Perfect health deepak chopra. Book: Deepak Chopra “Perfect Health. Fatigue, energy and the quantum mechanical body

Chopra Deepak

Ideal Energy

“Currently, a new medicine is emerging - a medicine in which the leading roles are played by the psyche, consciousness, thinking and intellect. One of the “architects of this new medicine is Dr. Chopra, an honored and respected physician, who has won the reputation of an advanced medical scientist with his work.” .

“Dipak Chadra is rightly called the modern Hippocrates for his original healing methods, which combine ancient healing traditions and the achievements of modern medicine.”

Yare Kupshinet, Chicago Sun-Times

"We would love to live next door to Dr. Chopra so we could visit him."

Judith Hooper, New York Times Book Review

"Deepak Chopra's program is presented in excellent, compelling, engaging language and contains a lot of common sense."

"Dr. Chopra provides us with information that gives us the opportunity to live long, disease-free lives."

Vernie Seagle, MD, author of the book "Love, Medicine and Miracles"

Inexhaustible Energy

A comprehensive program of psychophysiological regulation of the body to overcome chronic fatigue

1. Fatigue, energy and the quantum mechanical body

Fatigue is defined as a lack of physical, mental and emotional energy, and chronic fatigue is its long-term absence. However, living in modern Western society, you hardly need a definition of fatigue. Most likely, you are already quite familiar with this problem. And, it is likely that right now you are experiencing chronic fatigue.

Despite the fact that fatigue is widespread in modern life, from the point of view of nature as a whole, it is a true phenomenon. First of all, because nature abounds in energy and creative activity. Birds wake up early in the morning, they sing, tirelessly build nests, get food for their chicks; squirrels scurry up and down the trees, jumping from branch to branch; and when spring comes, it seems as if the grass and flowers are about to burst out of the ground and stretch upward in abundance, full of vitality.

This amazing energy is present not only in the biological world, but throughout the entire physical universe. The waves crash on the shore; rivers rush to the seas with incredible force; the wind roars, sweeping away everything in its path; the Earth rotates with amazing speed around its axis and the Sun; and the Sun itself constantly provides an unimaginable amount of heat and light. Physicists say that the Universe is nothing more than a dynamic, pulsating pope of untold energy.

Strange, isn't it? How if there is such huge amount energy can anyone feel tired? Why do millions of people feel tired every day? Why do many of them remain tired most of their lives?

The contradiction between the prevalence of chronic fatigue in our society and the abundance of energy in nature is a sad paradox. But this same contradiction may give us the key to a real solution to the problem of chronic fatigue. In this book you will learn many techniques that will allow you to reconnect with nature and, in particular, you will learn how to open the natural sources of energy that are already within you.

But before we explore ways to eliminate fatigue, let's take a closer look at the problem and try to get some idea of ​​its scope.

Fatigue is one of the most common complaints with which people turn to doctors. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published data that 24% of patients randomly surveyed in one of the clinics complained of chronic fatigue. The rate was higher among women, with 28% saying they felt tired, compared with 1% among men. But at the same time, cases of fatigue were noted in almost every fifth man.

There is no doubt that the feeling of fatigue is a constant presence in the lives of millions of Americans. But because fatigue is one of the most vague complaints, doctors have a hard time assessing the phenomenon and are only rarely able to identify its actual cause. Of course, this doesn't mean that if you're experiencing persistent, profound fatigue lasting several weeks, you shouldn't get checked out. On the contrary, in your case the reason may be obvious and easily removable. Your fatigue may be caused by anemia, thyroid problems, hepatitis, diabetes, mononucleosis, kidney disease, or other chronic disorders. I recommend a physical examination to rule out these possible reasons. But at the same time, I would like to emphasize that for the vast majority of those complaining of chronic fatigue, it is not possible to identify any specific physical causes that give rise to it. And this is perhaps the single most important conclusion of all that has been drawn as a result of numerous studies of this problem.

© 1991, 2000 Deepak Chopra M.D originally published by Three Rivers Press, trademark of Random House Inc.

