Vital Energy: The 7 Keys to Invigorate Body, Mind, and Soul

Excellent book with practical tools to assess yourself; it explains how to incorporate Ayurvedic principles into your daily life. Love it!

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Vital Energy: The Seven Keys to Invigorate Body, Mind and Soul is a landmark contribution to health and wellness. The author poses two important questions:1) Why are so many people overwhelmed by fatigue, lack of enthusiasm, and depression?2) Why are so many people haunted by the sense that something vitally important is missing from their lives?In pursing answers to these questions, Simon focuses on the idea that "we have learned a lot about how to treat illness but not much about how to create health." In medical school he learned that modern medicine can effectively deal with the symptoms of disease without necessarily helping them to heal.Simon states, "I learned that health and illness were the consequence of the thoughts and choices people made." This personal discovery came to him through the tension that existed between his medical studies and his cross-cultural explorations of health and wellness in various parts of the world.Healing is a holistic concept that has global reach. The idea of healing in many cultures is focused on creating a greater sense of unity across mind, body and spirit. Simon promotes the belief that the experience of happiness and health represents an essential unity across mind, body and spirit while unhappiness and disease represents some degree of disintegration. A broad view of healing is critical for reintegrating these essential connections and David SimonÕs ÒVital EnergyÓ is an essential contribution to everyoneÕs health and well being.

This book is practical, easy to understand and provides the keys to increased vitality. If you have an interest in Ayurveda, it is a wonderful book which provides simple steps for incorporating the ancient practices into a modern life. Dr. Simon is a gift and so is his "how to" manual "Vital Energy".

Didn't give me much not in form of actual information and spiritual enlightment. Not inspiring for me at all. Didn't get much out of it

I was inspired by Vital Energy. The book is loaded with intimate, revealing questionnaires and specific action steps that I was able to put into practice right away.This book teaches how to fill ourselves up from the inside, and gain access to the wellspring of vitality that is available to all of Nature's creatures. The seven keys can be followed like a roadmap for happiness. They illuminate the secrets for taking great care of our bodies, purifying our emotions, feeling more love in our lives and fulfilling our divine purpose on Earth. David Simon offers us a profound view of our place in the Universe, while all the time encouraging us not to take ourselves too seriously.Vital Energy is a potent distillation of spiritual guidance, self help techniques and holistic medicine. Just what the doctor ordered!

David Simon,what a rare jewel. Having been drawn to your book by synchrodestiny, I am truly appreciative of your understanding of all that incorporates our "Being". Now I will be able to take my earth tendencies and balance them effectively following your advice, which will be a pleasure. Reading the vitality questionnaire... my score revealed that my vital energy is great and my enthusiasm for life abundant and that I could give my newly purchased book to someone else and be on my way... but still... what to do about my search for balancing my body? Still at a loss as to the "how" of balancing my earth body with my playful spirit, mind and soul, I read on and was very happy to discover my answers. I will use this book as a workbook even though it is a hard cover. Every page answers every question I wish I had known how to ask...and now I do.

Dr. David Simon has done an excellent job in describing ancient Ayurvedic wisdom for well being of body, mind and soul. Dr. Simon has explained in simple modern language the Ayurvedic principles for invigorating body, mind and soul. Although, being an Indian, I was familiar with many of the things stated by the author, the simplicity and clarity of the whole book has value- added to my own understanding of the ancient vedic science. Author has dealt with almost all the methods of reaching the source of vital energy which is available within all of us. Author's suggestions are not only very useful but so pratical that one can use them for one's own benifit without much of complex efforts.I emphatically suggest everyone read this book, practice the principles told methodically and ENJOY invigorating VITAL ENERGY for body, mind and soul.Lastly, but not in the least, this book must be kept on the book shelf for day to day reference till the time the principles get thoroughly ingrained in one's own Mind-Body system.

Excellent book