healing - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:33:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png healing - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 Is Life Really a Dream? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-life-really-a-dream/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:33:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40870 By Deepak Chopra, MD There are times when life goes out of kilter and the world doesn’t seem real and substantial anymore. Such experiences occur regularly, either to us or other people. For example, when there’s a sudden death in the family or a catastrophe like a tornado or the house burning down, a person […]

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]]> If a Machine Could Make You Happy, Would You Do It? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/if-a-machine-could-make-you-happy-would-you-do-it/ Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40849 Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes many claims, some quite futuristic, others just around the corner. Somewhere in the middle lies the prediction of human behavior, with the attendant claim that if people are predictable, this could be the future of well-being. To predict when someone is going to get angry, sad, afraid, or tense is already […]

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]]> The True Meaning of Meditation https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-true-meaning-of-meditation/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40837 By Deepak Chopra, MD The American way of meditation is now firmly a part of our lifestyle, and millions of people who have taken up yoga and learned about mindfulness feel quite comfortable meditating. I’m saying “the American way,” because it took scientific research and the promise of improved health to convince the average person […]

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]]> The Microbiome: How to Talk to Your 2 Million Genes https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-microbiome-how-to-talk-to-your-2-million-genes/ Tue, 29 May 2018 19:22:30 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40830 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Naveen Jain The term “microbiome” has become popular in the last decade, and most people now realize that their bodies are populated by an enormous quantity of microbes. Taking every location from the skin to the mouth to the intestinal tract into consideration, the microbiome weighs around 3 lbs., roughly […]

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]]> The Best Strategy to Combat Aging https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-best-strategy-to-combat-aging/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:16:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40750 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD When people think about growing old, they blame the passage of time—the years roll by, and the body stops looking younger year by year. But the latest science disputes this view. A person ages because the cells in their body age, and cells live only in […]

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]]> Welcome to the Society for the Suppression of Curiosity https://choprafoundation.org/articles/welcome-to-the-society-for-the-suppression-of-curiosity/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:40:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40738 By Deepak Chopra, MD The secular world is built upon science, which overturned the world of faith. Exchanging spiritual beliefs for objective facts looks like a clear-cut choice, but it isn’t. In all our lives there are values like compassion and loving kindness that are not scientific, and so everyday life straddles two worlds. In […]

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]]> How to Be Your Own Medical Advocate https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-be-your-own-medical-advocate/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:24:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40697 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD When the average person goes to the doctor, shows up at the ER, or enters the hospital, the possibility of controlling what happens next is minimal. We put ourselves in the hands of the medical machine, which in reality rests upon individual people—doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, […]

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]]> Artificial Intelligence, False Gods, and Driverless Everything https://choprafoundation.org/articles/artificial-intelligence-false-gods-and-driverless-everything/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:44:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40680 By Deepak Chopra, MD and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD Artificial Intelligence (A.) has succeeded by being far-seeing; it’s a field where proponents began by envisioning a computer that can take over functions of the human brain, like computation and logic. Today the field has progressed to the point where algorithms can recognize photos, speech and […]

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]]> The AI Paradox: How Computers Will Make Us More Human https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-ai-paradox-how-computers-will-make-us-more-human/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40666 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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]]> A Surprising Answer to “Who Am I? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-surprising-answer-to-who-am-i/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40539 By Deepak Chopra, MD Not many people reflect philosophically on the age-old question, “Who am I?” For practical purposes, everyday life depends on accepting the self that gets up in the morning, eats breakfast, and goes off to work. This makes it seem as if “Who am I?” is a given. But in fact, it […]

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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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]]> Fox News: Healing and Dooms Day https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/fox-news-healing-and-dooms-day/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/fox-news-healing-and-dooms-day/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:42:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36415 Fox News Anchor Uma Pemmaraju hosts Deepak on America’s News Headquarters tomorrow on the Fox News Channel to discuss the topics of healing and Dooms Day.  The show airs  live at noon eastern time  – check your local TV listing.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/fox-news-healing-and-dooms-day/feed/ 0 Healing the Deeper Wound https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/healing-the-deeper-wound/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/healing-the-deeper-wound/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:44:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35513 Healing yourself comes in two stages – first releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul’s energy.  It is a gentle and fragile path, very much like holding on to a thread as it leads  you from step to step.  If you take the time to listen to the voice of silence, […]

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