wellbeing - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:33:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png wellbeing - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 Closing the Truth Gap and How to Close It https://choprafoundation.org/articles/closing-the-truth-gap-and-how-to-close-it/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40537 By Deepak Chopra, MD There’s a truth gap that has nothing to do with facts versus lies in politics. Rather, it has to do with how we verify that something is true. Without doing it consciously, everyone shifts their “mode of knowing” all the time. That phrase is necessary because everyday truth is relative. It […]

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]]> Grounding the Human Body for Health : https://choprafoundation.org/articles/grounding-the-human-body-for-health/ Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40534 By Marty Zucker, Gaetan Chevalier, PhD, Clint Ober, Paul J. Mills, Deepak Chopra, MD The Earth is like a gigantic battery that contains a natural, subtle electric charge—a special kind of energy present in the ground. For safety and stability, almost everything in the electrical world is connected to the ground, whether it is an […]

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]]> Is There “Instant” Enlightenment? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-there-instant-enlightenment/ Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40532 By Deepak Chopra, MD Most people look upon enlightenment—whatever the term means to them-as remote, exotic, and unattainable without extreme effort. Enlightenment is the state a Tibetan Buddhist monk may reach after decades of mediation, or a yogi performing esoteric practices in a cave in the Himalayas. Yet if you strip away the Eastern esoteric […]

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]]> Green Shoots in a Desert Kingdom https://choprafoundation.org/articles/green-shoots-in-a-desert-kingdom/ Mon, 15 May 2017 17:50:12 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40525 By Deepak Chopra, MD Although fears over our planetary woes make headlines and keep people up at night, it should be apparent that finding solutions is about our mindset. The mindset of dread contributes to passivity and depression. Recently I encountered a mindset that holds promise because it combines consciousness-awareness raising with technology. The green […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/40516/ Mon, 01 May 2017 10:27:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40516 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Pankaj S. Joshi, PhD Although it takes place outside the headlines, even those that deal with science, a heated debate is occurring about mind and matter. On one side is a camp of so-called physicalists, formerly known as materialists, who hold fast to the assumption that any and all phenomena […]

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]]> Have Human Beings Stopped Evolving? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/have-human-beings-stopped-evolving/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40485 By Deepak Chopra, MD No idea has become baked into the social fabric than Darwinism, and yet Darwin himself never meant this to happen. In his mind, he was scientifically describing “the descent of species,” a specific notion of how life forms changed over time. Evolution was a rebuttal of the prevailing concept that species […]

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]]> Reality Is Structured in Consciousness https://choprafoundation.org/other/reality-is-structured-in-consciousness/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40483 By Deepak Chopra, MD One of the most surprising survivors in our society, long counted out as either moribund or dead, is philosophy. The “love of truth,” as the Greek term describes, was defeated by science and its love of facts. So it was unexpected when the New York Times ran an op-ed piece titled […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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 Third Metric – Redefining Success https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-third-metric-redefining-success/ https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-third-metric-redefining-success/#respond Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:35:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38395 Description: Our definition of success as composed mainly of money and power is no longer sustainable; it is time for a third metric.– one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two legged stool — you can balance on them for a while, […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-third-metric-redefining-success/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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