Genes - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:25:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Genes - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> Mindful Evolution: Can You Guide What Your Genes Are Doing? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/mindful-evolution-can-you-guide-what-your-genes-are-doing/ Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:42:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39616 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   Human beings are unique in the scenario of life on Earth–that much is obvious. We are guided by awareness, and to implement our wishes, dreams, and inventions, the higher brain (chiefly the cerebral cortex) has evolved to extraordinary proportions. Although classical Darwinism is mindless, and […]

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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-2/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:22:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39440   By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   Everyone has had a meaningful coincidence happen to them–the classic example is thinking of someone’s name and the next minute that person telephones, or seeing an unusual word in your mind’s eye and then running across that word the next time you open a […]

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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 1) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-1/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:05:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39408 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher   Over the past decade, the hunt for genetic connections with behavior as intensified. For any experience, there must be a physical activity in the brain—otherwise, the experience has no basis. Using this irrefutable assumption, researchers have looked for the seat of anger, criminal behavior, gender identification, the […]

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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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]]> 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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