A Passion To Heal
For 21 years, Dr. John Douillard has been teaching Ayurvedic medicine, fitness, nutrition and natural health. Along with Deepak Chopra, he co-directed an Ayurvedic cancer center for eight years, and is responsible for training more than 2,000 Western doctors in the Ayurvedic medical discipline.
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.
What began as a hobby transformed into a vocation when John went to a lecture of an Ayurvedic teacher in 1979. Initially looking for that zone in which athletes feel euphoric and have maximized potential during sports, he found out there was a secret formula, which he calls the ‘coexistence of opposites’. This involves experiencing dynamic activity and composure at the same time.
As a professional tri-athlete, what John ended up doing as a result of what he learned was to train less and meditate more. Rest was actually the source of his activity.
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’s passion is to teach people to use Ayurvedic medicine to understand the spiritual transformation that can happen when we see beyond the physical. He sees himself as a servant who is here to help people. He continues to develop the ability, and teaches others to do the same. If people feel safe enough to be themselves, they become like little suns to make other people feel safe enough to open up their hearts and be themselves. This has the power to change the world.
John Douillard has a radically different view of the body and what health means. If youd like to discover the one basic cause of all ill health, as well as how to insure good health through prevention, visit this link to hear the John Douillard interview.
