Ayurveda

PROMISE OF A NEW MEDICINE-AYURVEDA
The first secret you should know about flawless health is that you have to choose it. You can only be as healthy as you think it is possible to be. Flawless health is no mere 5 or 10 percent improvement over good health. It involves a total shift in perspective that makes disease and infirm old age unacceptable. Can we really believe in "zero defects" for something as complex as the human body?

According to the National Institute on Aging, no diet, exercise, vitamin, drug, or lifestyle change has proved itself capable of reliably extending life. Averting the degenerative disorders that afflict the elderly, heart disease, stroke, cancer, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, osteoperosis, and so on-is more feasible than ever before but still unlikely. Although in public medical researchers speak optimistically of major breakthroughs in curing cancer and the other major intractable illnesses, they are much more pessmistic among themselves. The best that they hope for is creeping graudalism or taking one tiny step at a time toward a solution such as lowering cholesterol levels will, statistically, reduce heart attacks in a large group of people, for instance, but it does not guarantee that any single person will be spared.To make health twice or a hundred times better, you need a new knowledge, based on a deeper concept of life. This ts a unique source of such knowledge, a system of medicine and health care called Ayurveda. Dating 'a more than 5,000 years, Ayurveda comes from two sanskirt root words, Ayus, or "life," and Veda, meaning " knowledge" or "science." Therefore, Ayurveda is usually translated as "the science of life." An alternate and more precise reading would be "the knowledge of life's span." The purose of Ayurveda is to tell us how our lives can be " shaped, extended, and ultimately controlled without interference from sickness or old age.

The guiding principle of Ayruveda is that the mind exerts the deepest influence on the body.

According to Deepak Chopra, M.D.this state of balanced awareness, more than any kind of physical immunity, creates a higher state of health.
(much more flawless health to follow in days ahead)

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