The Nature Of Joy

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.

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!

Excited about that concept, he started training athletes on the principle that you can accomplish anything if you first establish silence. In turn, this led him to realize that if you can do it in exercise, you can do it in life. That spun off into an understanding of spiritual life. Through this you can unravel all the stress-mental, emotional and physical-disarm the protective nervous system, and let out who you 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 very 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.