Healing Wisdom

David Simon is a doctor of repute at Chopra Center, US. A neurologist by training, Simon's profound interest in holistic and consciousness-based medicine has been an on-going process, since his residency/fellowship years.

In “The Wisdom Of Healing,” Simon offers us a new model of health: a programme of optimal well-being that embraces the best of the objective and scientific interventions of Western medicine with the subjective and holistic approaches of ancient healing traditions -- most notably, ayurveda.

A thoroughly engaging and practical guide to the many benefits of mind/body medicine, Simon's classy work catapults to the fore a system based on individuality -- on our very own unique responses to food, exercise, stress, medicine and surgery, including a wide range of external factors.

Simon's work also explains one of the most primal frontiers of holistic medicine. Of how to use food as medicine; relaxation techniques; healing breath and neuromuscular exercises; and, techniques for detoxification, purification, and rejuvenation, including strategies for addressing such specific conditions as reproduction and pregnancy, aging, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain.

Woven with medical advice is the story of the author's journey as a young medical student, his frustration with the traditional accent 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.

Integrating Simon's thoroughly distilled tome would not only lead to a nature intended or restored to optimal health in body, mind, and spirit, but also “attach” it into the miracle of creation -- which is best expressed in a Vedic wisdom poem:

“As is the individual, so is the Universe./As is the human body, so is the cosmic healing body./As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind./As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.”

“The Wisdom Of Healing”
David Simon
Three Rivers Press/US
pp 352
Price: $12.75