Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul by Deepak Chopra - Exclusive Author Note and Excerpt

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A personal note from the author:

Creating a New Self: Smashing the Superstition of Materialism

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 contributionI 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 outevery 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.

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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 thatturns 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 canchange 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 thepower 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.

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Health, anti-aging, a strong sense of self, centeredness, spontaneous

right action, the increase of love and compassion -- these are allunited 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 theirlives, 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 ofyour 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

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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, yourallegiance 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.

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Reinventing the

BODY,

Resurrec t ing the

SOUL

HOW TO CREATE A NEW YOU

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Copyright 2009 by Deepak Chopra

All rights reserved.Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown

Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Harmony Books is a registered trademark and the Harmony Books colophon

is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN 978-0-307-45233-7

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To my beloved grandchildren,

Tara, Leela, and Krishan

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C o n t e n t s

Introduction: The Forgotten Miracle 1

reinventing your body 5

Breakthrough #1: Your Physical Body Is a Fiction 20

Breakthrough #2: Your Real Body Is Energy 35

Breakthrough #3: Awareness Has Magic 51

Breakthrough #4: You Can Improve Your Genes 73

Breakthrough #5: Time Isnt Your Enemy 88

resurrecting your soul 105

Breakthrough #1: Theres an Easier Way to Live 127

Breakthrough #2: Love Awakens the Soul 151

Breakthrough #3: Be as Boundless as Your Soul 171

Breakthrough #4: The Fruit of Surrender Is Grace 191

Breakthrough #5: The Universe Evolves Through You 211

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10 steps to wholeness 231

Conclusion: Who Made Me? 274

Acknowledgments 277

Index 279

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