© Naumenko E., translation into Russian, 2017

© Design. LLC Publishing House E, 2018

Acknowledgments

With heartfelt gratitude I dedicate this book to: my family - for their great love and support in all my affairs;

David Simon, my friend and colleague, for his help with the book and for paying more attention to this matter than we agreed;

to a wonderful agent and dear friend, Lynne Franklin, for her faith in my success;

Huntley Dent, my to a close friend– for valuable comments that helped me complete the literary processing of the first edition;

to my editor Peter Gazzardi, who with valuable advice helped me publish the best of what I wrote;

to all employees of the Chopra Wellness Center - doctors, nurses, teachers, workers support services– for his unwavering dedication to the idea of ​​perfect health.

Part I
A world of perfect health

If our internal forces are in harmony and balance with the surrounding world, we are invulnerable for diseases.

Preface

The first draft of this book was written almost ten years ago, and since then the world has changed dramatically. Nowadays, there is no longer any objection to the doctrine that health is something more than the absence of disease. And no one thinks it is extreme to say that the human body is not only a mechanical anatomical structure, but also a powerful network of conductors of energy and information. These views are a very important part of modern ideas about health and illness, life and death.

According to Journal of the American Medical Association(magazine of the American medical society), over 40% of Americans regularly use treatment and healing methods that go beyond the simplified materialistic model of the human body. More than 60% of medical educational institutions offer courses on complementary medicine 1
Complementary medicine is all types of informal medicine used for health purposes in conjunction with official medicine. It is believed that complementary medicine complements official medicine, promoting common goals maintaining health and meeting demand not provided by official medicine. – Here and below the translator's note.

More and more health insurance companies and hospitals are recognizing that patient needs are expanding and are dedicating funds to holistic medicine. 2
Holistic medicine is a direction that considers the individual as a whole, and not a collection of organs, while treating patients is carried out taking into account their physical, emotional, mental state and spiritual characteristics.

Attempts to use unconventional approaches in treatment for a long time did not cause anything but ridicule and criticism from the scientific community.

However, today many serious scientists study and apply these techniques. The catalog of the National Library of Medicine contains over forty thousand works in the field of alternative 3
Alternative medicine is methods that oppose official medicine (sometimes unscientific, used instead of medical remedies). The concepts of “complementary medicine” and “alternative medicine” are different. While complementary medicine is used in conjunction with conventional medicine, alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine.

And complementary medicine, and almost half of them are related to herbal medicine. Wellness tools such as yoga, meditation, different kinds massage and nutrition techniques. Almost any American pharmacy can offer you its own set of natural products. Most often they contain St. John's wort, ginkgo biloba and echinacea.

These days, the Internet, books and magazines are available anywhere in the world. Thanks to this, people can get health information very quickly and use it as they wish. Few will agree with me, but I believe that when someone engages in self-improvement and the development of self-awareness, it improves the health of the person himself and his loved ones.

When you see and feel how effective thousand-year-old healing techniques are, you will experience true joy.

At the Chopra Center for Wellness in La Jolla, California, we have created a wonderful environment for those seeking healing and a deep dive into Ayurveda and psychosomatic medicine. We have developed health maintenance courses based on holistic medicine techniques. The Magic Beginning program provides moral and information support for couples who are about to have a baby. These children receive the inclinations of superpowers even before birth. Our instructors have undergone special training and are now looking for new program participants around the world. We dream that, thanks to our instructors, a generation of healthy individuals will emerge, striving for knowledge.

Across continents, Chopra Center for Wellbeing alumni teach main course in psychosomatic medicine and Ayurveda – “Creation of life”. We have trained more than five hundred instructors in “Basic Sound Meditation” - this program tells how to deal with stress. It allows people to find a source of internal energy and unleash their creative potential. We have a special course for those fighting cancer - “Return to Wholeness”. He truly transforms people. Thousands of men and women have consciously changed their lives when they completed programs to combat chronic fatigue and excess weight.

Since the first edition of this book was published, I have seen many times how the lives of my readers have changed dramatically. Following specific people, changes occurred in society. We are now on a revolutionary path that will forever change the way we perceive the world and ourselves. Like the discoveries of modern physics, eternal wisdom Ayurveda points to the deep essence of the universe. The world hides a limitless field of possibilities, and only those who strive for self-healing and transformation can take advantage of them. This is the main idea of ​​our book.

