Chandna - Heal Your Body: Love Your Life: Discover your bodys natural abilities to heal itself.

Table of Contents

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Chapter 2:

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Chapter 11:

Chapter 12:

Heal Your Body Love Your Life

Copyright 2014: Dr. Divi Chandna, MD

eBook ISBN: 978-1-77084-520-6

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I dedicate this to Ed, Raj and JJ.
You are the backbone behind my work.
With love.

Chapter 1

Introduction

My Growing Fascination

Since I was a child, Ive been fascinated with health. I would hear statements such as, You cannot live without your health. Or, The most important things in your life are your family and your health. I often wondered what this thing called health was, and why it was so important. I would walk through my home town of Windsor, Ontario, wondering why this person was in a wheelchair or why another walked with a limp.

While I grew up, my family was all relatively healthy. We didnt frequent the doctors office very often, as my mother treated the common cold and flu at home with homeopathy & herbs. She had immigrated from India with my father six years before I was born and she still trusted her cultures traditional wisdom.

In my family, I was the accident-prone one. I often ended up in the emergency room with a dislocated knee, a sprained ankle or a broken arm. My father once told me that I must love the hospital because I was in the emergency room more than all of my three other siblings combined! Luckily, everything I experienced was relatively minor and I always seemed to mend well. My mother once commented that she thought I liked the emergency room so much that I got myself in trouble on purpose! She may have been right about that.

In fact, I did love the emergency room. I loved observing what went on there. I would sit back, and watch patients come and go, and marvel in fascination as physicians and nurses diligently went about their work. My eyes sparkled when I saw patients leave the hospital room with a smile. My fascination with health and the beginnings of a long journey towards becoming a healer was just starting.

It was no surprise to my parents that their accident-prone daughter, who loved the emergency room so much, ended up choosing medicine as a career. I was so excited that I started medical school at nineteen, and was out working as a family doctor by the time
I was twenty-five. I took the fast forward approach! My desire was so strong. I wanted to get out in the world and make a difference like all of those physicians and nurses that I watched in the hospital.

After finishing medical school, my life took very unexpected & interesting twists and turns. It led me on a path of studying alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, yoga and many other forms of healing. My eyes were opened to new things. I started to have a different understanding of disease and health, outside of the domain of western medicine.

Now I am approaching twenty years of practice, and my methods have changed drastically. My entire approach to disease, health and healing has transformed. I believe that my greatest job as a healer is to help people to develop a new relationship with their body that connects them with themselves.

My Lifes Work

The book you are holding is a compilation of my lifes work to date. This is what I teach and talk about every day, and what I help my patients learn for themselves. In this book, I hope to open your eyes to a whole new way of viewing health, your body, and disease.

In the first few chapters Ill share how I came to my beliefs about health, including my early medical career and my own personal health crisis.

Well review the current and historical models of western medicine, including my own model, which I call the mind-body-Spirit model. Together, we will review the scientific research behind alternative medicine, and explore various alternative paths and teachings, all geared to opening your eyes to your innate healing abilities.

Ill review my five-step path to healing your deepest injuries, weather mental, physical or spiritual. I will also show you the overlap of the three elements mind, emotions & Spirit in relation to health.

I will also give you an insiders view into medicine today. We will talk about the benefits of our health care system and all that it has to offer and how to use it in conjunction with the mind-body-Spirit approach.

My deepest hope is that this book inspires you to become pro-active in your health. I sincerely wish that you can see and embrace your body again, and truly love it for what it has to offer you. I hope that you will see that your body truly does love you and wants to be healthy and feel better.

Join me on this journey of health and healing. I am excited you are here and delighted to share this information with you!

Chapter 2

Early Medical Career

My interest in alternative medicine first grew out of a keen interest in working with patients. I was a young graduate, and relatively nave to life, so I went to work as a doctor with huge expectations. In my mind, I knew it all, and was ready to serve the masses. All my training was under my belt and I knew medicine inside and out. I was excited and prepared to work. I had my prescription pad, my stethoscope, my knowledge and was ready to heal the world!

Within the first few months, I was questioning my own work. It was a lot more difficult to heal people than I had thought!

The Mystery Begins

I found that patients would keep coming back to tell me that they were not feeling great. In my education, I was not prepared for this. Even though we spend two years in clinical work with patients, we have relatively short relationships with patients, compared to the longevity of working with the same patients day in and out for years on end.

What I found was that people would come in more than I expected to tell me their stories. Many days, I would simply sit back and listen to peoples hardships, their complaints and the stories of their lives. They may have been coming in for a blood pressure check, but what they really wanted was to just talk.

During these first few years working as a physician, I made my own observations. I was already beginning to understand that there is something about health and healing that has nothing to do with a stethoscope, a prescription pad or a bottle of pills. These locum years shed light on a deep mystery and started my fascination in alternative medicine.

Socio-economic Factors of Disease

I also observed social and cultural influences of health. I began my work primarily doing locums. Locum physicians are like substitute teachersthey fill in for physicians who are absent from their practice for vacation, maternity leave and so on. Most doctors only do locums for a few months, but I spent three years doing locums!

I was fascinated in what I learned just working in different towns and different areas of town, with people of different ethnicities and varied socio-economic status. I worked in Toronto, the biggest city in Canada, and in Princeton, a very small town in central BC. I worked on the west side of Vancouver in some of Canadas richest postal codes, and on the east side in some of the poorest.