Leadership

Leadership is the most crucial choice one can make—it is the decision to step out of darkness into the light.

Bestselling author and spiritual guide Deepak Chopra invites you to become the kind of leader most needed today: a leader with vision who can make that vision real. Chopra has been teaching leadership to CEOs and other top executives for eight years, and the path outlined in The Soul of Leadership applies to any business, but the same principles are relevant in every community and area of life, from family and home to school, place of worship, and neighborhood. “At the deepest level,” Chopra writes, “a leader is the symbolic soul of a group.”

With clear, practical steps, you are led through the crucial skills outlined in the acronym L-E-A-D-E-R-S:
L = Look and Listen
E = Emotional Bonding
A = Awareness
D = Doing
E = Empowerment
R = Responsibility
S = Synchronicity

After identifying your own soul profile and the core values you want to develop, you can use these seven skills to allow your potential for greatness to emerge. Only from the level of the soul, Chopra contends, are great leaders created.

Once that connection is made, you have unlimited access to the most vital qualities a leader can possess: creativity, intelligence, organizing power, and love.

The Soul of Leadership aims to fill the most critical void in contemporary life, the void of enlightened leaders. “You can be such a leader,” Chopra promises. “The path is open to you.

The only requirement is that you learn to listen to your inner guide.” In this unique handbook you are shown how to do just that, in words as practical as they are uplifting. The future is unfolding at this very minute, and the choice to lead it lies with each of us, here and now.

Your Body’s Natural Process of Renewal

The Stem Cell Theory of Renewal proposes that stem cells are naturally released by the bone marrow and travel via the bloodstream toward tissues to promote the body’s natural process of renewal.

When an organ is subjected to a process that requires renewal, such as the natural aging process, this organ releases compounds that trigger the release of stem cells from the bone marrow.

The organ also releases compounds that attracts stem cells to this organ.

The released stem cells then follow the concentration gradient of these compounds and leave the blood circulation to migrate to the organ where they proliferate and differentiate into cells of this organ, supporting the natural process of renewal.

Your Body's Natural Process of Renewal

Aging: Mediterranean Diet as Brain Food

The Mediterranean diet — heavy on vegetables, fish and olive oil, with moderate amounts of wine— may be associated with slower rates of mental decline in the elderly.

Some previous studies have suggested that the diet has beneficial effects for the brain, but the evidence has not been strong. A new report analyzed data from a continuing study of 3,790 Chicago residents 65 and older that began in 1993. The researchers tested the subjects’ mental acuity at three-year intervals, and tracked their degree of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on a 55-point scale.

High scores for adherence to the diet were associated with slower rates of cognitive decline, even after controlling for smoking, education, obesity, hypertension and other factors.

The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has significant strengths in its prospective design, large sample and use of a well-validated dietary questionnaire. But the authors acknowledged that they could not account for all possible variables, and cautioned that it was an observational study that draws no conclusions about cause and effect.

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Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a complete healing system, part of the Chinese Medical model often producing amazing results. It is performed by certified practitioners and physicians to treat certain medical conditions.

Acupuncture is a therapy that has been used for centuries. It is philosophy-based medicine, and constitutes a main component of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Acupuncture is a wonderful complement to western medicine, but is not a substitute for it. It is also starting to make inroads into veterinary medicine.

It is performed with sterilized, thin, filamentous needles. It is a relatively safe treatment in the hands of a competent practitioner.

It is supported by scientific research as a physical therapy aimed at healing body, mind, and sprit. Acupuncture is a method of encouraging the body to promote natural healing and improve function. In this context acupuncture is one of the safest of therapies.

Acupuncture is thought to be most effective when practiced regularly over a period of time. It has been used for centuries to treat a wide variety of medical conditions, including headaches, high blood pressure, back pain, infertility, and more recently as a method to help people quit smoking. Acupuncture has also been used in the treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse.

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