I have made major changes to the new edition. We've added new wellness techniques that we've tested with patients at the Chopra Wellness Center. The updated book introduces controlled visualization and meditation techniques. It allows you to achieve a deep understanding of reality and change the perception of your own body. We tell you how to consciously establish a psychosomatic connection with your cells, tissues and organs. The book also describes the autonomic and autonomic functions of the body, without which perfect health is impossible.

In the new chapters we talk about therapeutic nutrition and herbal medicine and place special emphasis on a balanced health-improving diet. A harmonious nutrition system can be the first step on the path to recovery. The Ayurvedic diet in our book is simple and elegant. We have also selected materials for you about how the mind and body interact during periods of illness and health.

When you see and feel how effective thousand-year-old healing techniques are, you will experience true joy. We will discuss proven treatments that involve the five senses: sounds, touch, sight, taste sensations and smells. In the end it all helps the job internal system self-healing.

To show the connection between our inner and outer world, and also that the world around us is an extension of our body, we included several fun exercises in the book. Finally, we tried to make the book understandable and accessible to a wide range of readers.

The more I learn about health, the more convinced I am that true health means much more than the absence of pathologies and negative tests. And even more than the optimal union of mind and body. At its core, health is highest form self-awareness.

For thousands of years, the great prophets of the Vedas have said that the main purpose of caring for the body is to provide the material basis for a state of enlightenment. When a person achieves enlightenment, his inner point of reference moves from the ego realm to the spiritual realm. At the same time, he understands that the knower himself, the process and the object of knowledge form one whole. The boundaries of time and space disappear when we see ourselves as free beings who have only briefly become ordinary people. This state of wholeness, unity is the basis of all healing, its goal is perfect health.

And I'm very happy to help you achieve this goal.

Chapter 1
Invitation to new level reality

Every person has such an internal state when he does not feel pain, cannot get sick, grow old or die. When you enter this state, external limitations completely disappear.

This state is called perfect health. This state may last for many years or a couple of seconds, but even in a few moments, profound changes will occur in your consciousness. At the same time, your ideas about life will change, and you will understand that you have moved to a new, higher level of existence. This book is written for those who want to know and accept this new existence on an ongoing basis.

It is often difficult to determine the causes of illness, but no one has yet proven that illness cannot be avoided. In fact, just the opposite is true. Every day we encounter millions of viruses, bacteria, allergens, fungi, but we very rarely get sick. Many doctors talk about cases when respiratory tract terrible meningococcal bacteria live in humans and do not cause any harm. Only in rare cases do they become active and cause meningitis, an infection that affects the central nervous system and can lead to death. People who have had chickenpox become carriers of the chickenpox virus. When a person experiences stress, the virus can be activated, and then herpes zoster appears on the skin. What causes such an attack? No one knows the exact answer, so scientists have introduced a concept called “host-specific resistance.” This means that we, as carriers of microbes, can suppress or activate them. For 99.99% of human life, microbes are in a passive state, so each of us is much closer to perfect health than we imagine.

Most Americans who die from heart disease have coronary arteries blocked by cholesterol plaque and other debris. As a result, oxygen starvation occurred and heart function was disrupted. However, different people Heart diseases progress in different ways. A person with a single plaque or even a small piece of plaque may suffer from angina and chest pain. Another person, whose plaques have accumulated enough to completely block the flow of oxygen, may feel fine. There are cases where people whose coronary arteries were blocked by 85% ran a marathon, while others died of a heart attack with clear vessels. Recently, scientists found that many older people who died from heart attacks suffered from coronary artery disease. All this suggests that the ability to resist disease depends on the characteristics of a particular organism.

Our body's physical immunity is complemented by strong emotional resistance to disease. One elderly patient expressed this clearly: “I have read enough books on psychology to accept the fact that an adult can get sick, grow old and eventually die. But on an emotional and instinctive level, I completely disagree with this. Getting sick and physically deteriorating feels like a terrible mistake, and I always hoped that someone would correct it.”

You can become as healthy as you think possible. When you completely rebuild your consciousness, you will forget about illness and old age.

This lady is now about eighty years of age and in excellent physical and mental condition. When asked about her plans for the future, she replies: “You might think I'm crazy, but I'm not going to grow old and die.” Is it really that pointless? It is known that people who consider themselves too busy to get sick have much better health than those who worry too much about their bodies. Another person told us that he became fascinated with the idea of ​​perfect health because it was right and sometimes the only solution many medical problems. According to him, to achieve perfect health, you can use the “brainstorming” method, which is successfully used by entire corporations.

