Hi deepak,

Top 5 beliefs are definately there.

realities against western assumptions

As I know The human body is pure intelligence, and not merely a bio-mechanism. The body is intelligent energy which has the natural ability to respond to every thought produced in our minds. The body is a means to connect with the zone of pure intelligence.

One of the fundamental ideas in Ayurveda is that your body is intelligent and seeks health if you support it through good habits. Additionally, health is defined as a dynamic state – not just the absence of disease as in modern medicine. The idea in Ayurveda is that health of the body can be increased not just maintained through right lifestyle and diet.

Every cell in your body is intelligent and will respond to your direction. The cells are all creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.

So it is really valuable what u said," Old age is no longer a useless leftover. But that's only the beginning. Once you begin to trust the body and listen to it, an intimate relationship gets established on the basis of loving regard rather than anxious mistrust. "

Nilesh

There seems to be two opposite forces at work in/with this body that I live in and lives in me. One force wants me to fly and the other wants me to stay stuck in old patterns.

It's amazing that this house of matter can continue to carry my spirit--or is spirit carrying this house of matter--after all the poor programming and conditioning. It's like being tossed around in a storm of cross-currents. Yet when the storm subsides you notice, whew!, that old familiar pattern of ebb and flow.

With an orientation toward center and wholeness the rhythms and cycles spiral upward in evolution. Thank God & Goddess!

Trish~~

Excellent! well said!

That's why Eastern societies tell you to revere the wisdom of old age.

Deepak is a living example of wisdom growing with age. Just see the progress of Deepak's intellectual writings over the decades - the multifaceted person that he is - a poet, physician, philosopher, artist, writer - also consider the topics on which he has grasp - almost anything from spirituality to science to politics to economics to lovemaking and peacemaking. I see Deepak now reaching such stellar heights that no longer is there any critic or skeptic of any notable repute who can find faults-backed-by-substance in any of his arguments.

"Old age is no longer a useless leftover. But that's only the beginning. Nobody knows how much more potential the body contains that is yet untapped. It would seem reasonable to expect more rather than less, however....it could be the most valuable medical breakthrough for coming generations."

Indeed. And Deepak is the world's foremost leader in this revolution(mind-body alternative/complimentary/wholeness medicine) and I am sure the fruits of this "breakthrough" will be had by the present generation. I suspect if high level spiritual practitioners like Deepak need it though. His understanding and awareness tells me that his mind body connectedness is so strong...I am sure he will further inspire the present and the coming generations in the west (who have poor connectedness) with his ever sharpening intellect and wisdom!

#3 Deepika

I could hardly agree more. But I think there's lot more to Deepak to appreciate and to be thankful to him. You just scratched the shining tip of the iceberg.

It gives me great pleasure to see people like you here at the Intentblog.

As Sardar Harb Singh would ask, where are you from Bibi Deepika?

"I think there's lot more to Deepak to appreciate and to be thankful to him. You just scratched the shining tip of the iceberg."

Indeed Tomas. Words are not enough to pay my gratitude for all the good things that graced my miserable existence when Deepak entered into my life with the light of his teachings.

"As Sardar Harb Singh would ask, where are you from Bibi Deepika?"

Thanks for asking. I am the sole daughter of a powerful factionist reddy family from the lawless lands of Rayalsema in South India. I guess that introduction will do for now. My life story can be mistaken for a script straight out of a south Indian movie. I am totally frustrated with blood and violence I saw so closely as I grew up in my family. The mindless violence in this age is mind boggling. Even a father kills a son if he is aligned to different faction.

Losing many brothers and uncles and even woman folks to crude bombs, axes , sickles and swords in factionist killings....I had to leave my family and India due to threats to my life to my distant relatives in foreign. This was when,a couple of years ago, I found Deepak Chopra and my life canged forever. I no longer hold grudge and revenge over the people who killed my brothers and my fathers supporters. Having read Deepak's books, I no longer fear death. Maybe one day I will return to my family land and people and roam free and spread peace.
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Those who are not introducedThe mindless violence is mind boggling. Even a father kills a son if he is aligned to different faction.
to Factionism phenomena in Raylasema may read this article:

The killing fields of Rayalaseema

K Sunil Kumar in Hyderabad

"The volcanoes of rivalry keep erupting in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, and the lava of hatred, powered by fiery politics, continues to claim countless lives.

More than 200 years old, the bloody faction wars show no signs of let up. On the contrary, they are getting bloodier and bloodier with warring groups pumping sophisticated weapons into the mindless wars. ..."

http://www.rediff.com/news/dec/05war.htm

“How far the mind-body revolution can go is uncertain, but it seems clear that each of us as individuals must reconnect to the body's wisdom on our own -- on that point all of alternative medicine agrees.”

How true!

Dear Deepak,

It has been a pleasure growing with you through your books and here, on Intentblog.
Thank you for that!

With gratitude,

Mieke

#5, Deepika says:

"I found Deepak Chopra and my life changed forever. I no longer hold grudge and revenge over the people who killed my brothers and my fathers supporters. Having read Deepak's books, I no longer fear death. Maybe one day I will return to my family land and people and roam free and spread peace."
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Now, now, this is the true spirituality, at work! Living in love, peace and harmony.

If someone slaps you on the face, offer him the other cheek, as Gandhi says.

If someone kicks you in the butt, before him prostrate straight, who says?

Thank you Deepak.

Love, Char

Deepika, for someone who is from the same place as Rajesekhar Reddy and talking about spirituality and having such level of understanding on Human nature is increadible. This proves the point that no one can profile people from one region, there are always good and bad people in every region,caste or religion.
Ideally if your spiritually mature there is nothing like good or bad.

Death is an icicle dagger....harmless as such and I thirst.

Our bodies intelligence is so interconnected that even on the so-called physical level the sense we have of individuality and separateness is only a thin veil of illusion that Dr. Chopra so brilliantly shatters.

100 trillion cells in our body, all have intelligence, all are with the rhythm of the cosmic intelligence. Like quantum mechanical interactions between leptons and photons, each electron in our body is connected with each other electron in the universe, even in the far off galaxies that the Hubble telescope cannot see. In this grand interconnectedness of the whole creation where there are stars zillions and zillions of light years away, we the human are nothing in front of the grand mind of the creator.
It's amazing, mind boggling to think of anything in the universe without any purpose in it. What is the future of the body depends on what our Lord has in mind. We are no body to think about anything, mind, body, cells, electrons or neurons.

Note: If anyone of you know about the fundamental entities of nature such as electrons and neurons, please educate us. I google them and am always lost. Thanks.