Quantum Healing

Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine (Bantam New Age Books)

By Deepak Chopra

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Format: Paperback, 272 pages Other Information: illustrations Published In: United States, 01 July 1990 Other Editions: Paperback, USA $29.99 $29.98 View Ships within 6-11 days Publishers Description Here is an extraordinary new approach to healing by an extraordinary physician-writer -- a book filled with the mystery, wonder, and hope of people who have experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses.Dr. Deepak Chopra, a respected New England endocrinologist, began his search for answers when he saw patients in his own practice who completely recovered after being given only a few months to live. In the mid-1980's he returned to his native India to explore Aruyveda, humanities most ancient healing tradition. Now he has brought together the current research of Wetern medicine, neuoscience, and physics with the insights of Ayurvedic theory to show that the human body is controlled by a "network of intelligence" grounded in quantum reality. Not a superficial psychological state, this intelligence lies deep enough to change the basic pattenrs that design our physiology -- with the potential to defeat cancer, heart disease, and even aging itself. in this inspiring and pioneering work, Dr. Chopra offers us both a fascinating intellectual journey and a deeply moving chronicle of hope and healing. Publisher: Bantam USA ISBN: 0553348698 EAN: 9780553348699 Dimensions: 23.0 x 159.0 x 1.0 centimeters

Deepak’s stuff is good in theory, but its not very good from the perspective of practicalities. This guy seems to fringe on the borders of the medical and the spiritual but doesn’t sway to far to either side. Not sure why, as I’m certain that he has a lot to offer. There are some interesting ideas here but the spirituality or the medical practitioner must take this knowledge and use their own creativity to make it into something useful.

Dr. Chopra is western trained and does not let go of western treatment, but adds Ayurvedic principles. Fair enough, why not use all available aids to achieve health? The message is that we need to learn and practice Transcendental Meditation. The book would have been of more practical use if some basic TM technique had been included. However, the important message in this book is that mind and body are connected and that each individual needs a conciousness shift, a realisation that every thought has an effect. Lots of food for thought and a good start for further reading.

These mind-based methods of healing, he tells us, are based upon Ayurveda, the ancient tradition of Indian medicine. The term "Ayurveda" is derived from its two Sanskrit roots, Ayus, meaning "life," and Veda, which can mean either "science" or "knowledge." Combined, the literal meaning becomes "science of life."

In describing how he came up with the term quantum healing, Dr. Chopra relates the moving story of one of his first patients to undergo Ayurvedic treatment. The patient, a woman who had lung cancer, had responded well to the traditional Western treatments which had been combined with Ayurvedic methods. The Ayurvedic method depended upon a "change of diet, some Ayurvedic herbs, a specific daily routine including simple yoga exercises, and instruction in Transcendental Meditiation." She was also "given two special mental techniques that went directly to the root of her cancer."

After nearly a year of this treatment, the woman had a sudden remission of her cancer. "They can't find any cancer cells at all--nothing," the woman's husband announced joyously over the phone to Dr. Chopra, who himself was surprised by the rapidity of the cure. Yet within a few weeks the woman's "miracle" began to teeter and stumble, not physically, but within the woman herself: "instead of being able to trust in her inexplicable recovery, she became conflicted, morbidly afraid that the cancer would return....It seemed that [her] cancer was easier to defeat than the sinister doubt that was creeping back into her life, defying her to be well....For her to be well again, she needed an explanation."

This, Dr. Chopra concedes, was the real starting point of his book. He continues, "Research on spontaneous cures of cancer...has shown that just before the cure appears, almost every patient experiences a dramatic shift in awareness. He knows that he will be healed, and he feels that the force responsible is inside himself but not limited to him -- it extends beyond his personal boundaries, throughout all of nature....The leap in consciousness seems to be the key....The word that comes to mind when a scientist thinks of such sudden changes is 'quantum.' The word denotes a discrete jump from one level of functioning to a higher level -- the quantum leap."