JOURNEY INTO HEALING - AWAKENING THE WISDOM WITHIN YOU

By Deepak Chopra, M.D.

In this volume, essential ideas from the work of Deepak Chopra, M.D. are arranged to create a transcendent experience for the reader, a journey into healing. Along the path, we discover that we think and feel can actually change our biology. We learn to seek that place inside ourselves that is at one with the infinite intelligence of the universe, the source of life. By the end of this book the readers consciousness will have been altered by the experience of the journey itself. Such change has the power to transform our lives, to grace us with the gifts of lasting peace and perfect health. The final pages of this book contain techniques for the Mindfulness Meditation, which can access the silent space between your thoughts and tap into the inner wisdom that will make all your dreams come true.

Perfect health, pure and invincible, is a state we have lost. Regain it, and we regain a world.

Health is an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time- a state of positive well-being.

The healing mechanism inside us perfectly matches the one outside. The human body does not look like the green meadow, but its breezes, its laughing water, sunlight, and earth were merely transformed into us, not forgotten.

We all need to be healed in the highest sence by making ourselves perfect in mind, body, and spirit. The first step is to realize that this is even possible.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them. You don't have to work to achieve a silent mind; you don't have to work to find the old wounds. All these things are a given, once they are uncovered. The uncovering begins wherever you are now, but its goal is always the same - the revelation of wholeness that unites body, mind, and spirit as one.

Matter is a captive moment in space and time, and by seeing our world and the universe materialistically, we make the captive aspects of the universe assume too much importance.

Any pain or disease we have is like an island of discomfort, for in cpmparison to any one disease, our healty awareness is as big as an ocean.

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief. To have a renewed body, you must be willing to have new perceptions that give rise to new solutions. We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel. We perceive, which means we add meaning to every signal coming our way. Perception is the first and most important step in turning the raw data of the universe into realtity. Everything we see, touch, hear, taste, or smell has been selected from the infinite reservoir of vibrating energy in the field.

You believe that you live in the world, when in fact the world lives within you.

Reality exists because we agree to it. Whenever reality shifts, the agreement has been changed. The point that Archimedes was looking for - a place to stand on and move the world - actually exists. It is inside us, covered up by the fascinating but misleading moving-picture show of the waking state.
We all create scenarios and them become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

Our normal waking-state perception of ourselves is usually ill-equipped to realize how much joy exists inside us.

No one has ever found a new world by worrying about it.

Instead of consciously creating disease, we could be consciously creating health. **

When you realize that you have control over any interpretation you place upon your body, and enormously liberating idea begins to dawn; the body is on your side.

We all have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries when the boundless is so near?

My hard belief that life is merciless, like a mill wheel impartially grinding out birth and death, is gone. To see things that way is to accept the appearance and miss the essence. Come closer, and the world looks much more like a wish, a great desire coming true all around us, with our own wishes and desires woven into it.

Once you agree that your self is intelligent, then all creating is within your grasp through the principle of self-referral; "Curving back within myself, I create again and again," as the Bhagavad Gita says.

Impulses of intelligence create your body in new forms every second. What you are is the sum total of these impulses, and by changing their patterns, you will change.

Where Nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks, and leptons, you and I go to create ourselves.

The body is not a frozen sculpture. It is a river of information - a flowing organism empowered by millions of years of intelligence. Every second of our existence, we are creating a new body. Just one year ago, 98 percent of the atoms in our bodies were not there. It's as if we live inside buildings whose bricks are being systematically taken out and replaced.
A body that can "think" is far different from the one medicine now treats. For one thing, it knows what is happening to it, not just through the brain, but everywhere there is a receptor for messenger milecules, which means within every cell.
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When you say, "I have a gut feeling about such and such," you're not speaking literally, because your gut makes the same chemicals as your brain when it things.

Any cell, tissue, organ is capable of crying out for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins. We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ -with no side effects.

