Health - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:23:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Health - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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 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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]]> 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Eric Schadt and the Effects of Meditation at Sages and Scientists https://choprafoundation.org/health/eric-schadt-and-the-effects-of-meditation-at-sages-and-scientists/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:02:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41604 Eric Schadt discusses the Effects of Meditation at Sages and Scientists

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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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]]> 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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]]> 2020 Wellbeing Predictions with Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/2020-wellbeing-predictions-with-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:17:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41547 “The future of wellbeing is bioregulation and homeostasis through self-regulation.”‘ – Deepak Chopra Deepak recently participated in Virgin Pulse’s 2020 Vision: Wellbeing Industry Predictions where leading experts in health and wellbeing, HR and business share insights on emerging trends that will impact your employee experience in 2020 and beyond. You can explore the predictions in detail […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Daily Breath with Deepak Chopra – Language https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-breath-with-deepak-chopra-language/ Mon, 27 May 2019 01:36:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41415 Language has the power to create and the power to destroy. But language also has the power to heal. Please join me this week to explore this uniquely human, ability, one that allows us to speak, to listen and to thrive.  Language: Created Us Monday 5/13 Language – Divine and Diabolical Tuesday 5/14 Language – To Listen […]

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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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]]> Start your day with Daily Breath https://choprafoundation.org/other/start-your-day-with-daily-breath/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:26:49 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41372 Join us and BREATHE… Welcome to Daily Breath, where we pause the hectic world around us, refocus ourselves and expand our minds. I invite you to join me for a few short minutes each day to explore impactful ideas and themes that directly relate to all of our lives. Together we will delve into topics […]

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]]> 2019 WMIF | 1:1 Fireside Chat: Rudolph E. Tanzi and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/health/2019-wmif-11-fireside-chat-rudolph-e-tanzi-and-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:52:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41358   Dr. Rudolph Tanzi moderated the Fireside Chat with Chopra Foundation Founder, Deepak Chopra, MD at the World Medical Innovation Forum (April 10, 2019), Boston, MA Moderator: Rudolph Tanzi, PhD Vice-Chair, Neurology, Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MGH; Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, HMS Deepak Chopra, MD, Author and Founder […]

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]]> Does the Mind Create the Brain or Does the Brain Create Mind? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/does-the-mind-create-the-brain-or-does-the-brain-create-mind/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:59:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40489 By Deepak Chopra, MD   Neuroscience has risen over the past few decades to a crowning place in medical science, due to two innovations, advanced brain scans like fMRIs and the completion of the Human genome Project in 2003. Brain scans allow us to peer into the activity of a living brain without surgery or […]

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]]> #Whats Your Wellfie? Transforming Personal & Societal Wellbeing, One Moment at a Time! https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/whats-your-wellfie-transforming-personal-societal-wellbeing-one-moment-at-a-time/ Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:56:26 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40466 Be a part of WhatsYourWellfie – a 21 day  initiative focused on sharing your moments which will inspire the community and transform wellbeing.  Visit Jiyo.com to learn more.

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]]> It’s High Time to Make the FDA Safe and Effective https://choprafoundation.org/health/its-high-time-to-make-the-fda-safe-and-effective/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:35:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40350 By Deepak Chopra MD, Nancy S. Cetel, MD, Joseph B. Weiss, MD, Paul J. Mills, PhD, Danielle Weiss, MD, David Brenner, MD Few government agencies impact our daily lives as critically as the Food and Drug Administration. Seventy percent of the US population takes at least one prescription drug each month. The marketplace for Big […]

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]]> Just Going on Vacation May Change Gene Activity https://choprafoundation.org/other/just-going-on-vacation-may-change-gene-activity/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:24:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40314 Rustum Roy Spirit Award Recipient, Eric Schadt, interviewed by Reuters. Read: Just Going on Vacation May Change Gene Activity Source: http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v6/n8/full/tp2016164a.html

