The Nature Of Joy
Dr. John Douillard has been teaching Ayurvedic medicine, natural health, fitness, and nutrition internationally for 21 years. He is the author of 15 books, CDs and DVDs. He co-directed an Ayurvedic center for cancer with Deepak Chopra for eight years and has trained over 2,000 Western doctors in Ayurvedic medicine.
Dr. Douillard is an Ayurvedic practitioner. This means his view of the body and what health means is radically different. He feels passionately about helping people heal their bodies and minds and restore balance in their lives naturally.
When John went to an Ayurvedic lecture in 1979, he was looking for that zone athletes can achieve during sports, where they feel elated and maximized. He found out that there was a secret formula to this, and what began as a hobby transformed into a calling. This formula is what John calls the ‘coexistence of opposites,’ and involves experiencing both composure and dynamic activity simultaneously.
John came to see that if he trained less as a professional tri-athlete, he could perform better and accomplish more. It seems that the source of his activity was rest!
John started training athletes based on the idea that if you can first establish silence, you can do anything. It wasn’t long until he recognized that what worked in exercise could work in life. And an understanding of the benefits of a spiritual life became clear. Through these principles, a person can unravel the stressors-emotional, physical and mental-and disarm the protective nervous system. Only then can we let out who we really are.
Ayurvedic medicine is a system of medicine designed to help bring a person back into balance so his body can have the clarity to employ its own healing system to heal itself. Rather than speak the language of disease, an Ayurvedic diagnosis gives information about the underlying imbalances of what the body is trying to heal, the priority system of the body. We need to facilitate that so our bodies can reinstate their ability to heal themselves.
Dr. Douillard is passionate about not only teaching people to use Ayurvedic medicine, but to understand the spiritual transformation that takes place when we succeed in looking beyond the physical. Believing his role is to help people, he is committed to teaching people to develop their abilities to this end. He hopes they, in turn, will assist still others. These small steps have the power to change the world.
John Douillard has a radically different view of the body and what health means. If youd like to find out the one root cause of all ill health, as well as how to insure good health through prevention, visit this link to hear the John Douillard interview.