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

by David Simon, Deepak Chopra (Foreword)

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.

385 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 1997

About the author

David Simon, M.D. is a mind-body doctor and co-founder of the Chopra Center.

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Reviews

[john · Rating 2 out of 5]

this isn't the most riveting or well written book i've ever read, but it is a great introduction to ayurveda...if you're into that sort of thing. i am.

[Diana Abreu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so happy to have come across this book. Having suffered from chronic pain, I have found relief in the prescriptions. Ayurveda teaches that “illness is the loss of the memory of wholeness and health is the restoration of this memory.”

Everyone would benefit from adopting the habits prescribed, of which daily meditation is foremost. Massage, healing sounds and music, breathing and yoga exercises, and “body intelligence techniques” with regard to eating with awareness.

There are specific prescriptions for whatever ails you. For my pain, I followed the prescription for energy and comfort.

I especially like the life-enforcing exercises which include walking barefoot on the earth for at least 10 minutes a day! I can’t do it everyday, but I have walked barefoot on the cold ground in just about every month. It sends a frisson of joy. Isn’t that more appealing than a bitter pill?

[Mari Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great reference book.