COVID-19 - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:08:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png COVID-19 - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Meditation and Yoga Practices as Potential Adjunctive Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19: A Brief Overview of Key Subjects https://choprafoundation.org/science-2/meditation-and-yoga-practices-as-potential-adjunctive-treatment-of-sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-a-brief-overview-of-key-subjects/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:50:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41699 New Research Paper out now! Read the full paper here.

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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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]]> 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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