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]]> One Beauty Secret for Everyone https://choprafoundation.org/health/one-beauty-secret-for-everyone/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:49:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40301     By Deepak Chopra, MD and Kimberly Snyder, CN   The pursuit of beauty, which has been a constant theme throughout recorded history, makes beauty seem like a mysterious gift granted only to the fortunate few. Even now in a scientific age, there’s the constant search for beauty secrets that will bring this gift […]

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]]> Six-Day Clinical Trial Finds Integrative Medicine Program Alters Blood Serum https://choprafoundation.org/health/six-day-clinical-trial-finds-integrative-medicine-program-alters-blood-serum/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:03:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40297 Six-Day Clinical Trial Finds Integrative Medicine Program Alters Blood Serum Meditation, yoga and vegetarian diet linked to decline in plasma metabolites associated with inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk In a novel controlled clinical trial, participants in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that featured a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a […]

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]]> How to See a Beautiful Person in the Mirror https://choprafoundation.org/health/how-to-see-a-beautiful-person-in-the-mirror/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40287 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Kimberly Snyder, CN Society has allowed our notion of beauty to go awry. Countless women–and not just women–look in the mirror and see a reflection of inadequacy. They have fallen short of an ideal that was defective to begin with. But conditioned since childhood to equate a “perfect” body with […]

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]]> Self Directed Biological Transformation https://choprafoundation.org/health/self-directed-biological-transformation/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:53:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40284 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD This week some exciting news has come out about the effect of meditation on personal wellbeing. Adding to the mounting evidence that meditation has a number of beneficial effects on things like blood pressure and depression, what’s crucial in the new study, which just appeared in […]

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]]> The Health Benefits of Meditation and Vacation https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-health-benefits-of-meditation-and-vacation/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:11:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40275 The systems biology research study indicates that meditation provides a clear and quantifiable change in how the human body functions, appearing to provide relief for the immune system, and ease the daily stress of the body constantly trying to protect itself.   View the Study Systems biology research study reveals benefits of vacation and meditation […]

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]]> Conversation with Deepak Chopra & Eric Schadt at Deepakhomebase https://choprafoundation.org/other/conversation-with-deepak-chopra-eric-schadt-at-deepakhomebase/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:35:18 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40269 Watch Deepak Chopra and Eric Schadt discuss the effects of meditation on epigenetics, gene expression, cell biology, anti-aging, and health: Facebook Live

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]]> What Is Your DNA Doing For You Right Now? https://choprafoundation.org/health/what-is-your-dna-doing-for-you-right-now/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:06:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40252 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD Ever since its structure was unraveled in the early Fifties, DNA has been considered the mastermind of the cell. Sitting in splendid isolation in the cell’s nucleus, DNA encodes all of life. It sends duplicates of itself (RNA) to direct the manufacture of proteins; and proteins, […]

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]]> Pharma 3D https://choprafoundation.org/health/pharma-3d/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:20:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40175 Congratulations to Board member, Ryan Olohan, McKinsey, Wharton and the Google team!  Their new book, Pharma 3D: Rewriting the Script for Marketing in the Digital Age launches today.  It’s a must read!

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]]> Online Yoga Is Festival https://choprafoundation.org/health/online-yoga-is-festival/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:22:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40156 Join Deepak Chopra and this amazing lineup of mindful teachers, musicians and thought leaders including…. Alan Finger, Ana Forrest, Ashley Turner, Caroline Myss, Chelsea Roff, Colleen Saidman Yee, Cyndi Lee, David Life, Deepak Chopra, Desiree Rumbaugh, Don Miguel Ruiz, Elena Brower, Eoin Finn, Heather Ash, Jai Uttal, Janet Stone, Keith Mitchell, Kia Miller, Krishna Das, Liz […]

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]]> Congratulations to Haile Thomas https://choprafoundation.org/health/congratulations-to-haile-thomas/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:14:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40154 The Chopra Foundation congratulates  Haile Thomas – 2016 Black Girls Rock: M.A.D. Girls who Rocks for her commitment to serve humanity through wellbeing practices.  She is the founder of the Happy Organization  and also a Sages and Scientists Alumnus.

