David’s Publications

David Simon, M.D. is the author of many popular books on mind-body health, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual awakening.  He is currently composing a new book called The Five Awakenings.

The Chopra Center Herbal Guide: 40 Prescriptions for Perfect Health
(with Deepak Chopra)
This book explores the traditional and scientific basis of herbal medicine, presenting a practical balanced role for natural products in modern health care.  People around the world are increasingly working with their own bodies to restore balance. They’re using medicinals found in nature to avoid the side effects of antibiotics and turning to traditions that have passed the test of time.

The oldest medical system of all is Ayurveda, which dates back 5,000 years to its origins in India. In this guidebook, Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., draw on the forty most important herbs of Ayurveda, from aloe and amrit kalash to ginger and winter cherry, to create a practical, popular reference book that shows how to strengthen immunity, rejuvenate the body, boost energy, and detoxify the system. Each listing contains botanical information, scientific research, instructions on using the herb, a line drawing, precautions, and most important, the specific ailments each herb is best suited to remedy, including those involving digestion, mind and emotions, women’s and men’s health matters, metabolism, pain, arthritis and inflammation, circulation, and many more.

Free to Love, Free to Heal: Heal Your Body by Healing Your Emotions
Free to Love, Free to Heal offers a proven path to authentic healing. Drawing upon the Eastern healing arts and modern science, Dr. Simon shows you how to identify and transform the core misunderstandings that inhibit your body’s natural healing response. Here is a five-step process that has helped thousands release their emotional pain, find freedom from the past, and reclaim their health and happiness.

Dr. Simon provides a systematic approach to identifying, mobilizing, and releasing the life-damaging beliefs and memories that contribute to chronic pain, anxiety, obesity, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, addictive behaviors, chronic fatigue, and a host of other emotional and physical health problems. If you are prepared to become an active partner in your own healing journey, the information within this book will help you heal your emotions and heal your body.

Freedom from Addiction: The Chopra Center Method for Overcoming Destructive Habits
(with Deepak Chopra)
For anyone struggling to break the cycle of addiction comes the groundbreaking approach from the Chopra Center, the world-renowned facility that has successfully helped thousands of people change their lives for the better. In Freedom from Addiction, David Simon and Deepak Chopra outline their revolutionary approach – one that defies outmoded beliefs about recovery, particularly that people ‘are’ their addictions or that they are powerless to control them. By integrating the best of Western research with Eastern traditions, Simon and Chopra give anyone the tools to uncover the true cause of their addiction and provide comprehensive steps to end it for good. Readers will discover how to:

• Recognize the purpose their habit serves and how to fill the void
• Identify triggers and avoid relapse
• Deal with disappointments, insecurities, or anger in ways that provide lasting relief, not a temporary high
• Use meditation to counter stress
• Choose foods and supplements that will detoxify the body and curb cravings

By following the path thousands have used to turn their lives around, now anyone can have access to the renowned Chopra Center’s program to achieve lasting freedom from addiction.

Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging
(with Deepak Chopra)
The ten-step program detailed in this book will immediately improve your sense of well-being, and the three Daily Actions accompanying each step will help you thoroughly integrate the age reversal process into your life. Learn how to maintain a youthful mind, cultivate flexibility, strengthen your immune system, nourish your body, and much more. As you begin to reverse your biological age, you will find yourself tapping into your inner reservoirs of unlimited energy, creativity, and vitality.

David Simon, M.D. and Deepak Chopra, M.D. present ten practical steps that enable listeners to reset their biological age (which determines how you look and feel) as much as fifteen years lower than their chronological age. At the heart of Grow Younger, Live Longer is a simple-to-follow program for personal renewal, complete with specific supplements, exercises, and meditation techniques. The steps include:

• Change your perception of time
• Access restful awareness and restful sleep
• Nourish your body with anti-aging food
• Eliminate toxins
• Make love the most important thing in your life

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth
(with Deepak Chopra)
A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources: the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, with its emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and the latest Western scientific prenatal research. By integrating the best information from these two very different perspectives, this remarkable book gives readers the tools to ensure that our children are nourished by thoughts, words, and actions from the very moment of conception.

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives is rich in practical information, including strategies to help enliven the body intelligence of unborn babies by nourishing each of their five senses, as well as through ayurvedically balanced nutrition and eating with awareness. Specific yoga poses and meditation techniques reduce the mother’s stress and improve the infant’s emotional environment, as do tips for conscious communication with a partner. Exercises prepare parents for the experience of childbirth itself, followed by natural approaches to dealing with the first weeks of parenting, from healing herbs to enhancing your milk supply to coping with postpartum depression.

Inspiring, expansive, and remarkably informative, this unique book from acclaimed experts in mind-body medicine will profoundly enhance the experience of pregnancy and birth for both parents and baby.

Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind and Spirit in the Face of Cancer
David Simon breaks new ground with the innovative holistic mind-body approaches developed at the Chopra Center. The guiding theme of this book is wholeness, as Dr. Simon demonstrates to readers the value of integrating the best of traditional and alternative medicines with ancient Eastern, Ayurvedic principles and practices in order to forge the most effective path to wellness. Richly annotated, Return to Wholeness features advice and recommendations on every aspect of living with illness, including:

• Designing a simple nutritional program to purify, rejuvenate, and provide balance
• Benefiting from the healing properties of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and herbs
• Withstanding the toll exacted by chemotherapy and other medical techniques
• Incorporating various kinds of meditation, creative visualization, and aromatherapy into the larger Return to Wholeness program
• Specific advice on dealing with breast, prostate, and colon cancers
• Weathering emotional cycles through art therapy, journaling, laughter, and music

Guiding those with cancer – along with families and caregivers – toward a new environment where the physical and the spiritual are one, Dr. David Simon provides unprecedented support and hope in our ultimately rewarding return to wholeness.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Guidebook
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Guidebook is a map for the conscious explorer – a travel guide highlighting the essential landmarks along the journey to wholeness. As we expand our awareness through the practice of yoga, we become more capable of perceiving the richness that life offers.
The primary purpose of the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga is not to champion a particular style or yogic tradition. Rather, it is to encourage the intention of using yoga to enliven awareness. Therefore, no matter what yoga method you find most appealing (flow, hot, power, restorative, etc.) the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga can add value to your practice.

There are seven signature elements presented in this guidebook:

1. A description of the spiritual law of the day
2. Three practices to awaken the spiritual law in your daily life
3. Inspirational words to reinforce the principles of the spiritual law
4. A classical yoga chant to infuse your body and mind with the vibrations of wholeness
5. A featured yoga pose that enlivens the chakra corresponding to the spiritual  law
6. The mantra that clears or opens the chakra that resonates with the spiritual law
7. A sacred poem to instill the principles of the spiritual law into your heart

A Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga class integrates all seven elements and sets the tone for the entire day. In this way, the practice of yoga becomes practice for life outside of class – one that expands our sense of self and our capacity to authentically create, connect, and love.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
(with Deepak Chopra)
The remarkable benefits of yoga, which include improved flexibility, balance, muscle tone, endurance, and vitality, only hint at the extraordinary power of this deeply spiritual practice. When adhered to and practiced mindfully, yoga can unlock readers’ full creative potential, their capacity for love and compassion, and ability to find success in all areas of their lives.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga brings spirituality back to yoga. It shows how the Seven Spiritual Laws play a crucial role in yoga’s path to enlightenment while providing readers with a wealth of meditation techniques, mantras, breathing exercises, and yoga poses. Whether a newcomer to yoga or an experienced practitioner, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga is a portal to yoga’s deeper spiritual dimension and a beautiful step to a happier, more harmonious, and more abundant life.

The 10 Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices
In the spirit of both Eastern and Western traditions, Dr. David Simon shows how changing our mindset from commandment to personal commitment can help us make the life transformations we want and need.

We were raised on the Ten Commandments and unfortunately most of us use the philosophy of “thou shalt not” (eat too much, drink too much, work too hard, etc.) to command ourselves to change. Dr. Simon encourages us to embrace the power of commitment to create a life of greater peace, vitality, love, and purpose. Through commitment to be authentic, love more openly, embrace abundance, and relax, we can translate our desires into actions that bring about transformation and healing.
Vital Energy: The 7 Keys to Invigorate Body, Mind, and Soul
Are you overwhelmed by fatigue, lack of enthusiasm, and depression? Do you feel that something vitally important is missing from your life? Each of us has an inner treasury of energy and creativity, but many of us have lost the key. Filled with compassionate spiritual wisdom, down-to-earth health advice, and beautiful, insightful writing, Vital Energy gives you a proven, practical plan for tapping into your own reservoir of vitality through healing nutrition, healthy and loving emotions, a balance between mindful work and joyful play, and an appreciation for the sacred magic of life.

The Wisdom of Healing: A Natural Mind Body Program for Optimal Wellness
An engaging, thoroughly practical guide to the many benefits of mind body medicine, in particular those derived from the ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda. In Ayurveda, David Simon has found a system based on individuality – on our unique responses to food, exercise, stress, medicine, surgery, and a wide range of external factors. By using the mind-body questionnaire, you can establish your own mind-body type and find a daily routine that is ideally suited to creating optimal health for you.

In these pages you will also learn how to use food as medicine; relaxation techniques; healing breath and neuromuscular exercises; techniques for detoxification, purification, and rejuvenation; and strategies for addressing such specific conditions as reproduction and pregnancy, aging, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain.

Intermingled with medical advice is the story of the author’s journey as a young medical student, his disappointment with the traditional emphasis on the mechanics of disease and diagnosis, and his discovery of a medical science that focuses on the patient in its strategies for achieving and maintaining optimal health. By integrating this book’s information into your life you will become as nature intended – restored to optimal health in body, mind, and spirit, free to experience the joy in every moment.