Brainstorming is a unique way that allows you to quickly get a solution to a problem. It is as follows. First, a goal is chosen - much more difficult and higher than the achievable result. Then you need to come up with everything possible ways to get as close to your goal as possible. “If people continue to think and act out of habit,” this man said, “even if they work long and hard, they can achieve no more than ten percent growth. However, to achieve a twofold or tenfold advantage, you need to set goals so high that everyone understands that different results require different actions.”

Leading Silicon Valley companies use brainstorm when they develop software. For example, if it took two years to release the first version of a program, then only one is allocated for the next version. If you managed to reduce the number of errors in the product code to 5%, then the next bar will be error-free code. Those who want to achieve perfect health need to act in a similar way: determine the ideal result and ways to achieve it. IN complex industries You will have to pay eight to ten times more to fix a mistake than to eliminate possible problems from the very beginning. That's why when high quality results are put in first place from the very beginning of work, this gives the company much greater profits compared to usual practice.

The same approach applies in medicine. Preventing a disease is much cheaper than treating it. A recent survey found that Americans' greatest fear in their lives is chronic illness with serious consequences. At the same time, the financial costs of patient care and treatment worry them more than pain and suffering. Many of them are afraid not so much of death as of the fact that their family will not be able to pay for their treatment. Obviously, in medicine, the quality of treatment must come first, and we can apply this principle in each individual case.

Possibilities of Ayurveda - new medicine

The first secret you should know if you decide to achieve perfect health is that you must consciously choose this path. You can become as healthy as you think possible. To achieve perfect health, it is not enough to improve good health by 5-10%. When you completely rebuild your consciousness, you will forget about illness and old age.

Can we achieve an ideal result when dealing with such a complex object as the human body? According to the National Institute on Aging, no one has yet proven that a person will live longer if he changes his lifestyle, exercises, diets, takes medications and vitamins. Today, scientists are successfully preventing atherosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis - diseases that affect older people. But doctors cannot yet cure all these diseases completely. Experts often declare in public that they have been able to cope with cancer and other serious illnesses, but in reality this is not entirely true. The best they can do is conduct experiments and try to get closer to curing the disease with their help. For example, when scientists observed a large group of people, they found that their risk of heart attack decreased if they managed to lower their blood cholesterol levels. But statistics for a group do not guarantee the same result for any individual.

If you want to improve your health twofold or tenfold, you need to take a deep dive into your body. You can do this with the help of Ayurveda, a system that is designed to improve health and avoid disease. The name originated more than five thousand years ago in India, and it comes from two words in Sanskrit: Ayus- life and Veda– knowledge, science. Thus, Ayurveda is usually translated as “the science of life.” Another, more accurate translation sounds like “the doctrine of the limits of life, the doctrine of long life.”

The purpose of Ayurveda is to show how we can influence our life, control it, and avoid the influence of disease and old age. Main principle

Ayurveda is that the mind controls the body and a person's health depends on whether they are in balance. This equilibrium state provides more health benefits than any of the known species immunity.

Ayurveda combines the experience and knowledge of sages who laid down the teaching traditions long before Egyptian pyramids and kept them for many generations. At the Chopra Wellbeing Center we have created modern system, which combines the eternal truths of Ayurveda and the achievements of modern science.

Over the past fifteen years, my colleagues and I have treated more than ten thousand patients and trained about three thousand instructors in Ayurvedic medicine. We studied Ayurveda and at the same time deepened and expanded our knowledge of traditional medicine. We have combined Ayurveda and Western medicine and managed to bring together ancient wisdom and modern science. When doctors at the Chopra Wellness Center review patient histories and examinations, they rely on observations of the sick person. We help our patients turn on their inner vision and achieve balance between body and mind.

Quantum mechanics of the human body

We must study our body deeply to better know its capabilities. From the point of view of Ayurveda, the human physical body has a quantum mechanical structure. Physicists say that the very essence of our nature lies at a quantum level much deeper than atoms and molecules. A quantum is an indivisible particle of matter or energy, tens or hundreds of millions of times smaller than any atom. At this level it is impossible to distinguish between matter and energy. Quanta are made up of invisible vibrations - waves of energy that can easily take on a specific shape. Ayurveda teaches that the same is true for the human body: it initially has the form of invisible but intense vibrations (quantum fluctuations), which then turn into pulses of energy and material particles.

