What is your prakriti?

Some years back, a small boy used to suffer from chronic indigestion. After visiting many Allopathic physicians, his parents finally took him to an Ayurvedic practitioner. This doctor weaned him off all medicines and prescribed him a diet replete with nutrients and encouraged him to include more exercise and activity in his daily schedule. Soon enough, the kid’s problems vanished and he was back to his kicking self again. Till he reached the USA and started bingeing on junk food and red meat and aerated drinks. Exercise vanished and he was back to nursing his upset stomach frequently…. Now, this young man has started taking his old doctor’s advice very seriously. He is a pure vegetarian, practises Yoga regularly and not only his stomach but his dispostion also has improved vastly.

Pinch recently got three books from the library each authored by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Unlike popular perception, Dr. Chopra doesn’t script self-help and self-esteem building books. Well, maybe he does but that is certainly not the mainstay of his writing. Dr. Chopra was a successful practitioner of Western medicine in Boston before he started studying Ayurveda seriously. He trained in Ayurveda under Ayurveda technicians and this caused him to lose his license. Now he is an Ayurvedic consultant for the Maharishi Ayurveda Foundation and has treated countless patients using Ayurveda techniques.

I have been reading ‘Perfect Health’ by Dr. Chopra and among some of the most exciting things, he talks about the quantum method of healing.
In the good doctor’s own words,
In India’s ancient Vedic tradition, the most basic force underlying all of nature is intelligence. The universe, after all, is not “energy soup”; it is not mere chaos. The incredibly exact fit of things in our world – above all, the astonishing existence of DNA – argues for an infinite amount of intelligence in nature……Instead of seeing your body as a collection of cells, tissues, and organs, you can use the quantum perspective to see it as a silent flow of intelligence, a constant bubbling up of impulses that create, control, and become your physical body. The secret of life at this level is that anything in your body can be changed with the flick of an intention.

Dr. Chopra gives the example of a 6-year old boy who suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder. This child had more than 12 different personalities living within him. As Timmy dropped one personality and put on another, remarkable changes occurred in his body. One personality suffered from diabetes and therefore exhibited insulin-deficiency. Yet the other personalities tested normally for insulin levels. One personality had high blood pressure while the others didn’t. Scars, warts and sores appeared and disappeared with the changing of personalities. Some personalities had blue eyes and some were brown-eyed.

Dr. Chopra opines that ‘As Timmy chooses to be allergic, we confront the possibility that we are choosing our own diseases too. But if we have such an ability, we should be able to control it too.’

Seems like a marvellous doctrine….You must read it to know what I’m talking about.