Articles - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:26:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Articles - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 The Chopra Foundation Announces Initiative in Africa, Aims to Impact One Billion Lives https://choprafoundation.org/people/the-chopra-foundation-announces-initiative-in-africa-aims-to-impact-one-billion-lives/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:26:19 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=50128 NEW YORK, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Chopra Foundation (CF), a global nonprofit organization committed to fostering a more just, healthy, sustainable, and joyful world, is delighted to announce our focused effort to bring this mission to communities and individuals across Africa. The Foundation has formed strategic partnerships with impactful non-profit organizations already making a difference across […]

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]]> How AI Could Set Us Free https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-ai-could-set-us-free/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:34:15 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41992 By Deepak Chopra™ MD Various scientific fields over the course of history have hoped to master Nature for the benefit of humankind. At the top of the heap right now is artificial intelligence (AI), which has allied itself with the technology of robotics. Between them, AI and robotics are having a sizable impact on the […]

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]]> The Brain Needs Reinventing—Here’s How https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-brain-needs-reinventing-heres-how/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:08:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41990 By Deepak Chopra™ MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. We’re living in a golden age for brain research, which could revolutionize how we think, feel, and behave. Thanks to advanced brain scans like the fMRI, brain activity can be localized and even the most precise activity pinpointed. For example, researchers can spot the minuscule area […]

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]]> How to Begin a Conscious Lifestyle https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-begin-a-conscious-lifestyle/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:18:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41989 By Deepak Chopra™ MD Becoming more conscious will make you more successful in every area of life. that’s the theme I proposed in the first post of this series. This is an area that is vastly neglected by most people. They approach life on a day-to-day basis doing three things: 1. Following a set routine […]

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]]> Is There a Better Way to Be Happy? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/is-there-a-better-way-to-be-happy/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:18:01 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41988 By Deepak Chopra™ MD History is filled with powerful forces that change the face of the Earth, and right now we are experiencing one, an explosion of a new coronavirus that has upended daily life. Forecasts of a change world are in the air once the pandemic is over, but no one really knows what […]

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]]> To Live in the Now, Start from the Ground Up https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/to-live-in-the-now-start-from-the-ground-up/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:16:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41977 By Deepak Chopra™ MD One hears a lot about the power of now and the value of living in the present. To achieve this state of awareness requires a major change in everyday life. This much is clear, but producing such change is confusing and frustrating. When people seek personal change in their lives, they […]

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]]> Spirituality Means More Than Ever Now https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/spirituality-means-more-than-ever-now/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:03:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41976 By Deepak Chopra™ MD It’s natural in troubled times for people to reflect on God and religion as a source of solace and hop, which matters more in a crisis. But with church services being so limited, not to mention the decline in organized religion that has continued for fifty years, God isn’t the pillar […]

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]]> How to End the Blame Game https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-end-the-blame-game/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:20:23 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41974 By Deepak Chopra™ MD It’s time to talk seriously about the blame game. In a divided nation everyone finds reasons to blame, and the only choice is who deserves the blame. Targets are easy to find, because they are everywhere. Somebody, somewhere is behaving in ways you disapprove of. When the situation is us-versus-them, has […]

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]]> Why We Need the Divine Feminine https://choprafoundation.org/peace-2/why-we-need-the-divine-feminine/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:41:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41973 By Deepak Chopra™ MD With the decline of organized religion and a decades-old drop in church attendance, people have largely made their spiritual life into something private and personal. The rise of meditation and yoga attests to this. But it is hard to fix your sight on a spiritual goal if you don’t believe in […]

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]]> How to Get the Other Side to Yes https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-get-the-other-side-to-yes/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:27:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41971 By Deepak Chopra™ MD Watching mainstream coverage of the Biden inauguration, you couldn’t miss the much-repeated call for uniting a divided nation. Commentary was quite approving; no one seemed to disagree with the theme or the need. But if you turned to right-wing media, the notion of uniting the country was derided as a ploy […]

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]]> Five Fantasies That Keep Us Apart https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-fantasies-that-keep-us-apart/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:27:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41965 By Deepak Chopra,™ MD When a society is deeply divided, a paradox is in force. On the one hand, people cry out for unity, while on the other hand, they keep on doing the very things that incite division. We are seeing this paradox grow stronger year by year in politics, but at the bottom […]

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]]> Coming to Peace with the World Is Coming to Peace with Yourself https://choprafoundation.org/people/coming-to-peace-with-the-world-is-coming-to-peace-with-yourself/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:16:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41962 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD No one fails to react when public violence is flagrantly incited, which happened at the Capitol this week. As a political philosophy, or a way of life, disorder doesn’t work. Violence might not be inevitable, but chaos is. But in the face of chaos, some facts remain constant and stable: […]