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]]> Who Controls Your Mind? (Hint: It’s Not Your Brain) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/who-controls-your-mind-hint-its-not-your-brain/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:46:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40093   By Deepak Chopra, MD One of the easiest bets to win is to offer a million dollars to anyone who can accurately predict their next thought.  It would be foolhardy to accept such a bet. As we all experience every day–and yet rarely notice–our thoughts are unpredictable and spontaneous. They come and go at […]

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]]> One Solution to America’s Health Care Crisis https://choprafoundation.org/health/one-solution-to-americas-health-care-crisis/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:03:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40048 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, Joseph B. Weiss, MD, Nancy Cetel Weiss, MD, and Danielle E. Weiss, MD Complications in medical care occur at a staggering rate, resulting in over 440,000 accidental deaths from medical errors (the vast majority not considered malpractice, such as side effects from drugs) in U.S. hospitals each […]

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]]> Want to Lead a Happier Life? Talk to Your Genes https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/want-to-lead-a-happier-life-talk-to-your-genes/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:54:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40018   By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   Genetics may be on the verge of solving a very complex question in a revolutionary but quite simple way. The question is, What does it take to be happy? The question never goes away. It hangs over our heads every day. The possible answers are […]

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]]> Chopra Foundation co-sponsors new article on the science of healing – bringing focus to the emerging field of energy and biofield medicine https://choprafoundation.org/other/chopra-foundation-co-sponsors-new-article-on-the-science-of-healing-bringing-focus-to-the-emerging-field-of-energy-and-biofield-medicine/ Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:27:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40015 Leading scientists in major U.S. universities collaborate with clinicians to publish cutting-edge scientific thinking in healing San Diego, CA:  What is the vital force behind all existence? The first Biofield Science and Healing Conference sponsored by leading not for profit organizations in integrative health, healing and medicine,  The Chopra Foundation, Samueli Institute, Miraglo Foundation, and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/39853/ Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:40:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39853 Such as great read from Sages and Scientists #14 Alumnus, Cat Cora

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]]> Feeding America San Diego https://choprafoundation.org/other/feeding-america-san-diego/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:52:39 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39842   1 in 7 people in San Diego face hunger. Deepak posted his  #Spoontember selfie to raise awareness and we invite you to join! For every post with @FeedingSanDiego tagged, generous supporters have pledged to donate 8 meals. Let’s make a difference today! Learn more at: http://feedingamericasd.org

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]]> Deepak Accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge and Invites others to join https://choprafoundation.org/health/deepak-accepts-the-ice-bucket-challenge-and-invites-others-to-join/ Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:14:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39814 In the spirit of service, Deepak gladly accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge from Ryan Olohan and invites his friends to join him!  Let’s all accept the invitation and bring awareness of ALS – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [youtube]https://youtu.be/Msig8dYK9eI[/youtube]   Deepak called out by Ryan Olohan, Google Healthcare: [youtube]https://youtu.be/DgrF5k2RO7Q[/youtube]

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]]> Blackadore https://choprafoundation.org/other/blackadore/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:20:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39709 Wellness programming will be part of a stay at Blackadore Caye. Deepak Chopra will spearhead a program focused on health and anti-aging. [youtube]http://youtu.be/_S13v7zH9oM[/youtube]

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]]> Let’s Thrive together https://choprafoundation.org/health/lets-thrive-together/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 23:54:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39675 Coconuts are loaded with nutrients—iron, magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, fiber, potassium, and the list goes on. Coconuts are also high in antioxidants, which mop up harmful free radicals and help prevent chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease. Coconut oil is a healthy fat that not only makes food taste amazing—it’s also full of medium-chain […]

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]]> A New Hot Button: Consciousness-Driven Evolution https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-new-hot-button-consciousness-driven-evolution/ Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:29:26 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39569 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD             Science is meant to be the opposite of a belief system. No one underlined this point more securely than Charles Darwin, who devised a theory of evolution that defied the strongest belief of his time, the all but universal belief […]