The quantum mechanical structure underlies all human life: his thoughts, emotions, proteins, cells and organs. Our body sends us invisible signals at the quantum level and waits for a response. At the core of our physical essence is a quantum pulse, which counts the quantum heart. Ayurveda claims that all organs and processes in our body have analogues in the quantum world.

There would be no benefit to us from the quantum mechanics of the body if we could not sense it. Fortunately, the sensory nervous system helps our consciousness perceive these weak vibrations. When a photon of light hits the retina, it has a much weaker effect on it than a speck of dust does on a football field. But the retina has special nerve endings - rods and cones - that can sense a single photon and send a signal to the brain, allowing us to see light. Rods and cones are like a giant radio telescope that receives signals from the Big Bang. 4
This refers to the relict radio emission that arose in the first moments of the life of the Universe.

And enhances them so much that we can feel them.

Since Ayurveda works on the quantum mechanical structure itself, more can be achieved with its help than with conventional medicine, which is limited by gross physiology. This is possible because there is much more energy at the quantum level than at higher levels. An excellent example is the explosion of an atomic bomb - a large-scale event that is of a quantum nature. Another example is that a laser uses the same light as a camera flash, but due to the effect that coherent 5
Coherent oscillations are oscillations whose minimums and maximums coincide in time. In this case, the increase in light flux occurs precisely because of this.

Quantum vibrations add up to each other, its energy is enough to burn through a steel sheet.

The examples in the previous paragraph can be explained using quantum theory, which suggests that there is enormous energy contained in the deepest levels of matter. Space contains a huge amount of hidden energy, and even a small particle of it is enough to burn a star. It is only when a quantum leap (a transition from one energy level to another) occurs that this so-called dark energy is released in the form of heat, light and other forms of radiation.

Everyone knows that when a tree burns, it releases much less energy than when its atoms are split during a nuclear reaction. But we didn’t take into account that if we want to create something at the quantum level, we will get the same amount of energy as if we wanted to destroy something 6
For example, thermonuclear fusion.

Only nature creates rocks, trees, stars and galaxies, and every day we actively build our own body. Each of us is responsible for the body in which we live.

A few years ago, Dr. Dean Onisch, a cardiologist in San Francisco, showed that forty patients had reduced deposits of fatty plaque that had nearly blocked their coronary arteries. When these patients' arteries cleared and oxygen began flowing to their hearts, their chest pain disappeared and their risk of arterial blockage, which could lead to death, was reduced.

To free the arteries, Dr. Onish's group, in addition to conventional drugs and surgery, actively used yoga, meditation and a strict vegetable diet. Recently, Dr. Onish confirmed that such lifestyle changes help treat heart disease. Why are these results considered so significant? Because official medicine had not previously recognized that the development of advanced heart disease can be stopped and reversed.

With the review of this book, I will begin to publish reviews of all the books that truly change my life for the better.

Because, in theory, the most productive and healthy part of my journey began with Deepak Chopra, whom I found on the shelf of a friend, a devotee. of the Middle Way, Den Diindayal.

I have always loved books, read them quickly, and never once felt afraid of something that would suddenly “brainwash me” or “have a bad influence on me.” It seems to me that this happens to those who never read, because the only thing such people had in life after reading books under pressure was torment. Bad experiences led to people stopping reading.

This time, like every time, I started reading a new book with the following thoughts:

  • What benefit will this book bring me?
  • What interesting things will I find on the pages of this book?

The beginning of the book was intriguing, and the entire book was no less educational.

There is an area within every person that is free from disease, never experiences pain, and cannot age or die. When we reach this area, our modest capabilities become truly incredible, since there is nothing to limit them.
This area is called perfect, or perfect, health.
Visits to this area can be very short, or they can last longer. long years. But even the shortest visit can make the deepest change in you. While you are there, the ideas that are true for ordinary existence change, and opportunities open up for a new existence, higher and more ideal. This book is addressed to people who would like to explore this new existence, make it a reality in their own lives and constantly support it.

Deepak Chopra “Perfect Health”

The author of the book is a famous American endocrinologist of Indian origin. His approach to health is used by people such as Oprah, Demi Moore, M. Gorbachev, and others. Oprah and Chopra have a joint project dedicated to meditation.


