
Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide

“If you want to see what your thoughts were like yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to see what your body will be like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today.”
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
When you are comfortable with this effortless process, you can add the mantra “so hum” to the procedure, silently thinking the word “so” on each inhalation and “hum” on each exhalation.
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
What you can do is find the balance that is right for each dosha in you. The doshas function on a sliding scale, with too much or too little at either end of the scale and a point of balance in the middle:
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
Every cell in your body has to contain all three of these principles.
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
The simplest way to view herbs is as concentrated food.
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
Vata types are sometimes said to spend themselves too freely, wasting money, energy, and words,
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
Vata is balanced by salt, sour, and sweet. Pitta is balanced by bitter, sweet, and astringent. Kapha is balanced by pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Deepak Chopra M.D. • Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide
Sarcastic, critical speech identifies a Pitta imbalance,