When Deepak Chopra lecturer; Michael Jackson pal and America strode into “it Night for a quick publicity waiting. Like circus clowns crammed filled the store to near-comic capacity. Natural folks would want to get a close-up peek at the m insists age is all in the mind that the human body might durable age as a Japanese-made car and therefore quite capable turning 120 years or more”
Chopra — who has said of himself “I’m 47 chronologically and 25 biologically” looked healthy and casually dapper in his dark Suit and open denim shirt. Thick black hair Wrinkle-free skin But don’t thank heaven. Thank physics Chopra does so repeatedly in his current book Ageless Body
Timeless Mind. The Qua Alternative to Growing Old.” It has sold one million hardcover copies and the audio versions now on the best-seller list. In “Ageless Body” Chopra uses subatomic theories not to build bombs but to blow up actual tables “Were coming into a new evolution of the body-mind” Chopra explained during an impromptu mini-lecture at Yes! “In just the last three weeks a quadrillion atoms have circulated through your body…. The body is just an instrument that traps you in space-time events.”
Chopra has made his mark as a plain-talking synthesizer of East meets-West medicine and philosophy. The son of a cardiologist he went to conventional medical school in India then migrated to the USA with his wife in 1970 Chopra says he was once the stereotypical hard-charging American: smoked too much drank too much worked too hard and his overtaxed nerve endings hissed like firecracker fuses. In 1980 on a whim he bought a used book about transcendental meditation (TM). Chopra promptly turned over a new lifestyle leaf via TM and then began dipping into the assorted holistic-healing pots of Ayurvedic medicine the ancient Indian folk sciences.
Seven years ago Chopra began actively spreading his Ayurvedic enhanced message There have been seven seductively titled books (“Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide” of 1991 also became a best-seller) which have given rise to a mail-order business of companion audiotapes oils and herbal preparations. According to Forbes magazine those byproducts alone have netted Chopra more than $3 million
Western doctors Chopra tells his seminar audiences and readers treat patients like balky appliances. They replace a part mend a wire but invariably focus more on symptoms than causes they also rely too much on prescription drugs In actuality each person is “more like a river of energy and information” says Chopra.
Hence Ayurvedic medicine concentrates on marshaling natural defenses viewing the human body as one organic piece of nature’s vast ever-fluid puzzle The body he goes on is constantly regenerating itself on a microscopic level Organs are replaced | faster than bad TV shows brand-new skin once a month brand pew skeleton every three months and so on. AS long as you re refurbishing the “house” you inhabit why not upgrade at the Same time? Yes it is possible to grow young while you grow old. “Because the mind influences every cell in the body Chopra writes in “Ageless Body Timeless Mind” “human aging… can Speed up slow down Stop… and even reverse itself”
Chopra demonstrated eye movement exercises and alternative nostril breathing. He had his audience mooing like cows as they emulated sounds that are supposed to trigger the body’s healing chemicals and hormones. Sounds crazy to the uninitiated perhaps but try cramming all of Western medicine into a daylong lecture courtesy: The Tribune
Article extracted from this publication >> July 15, 1994
