Wellness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Sun, 17 Jun 2018 19:49:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Wellness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> Is There One Best Path in Life? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-there-one-best-path-in-life/ Mon, 21 May 2018 19:42:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40824 By Deepak Chopra, MD Without using the term, everyone has marked out a path in life–a path can be defined as a road map that guides you to a goal. Because every day presents some kind of goal, however small, being on a path is inevitable. It doesn’t have to be a conscious choice. Yet […]

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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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]]> Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here—It’s Us https://choprafoundation.org/articles/artificial-intelligence-is-already-here-its-us/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40638 Deepak Chopra, MD As news keeps pouring out about the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI), people don’t know how much to welcome the technology or fear it. There are warnings from top-level scientists about a future in which super computers become so advanced that they leap into autonomy. Freed to make their own decisions, […]

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]]> How Reality Is Made: The Play of Consciousness https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-reality-is-made-the-play-of-consciousness/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40632 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s a peculiar part of being human that we have both a mind and consciousness but cannot tell them apart. The difference is that the mind is constantly in motion, producing sensations, thoughts, images, and feelings, while consciousness is the basic “stuff” of the mind, which remains unchanged no matter how […]

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]]> 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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]]> How to Be a Know-It-All (For Real) https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-be-a-know-it-all-for-real/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:12 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40478 By Deepak Chopra, MD Omniscience, the ability to know everything, has a strong spiritual tradition, which places it as a divine quality, not a human one. In secular society, artificial intelligence grabs headlines while omniscience, except for those who believe in an all-knowing God, is an archaic notion. But there’s a reason why omniscience arose […]

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]]> A Note to Skeptics: It’s Time to Go Radical https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-note-to-skeptics-its-time-to-go-radical/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:38 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40463 By Deepak Chopra, MD   Anyone who has had the audacity to question mainstream science soon runs afoul, particularly in the blogosphere, of hard-line skeptics. Whether they are simply insistent or outright aggressive, the skeptical viewpoint has long been founded on a simple principle. Reality is what lies before us, in the three-dimensional world “out […]

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]]> How Patient Advocates Can Help with Doctor’s Visits https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-patient-advocates-can-help-with-doctors-visits/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:50:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40460 By Deepak Chopra MD, Lizabeth Weiss, BA, Nancy S. Cetel, MD, Danielle Weiss, MD, Joseph B. Weiss, MD,   When the average American goes to the doctor, shows up at the ER, or enters the hospital, the risks and complexities of our healthcare system strike home vividly. Besides the expense of care and the intricate […]

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]]> Where Do You Call Home? A Cosmic Answer https://choprafoundation.org/articles/where-do-you-call-home-a-cosmic-answer-2/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:24:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40452 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, PhD   Home is a charged word for everyone, a source of emotion that’s intimately associated with feeling safe and loved, of belonging. When asked “Where is home?” people reply with a country or city, perhaps a specific street address. Almost no one says “My home is the universe.” […]

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]]> How to Meet Your Cosmic Self https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-meet-your-cosmic-self/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:38:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40446 By Deepak Chopra, MD Science has been falsely portrayed as the enemy of spirituality, largely because of a noisy band of militant atheists who also happen to be scientists. Their outcry that to believe in God is irrational and therefore anti-scientific misses the point. Not all scientists are irreligious, but the whole premise of this […]

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]]> The Genetics of a Silent Killer and the Quest for a Cure https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-genetics-of-a-silent-killer-and-the-quest-for-a-cure/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40425 By Deepak Chopra, MD FACP and Mark L. Zeidel, M.D Some diseases make headlines, pull at our heart strings, and inspire high-visibility fundraising events. Others, like kidney disease, wreak havoc more quietly. Chronic kidney disease afflicts more than 26 million people in the U.S., putting them at high risk for other serious illnesses, like heart […]

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]]> After Gay Rights, Gay Spirituality https://choprafoundation.org/articles/after-gay-rights-gay-spirituality/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:56:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40364 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s taken decades for gay activists to achieve the most basic right that every minority deserves: equality under the law. In principle one might say that the battle has been won, even if some states are dragging their heels and some groups mount fierce resistance. Thirty years ago, it took mass […]

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]]> A Revolution in Reality Is Around the Corner https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-revolution-in-reality-is-around-the-corner/ Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40323 Whether they think about it or not, people take sides about reality. The dividing line separating science from spirituality was crossed long ago, and it doesn’t take a lesson in philosophy or theology to pick up a smartphone. Therefore, by default reality for everyone is scientific reality. Let’s set the old science versus spirituality divide […]

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]]> Good News: You Aren’t a Biological Robot https://choprafoundation.org/articles/good-news-you-arent-a-biological-robot/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40312 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD We live in a golden age for neuroscience, and new findings about the brain emerge almost by the month. with huge government backing, one foresees the day, which could be quite soon, when every significant region of the brain is correlated with all the things we […]

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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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]]> 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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