Our HEALING WISDOM
segments feature inspiring interviews with thought leaders and
innovative practitioners in the field of health and wellness. Ranging
in topics from healthy aging and emotional freedom to our connection to
nature and the planet, these segments aim to inform, empower and
motivate you in the pursuit of optimum well-being.
 This season we profile the healing wisdom of Dr. Deepak Chopra
-- a world-renowned authority in the field of mind-body healing and the
founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California. A
global force in the field of human empowerment, Dr. Chopra is the
prolific author of more than fifty-five books on mind-body health,
quantum mechanics, spirituality, and peace. Official website>>
 All your favorite Deepak Chopra moments!
Deepak Chopra: Healing Wisdom Compilation
This
DVD compilation features twenty-four vignettes with Dr. Deepak Chopra
speaking on topics such as healthy aging, releasing toxic emotions,
understanding our shadow side, the power of intention, connecting with
nature, the miracle of butterflies... and much more!
Buy this DVD for $19.95>>
 Our Connection to the Planet
One mistake of modern science, according to Dr. Deepak Chopra, is
dualistic thinking that differentiates between a biological organism
and its environment. Instead, he says we and the planet are one total
being -- the trees are our lungs, the rivers and waters are our
circulation, the earth is our body. So the more we pollute and destroy
the environment the bigger the impact will be on both our personal and
extended body.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 New Approaches to Staying Young
While getting old is nobody’s favorite topic, Dr. Deepak Chopra says
the way we think about aging can actually affect our biological age. He
says we should learn to appreciate what is being gained by the wisdom
of experience. He also says that biological markers of aging like blood
pressure, bone density, body temperature regulation, immune functions,
skin thickness, wrinkles, fat content, cardiovascular function, and
many other markers of aging are actually quite flexible.
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The Chopra Center
Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Miracle of Butterflies
Nature provides us with healing substances in abundance, if we know how
to use them. Nature also provides us with information, if we’re paying
attention. Dr. Deepak Chopra tells us what we can learn about how a
caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, and how this process
represents a “quantum leap of creativity in nature” that we can also
achieve ourselves, personally and socially, through the power of
intention.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Our Shadow Side
Every human being has a shadow; if you don't have a shadow it means
you're not standing in the light. Dr. Deepak Chopra reminds us that the
shadow is the part of ourselves that we might be embarrassed by, that
we might be ashamed of, that we don't want other people to find out
about -- but that we should embrace our shadow, forgive our shadow and,
most importantly, share our shadow with somebody we trust.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 On Flexibility
Flexibility is a critical component of lifelong good health. Dr. Deepak
Chopra tells us that a healthy body is a flexible body. He says
cultivating a flexible consciousness is an important underlying aspect
of physical health, that if we’re rigid in our consciousness, that will
express its rigidity in our body because the mind and body are
inseparable. In addition to physical disciplines like yoga, he says the
ability to let go of our rigid attachments to a specific outcome is one
of the healthiest things we can do.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Power of Love
What could be more potent than the power of love? People say love heals
all wounds, but how it does that is a real mystery. Dr. Deepak Chopra
tells us that most people think of love as an emotional sentiment, but
that it’s much more than that. Love, he says, is the knowingness and
the experience of inseparability of us as one being. Love has also been
shown to restore homeostasis, which is the body’s natural inclination
toward balance and healing.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Power of Intention
Intention is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Dr.
Deepak Chopra tells us how we can focus that power on keeping ourselves
healthy. He says that if we want to heal ourselves then first of all we
have to have clarity of what our intended outcome is. Then, when we
have clarity of that intended outcome in consciousness, we can enter
into the field of silence (such as meditation) so that the intention
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Releasing Negative Energy
Toxic feelings like anger and resentment are more than just unpleasant;
they can actually be dangerous to our health. Dr. Deepak Chopra says
toxic emotions at the molecular level are as damaging as any other
toxin. In order to deal with these emotions, he says we must take
responsibility for our own emotions, witness the emotion in our body,
label it, and express it in non-toxic ways such as journaling or
therapy. The all-important final step is to then release the toxic
emotion, to let it go, and share your emotional victory with someone
you love who understands you.
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Segment Links
The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Three Different Kinds of Aging
While getting old is nobody’s favorite topic, Dr. Deepak Chopra says
the way we think about aging can actually affect our biological age. He
says we should learn to appreciate what is being gained by the wisdom
of experience. He also says that biological markers of aging like blood
pressure, bone density, body temperature regulation, immune functions,
skin thickness, wrinkles, fat content, cardiovascular function, and
many other markers of aging are actually quite flexible.
