Natural Healing for Anxiety and Depression

Internationally acclaimed and accredited philosopher Deepak Chopra, M.D. collaborates with Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. to explore the nature of mental turmoil and its symptoms as seen in modern society. Reflecting on the need to restore intuition, sensitivity, affection and aesthetics into daily life, Natural Healing for Anxiety and Depression presents invaluable guidance for using both meditation and herbal remedies proven to address your emotional and spiritual health.

Holistic doctor Harold Bloomfield and Deepak Chopra engage in a dialogue regarding the nature of emotional turbulence and how to approach it from a mind/body/spirit perspective. Dr. Bloomfield discusses several of the herbs (kava-kava, St. John's wort, gingko biloba) that are being used to treat depression, and he explains other holistic methods for treating anxiety and related disorders.

Deepak Chopra was born in New Delhi, India in 1946. He was educated as a medical doctor, specializing in endocrinology, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He served as Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, and has taught at Tufts and Boston University Medical Schools. He recognized limitations in the ways that his medical education approached treatment of individuals. Introduced to the ancient methods of Hindu healing, known as Ayurveda, by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he saw a way to add a spiritual dimension to treatment of illness. Chopra's thinking led him to develop a theory that he called Quantum Healing, which combines Western and Hindu medical practice. In 1984, Chopra brought Ayurvedic medicine to the United States, and within a year he established the Ayurvedic Health Centre of Stress Management and Behavioral Medicine in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He is also the founding President of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine and eventually founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. He has written more than 55 books including Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old (1993); Boundless Energy: The Complete Mind/Body Program for Overcoming Chronic Fatigue (1995); Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence (1991); Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life (1993); and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (1995). He has won numerous awards including a Quill Award for Peace Is the Way and the grand prize at the 2005 Nautilus Book Awards for The Book of Secrets. He also writes novels including The Return of Merlin (1995); Soulmate (2004); and Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment (2008).