Dear Readers and Friends,
In our quest to grow and evolve, we all run into obstacles. We meet resistance. Change proves stubborn and at times impossible. Anything that I can do to overcome these obstacles is a contribution I never wish to pass up.
In my new book I address the most difficult obstacle of all: the body.
The human body can be a source of the miraculous. The very minute I write this message to you, someone in a laboratory somewhere is breaking through old concepts about the body, discovering that what was once a machine made of flesh and bones is actually a living process, a river without boundaries. Yet you and I find ourselves with bodies that wear out, age, grow sick, and disappoint our highest aspirations for freedom and creativity.
Clearly, the body needs to be reinvented. That’s the main theme of my new book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul. I throw out every fixed belief about what the body can and cannot do. In their place, I offer five breakthrough ideas that can completely alter how you see your body and what you do with it.
Breakthrough #1 — Your Physical Body Is an Illusion
Breakthrough #2 – Your Real Body Is Energy
Breakthrough #3 — Awareness Has magic
Breakthrough #4 — You Can Improve Your Genes
Breakthrough #5 – Time Isn’t Your enemy
Each of these breakthroughs overturns an outmoded belief that turns into a physical limitation. If you think of your body as a physical object, you will cooperate with aging, because what is aging but a physical object wearing out? If you believe that time is your enemy, aging has gained another ally. If you accept that your genes are fixed, they take away your freedom to change.
What these five breakthroughs have in common is this: you can change your body through consciousness, because despite its physical appearance, your body is the product of consciousness to begin with. There is no difference between a thought and a molecule in the brain. Each intention sends signals to every cell in the body, causing the cell to change. Therefore, the most natural way to achieve change is through the power of intention.
The second half of the book’s title, Resurrecting the Soul, extends the power of consciousness far beyond the physical. The soul is your spiritual body. It brings nourishment to every cell as surely as nutrients are brought by the blood. Most people believe they have a soul, but they rarely if ever feel connected to it. When you reconnect, a kind of resurrection occurs: you discover that the closer you live to your soul, the better for your body.
Health, anti-aging, a strong sense of self, centeredness, spontaneous right action, the increase of love and compassion — these are all united at the deepest level of consciousness. Every cell is aware of the state of your soul, and vice versa. One consciousness, constantly moving and evolving, is who you really are.
This conclusion is the most important one I’ve arrived at after thirty years of teaching people how to unite body, mind, and soul. Union cannot be achieved one piece at a time. Even though most people attack their problems one at a time and have mixed priorities in their lives, the truth is that wholeness is wholeness. People don’t feel whole because they have excluded their bodies from the spiritual journey, judging the body to be inferior, defective, ugly, and devoid of intelligence. At the other end of the scale, they have sent the soul into a never-never region above and beyond this world.
So as you reinvent your body, which means accepting it as part of your whole consciousness, the soul must also be brought back into partnership with it. Five soul breakthroughs are needed:
Breakthrough #6 – There’s an Easier Way to Live
Breakthrough #7 — Love Awakens the Soul
Breakthrough #8 – Be as Boundless as Your Soul
Breakthrough #9 — The Fruit of Surrender Is Grace
Breakthrough #10 — The Universe Evolves through You
When you absorb these ten ideas, and follow the practical exercises attached to each, you will turn the process of life in a new direction. Instead of being blocked by obstacles, areas of freedom open up where you never imagined them. I speak personally, because the seed of this book dates back to my first days in medical school. When I used a scalpel to slice beyond the barrier of the skin, I gained scientific knowledge about the body, but at the same time I sacrificed the body’s mystery and holiness.
We need to have both. The reason you can reinvent the body rests upon solid new evidence about the brain, genes, and lifestyle changes. Yet those are the windows through which a much greater truth can be seen, which is this. When the flow of life encompasses mind, body, and soul, a person has found the easiest way to live. We must put out of our heads that unity is an exotic, faraway goal reached only by the spiritually gifted.
When you delve into Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, your allegiance will shift to wholeness. You won’t be fixated on your body, your mind, or your spiritual path. The three will merge, as they must in order to be whole. The reunion is the most joyous experience anyone can have, and happily for all of us, it’s also the most natural.
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
By Deepak Chopra, Harmony, October 13, 2009
Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits "the forgotten miracle" — the body’s infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to a dynamic, flowing process. "Your physical body is a fiction," Chopra contends. Every cell is made up of two invisible ingredients: awareness and energy. Using Chopra’s Ten Steps to Wholeness you can harness those basic elements to change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease.
Transformation cannot stop with the body, however; it must involve the soul. The soul–seemingly invisible, aloof, and apart from the material world—actually creates the body. Only by going to the level of the soul will you access your full potential, bringing more intelligence, creativity, and awareness into every aspect of your life.
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul delivers ten breakthroughs — five for the body, five for the soul – that lead to self-transformation. In clear, accessible terms Chopra shows us how to commit ourselves to deeper awareness, focus on relationships instead of consumption, embrace every day as a new world, and transcend the obstacles that afflict body and mind..
Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound teaching over the years. His bestselling books have explored the mind/body connection, and the power of spirit. With his latest book he invites you to experience with him the miracles that unfold when we connect the body directly to the awesome mysteries that give life meaning—directly to the soul. When you have completed this journey, after reinventing your body and resurrecting your soul, the ecstasy of true wholeness becomes possible for the very first time.
Wow!
Maybe this can shatter the hardest formed crystals of suffering….
I can feel its profound effects without even reading it….
This will probably make a real difference in the world I feel, I sense in a lot of places I go that people are ready for this approach now.
I will spread news of it
Love xx
I am so looking forward to reading this. I am walking the dog through the beautiful fall weather in the morning to pick it up at my favourite little book store, along with Carolyn Myss' 'Defy Gravity'. Housework can wait………
I love this post and cannot wait until I get Deepak's new book on 10/22!
I purchased it today on Amazon. I'm looking forward to reading it. You're timing couldn't be better, as healing and nurturing my body naturally has been on my list of top priorities. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, insight and understanding. Namaste.
Congratulations on your book — I'm watching you right now on "Morning Joe," and you're doing a great job! I think what you're saying is really resonating with everyone there on the set, as well as your larger audience. Well done!
So far, so good
I will avoid that bus. I am Neo, 
I thank you Deepak.
I have gotten the mind-body connection and 'saved' myself (and my loved ones) from a needless journey through prescription land.
I feel this 'bubble thought' or 'see' this imagery of just how healthy and vibrant I still can be, and yet I choose, conciously and unconciously, to remain obese and 'dis'-abled. I know that this is a fear based action on my part, to remain this way, for it has 'protected' me. It is looking around and understanding that I do not need protecting…
The timing of your book is impecable!
PS…You rocked the Joe this morning!
I've ordered your book, Deepak, and want to thank you from the deepest part of my soul for writing this book. It is so needed. I know I will gain much awareness from it.
Namaste,
Pam
Deepak. I'm such a dummy. I only now found my way to this site. I hope that in the future that I can make a substantial contribution to your following. Your teachings have saved my life, my marriage and my sanity. Thankyou so much. Love Always. bluesage2009 (from twitter)
Good luck with your new book Deepak. I will praise your name always. May I just say that my body grows stronger with every day that passes. I am 56 and I have no health problems what so ever. This is because I learned about the body's intelligence from a very early age. I also fasted and saw my body's miraculous response to illness. Today, I swim like a dolphin and dance with such grace that it amazes me. It is so wonderful to be healthy. My only problem was with how the world was always rejecting me. I was always looking for approval, but you fixed that and I am so grateful!!! So very, very grateful. Love Dianne.
I know from my experience in Taoist meditation in the Chinese tradition that much can be accomplished to retard aging, stay well, and calm the mind. Your book "Quantum Healing" me inspired me to train with a kung fu master to beat cancer years ago. But this "ageless" thing you espouse bothers me; we all age. Some better than others, due to the positive changes in their lives. But genetics comes strongly into play. I saw you interviewed a few months back about the Michael Jackson fiasco–you looked substantially older than the photo you use for your posts on this site. That bothers me a lot.
Did you know that it is has been said that the Munros of Scotland particularly Ben Nevis once stood higher, mightier and greater than Everest at one time…. even a mountain succumbs to time you see?… as great as one may seem in physical form, it is that which perceives the mountain that is outside of time and succumbs to nothing.
In spiritual terms there is one age and that age is timeless, it is like a stepping stone across lake Eternity, the stone you jumped to before this one is now behind you – look to the next one, not behind.
Be " No Age" just Be! and look after this bodymind, give it the unmolested food of the earth that grows from gods divine grace and unfathomable intelligence, give it your love, give it rest and peace, give it harmony with all other beings, give it your attention, give it your appreciation and feel deeply its infinite wisdom that holds life together effortlessly.
Deepak you must be looking older brother… bring your haggered self over here to Newcastle and I will buy you a pint of Newcy Brown my friend to celebrate your new book, if Geordie land can't make you into a young man again then there is no hope for you!
hehehehehehe
Love xx
I am your reflection as you are mine
Our father Which art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever
As-Sal?mu `Alaykum
PS…… Why on earth did you make us get old and wrinkly?
Lol
Love xx
I am yours as you are mine
I want a copy of this sure-hit!
Damn!
Nice to see the oldies like Simon and Jean still kicking around. Now, where's Uncle Tree, beachboy flabs and the gang?
Simon is as Kraaaaaaaazeeee as ever…hahaha……
Thank you for sharing! I learn from the thoughts and experiences shared by others, as humorous and enlightening as they are! I'm looking forward to acquiring the book.
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Gracias-Thank You Brother Deepak ~ I have a spiritual ministry of working with homeless refugees who suffer from the ravages of drug addiction and know that we must treat the whole human being in a wholistic way ~ combining the words 'whole' and 'holy'. The same as millions of others I appreciate your own ministry as you administer your information, knowledge and wisdom to us.
I understand that I am ultimately a cosmic spiritual being composed of the mind-body-soul trinity. I am a Follower of yours on Twitter. I am almost finished with Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Dr. Lanza with Berman, then I am looking forward to reading, absorbing and sharing the insights from your new book with others.
May the Creator continue to bless you in all your enlightening endeavors!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
http://twitter.com/Peta51