“Mind comes before matter. Mental choices originate the messages that change organs, tissues, and cells.”
“The body is fluid and dynamic, not fixed and determined. Genes express whatever a person desires. They operate through switches that the mind can access.”
“The mind-body system is a feedback loop where input and output have many determinants, including lifestyle, environment, behavior, beliefs, and past conditioning. Through self-care, a higher state of wellbeing is attainable. Self-care makes daily use of the mind-body feedback loop.”
Chopra reminds us that the materials that make up our body are constantly changing.
“Ninety-eight percent of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago. The skeleton that seems so solid was not there three months ago.”
“The skin is new every month. You have a new stomach lining every four days, with the actual surface cells that contact food being renewed every five minutes.”
“Even within the brain, whose cells are not replaced once they die, the content of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on is totally different today from a year ago.”
Chopra also reminds us that our eyes are not cameras. What we see is actually the result of our mind-brain activity. Photons that transmit light are colorless and invisible. We create the color and intensity of our world.
“Light’s brightness and color, along with everything else we perceive, come from ‘conscious agents,’ a term coined by the farseeing cognitive scientist Donald Hoffmann of the University of California, Irvine. He proposes that the only reality we can know is the reality created by consciousness. If there is anything that is real but beyond the human mind, then it won’t be accessible.”
Life, Chopra says, “is intelligence riding everywhere on chemicals.” And despite appearing to be different, “mind and body are both soaked through with intelligence. The material body is a river of atoms, the mind is a river of thought, and what holds them together is a river of intelligence.”
“With thousands of chemicals on its shelf, a cell has not only to choose some, mix them together, and analyze the results. It has to make the chemicals in the first place, finding thousands of ways to create new molecules out of basically a handful of elements—carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. To do that requires a mind.”
Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, revised and updated (Bantam Books, 1989 and 2015), 47-48, 77-79, 100, 121-123.
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