Chopra Deepak Ideal Energy

“Currently, a new medicine is emerging - a medicine in which the leading roles are played by the psyche, consciousness, thinking and intellect. One of the “architects of this new medicine is Dr. Chopra, an honored and respected physician, who has won the reputation of an advanced medical scientist with his work.” .

“Dipak Chadra is rightly called the modern Hippocrates for his original healing methods, which combine ancient healing traditions and the achievements of modern medicine.”

Yare Kupshinet, Chicago Sun-Times

"We would love to live next door to Dr. Chopra so we could visit him."

Judith Hooper, New York Times Book Review

"Deepak Chopra's program is presented in excellent, compelling, engaging language and contains a lot of common sense."

"Dr. Chopra provides us with information that gives us the opportunity to live long, disease-free lives."

Inexhaustible Energy

A comprehensive program of psychophysiological regulation of the body to overcome chronic fatigue

1. Fatigue, energy and the quantum mechanical body

Fatigue is defined as a lack of physical, mental and emotional energy, and chronic fatigue is its long-term absence. However, living in modern Western society, you hardly need a definition of fatigue. Most likely, you are already quite familiar with this problem. And, it is likely that right now you are experiencing chronic fatigue.

Despite the fact that fatigue is widespread in modern life, from the point of view of nature as a whole, it is a true phenomenon. First of all, because nature abounds in energy and creative activity. Birds wake up early in the morning, they sing, tirelessly build nests, get food for their chicks; squirrels scurry up and down the trees, jumping from branch to branch; and when spring comes, it seems as if the grass and flowers are about to burst out of the ground and stretch upward in abundance, full of vitality.

This amazing energy is present not only in the biological world, but throughout the entire physical universe. The waves crash on the shore; rivers rush to the seas with incredible force; the wind roars, sweeping away everything in its path; the Earth rotates with amazing speed around its axis and the Sun; and the Sun itself constantly provides an unimaginable amount of heat and light. Physicists say that the Universe is nothing more than a dynamic, pulsating pope of untold energy.

Strange, isn't it? With so much energy, how can anyone feel tired? Why do millions of people feel tired every day? Why do many of them remain tired most of their lives?

The contradiction between the prevalence of chronic fatigue in our society and the abundance of energy in nature is a sad paradox. But this same contradiction may give us the key to a real solution to the problem of chronic fatigue. In this book you will learn many techniques that will allow you to reconnect with nature and, in particular, you will learn how to open the natural sources of energy that are already within you.

But before we explore ways to eliminate fatigue, let's take a closer look at the problem and try to get some idea of ​​its scope.

Fatigue is one of the most common complaints with which people turn to doctors. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published data that 24% of patients randomly surveyed in one of the clinics complained of chronic fatigue. The rate was higher among women, with 28% saying they felt tired, compared with 1% among men. But at the same time, cases of fatigue were noted in almost every fifth man.

There is no doubt that the feeling of fatigue is a constant presence in the lives of millions of Americans. But because fatigue is one of the most vague complaints, doctors have a hard time assessing the phenomenon and are only rarely able to identify its actual cause. Of course, this doesn't mean that if you're experiencing persistent, profound fatigue lasting several weeks, you shouldn't get checked out. On the contrary, in your case the reason may be obvious and easily removable. Your fatigue may be caused by anemia, thyroid problems, hepatitis, diabetes, mononucleosis, kidney disease, or other chronic disorders. I recommend a physical examination to rule out these possible causes. But at the same time, I would like to emphasize that for the vast majority of those complaining of chronic fatigue, it is not possible to identify any specific physical causes that give rise to it. And this is perhaps the single most important conclusion of all that has been drawn as a result of numerous studies of this problem.

Chopra Deepak

Ideal Energy

“Currently, a new medicine is emerging - a medicine in which the leading roles are played by the psyche, consciousness, thinking and intellect. One of the “architects of this new medicine is Dr. Chopra, an honored and respected physician, who has won the reputation of an advanced medical scientist with his work.” .

“Dipak Chadra is rightly called the modern Hippocrates for his original healing methods, which combine ancient healing traditions and the achievements of modern medicine.”

Yare Kupshinet, Chicago Sun-Times

"We would love to live next door to Dr. Chopra so we could visit him."

