Stress Is Killing You! 5 Proven Steps To Reverse Its Effects: Deepak Chopra

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In this new episode Steven sits down with the author and alternative-medicine pioneer Deepak Chopra. Deepak is an expert in the field of mind-body healing and has written over 90 books on the subject. He has also been named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. After studying medicine in India, Deepak moved to America to begin his medical career. However he soon became disillusioned with Western medicine and its reliance on prescription drugs, and was inspired to become involved with holistic medicine and the Transcendental Meditation movement. He is the founder the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, which focuses upon the importance of mental, emotional and spiritual well-being to the overall health of the individual. In this conversation Deepak and Steven discuss topics, such as: How emotions affect the physical body The key areas of suffering in our life How to be successful no matter what The greatest emotion humans posses Why depression is the real pandemic affecting modern society How emotions affect you on a cellular level Self identity is a hallucination and life a dream? Why the greatest emotion you can adopt is awe How to be successful no matter what The 5 most common points of suffering The stark difference between a human being and a human doing How to see the opportunity in every problem Why every time you feel anger, it’s just your body remembering trauma The magic of focusing on your strengths. You can purchase his most recent book, ‘Living In The Light’, here: https://bit.ly/3An4056 Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've created a world. It was very dangerous right now. I think we're on the brink of a possible extinction.
0:07.0	Deep October right here.
0:08.5	One of the world's biggest experts on health, wellness.
0:11.5	Time magazine is one of the top 100 icons of the century.
0:15.0	It's also written 93 books.
0:17.0	When you look at the direction of travel as a civilization,
0:20.0	what advice do we need now?
0:22.0	War, read, stress, humanities problems come from our inability to sit quietly and do nothing.
0:29.0	We're always doing, doing day. We're human doings, We're not human beings anymore.
0:34.0	Take some time every day to be unoccupied.
0:37.0	Ask yourself, who am I?
0:38.0	What do I want?
0:40.0	What is my purpose?
0:41.0	People don't ask these questions. They only know that they suffer and they want
0:45.9	an immediate solution which is, you know, something like a 90-depressant and that's what
0:51.1	we've created.
0:56.0	Every experience shapes our biology. When you look at the situation, do you see an adversity or an opportunity?
1:01.0	How is this determined by your childhood? If your parents were
1:04.2	complaining, condemning, criticizing, playing the victim, you will see every
1:08.3	situation as an adversity. Can be changed? Yes. How? There are actually many studies on what is called the happiness equation.
1:16.4	Number one is...
1:18.4	This is your 93rd book. If you were to write one last book, what would be the top line message?
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