![]() While I appreciate the sentiment of this documentary I feel it lacked in so many areas. It left me in an overall impression of shallowness. Basically the movie just touches very sensitive areas of therapeutics without showing you clearly solved cases. Also quite bizzarre "match" between the lifestyle that some characters pretend to have ( yoga, ayurveda, meditation - which should balance and put one in deep connection to the real self), and their unnatural look ( obvious plastic surgery, underweight, hair dying in men, elegant hairdos etc). Yet only one of them is followed until the end of the disease, the other one being somehow lost in the eternal dilemma of choosing between harmful on long term conventional therapies and insufficiently proved unconventional ones. ![]() Two severely ill cases are presented throughout the whole movie, alongside their therapeutic journey encompassing a wide array of alternative therapies. What started as an overview of alternative therapies to diseases conventional medicine doesn't have an acceptable solution ended. I also question the objectivity of the over whelming majority of speakers in this presentation because they were authors who happen to make money off of selling an idea. Yes, thoughts & emotions do affect health, but what is presented here is exaggerated & grossly irresponsible. The fact is that science based medicine has doubled the life spans of peoples in comparison to those living in idyllic hundreds or thousands of years ago peoples. Probability says that some will survive outside Western science for any of a number of reasons including unique genetics or reversals that just happen. What we don't get are the statistics of how many of the hundreds of thousands or millions w/similar issues that didn't live. ![]() To support all this the evidence (and basically only evidence) is a few interviews of people who survived. You do so by tapping into an invisible power/intelligence that made us and thus can heal us. So by mediation, diet, emotion/thought you can control (i.e. Thoughts & emotions produce illness, disease & consequently death. Additionally that emotions, stress create densities in our bodies that are bad such as cancer, fibromyalgia, Crohn's, migraines, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, etc. Asian from some un-described point in history) coexists with something called energy (which of course is given many forms & sources) all in opposition to Western or science based medicine & thought. The doc's premises are largely that Eastern (i.e. So, several problems with this doc's presentation. Also, I am one of the original members of what is one of the first and is now one of the largest natural, organic, locally grown food cooperatives. These stories are presented as mainstream when they are in fact rare outliers.I shall start by saying that for decades I've supported some aspects of alternative medicine - naturopathic, herbal, etc. When her lymphoma disappears, the implication is that her mind power is even more responsible than her chemotherapy. Another patient shrinks her lymphoma by envisioning the war in her bloodstream and the cancer losing the battle with her chemical treatment. One of the film’s patients is told he will never walk again without major back surgery and metal rods but manages to overcome his spine fractures through visualizing the problem combined with exercises. ![]() Deepak Chopra himself discusses the broad applications of meditation in the movie (he was also present at the screening in New York that I attended). The film presents both a self-appointed “divine conduit,” as well as the healing power of different kinds of meditation. As the movie progresses, a more overriding theme takes over: It isn’t just relieving stress that’s at stake here, it’s the power of divine intervention. The problem, though, is that Heal spends hardly any time exploring the scientific underpinnings of the miraculous cures it highlights, or why they frequently fail for others.
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