The Heart of Wellness: Bridging Western and Eastern Medicine to Transform Your Relationship with Habits, Lifestyle, and Health

"[The Heart of Wellness] is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what it means to live whole-heartedly―regardless of one's state of health."―Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never Age

"Along with her expert modern medical knowledge, [Kavitha] has brought compassion, gratitude, and Vedic wisdom in a clinical, helpful way to bring about total heath."―Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASc, Ayurvedic physician and author of The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies

Discover the Healing Power of Bliss Rx

Transform your relationship with habits, lifestyle, and disease using Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan's remarkable approach to health. Integrating modern medicine and the ancient wisdom of Yoga, Vedanta, and Ayurveda, The Heart of Wellness shows you how to break free of the false assumption that disease is something you need to fight. Instead, you'll explore the mind-body connection and your true nature so that you can end suffering and embrace the unlimited bliss of who you are.

You'll begin by examining the nature of disease: the causative and risk factors, the role of diet, exercise, and medication, and how Eastern and Western medical practices can come together. A holistic and self-paced practice is outlined, based on the author's successful Heal Your Heart Free Your Soul program. With it you'll learn to reduce stress, attend to inner needs with meditation and breathwork, declutter your outer life, increase forgiveness and gratitude, and so much more.

Praise:

"Provides a welcome paradigm shift in how we approach health, wellness, chronic disease, and for that matter, life."―Barry A. Franklin, PhD, FACSM, MAACVPR, FAHA, director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation at William Beaumont Hospital

"Once in a generation a book appears that defines a new paradigm in its field. The Heart of Wellness is that book for our generation."―Joel K. Kahn, MD, FACC, clinical professor of medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and author of The Plant-Based Solution (Sounds True, 2018)

"Heart of Wellness is a perfect blend of Vedic Wisdom with latest Medical Science. Dr. Chinnaiyan has created a much-needed template for the true application of Vedic Sciences in Integrative Medicine. Kudos!"―Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar BAMS, MD, author of Change Your Schedule Change Your Life (Harper Collins, 2018)

"What sets Dr. Chinnaiyan's work apart from other books is the vital additional message that "we are not our body-mind." That is, while the wisdom of traditions such as Ayurveda do promote and sustain the health of the body-mind through diet and lifestyle, their ultimate value is the recognition of the primacy of Consciousness and capacity to cultivate awareness beyond the body-mind, of the Self, the true foundation of wellbeing."―Paul J. Mills, PhD, director and professor of family medicine and public health at UC San Diego's Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health

"The Heart of Wellness details how the body can be an ally to self-inquiry, not an impediment. I recommend this unique book, whether your interest is physical health or spiritual enlightenment, or both."―Dr. Greg Goode, PhD, author of After Awareness, The Direct Path, and Standing as Awareness

"[This book] harnesses the power of our mind, senses, and spirit, the discovery of latent bliss, and admirably refutes our endless seeking of material things and desires."―Barry A. Franklin, PhD, FACSM, MAACVPR, FAHA, director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation at William Beaumont Hospital

"Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan adeptly explains that bliss is created when you understand your true nature. With her cross-disciplinary expertise, Dr. Chinnaiyan guides you through diet, breathing exercises, and meditation, and helps you inhabit your body, mind, and spirit wholly and with true understanding. . . The Heart of Wellness is a compassionate guide offering a way for the totality of your being to experience true healing."―Pratima Raichur, author of Absolute Beauty

"In Dr. Chinnaiyan's passionate new book, she explores not only a modern approach to heart health through western medicine, diet, and exercise, but delves equally into the meaning of wellness and finding joy and bliss in health and disease."―Dr. Partha Nandi, MD, author of Ask Dr. Nandi

"The Heart of Wellness is an important read for health care professionals and their patients with the vision to look beyond the medical model."―Melvyn Rubenfire, MD, professor of internal medicine and director of preventive cardiology at the University of Michigan and editor of Psychiatry and Heart Disease

"The Heart of Wellness provides an intuitive, practical, and sensible approach to restoring balance and resilience. Kavitha has eloquently put together the Bliss Rx, taking the best from eastern philosophy and western science. I urge you to read this book."―Dr. Pankaj K. Vij, MD, author of Turbo Metabolism (New World Library, 2018)

"Dr. Kavitha Chinnaiyan has written a masterpiece . . . Readers will be emboldened and motivated to realize their true blissful nature."―Todd C. Villines, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCCT, professor of medicine at Uniformed Services University of the Health Science and director of cardiovascular research at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center