is when Reiki will gently re-balance your energy
and free your body to heal itself.
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