The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness [Paperback]

David Simon (Author), Deepak Chopra (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 25, 1998

The Wisdom of Healing, by David Simon, M.D., is an engaging, thoroughly practical guide to the many benefits of mind body medicine, in particular those derived from the ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda. In Ayurveda, David Simon has found a system based on individuality--on our unique responses to food, exercise, stress, medicine, surgery, and a wide range of external factors. By using the mind body questionnaire that begins on page 51 of The Wisdom of Healing, you can establish your own mind body type and find a daily routine that is ideally suited to creating optimal health for you.
        
In these pages you will also learn how to use food as medicine; relaxation techniques; healing breath and neuromuscular exercises; techniques for detoxification, purification, and rejuvenation; and strategies for addressing such specific conditions as reproduction and pregnancy, aging, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain. Intermingled with medical advice is the story of the author's journey as a young medical student, his disappointment with the traditional emphasis on the mechanics of disease and diagnosis, and his discovery of a medical science that focuses on the patient in its strategies for achieving and maintaining optimal health. By integrating this book's information into your life you will become as nature intended--restored to optimal health in body, mind, and spirit, free to experience the joy in every moment.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"I believe The Wisdom of Healing will become a classic of great value to both the general public and health care professionals. Along with Perfect Health, it is essential reading for those wishing to understand and apply holistic concepts of health to real-life challenges."
--Deepak Chopra, M.D.

"I hope this understandable book will be read open-mindedly not only by those who are sick and those who do not want to become sick, but by those who manage health care organizations."
--George Freeman Solomon, M.D.,Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, U.C.L.A. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The Wisdom of Healing, by David Simon, M.D., is an engaging, thoroughly practical guide to the many benefits of mind body medicine, in particular those derived from the ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda. In Ayurveda, David Simon has found a system based on individuality--on our unique responses to food, exercise, stress, medicine, surgery, and a wide range of external factors. By using the mind body questionnaire that begins on page 51 of The Wisdom of Healing, you can establish your own mind body type and find a daily routine that is ideally suited to creating optimal health for you.
        
In these pages you will also learn how to use food as medicine; relaxation techniques; healing breath and neuromuscular exercises; techniques for detoxification, purification, and rejuvenation; and strategies for addressing such specific conditions as reproduction and pregnancy, aging, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain. Intermingled with medical advice is the story of the author's journey as a young medical student, his disappointment with the traditional emphasis on the mechanics of disease and diagnosis, and his discovery of a medical science that focuses on the patient in its strategies for achieving and maintaining optimal health. By integrating this book's information into your life you will become as nature intended--restored to optimal health in body, mind, and spirit, free to experience the joy in every moment.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (August 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609802143
• ISBN-13: 978-0609802144
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step by step directions on return to wholness, it works!, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness (Paperback)

Time honored ancient healing practices coincide with the laws of quantum physics, as Simon brings these two seemingly unrelated subjects together in a seamless cosmic dance. From the beginning of creation to the end of our physical lives and return to spirt we are taken on a journey supported by the latest theories on physics. Simon is able to take the Ayurvedic process apart and using conventional medical terms, he shows us how to be aware of the first subtle level of disease.

Following our "instincts" regarding our mind body system, becomes the initial diagnosis tool. He gives us permission to feel rotten, trace it to an emotion, a stress or just a bad day, and then provides tools to deal with each such event before one stage leads to another and an unspeakable illness crops up diagnosed by x-ray or lab results.

Giving credit to the intelligence of our own "machine" Simon leaves the responsibility with the owner. It is the first "owner's manual" I have seen for the human mindbody that makes sense.

Traveling through the suggestions we are acquainted with parts of ourselves we knew existed but have gotten away from due to the flood of medial and sociatal pressures that tell us we have no control over anything in our world any more, not even our own body.

Honoring and respecting ourselves just the way we are, and not buying into any other source of information that proceeds to tell us something we do not, in our hearts, believe, is the first step in the return to wholness.

I found it enlightening, exciting, rejuvenating and honest. A well written manual for the beings we are today.

1 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars you like healing?, September 10, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness (Hardcover)

great philosophy of healing, but Ayurveda. You must be kidding? Can't say as the Hindus are the most healthy and long living