Judith Hooper, New York Times Book Review

"Deepak Chopra's program is presented in excellent, compelling, engaging language and contains a lot of common sense."

"Dr. Chopra provides us with information that gives us the opportunity to live long, disease-free lives."

Vernie Seagle, MD, author of the book "Love, Medicine and Miracles"

Inexhaustible Energy

A comprehensive program of psychophysiological regulation of the body to overcome chronic fatigue

1. Fatigue, energy and the quantum mechanical body

Fatigue is defined as a lack of physical, mental and emotional energy, and chronic fatigue is its long-term absence. However, living in modern Western society, you hardly need a definition of fatigue. Most likely, you are already quite familiar with this problem. And, it is likely that right now you are experiencing chronic fatigue.

Despite the fact that fatigue is widespread in modern life, from the point of view of nature as a whole, it is a true phenomenon. First of all, because nature abounds in energy and creative activity. Birds wake up early in the morning, they sing, tirelessly build nests, get food for their chicks; squirrels scurry up and down the trees, jumping from branch to branch; and when spring comes, it seems as if the grass and flowers are about to burst out of the ground and stretch upward in abundance, full of vitality.

This amazing energy is present not only in the biological world, but throughout the entire physical universe. The waves crash on the shore; rivers rush to the seas with incredible force; the wind roars, sweeping away everything in its path; the Earth rotates with amazing speed around its axis and the Sun; and the Sun itself constantly provides an unimaginable amount of heat and light. Physicists say that the Universe is nothing more than a dynamic, pulsating pope of untold energy.

Strange, isn't it? With so much energy, how can anyone feel tired? Why do millions of people feel tired every day? Why do many of them remain tired most of their lives?

The contradiction between the prevalence of chronic fatigue in our society and the abundance of energy in nature is a sad paradox. But this same contradiction may give us the key to a real solution to the problem of chronic fatigue. In this book you will learn many techniques that will allow you to reconnect with nature and, in particular, you will learn how to open the natural sources of energy that are already within you.

But before we explore ways to eliminate fatigue, let's take a closer look at the problem and try to get some idea of ​​its scope.

Fatigue is one of the most common complaints with which people turn to doctors. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association published data that 24% of patients randomly surveyed in one of the clinics complained of chronic fatigue. The rate was higher among women, with 28% saying they felt tired, compared with 1% among men. But at the same time, cases of fatigue were noted in almost every fifth man.

There is no doubt that the feeling of fatigue is a constant presence in the lives of millions of Americans. But because fatigue is one of the most vague complaints, doctors have a hard time assessing the phenomenon and are only rarely able to identify its actual cause. Of course, this doesn't mean that if you're experiencing persistent, profound fatigue lasting several weeks, you shouldn't get checked out. On the contrary, in your case the reason may be obvious and easily removable. Your fatigue may be caused by anemia, thyroid problems, hepatitis, diabetes, mononucleosis, kidney disease, or other chronic disorders. I recommend a physical examination to rule out these possible causes. But at the same time, I would like to emphasize that for the vast majority of those complaining of chronic fatigue, it is not possible to identify any specific physical causes that give rise to it. And this is perhaps the single most important conclusion of all that has been drawn as a result of numerous studies of this problem.

In this book, chronic fatigue is defined as a noticeable lack of energy that lasts for one month or more. This type of fatigue is completely different from acute fatigue, which is usually caused by certain situations, such as studying for exams or rushing to meet a deadline. Over time and after additional rest, acute fatigue usually goes away. Those who suffer from chronic fatigue continue to feel tired no matter how long they rest. These people feel tired immediately after waking up in the morning - even more tired after getting out of bed. To solve the problem of chronic fatigue, sleep alone is obviously not enough.

Thus, we can define chronic fatigue as fatigue that a person experiences every day or almost every day for at least one month and which is not cured by sleep or rest.

Mind-Body Consistency and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Despite the fact that cases of chronic fatigue are quite common in the population, many people seem to underestimate the extent to which this phenomenon affects the normal course of life. Research shows that chronic fatigue can be as detrimental to your health as serious medical conditions, such as an unresolved thyroid disorder or a recent heart attack. This fact is all the more remarkable because the vast majority of chronic fatigue sufferers do not have any clear cause causing this problem.