The human body keeps in balance through complex rhythems and cycles. These biorhythms are our connecting link to the larger rhythems of Nature; the immensely long life cycles of the stars, the ebb and flow of the earth's seas, and the breathing of all living things. When you are truly in tune with your body, it becomes a trusted teacher and a trusted guide.

Your mind gives you control, the ability to have any reaction you want.

The highest level of belief comes when the mind contacts its own intelligence as an experience.

When the mind is peaceful, inner energies wake up and work miracles for us - without any conscious effort on our part.

In Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse writes, "Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." This sanctuary is a simple awareness of comfort, which cant be violated by the turmoil of events. This place feels no trauma and stores no hurt. It is the healing mental space that one seeks to find in meditation.

A quiet mind is all you need.

Because we can change like quicksilver, the flowing quality of life is natural to us. The material body is a river of atoms, the mind is a river of thought, and what holds them together is a river of intelligence.

We are not the body. We are not the mind. We are the ones who have mind and body. When we touch a new level of consciousness, a new world is created. Consciousness is nothing but awareness- the composite of all the things we pay attention to.

An old Indian saying goes, "If you want to see what your thoughts were like yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to see what your body will be like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today."

Our pure awareness is already whole, already healed. If we feel divided inside, the solution is to bring ourselves back to wholeness. Consciousness is its own healer.

In moments of silence, realize that you are recontacting your source of pure awareness.

Being alive is like a wave pulsing upward from the invisible to the visible, from a region the senses cannot register to one that they can. The closer you can get to the invisible source, the greater your healing power.

All that is needed is to reach the depts where transformation is effortless and most powerful. Our servants wait on us, but they wait inside.

A shift in awareness is the first change.

Getting well does not need struggle. There is no enemy within. Recovery lies only at the level of Being. If the nervous system were purified of stress, then it would only express Being, which is always life-supporting because its nature is bliss.

Being is deep, clear, permanent, ever the same. To experience bliss every hour of the day would be a sign of complete enlightenment, but even a brief encounter is significant- it permits you to actually feel waves of consciousness as they well up from the field of silence, cross the gap, and are infused into every cell. This is the body's own awakening.

The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the self, love creates health.

All fear is ultimately the fear of mortality in disguise - the fear of change.

When you resist the flow of life, you are actually resisting your own inner nature, for everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

Quietly, in your own heart, say that you do not want to be afraid.

Intentions automatically seek their fulfillment if left alone.

Accept what comes to you totally and completely so that you can appreciate it, learn frin ut, and then let it go.
Complete healing depends upon our ability to stop struggling.

One's inner sense of "me" is built up of images from the past, all the fears, hopes, wishes, dreams, love, and disappointments one calls "mine." However, if you strip all these images away, something of "me" is still left; the decision maker, the screen, the silent witness.

You dont have to do anything to find the Self- you have to stop doing anything.
When you get in touch with the part of yourself that is eternal and nonchanging, you have true knowledge of your own immortality, and fear melts away like snow in the summer breeze.

To be one with Nature again is vital - it allows inner and outer nature to blend, healing a separation that never existed in the first place.

Nature balances the mind, body and spirit as cocreators of our personal reality.

The blueprint for perfect health is inside you. It IS you.

We are all different because we've walked through different gardens and knelt at different graves. Every little wisp of experience that has come our way we have metabolized and made into our body. And as we now go into higher states of awareness, we metabolize those experiences too. They also store the knowledge of higher realitites complete and formed, and they are ready for you to unfold them.

Walk in the sunlight every day for at least a few minutes it takes you to remind yourself that the universe is our real timekeeper.

The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

Lasting healing and lasting peace are real only at the level of our Being.

Healthy people live neigher in the past nor in the future. They live in the present, in the now, which gives the now a flavor of eternity because no shadows fall across it.

I believe in the goodness of my physician. He told me that the purpose of life is to be happy and to receive wise and happy thoughts from every part of the universe.

If I find a green meadow spashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine.

As long as the flow of change within us is fresh, we will be perfectly healthy.

Enchantment is our natural state.

This day cannot last without you to keep it alive. Will you give it a chance?