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]]> A Renewed Planet Starts with Food https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-renewed-planet-starts-with-food/ Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:53:48 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41960 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD, FACP, Poonacha Machaiah, Rajnish Khanna, PhD The way we eat has changed the planet. In this simple idea, which few of us consider when we go to the grocery store, lies immense hope for the future—if we pay attention. On the medical front a large number of people accept the […]

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]]> Take Hope from the Healing Cycle https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/take-hope-from-the-healing-cycle/ Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:37:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41957 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Right now the push to control the latest surges in Covid have focused on three things that have gained around-the-clock publicity: masks, distancing, and vaccines. Relying on them has given people hope in the face of the pandemic. But there are sources of hope, including a new one just added […]

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]]> What Happened to Emotional Intelligence? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-happened-to-emotional-intelligence/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:42:48 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41950 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD For many younger people, the COVID virus outbreak will bring their first experience of fear and anxiety as a pervasive mood. Anxiety is difficult for everyone, but in the larger scheme, we need to ask: What happened to emotional intelligence? The phrase became popular for a while, but that was […]

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]]> Where True Spirituality Begins https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/where-true-spirituality-begins/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:40:39 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41949 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Many people still view difficult times as a spiritual challenge. The numbers are less than in the distant past, when catastrophes, tragedies, setbacks, and failures were seen in religious terms. An Old Testament plague was a sign of God’s wrath, but in modern secular society medical science gives a different […]

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]]> Racism Is False Identity https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/racism-is-false-identity/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:38:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41948 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD America is said to be on the verge of a racial reckoning, a prospect that fills people with either hope or rage, depending on their politics. The far right encourages white supremacy while hotly denying that they are racists. Fully justified protest after police shootings of black men are seen […]

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]]> How the Reset Works in U.S. Healthcare https://choprafoundation.org/health/how-the-reset-works-in-u-s-healthcare/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:01:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41944 By Deepak Chopra™ MD and Wayne Jonas, MD The COVID-19 crisis has exposed so many fault lines in the U.S. that a call for a reset has sprung up. Years of reckless attacks on the government’s emergency response to a pandemic, and neglect of our public health infrastructure left us unprepared to handle COVID. Now […]

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]]> Did Life Create the Universe? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/did-life-create-the-universe/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:00:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41936 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD No matter how life began on Earth—there are still some huge gaps in our knowledge about that—it seems indisputable that the universe set up the conditions for life. But a radical twist has now been offered by the prominent stem-cell biologist Robert Lanza and theoretical physicist Matej Pavšič in their […]

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]]> You and Your Brain: Upgrading the Relationship https://choprafoundation.org/people/you-and-your-brain-upgrading-the-relationship/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:51:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41934 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Although the marvels of the brain as an organ have been wondered at for decades, there’s a risk that science will make us feel like brain puppets. Neuroscience runs this risk by assuming, without any proof, that our brains think, feel, perceive the world, and make choices. In reality the […]

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]]> The Mystery That Makes Life Possible https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-mystery-that-makes-life-possible/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:13:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41931 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Over the past few decades there’s been a creeping invasion that has tremendous repercussions for all of us. Strangely, it is the invasion of consciousness. I say strangely because for millennia human beings claimed total possession of consciousness. We think, invent, solve problems, show curiosity, and make conscious decisions. Even […]

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]]> Only the Present Mind Is Without Fear https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/only-the-present-mind-is-without-fear/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:27:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41928 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD In stressful times many more people feel fear than in normal times. What this means is that an ability to be fearless becomes more essential than in normal times. How is that accomplished? Being fearful is a skill you can master. It doesn’t require any of the things society falls […]

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]]> The Most Precious Freedom Is Inner Freedom https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-most-precious-freedom-is-inner-freedom/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 04:37:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41926 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD There’s a spiritual concept that seems to create a good deal of confusion. It goes by the name of freedom or liberation, both terms referring not to political freedom but inner freedom. The reason that “freedom” has a spiritual meaning is that a state of total freedom is possible. The […]

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]]> The Matrix Is Real, and It Is Here https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-matrix-is-real-and-it-is-here/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:10:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41924 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD When the Matrix movies first gained immense popularity in 1999, the notion of an imaginary world in which everyone was enslaved seemed just that, imaginary. Pop culture didn’t look deep enough to reveal that ancient tradition of Maya, the Sanskrit term for an all-enveloping illusion that, for real, envelops all […]

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]]> The Blissful Life and You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-blissful-life-and-you/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:11:01 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41921 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD When the great American mythologist Joseph Campbell first used the phrase, “Follow your bliss,” he inspired many people. He held out a vision that was radically different from the notion that hard work, persistence, and keeping your shoulder to the wheel was the key to success. But actually, achieving this […]

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]]> How Wholeness Works – The Vanishing “I” https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-wholeness-works-the-vanishing-i/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 04:33:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41916 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Holistic health, diet, and medicine have made the term “holistic” more familiar today. The era when anything “holistic” was considered fringe is long past. But the central concept of wholeness remains misunderstood. You cannot aim to be whole, learn to be whole, or make yourself whole. You are already whole […]

