How do rituals like chanting contribute to healing?
Rituals such as chanting are a key element in mind/body medicine. In this video, Deepak Chopra explains how rituals are part of the mystery of healing.
Transcript
You know, because science is so non-ritualistic,
the scientific method wants to take away the mystery of healing and reduce it to straightforward science.
We find it doesn't work. [MUSIC PLAYING]
We train doctors at the Chopra Center. They get 23.5 CME credits for taking our training.
It's a one-week training. And we've been doing it now for 20 years. And the [INAUDIBLE] sent people to monitor the courses.
And they do that periodically. So we give people a scientific basis
for these various interventions. You know, because science is so non-ritualistic,
the scientific method wants to take away the mystery of healing and reduce it to straightforward science.
We find it doesn't work. As long as you engage the patient through rituals, through music, through poetry, through chanting,
through interaction, they're more likely to be engaged. So there was value to tradition.
When you take the same thing and you take it out of the tradition, it doesn't work as well. [AUDIO LOGO]
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