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]]> Deepak Chopra speaks at Talks@GS https://choprafoundation.org/other/deepak-chopra-speaks-at-talksgs/ Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:09:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39566 Deepak Chopra, MD speaks on enlightened leadership, wellbeing, and consciousness at Talks@GS:   Highlights on Enlightened Leadership and Consciousness   Mind-Body Connection   Five Pillars of Wellbeing    

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]]> The Health Benefits of Practicing Compassion https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-health-benefits-of-practicing-compassion/ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:51:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39557   The Health Benefits of Practicing Compassion by Deepak Chopra, MD   Compassion is changing before our eyes. A religious concept associated with Jesus and Buddha (known as “the Compassionate One”) is being researched today through brain scans and positive psychology. In positive psychology your aim is to reach a state of well-being. The actions […]

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]]> Your vote counts for the Aspen Award https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/your-vote-counts-for-the-aspen-award/ Sat, 16 May 2015 00:22:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39522 Please support Jiyo by voting for  this project that will bring wellbeing to the Afghan community: http://award.aspenideas.org/a/dtd/Transforming-Personal-Societal-Wellbeing-Healing-Afghanistan/118956-35325 60% of Afghans suffer from stress and mental heath disorders caused by witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event. There are only two psychiatrists treating ~30 million Afghans. I am proposing to deploy a wellbeing platform via the mobile […]

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]]> Death Makes Life Possible https://choprafoundation.org/other/death-makes-life-possible-4/ Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:09:38 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39502 A global movement to transform the fear of death into an inspiration for living and dying well.  The DVD is now available on Amazon

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]]> Gratitude Journal May Enhance Health in Cardiac Patients: I Am Grateful for…. https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/gratitude-journal-may-enhance-health-in-cardiac-patients-i-am-grateful-for/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:02:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39409 Published in the Huffington Post: Gratitude   “Effects of Gratitude Journaling on Heart Rate Variability and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients” By Paul Mills, PhD, Kathleen Wilson MS, Meredith A. Pung PhD, Kelly Chinh BS, Brook Henry PhD, J. Christopher Wells BS, Alex Wood PhD, Shamini Jain PhD, Barry Greenberg MD, Alan Maisel MD, […]

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]]> Response to Jerry Coyne's Misrepresentation of My Position on HIV/AIDS https://choprafoundation.org/health/response-to-jerry-coynes-misrepresentation-of-my-position-on-hivaids/ Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:36:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39298 Jerry Coyne has set himself up repeatedly to use smear tactics in order to portray me as irrational. It’s unfortunate that he didn’t go to medical school, but I did. Of course the HIV virus causes AIDS.   Coyne had to dig up a conversation from 1990 and place it in the worst possible light […]

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]]> 'I Am the Master of My Fate' — A New Take on Free Will https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/i-am-the-master-of-my-fate-a-new-take-on-free-will/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:15:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39248 By Deepak Chopra Back when schoolchildren regularly read uplifting poetry, there was a famous Victorian poem that affirmed the human birthright of free will. It was “Invictus,” by W. E. Henley and began: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For […]

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]]> Solving Climate Change Now: The Clean Energy “Moonshot” Approach https://choprafoundation.org/other/solving-climate-change-now-the-clean-energy-moonshot-approach/ Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:15:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39224   Picking climate change as the problem I’d like to fix is the easy part — who wouldn’t pick it? The hard part is to envision a solution that isn’t either blue sky or far away in the future. That’s where a unique program called the California Clean Energy “Moonshot” offers a real-time, present moment […]

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]]> Sonima’s Wisdom and Me https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/sonimas-wisdom-and-me/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:52:39 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39216 By Deepak Chopra, MD   The cutting-edge programs of the Sonima Foundation are based on an ancient wisdom principle. True wisdom occurs spontaneously, and in this case, I remember the story of how one child discovered it very early.  Alfred Stieglitz, who became one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, grew up in […]