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]]> A One-Minute Lesson in Higher Consciousness https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-one-minute-lesson-in-higher-consciousness/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:04:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41909 By Deepak Chopra,™ MD Although meditation has become widely popular, higher consciousness baffles and intimidates people. It seems like a faraway exotic attainment, and perhaps more myth than reality. But higher consciousness is just a convenient catch-all for expanded awareness. Reaching any higher state depends on a simple, very basic axiom: You cannot change what […]

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]]> The Future of Wellbeing and Technology https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-future-of-wellbeing-and-technology/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:10:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41815 The slide show will automatically play, or you can click and drag to move through the slides.   Additional Research & Information   William Bushell, Ryan Castle, Michelle A. Williams, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Deepak Chopra, and Paul J. Mills. Meditation and Yoga Practices as Potential Adjunctive Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19: […]

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]]> The Planetary Biome: A New Theory of Life and Survival https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-planetary-biome-a-new-theory-of-life-and-survival/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:52:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41751 By Deepak Chopra™ MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD The global pandemic has disrupted everything we call normal life. The disruption has been so catastrophic that there is fear among experts that this is only a “starter pandemic.” COVID is less infectious than the measles and less fatal than SARS. Instead of using this fact […]

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]]> How to Make Your Meditations Effortless https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-make-your-meditations-effortless/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 04:08:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41749 By Deepak Chopra,TM MD   Meditation has a built-in problem that needs solving, the problem of noncompliance. Countless people have taken up the practice, motivated by the benefits of meditation supported by literally thousands of studies. The first few sessions go well, which is encouraging, but it is only a matter of time before meditation […]

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]]> What It Takes to Live in the Present Moment https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-it-takes-to-live-in-the-present-moment/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:39:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41743 By Deepak Chopra,TM MD The allure of living in the present moment is popular but also endangered. The pandemic lockdown has forced millions of people into cramped living conditions that disrupt normal life, puts strain on relationships, adds stress to families, and introduces depression and anxiety. Escaping the present moment is likely to be everyone’s […]

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]]> The Spread of “Stranger Than We Can Think” https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-spread-of-stranger-than-we-can-think/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:00:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41733 By Deepak Chopra,TM MD and Menas C. Kafatos, PhD As we go about everyday life, we are embedded in a mystery no one has ever solved. The mystery was voiced by one of the most brilliant quantum pioneers, Werner Heisenberg: “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can […]

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]]> One Word Is the Answer to Everything https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/one-word-is-the-answer-to-everything/ Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:59:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41731 By Deepak Chopra™, MD and Neil D. Theise, MD The one word that is the answer to everything is “space.” It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word. The human mind is fond of putting all its eggs in one […]

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]]> The Clash between Truth and Reality https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-clash-between-truth-and-reality/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 04:55:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41729 By Deepak Chopra™, MD Every person wakes up in the morning to join the struggle between truth and reality. Yet almost no one realizes that this is what they are doing. Life contains struggles—no one disagrees with that sad fact—but what are we struggling against? The answers seem obvious. We struggle to stay healthy, make […]

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]]> The Surprising Success of Wholeness https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-surprising-success-of-wholeness/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:33:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41726 By Deepak Chopra™, MD, Tiffany J Barsotti, MTh, Paul J. Mills, PhD As the notions of “holistic” and “wholeness” became popular in recent decades, they also turned into a paradox. People who focused on holistic health, diet, and wellness found themselves to be cut off from people who didn’t care about such things (which is […]

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]]> Switching from Lifespan to Healthspan https://choprafoundation.org/health/switching-from-lifespan-to-healthspan/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:59:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41715 By Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra™, MD Some pessimism has been circulating about lifespan recently. In the modern era lifespan has increased every decade, and dying before you turn seventy would now be considered a premature death. Three score and ten is no longer a destination for a normal life, and average lifespans among people […]

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]]> Energy Healing Comes into the Light https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/energy-healing-comes-into-the-light/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:44:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41712 By Deepak Chopra™, MD, Tiffany Barsotti, MTh, Paul J. Mills, PhD When faced with traditional healing systems outside the Western tradition, science looks askance. That was true when traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, and Ayurveda from India began to be known a generation ago. Popular acceptance doesn’t budge these prejudices, but if there’s a crossover […]

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]]> Your Microbiome: The Most Promising Facts https://choprafoundation.org/health/your-microbiome-the-most-promising-facts/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:26:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41706 By Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra™, MD It is fair to say that the exploration of the microbiome has turned out to be the most exciting prospect in medicine since the discovery of DNA. Most people have at least heard the term “gut microbiome,” which applies to the trillions of microbes, chiefly bacteria, that live […]