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Segment Links
The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 On Cells in Alignment
The intricate life of our cells is truly amazing. In fact, Dr. Deepak
Chopra says our cells have a lot to teach us about living a spiritual
life. He says every cell in our body is aware of what’s happening in
the rest of the body. Every cell has acceptance. Every cell communes
with every other cell and has a memory of wholeness. Turns out this is
what living a spiritual life is all about.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 On Having More Joy
Many people think that if we had the right relationship, enough money
or good health that they’d be joyful or happy. Dr. Deepak Chopra tells
us that it’s actually the other way around, and that there are three
things that are actually shown to influence our state of joy or
unhappiness. They may not be what you think – although what we think
has a lot to do with it!
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Law of Least Effort
According to Dr. Deepak Chopra, we in our culture have become
brainwashed to believe that hard work, exacting plans and driving
ambition is the way to succeed. While it might be, by the time you get
what you want you may also have high blood pressure, you’re addicted to
drugs and your children have joined a gang. By not always looking for a
response about the future, or regretting the past, Chopra says we
accept the present moment and the Universe begins providing us what we
want – with minimal effort.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 On Meditation
We hear a lot about the benefits of meditation, but many of us have a
hard time doing it. Dr. Deepak Chopra encourages us to have no
expectations when meditating, to avoid thinking there’s a right way or
wrong way to do it. He suggests we begin our meditation practice by
just learning to sit for 15 or 20 minutes and simply experience
whatever we feel, including the restlessness and all the body
sensations. In fact, he says, learning to feel into our emotions and
body sensations is great pathway into meditation!
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Listening to Our Bodies
The best way to teach our body to be healthy, according to Dr. Deepak
Chopra, is actually to listen to it. Our body’s biological rhythms, he
says, are the symphony of the whole Universe. Just as our planet, our
bodies have circadian, seasonal, lunar and gravitational rhythms. A
body that is healthy is tuned into these rhythms, which requires us to
listen to our bodies as a microcosm of the cosmic body.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Yoga for Health
Yoga is an important part of many of our lives these days. It’s a great
way to get physical exercise, but it can also have much more profound
significance. Dr. Deepak Chopra tells us that the deeper meaning of
yoga is “union with source” or with the ultimate spirit. Yoga postures
facilitate mind-body coordination and mind-body synthesis, and brings
about a natural balance in our bodies called homeostasis.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 On Ancestors
Dr. Deepak Chopra talks about how knowing our ancestors is really the
activation of archetypal energies embodied in the mythologies of our
culture. Archetypes are states of consciousness, and if we tap into
them, then that state of consciousness directly affects our behaviors.
Inviting these states of consciousness to incarnate through us, we
start to interact with people and look at the world in a different way,
one that taps into our collective imagination.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Third Jesus
Dr. Deepak Chopra’s recent book The Third Jesus deals with the concept
of enlightenment from a whole new perspective. The first Jesus, he
says, is the historical Jesus, the Jesus of the Gospels and the Jesus
mentioned by the Roman historian, Josephus. The second Jesus is the
theological Jesus, the Jesus build up by different sectors of the
Church. The third Jesus, according to Chopra, is a state of
consciousness.
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Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Biology of Belief
It’s important that patients believe the diagnosis from their doctor
because if they don’t, and the diagnosis has been made accurately, then
they’re not going to get the right treatment. But according to Dr.
Deepak Chopra, believing in the diagnosis is not the same as believing
in the prognosis, because the prognosis of a disease does not tell you
about the outcome of that disease in a particular person. He reminds us
that our beliefs have a powerful impact on our health outcomes and
should not be overlooked.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Healing Power of Laughter
As you might expect, the tears of laughter have a completely different
chemistry than the tears of sorrow. According to Dr. Deepak Chopra, you
can’t be experiencing laughter and have your ego in the same way at the
same time because the molecules of emotion secreted from laughter are
very different than the molecules you experience in ordinary or
depressed states of consciousness. These molecules of emotion, called
neuropeptides, have even been shown to affect the activity of the
immune system in a healthy direction.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 Dealing With Addiction
Addiction is the number one disease of our civilization according to
Dr. Deepak Chopra, addiction to toxic behavior, toxic substances, toxic
relationships, toxic environment – which all create a toxic body.
Ayurveda sees addiction as a second-class substitute for the exultation
of the spirit. Chopra’s approach at his medical clinic in California is
to actually give the person a sense of higher ecstasy and pleasure than
the one they remember from the addictive substance.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Power of Intention
Nature provides us with healing substances in abundance, if we know how
to use them. Nature also provides us with information, if we’re paying
attention. Dr. Deepak Chopra tells us what we can learn about how a
caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, and how this process
represents a “quantum leap of creativity in nature” that we can also
achieve ourselves, personally and socially, through the power of
intention.
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Segment Links
The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
 The Keys to a Joyful Life
People think that if they had the right relationship they’d be joyful.
If they had enough money, if they were in good health, then they’d be
joyful. According to Dr. Deepak Chopra, it’s actually the other way
around. If we’re happy to begin with, then we’re more likely to be
healthy and make healthy choices, and we’re likely to have the right
relationships and more likely to be successful because we come from a
place of strength.
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The Chopra Center
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Official Website |
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