Mindfulness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:39:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Mindfulness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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