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]]> The Surprising Connection between Well-Being and Living Indoors https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-surprising-connection-between-well-being-and-living-indoors/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:52:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41702 By Deepak Chopra™ MD, and Paul Scialla The lockdown that occurred in the face of COVID-19 brings to light something almost everyone overlooked in the past. We are now an indoor species. This was already true before the lockdown. Outdoor work has declined radically since the Industrial Revolution. In the West today we spend on […]

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]]> If You Want to Change, Start from the Ground Up https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/if-you-want-to-change-start-from-the-ground-up/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 04:24:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41694 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Anoop Kumar, MD When people seek personal change in their lives, they often don’t get very far. Even in this day when online advice is bewilderingly abundant and self-improvement books are at our fingertips, change eludes us. One way to remedy this is to start from the ground up. Normally, […]

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]]> The New American Dream? It’s Already Here https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-new-american-dream-its-already-here/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:47:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41690 By Deepak Chopra™ MD Massive crises have one great advantage: They show you where you stand. The sight can be distressing and shocking. But it would be wrong to say “Who knew?” We all knew. In this country you’d have to be willfully ignorant to not know about racism, police brutality, income inequality, global warming, […]

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]]> Nature’s Identity Crisis and Ours https://choprafoundation.org/video/natures-identity-crisis-and-ours/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 05:58:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41688 By Zach Bush MD, Paul J. Mills, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, Michelle A. Williams, ScD and Deepak Chopra™ MD As our nation dives into sorrow and outrage over another merciless killing of a black man without cause, we must take the opportunity to transform a deep mindset. To achieve this, we will have to […]

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]]> A New World Needs a New Worldview https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-new-world-needs-a-new-worldview/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:58:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41685 By Zach Bush MD and Deepak Chopra™ MD It is very rare that human beings have a chance to rethink our place in Nature. The modern world is the fruit of a worldview that has placed Homo sapiens reigning supreme over all other life forms. This worldview seems only right and proper to the vast […]

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]]> Existence and the Virus: A Healing Solution https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/existence-and-the-virus-a-healing-solution/ Mon, 25 May 2020 06:59:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41670 By Deepak Chopra™, MD The COVID crisis is being fought on two fronts, medical and economic, but most people are suffering psychologically. The word “existential” rarely comes up in normal everyday life, but the crisis has created all the symptoms of existential dread: a sense of futility, anxiety about the human condition, and a deep […]

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]]> Finding Your Inner Strength: A Free Global Mental Health Summit https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/finding-your-inner-strength-a-free-global-mental-health-summit/ Mon, 18 May 2020 08:33:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41672 By Deepak Chopra™, Cassandra Vieten, Poonacha Machaiah, and Gabriella Wright In the face of the pandemic crisis, there is a great opportunity. It is open to everyone, and it is free. We invite you, your family, and friends to this healing experience. If you want to find your inner strength, peace, and the end of […]

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]]> Self-Care, the Vagus Nerve, and COVID-19 https://choprafoundation.org/health/self-care-the-vagus-nerve-and-covid-19/ Mon, 11 May 2020 04:13:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41667 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Gustaf Kranck, M.Sc. There is widespread awareness of the wellness movement in this country, and the term “self-care” is being more and more recognized. Since advice has existed for decades on proper diet, exercise, sleep, and the avoidance of alcohol and tobacco, in what way is self-care an advance? This […]

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]]> The Key to Handling Stress and COVID-19 https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-key-to-handling-stress-and-covid-19/ Mon, 04 May 2020 02:52:32 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41659 By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, Michelle Williams, ScD, Ryan Castle, William C. Bushell, PhD, Kimberly Brouwer, PhD, and Paul J. Mills, PhD Although COVID-19 is very easily transmitted from person to person, the risk of subsequent hospitalization and death primarily affects people who are already at risk because of old age, […]

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]]> How to Settle the Mind During a Crisis https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-settle-the-mind-during-a-crisis/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:35:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41654 By Deepak Chopra™, MD At first only a few voices spoke of positive change after the COVID crisis ends, or at least becomes livable once again. Now one hears a chorus calling for change, much of it from younger people. The main message is about global cooperation and preparing better for the next pandemic. But […]

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]]> Shakespeare, COVID, and the Plague https://choprafoundation.org/health/shakespeare-covid-and-the-plague/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 02:11:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41651 By Deepak Chopra, MD Social isolation gives us time to examine our lives in a new light, suddenly faced with economic collapse, empty streets, current panic and future uncertainty, and death appearing out of nowhere—in other words, the conditions that confronted every person on a daily basis during the lifetime of Shakespeare. What feels horribly […]

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]]> Emotional Intelligence: Escaping the Matrix of Fear https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/emotional-intelligence-escaping-the-matrix-of-fear/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 02:48:05 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41649 By Deepak Chopra™, MD For many young people, the COVID virus outbreak will bring their first experience of fear and anxiety as a pervasive mood. As a society we are afraid of fear, and most of the time we can turn our backs on it. But this kind of denial is unworkable in a crisis. […]