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]]> Multi-institutional Collaborative Clinical Trial to Examine Health Benefits of Integrative Lifestyle Practices at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing https://choprafoundation.org/other/multi-institutional-collaborative-clinical-trial-to-examine-health-benefits-of-integrative-lifestyle-practices-at-the-chopra-center-for-wellbeing/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:27:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39034 Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative (SBTI) study will use latest mobile health sensors and genomic/cellular/metabolomics biomarkers  Scientists and clinicians from seven research institutions have joined together for a first of a kind clinical trial on a whole systems approach to wellbeing. Such an in-depth clinically focused study is unique because previous research studies have typically examined […]

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]]> Getting Real About Brain Science – A Challenge to the Current Model (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/getting-real-about-brain-science-a-challenge-to-the-current-model-part-2/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:00:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39032 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Phd   Brain research could someday hit a dead end if we do not address the basic question of what the brain truly is. Assuming that we know what the brain is won’t work—not forever. In the first part of this series the assumptions of […]

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]]> Getting Real About Brain Science – A Challenge to the Current Model https://choprafoundation.org/health/getting-real-about-brain-science-a-challenge-to-the-current-model/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:11:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39026 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Bernardo Kastrup, PhD It’s time to make up our minds about the brain. Every day, it seems, neuroscience announces new findings that uncover more and more of the brain’s secrets. The day cannot be far off, we are told, when the deepest mystery of all—how the brain produces consciousness—will be solved. At the […]

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]]> A Better Way to Approach Pain, and America's Pain-Pill Epidemic https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-better-way-to-approach-pain-and-americas-pain-pill-epidemic/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:53:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39022 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina You may have noticed headlines about the rise of prescription drugs as a major cause of addiction and death by overdose. Pain pills are overshadowed by illegal drugs like heroin and their dangers masked by a certain air […]

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]]> SBTI https://choprafoundation.org/health/sbti/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:59:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38828 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXrtxSogfT8&feature=share&list=PLL-EgQl3yr1-7la-9HIYOEYN_Nl2pc_SJ&index=4[/youtube]

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]]> AspenBrainLab: Explore Your Brain https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/aspenbrainlab-explore-your-brain/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:57:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38799 Join Deepak Chopra, Rudy Tanzi, and others at the Aspen BrainLab at the Paepcke Auditorium, Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado.  Topics to be covered: Creative Brain Impaired Brain Healthy Brain Future Brain And special discussion on genes

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]]> State of Health: Prevention is What Matters https://choprafoundation.org/health/state-of-health-prevention-is-what-matters/ Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:35:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38633 By Deepak Chopra This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers analyze the state and future of their industry. I have been in the health industry for the last forty-five years. When I was doing my residency and fellowship in various Boston hospitals our main attention was on sickness. For the most […]

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]]> Radical Well being: Where We Need to Go (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/radical-well-being-where-we-need-to-go-part-2/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:01:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38486   By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD     There are two reasons why radical well being hasn’t captured the imagination of the general public. As we saw in the first part, people all too often let their health go and then depend on the standard medical approach of drugs and surgery. […]

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]]> Radical Well-Being: Where We Need to Go https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/radical-well-being-where-we-need-to-go/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:38:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38462 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD As far as our health goes, America is about a little of this and a lot of that. The little is self-care, the lot is drugs and surgery. Thirty years after a mind-body revolution took place in medicine and fifty years after the Surgeon General launched […]

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]]> Self Directed Biological Transformation (SDBT) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/self-directed-biological-transformation-sdbt/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/self-directed-biological-transformation-sdbt/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:14:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38420 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x87NWyGzyVY[/youtube]   Deepak’s talk, Self Directed Biological Transformation, at the Aspen Institute. 

