Reinventing the Body - Your Body is on the Cutting Edge of Evolution

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You

New Book Release by Deepak Chopra

Book Review:  In "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You" a newly released book by famed spiritual author and guru, Deepak Chopra, he writes about Ten Simple Steps to Wholeness.  We learn that the day we were born, where we think physical evolution stops and death begins, a door has actually been left open; a door that opens the way to imagined possibilities, a door that allows your brain to adapt according to your thoughts and desires, a door that allows us to see the miracle of the mind-body connection. You are not yet hard-wired, your brain is fluid and flexible, ready to take on the world.  Even when you are older and have apparently developed hard-wired habits, you can still develop new connections, new circuits, you can remove limitations and boundaries placed on you by societal expectations.  Your body is on the cutting edge of evolution.

Table of Contents:

  Reinventing Your Body

1. Your Physical Body is a Fiction
2. Your Real Body is Energy
3. Awareness Has Magic
4. You Can Improve Your Genes
5. Time Isn't Your Enemy

Resurrecting Your Soul

1. There's an Easier Way to Live
2. Love Awakens the Soul
3. Be as Boundless as Your Soul
4. The Fruit of Surrender is Grace
5. The Universe Evolves Through You

Ten Steps to Wholeness

Conclusion:  "Who Made Me?"

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You - by Deepak Chopra.  Released October 13, 2009 - Hardcover - 304  pages.  Buy it now here.

Publishers Weekly, starred review:  "Alternative medicine guru Chopra, author of more than 50 books, argues that the bond between body and soul has been severed; it's his hope that humankind is about to embark on a restoration project that will give the soul the attention it deserves. Chopra presents five 'breakthroughs' that address the body and five that address the soul. He also walks readers through a fascinating discussion of how energy affects spiritual and physical health, and includes a scored personal energy efficiency quiz. According to Chopra, when 'subtle energy' becomes blocked, awareness can act like an invisible force that turns unhealthy energy around (he also explains how the expression of genes can be altered by lifestyle changes). Chopra encourages readers to follow their inner guidance, to embrace a journey to higher consciousness, to expand awareness through meditation and other methods, to ask for guidance and then wait for it to appear, and to trust their instincts. By accepting the over-arching power of the 'invisible' or non-physical world, Chopra maintains that we can begin to nourish a state of wholeness in which there is no longer a disconnect between body, mind, and soul. Though Chopra offers 10 'simple steps' to wholeness (including focusing on relationships instead of consumption), this is a multilayered text to savor and study; readers will continue to contemplate the author's message long after the final page is turned." 

Critics suggest there is nothing new in this book, but any book that can tweak our thinking about our bodies, our souls, our spirit, is useful - while it may not speak to Chopra's critics, it might speak to you.