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]]> What Is the Best Self-Care during the COVID-19 Crisis? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/what-is-the-best-self-care-during-the-covid-19-crisis/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 03:50:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41647 By Deepak Chopra™, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. Self-care should be uppermost in our minds during the COVID-19 crisis, for several urgent reasons. Self-care returns a sense of control over your own life. It gives you an integrative approach to mind and body. It aligns you with the best knowledge currently available about who […]

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]]> Elite Task Force Assembles to Urge Addition of Meditation and Yoga to Help Fight COVID-19 https://choprafoundation.org/health/elite-task-force-assembles-to-urge-addition-of-meditation-and-yoga-to-help-fight-covid-19/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:59:12 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41643 The Safe and Proven Practices Have Anti-Inflammatory, Immunity-Boosting and Anti-Stress Benefits, Even for Beginners, Says the World-Class Team Led by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Top Scientists By Maureen Seaberg At a time when every hospital bed counts, experts led by Dr. Deepak Chopra including Michelle Williams, S.D., dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health; noted […]

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]]> Only a Silent Mind Can Be a Healing Mind https://choprafoundation.org/articles/only-a-silent-mind-can-be-a-healing-mind/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:03:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41631 By Deepak Chopra™, MD Crises call for action, and the COVID-19 crisis has triggered global action, much of it motivated by alarm, fear, and the dread of uncertainty. But what about the individual person who feels afraid and uncertain? I’d like to propose an answer based on the silent mind. I realize that this approach […]

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]]> The Virus Can Give Your Life More Meaning https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-virus-can-give-your-life-more-meaning/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 03:59:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41618 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD One way to respond in a crisis is to reduce its threat. The other way is to add to the threat. The coronavirus COVID-19 might be the first collective crisis that many people have faced, and it poses an uncertain future in every country that confronts […]

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]]> COVID-19 and a New Way to Be Happy https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/covid-19-and-a-new-way-to-be-happy/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:22:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41616 By Deepak Chopra, MD Diseases point the way to the future if we pay attention. This holds especially true of the global outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19. It is clear that some important lessons have emerged already. Some of these are obvious because they are so visible: Uncertainty is a major cause of panic. No one […]

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]]> If You Aren’t You, Then Who Are You? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/if-you-arent-you-then-who-are-you/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 01:35:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41614 By Deepak Chopra, MD Whether you call it your spiritual life, your inner journey, or a search for a higher power, there is a necessary process, known as waking up. It consists of no longer being unaware. By growing more conscious, you give up many things you once took for granted. You recognize that they […]

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]]> A Brave New World, and How to Get There https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-brave-new-world-and-how-to-get-there/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 02:49:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41611 By Deepak Chopra, MD If you find yourself living in a troubled world, what should you do? The question is as old as recorded history, but over the millennia only three basic answers have emerged. If you find yourself living in a troubled world, you should: A. Turn to God or the gods, B. Place […]

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]]> When the World Stops Working, We Will Know the Truth https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/when-the-world-stops-working-we-will-know-the-truth/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 02:53:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41610 By Deepak Chopra, MD Everyone looks at the world, and their lives, assuming that they know the truth. This isn’t truth with a capital T but simply the truth about everyday things, like how to drive a car, buy groceries, and do one’s job. We know other basic things that are true, such as when […]

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]]> The Most Important Choice to Make Today https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-most-important-choice-to-make-today/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:39:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41607 By Deepak Chopra, MD In every age there has been a dominant worldview that people tried to conform to. In an age of faith, everyone asked how they could better serve God. This was their daily concern. In the Industrial Age the question shifted to economics and improving one’s lot in life. In an age […]

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]]> The Incredible Vanishing Universe (And How to Bring It Back) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-incredible-vanishing-universe-and-how-to-bring-it-back/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:10:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41605 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD Looking up at the night sky reveals an uncountable richness of stars and galaxies, which gets augmented billions of times over through telescope images from deep space. The cosmos looks to be in no danger of disappearing, but this is just a comforting illusion.  Starting in 1933, […]

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]]> Transformation Is Possible—It Is Already Here https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/transformation-is-possible-it-is-already-here/ Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:33:14 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41602 By Deepak Chopra, MD The one thing in life that never changes is change, or so people say. But in reality we all experience a struggle between accepting change and resisting it, trying to make things different and yet feeling an anxious need to keep things the same. This struggle is what makes personal change […]

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]]> The Divine Feminine and the Power to Change the World https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-divine-feminine-and-the-power-to-change-the-world/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:44:32 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41563 By Deepak Chopra, MD The time has come to think about women’s power and not just women’s rights. When the New York Times editorial board recently split over which Democratic presidential candidate to endorse, the debate was over two women, and eventually both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar were selected. This is a sign of […]

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]]> 10 Ways to Resolve All Conflicts and End War https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/10-ways-to-resolve-all-conflicts-and-end-war/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:42:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41561 By Deepak Chopra, MD The recent reckless skirmish between the U.S. and Iran held a deep irony. Neither side wanted to go to war, and yet neither side could talk to each other except in terms of war. Language and action go together. If you are stuck in the metaphor of war, with its winners […]