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/self-directed-biological-transformation-sdbt/feed/ 0 Sleep: A mystery at the crossroads of neuroscience (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:54:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38398 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina   In the last post we saw how essential sleep is for the physiological needs of  almost all animals, but sleep would seem to be a poor survival trait as far as evolution goes.  Because […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/feed/ 0 Top Stories in Medicine in the Last Century https://choprafoundation.org/health/top-stories-in-medicine-in-the-last-century/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/top-stories-in-medicine-in-the-last-century/#respond Thu, 09 Jan 2014 02:32:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38385   Description: Dr. Sanjiv Chopra will cover the greatest discoveries and scientific advances in the last 100 years. All scientific breakthroughs come in fits and starts. The stories behind the discovery of drugs like penicillin and statins; of vaccines for polio and Hepatitis B; the control of HIV, the greatest of all plagues, with HAART […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/health/top-stories-in-medicine-in-the-last-century/feed/ 0 Sleep: A mystery at the crossroads of neuroscience (Part 1) https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-1/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-1/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:53:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38134 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Sleep crops up in unexpected places medically, as in the recent finding that for people suffering from bouts of depression, irregular sleep is often the first sign of an attack, and conversely, getting a good […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-1/feed/ 0 The Best New Year’s Resolution: Be Good To Your Genes https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2014 06:00:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38141 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D. Image: hiddenlighthouse The New Year occasions all kinds of resolutions (which only 8% of people keep, according to Forbes magazine), but almost no one, I imagine, resolves to improve the function of their genes. The fact that this is even possible sounds mystifying, since the specific genes […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/feed/ 0 Health Tip: Get checked for Colon Cancer! https://choprafoundation.org/health/health-tip-get-checked-for-colon-cancer/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/health-tip-get-checked-for-colon-cancer/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:46:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38098 By Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., MACP, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Frank J. Domino, M.D., Professor of Family Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Colon cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in men and women in the US, and the 3rd in causing cancer death.  This last statistic is sad, as colon cancer screening works; it […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/health/health-tip-get-checked-for-colon-cancer/feed/ 0 Health Tip? Coffee: Is it a miracle drug? https://choprafoundation.org/other/health-tip-coffee-is-it-a-miracle-drug/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/health-tip-coffee-is-it-a-miracle-drug/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:03:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38075 Contributed by Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP and Frank J. Domino, M.D. Is there a commonly consumed beverage that decreases the risk of developing a number of common cancers? Americans consume 400 million cups of this beverage.  Worldwide more than 2.25 cups are consumed daily. If you guessed the beverage is Coffee you are absolutely right! […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/health-tip-coffee-is-it-a-miracle-drug/feed/ 0 The Weightless Project https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-weightless-project/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-weightless-project/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:24:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38041 Join Deepak and The Chopra Foundation eradicate obesity and world hunger and malnutrition. To learn more:  www.weightlessproject.org   [youtube]http://youtu.be/foKaXjNt_tc[/youtube]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-weightless-project/feed/ 0 Wireless Sensors Used to Study Meditation’s Effect on Heart Health https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/wireless-sensors-used-to-study-meditations-effect-on-heart-health/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/wireless-sensors-used-to-study-meditations-effect-on-heart-health/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:20:15 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38038 STSI teams with Chopra Foundation, Chopra Center in innovative research Can meditation improve heart health by lowering blood pressure? Does it help relieve chronic pain? Should doctors prescribe meditation to some patients just as they do with pharmaceutical drugs? Using leading-edge wireless technology that can track vital signs like never before, researchers with the Scripps […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/wireless-sensors-used-to-study-meditations-effect-on-heart-health/feed/ 0 What Would God Think of the God Particle?- Part 1 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-would-god-think-of-the-god-particle-part-1/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-would-god-think-of-the-god-particle-part-1/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:33:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37922 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University (Published by The San Francisco Chronicle) The award of the Nobel Prize in physics generally creates a mental blur for most people, since no one can comprehend the current state of physics without training in advanced mathematics.  […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-would-god-think-of-the-god-particle-part-1/feed/ 0 DeLos https://choprafoundation.org/health/delos/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/delos/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:13:01 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37876 Paul Scialla, board member of The Chopra Foundation and Founder of De Los, is acknowledged by former President William Clinton for his organization’s great works at CGI. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssj9okbs2m8[/youtube]

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