Deepak Chopra and Intent

Sometimes it helps to step back and view a whole nation as if it were a person. Right now we are told that America is in crisis, and solutions are being offered from every quarter. When a person is in crisis, the search for a solution runs into conflict and confusion. The worst scenarios run…

Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com In the first year of life, a baby’s brain is under heavy construction. It nearly triples in size, from about ¾ of a pound to more than 2 pounds. A key building block in this construction project is DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Our bodies create…

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By Deepak Chopra Deepak Chopra and Annie Bond Annie Bond Connecting to Body-Mind To become familiar with the miracle of the human body-mind is to acquire awesome power. This power is magical because it allows you to experience the body-mind as more fluid, more flexible, and more dynamic, and more creative than you have ever…

Who Owns Yoga? (Answer: The World) Newspapers used to keep morgues of old clippings (I suppose the Web has largely replaced them), and I had the feeling of being dusted off, if not revived from the dead, when my name appeared in a New York Times article about the current kerfuffle over Yoga. The Hindu…

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In the wake of exploring the new field of positive psychology, which led to a book on how to be happy, I had a nagging thought in the back of my mind. It’s encouraging that psychology has begun to focus on the dynamics of a healthy psyche rather than on neurosis and mental illness. Yet…

Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com A smoker’s body shows evidence of the habit’s deadly effects from head to toe. The way tobacco smoke ravages lung tissue is well known. The cardiovascular system is also imperiled as smoking damages the cells lining blood vessels and causes arteries to constrict. Smokers’…

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When the rich man’s club of nations expanded from the G7 to the G20, a new element was added. Instead of being about money and trade, the G20 is about something else. I don’t mean that overused word “globalization.” Rather, the G20 is about aspiration. The issue facing the West, and America in particular, is…

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