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]]> Finding the Universe in a Coffee Cup https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/finding-the-universe-in-a-coffee-cup/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:31:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41558 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD The universe is hard to explain, because there are so many moving parts and so many levels, probably infinite in both cases. It is a cherished goal in physics to unify these parts, but so far success has eluded even the most brilliant investigators. The average person […]

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]]> Einstein, the Moon, and You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/einstein-the-moon-and-you/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:35:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41555 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD At the present moment a lot of the basic principles of traditional physics are in a confused state of disarray. Occasionally the media carries a story about strange discoveries by modern science on the order of black holes or dark matter and energy, suggesting that such phenomena […]

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]]> Why Einstein Was Wrong About the Moon https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-einstein-was-wrong-about-the-moon/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 03:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41553 By Deepak Chopra, MD Reality contains many mysteries, some so impenetrable that even the greatest minds are baffled. Albert Einstein was among them. Even though quantum physics had achieved a huge success, Einstein had doubts about its description of reality. These doubts were crystallized in an anecdote. As related the acclaimed modern physicist Lee Smolin, […]

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]]> There Is No chaos, There Is Only Creativity https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/there-is-no-chaos-there-is-only-creativity/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 03:42:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41544 By Deepak Chopra, MD The human mind is addicted to opposites, but it turns out that Nature isn’t. This statement becomes important in a deep way when it comes to chaos. In our minds chaos, or disorder, is the opposite of order. By thinking like this, we oblige the human tendency to prefer order over […]

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]]> Making the Season of Peace Really Matter https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/making-the-season-of-peace-really-matter/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:56:25 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41538 By Deepak Chopra, MD A world ceaselessly in a state of unrest seems to mock this time of year as a season of peace. Most people are simply grateful that unrest hasn’t touched their lives, and hope fades for the victims of war and strife who will probably never enjoy peace except during brief truces. […]

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]]> Finding Your Way to Gratitude https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/finding-your-way-to-gratitude/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:12:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41537 By Deepak Chopra, MD Although Thanksgiving Day has become a time for turkey and football, its true purpose lingers, often as a wistful hope that one could be truly thankful. You cannot conjure up thanks if you are focused on the world’s troubles and a constant stream of bad news. So how is true gratitude […]

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]]> Why Matter Is a (Useful) Fiction https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-matter-is-a-useful-fiction/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 03:04:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41535 By Deepak Chopra, MD Given a choice between physics and metaphysics, almost everyone chooses physics. This is a modern habit that is deeply ingrained, and it turns the tables on the religious approach to reality, which put a divine or supernatural entity, first and foremost in creation. But relying on the physical world as the […]

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]]> The Most Popular Model of Reality Is Wrong https://choprafoundation.org/people/the-most-popular-model-of-reality-is-wrong/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 03:39:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41533 By Deepak Chopra, MD It would be ideal if reality and our model of reality merged into the same thing. A model of reality explains how the universe was created and how it operates. You might think that this is a definition of reality itself, but it isn’t, which can be illustrated by looking at […]

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]]> The Future of Personal and Planetary Well Being : An invitation to Sages and Scientists Symposium, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville Arkansas https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-future-of-personal-and-planetary-well-being-an-invitation-to-sages-and-scientists-symposium-crystal-bridges-museum-bentonville-arkansas/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:20:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41529 By Deepak Chopra, MD Despite a steady increase in life expectancy, medical science is facing diminishing returns. It has been estimated that every increase in lifespan since 1990 has resulted in only ten months of increased healthy life; the rest is only prolonged suffering and the decline of aging. Globally more people now die of […]

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]]> Personal Transformation—What It Really Means https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/personal-transformation-what-it-really-means/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:05:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41526 By Deepak Chopra, MD Most people have mixed feelings about how their lives are going, which seems inevitable. Taking the bitter with the sweet is an old saying dating back to the 13th century, but it expresses a universal experience. In the face of life’s mixed blessings, however, there runs a deep yearning for transformation. […]

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]]> Are Human Beings the Ultimate Creator? https://choprafoundation.org/health/are-human-beings-the-ultimate-creator/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 04:25:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41523 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s rare to find someone with an optimistic view of humanity’s future. The prevailing mood globally is dark, and yet David Deutsch, a far-seeing British physicist, argues that humans are responsible for everything new—we are the ultimate creators in the cosmos. I was excited to view his April 2019 TED talk […]

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]]> Getting Serious About Nothing https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/getting-serious-about-nothing/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:05:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41519 By Deepak Chopra, MD Nothing in the creation myths told in ancient cultures match our current model of creation for strangeness and improbability. We tend to smile indulgently at those old myths, although the average person probably hasn’t gone very far past the Book of Genesis, if they are religious, or a vague sense of […]

