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June 21, 2013
Near-Death Experience – A Myth Or A Reality
You’ve probably heard the term “near-death experience” but have you ever given it much thought? I know I hadn’t, until I experienced my own life-changing event. In 2008, a routine surgery led to numerous complications and over the next two years, I endured chronic pain, dependency on pain medications, depression and seven
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May 31, 2013
Why are We Reborn? Past Life Regression
The most intriguing question I have had in my life was why I got prostrate cancer, which in turn led to chronic pelvic pain from multiple urological surgeries, which in turn led to dependence on pain killers.
In April 2012, while at Mount Madonna on a ”past life regression” spiritual retreat with
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May 15, 2013
Why I Am the Next Rajiv Parti
Ever since I started blogging and writing, being an Indian and a doctor with a deep interest in spiritual wellness, people often ask me, “Are you trying to be the next Deepak Chopra?”
My answer is simple: “No. But I am trying to be the next Rajiv Parti.”
Why do I say
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May 13, 2013
The Keys to Success and Fulfillment
I have had the good fortune to live a very successful life as a doctor and now, on my path as a speaker and author. To remind myself, I compiled the following list of attributes that I have followed, which helped me achieve success. This is my go-to list I refer to
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May 10, 2013
What Will Your Legacy Be?
The date marking 20 years since my father’s passing came up recently. In looking back, I can recall that day as if it were only yesterday.
My father was in a hospital in Fresno, California, for heart bypass surgery, and I’d flown in from New Orleans where I was doing my residency
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April 27, 2013
Everything and Anything is Possible
It was monsoon time in India, and the torrential rains were steadily coming down. I was 16 years old, a school boy who didn’t like school.
One rainy day in July of 1973, I looked out the classroom window to see my dad’s light green Vespa sitting outside the school principal’s office.
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April 7, 2013
Maya (The Goddess of Great Illusion)
Last week I wrote about my experience at The Chopra Center during my Meditation Instructor certification, where Deepak Chopra inspired me to write about ”Software of the Soul“.
There was another event that happened in that week though – which has taken me a little longer to understand. When I was
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Ayurveda on Addiction
Addiction is directly related to the brain. Drugs trick the brain with dopamine; the body listens to the messages sent by the duped brain and abides by them, leading to addiction. Can the brain be brought back to normalcy, and ensure a permanent addiction recovery? We
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April 2, 2013
The Joy of Random Giving
I recently met a a very kind man, Dr Chuck Wall, a retired professor and our local motivational speaker. He has been on Oprah and invited by Presidents to the White House on several occasions. Out of his kindness, he is helping me improve my public speaking skills
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April 1, 2013
A Key to Happiness: Embrace Uncertainty with Open Arms
Most of us want our path in life to be predictable, with no rough patches or surprising twists. We are averse to abrupt changes in the path’s surface from smooth to rough, sudden hairpin turns, and drop-offs that means we have to carefully negotiate ourselves down a bluff to continue our
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