Come Back to Your Senses

Our inner pharmacy is filled with an incredible buffet of healing techniques. By using our senses with discrimination, we can awaken to their unlimited potential to nourish us. Our senses are the bridge to the world outside, and they play an active role in shaping our reality.

When you use your senses with mindfulness, the world becomes fuller, richer, and brighter. At the core of the inner pharmacy is the belief in the interconnectedness of the mind and body. The nature of human life is seen as a magnificent network of intelligence in which entirely new possibilities for healing can be embraced.

From this perspective, we can influence our health through our choices and interpretations: the food we eat, the sensory data to which we are exposed, and the texture of our emotional life.

Sound, sight, taste, touch, and smell are qualities that we can cultivate to expand the field of our existence.

In Ayurveda, the ancient healing system of India, each of the senses can be channeled to strengthen one’s health and foster wholeness in one’s life.

In fact, the root of the word health is the word whole. Whole implies the integration of all parts of an organism, a completeness. In this issue, Deepak Chopra, MD, and David Simon, MD, offer particular ways to use the senses for optimal health. Dr. Simon also describes ways the inner pharmacy can help with chemotherapy and addictions.

As we explore the power of the inner pharmacy in this issue of Perfect Health, we hope that it will help you navigate your experiences with more insight. By deepening the quality of our awareness, each moment unfolds as an opportunity to awaken.

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