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]]> How to Solve Life’s Problems—A Fresh Idea https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-solve-lifes-problems-a-fresh-idea/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:06:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41517 By Deepak Chopra, MD Einstein wasn’t the first person to state one of the basic facts of life when he said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” But most people attempt, time and again, to think at the level of the problem rather than finding the level […]

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]]> The Mystery of Reality Is the Mystery of You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-mystery-of-reality-is-the-mystery-of-you/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:44:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41513 By Deepak Chopra, MD Solving the mystery of reality is left to experts, which is nothing new. The explanations of the cosmos is assigned to physicists today as it was assigned to theologians in an age of faith. In some ways modern people are even less interested in the topic. Your soul isn’t likely to […]

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]]> How to Change Human Nature https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-change-human-nature/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:23:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41511 By Deepak Chopra, MD Everyone is good at avoiding the elephant in the room, which refers to something everyone is aware of but cannot bring themselves to discuss. In some ways the ultimate elephant in the room is human nature. We all exhibit human nature, but we rarely discuss it for a simple reason: no […]

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]]> Do We Really Have Infinite Potential? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/do-we-really-have-infinite-potential/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:50:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41509 By Deepak Chopra, MD The human potential movement has existed for several decades, and in many ways is an alternative name for self-improvement. The urge to improve oneself exists naturally in everyone, unless outside forces like poverty damp it down. But the human potential movement is far more ambitious. It aims to open up a […]

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]]> It’s Much Better to Be Conscious than Smart https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/its-much-better-to-be-conscious-than-smart/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:52:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41508 By Deepak Chopra, MD If you had the choice, would you rather be smarter than you are or more aware? Go a step further. If a wizard came to you and said you could be either the smartest person in the world or the most aware, which would you choose? It’s a symptom of the […]

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]]> The Balanced Mind: A Better Model https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-balanced-mind-a-better-model/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 02:24:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41504 By Deepak Chopra, MD Now that meditation has caught on widely, it’s time to understand why it works. The physical findings measured by neuroscience gives intriguing hints about changes in brain wave activity, but that’s an effect, not a cause. The same holds true for physiological changes outside the brain, such as lowered heart rate […]

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]]> accel-kkr.com https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/accel-kkr-com/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:09:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41499 By Deepak Chopra, MD It feels to many people as if we’re living in a Humpty-Dumpty time, when everything has gone smash. A sense of chaos and disorder permeates everything, and as you look around, there’s no longer any consensus about the most basic facts. Reality has become the clash of opposing viewpoints. When the […]

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]]> What You Don’t Know Can Change Your Life https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-you-dont-know-can-change-your-life/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 01:55:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41493 By Deepak Chopra, MD We’ve all met people who shrug off their lack of knowledge by saying, “Ignorance is bliss,” but who takes that seriously? The modern world is built upon levels of understanding and knowledge. Our life isn’t blissful, but without a doubt the sciences and technology we base our lives upon represent mountains […]

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]]> The Magic Behind Creation https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-magic-behind-creation/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:24:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41491 By Deepak Chopra, MD Magic is supposed to be a primitive belief, and in modern society it has largely disappeared. Science and technology are not only triumphs of rationality; they represent victories over magic, which is irrational. It is magical to explain thunder as the anger of the gods. It is magical to believe in […]

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]]> Ending Our Fear of Death https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/ending-our-fear-of-death/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:26:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41486 By Deepak Chopra, MD Fear is a powerful force, nowhere more so than when it comes to death and dying. By comparison, the solutions for solving other fears seem useless. You cannot test your fear; you cannot feel it and move on anyway. There is little reason to trust other people who seem to have […]

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]]> The Best Way to Change Your Life: Getting Unstuck https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-best-way-to-change-your-life-getting-unstuck/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:46:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41477 By Deepak Chopra, MD There are lots of reasons to consider the human mind is unfathomable, beginning with simple evidence like the thousands of psychology books on the market and the years of training required to become a licensed psychiatrist. But it is possible to create huge changes in how your mind is working, here […]

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]]> Trading In the Afterlife for One Life https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/trading-in-the-afterlife-for-one-life/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:45:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41465 By Deepak Chopra, MD Every doctrine of the afterlife has run into the same problem, which is that of belief. For centuries the existence of life after death has been couched in religious terms, which necessitates believing in religion before the question of the afterlife can be approached. Is it possible to say something more […]

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]]> Should You Plan for Your Next Incarnation? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/should-you-plan-for-your-next-incarnation/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 02:49:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41459 By Deepak Chopra, MD Do you believe in reincarnation, and if so, does it matter? According to a 2018 Pew Research survey, 33% of Americans say they believe in reincarnation, yet it is beyond the range of ordinary polling to ask why this belief exists. In an age of faith, both East and West, a […]

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]]> Giving “Wholeness” a Higher Meaning https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/giving-wholeness-a-higher-meaning/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:54:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41457 By Deepak Chopra, MD Thanks to its positive connotations, “wholeness” has become a buzz word in areas of life as diverse as holistic medicine, whole-foods nutrition, and the human potential movement, which aims to create a whole person rather than a separate, fragmented one. What these various applications have in common is that wholeness is […]

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]]> Why Math Is Leading Us Deeper into Illusion https://choprafoundation.org/people/why-math-is-leading-us-deeper-into-illusion/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 02:14:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41453 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s hard to imagine a world without numbers. The square footage of your house, the rent or mortgage payment, the weight you see on your bathroom scale are all examples of lower mathematics, while the GPS that guides your travels, your smartphone, and sending a space probe to Saturn are examples […]

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]]> Is the Self the Ultimate Healer? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/is-the-self-the-ultimate-healer/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:14:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41450 By Deepak Chopra, MD In recent years the self-care movement has been gathering momentum, and in many ways it is a natural extension of what came before, which was prevention. Both put the focus of remaining well on the individual. Instead of running to the doctor’s when symptoms appear, prevention taught people to avoid risks […]

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]]> Taking a Beautiful Line from Rumi: Beyond the Boundaries of the Intellect https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/taking-a-beautiful-line-from-rumi-beyond-the-boundaries-of-the-intellect/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:52:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41442 By Deepak Chopra, MD The popularity of the mystic Sufi poet Rumi is based on his love affair with God, expressed in such ecstatic terms that he makes the spiritual journey seem deeply romantic. But Rumi also reported about how his state of consciousness felt, which gives valuable clues about higher consciousness itself. Here is […]

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]]> Experiments Suggest Humans Can Directly Observe the Quantum https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/experiments-suggest-humans-can-directly-observe-the-quantum/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:43:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41439 A recent article by William C. Bushell and Maureen Seaberg on Psychology Today dives into our capabilities as humans for quantum perception, adept potential, and the implications for consciousness theory. We highly recommend giving the full article a read! William C. Bushell, PhD, is the Director of Research & Academic Liaison of the Integrative Studies […]

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]]> Higher Consciousness in Less than a Minute https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/higher-consciousness-in-less-than-a-minute/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:26:42 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41438 By Deepak Chopra, MD There are very old, rich traditions of higher consciousness around the world, and diverse as they are, they seem to have one thing in common: Arriving at higher consciousness takes time, perhaps a lifetime. Along with this idea comes other, closely related ones. Higher consciousness is exceptional. It requires intense inner […]

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]]> Everyday Immortality https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/everyday-immortality/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 01:05:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41421 By Deepak Chopra, MD Questions of life and death, including the existence of life after death, seem to resist any firm conclusion. Most people tell pollsters that they believe in God, the soul, and the afterlife, but for all practical purposes we live in a secular society. The reassurances of organized religion no longer persuade […]

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]]> Your Body Wants to Be Your Strongest Ally—Let It https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/your-body-wants-to-be-your-strongest-ally-let-it/ Mon, 27 May 2019 02:34:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41410 By Deepak Chopra, MD Modern medicine has triumphed on many fronts in conquering diseases and extending life, but its greatest advance is almost totally unsung. Health and longevity have made it possible to see the body as our greatest ally. After centuries of inevitable sickness and early death for the vast majority of people, the […]

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]]> Three Impossible Things We Can’t Do Without https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/three-impossible-things-we-cant-do-without/ Mon, 20 May 2019 02:49:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41408 By Deepak Chopra, MD If you want to know what human beings really want, consider how Alice reacts to Wonderland. Lewis Carroll’s inventions are so entertaining, we tend to smile at how upset, vexed, and unsettled Alice actually is. Wonderland overturns our regular, orderly, and predictable life, which is what people actually want. The inhabitants […]

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]]> Why the Greatest Mystery Is You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-the-greatest-mystery-is-you/ Mon, 13 May 2019 02:59:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41399 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD Even though teams of scientists around the world are working on great mysteries, from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, the greatest mystery remains personal, the mystery of the self. So far as we know, human beings are unique in pondering our own […]

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]]> A New, Improved Reality Depends on You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-new-improved-reality-depends-on-you/ Mon, 06 May 2019 02:55:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41392 How do we know that anything is real? This isn’t a question that usually bothers most people, because we’ve all been brought up to look upon the physical world “out there” as a given. But let’s say that someone actually asks you the question, “How do you know the physical world is real?” What would […]

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]]> Research Article: Physics Must Evolve Beyond the Physical https://choprafoundation.org/articles/research-article-physics-must-evolve-beyond-the-physical/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:03:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41385 View the Paper This article recognizes Henry Stapp’s contribution to physics. Henry Stapp is a Spirit of Rustom Roy Award Recipient (2012) Abstract: Contemporary physics finds itself pondering questions about mind and consciousness, an uncomfortable area for theorists. But historically, key figures at the founding of quantum theory assumed that reality was composed of two […]

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