Deepak Chopra

Jan 16, 2025 | firstindia.co.in | Deepak Chopra

The more unsettled the times, the more potent are our anxious feelings. When a natural disaster gets completely out of hand, like the current devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, fear triggers more than an immediate reaction. A backlog of anxiety is invoked, much of it stemming from the Covid pandemic and looming ecological disaster. If these triggers are powerful enough, it is hard for anything to override the voice of fear inside us. All of us are forced to adapt to its presence.

Jan 10, 2025 | firstindia.co.in | Deepak Chopra

In troubled times outward disorder needs to be met with inner stability, which many people find difficult. One of the strongest ways to counter outward disorder is to know your purpose and then to realize it. Having a purpose is associated with feeling secure about who you are and why you were put here. Also, feeling that you are on course with your purpose is effective in keeping away anxiety and depression. ind your life’s purpose yet? If so, do you feel you are on track with your purpose?

Nov 29, 2024 | firstindia.co.in | Deepak Chopra

There’s a profound idea behind the Sufi poet Rumi’s phrase, “letting life live through you.” It refers to gaining power through surrender, which sounds like a contradiction. Sitting passively and letting things happen seems like a recipe for being powerless. And that’s true, but Rumi meant something else. Packed into his statement are some assumptions about the nature of life. The first and most important is that life is selfsufficient. It can take care of itself.

Nov 22, 2024 | firstindia.co.in | Deepak Chopra

Flow is an appealing concept that has caught on in a big way. The notion that life can flow as effortlessly as a river holds out an ideal that counters the demanding reality of modern life. Many more people long for flow than achieve it, but that can change once the whole concept is understood better. The opposite of flow is resistance, which is the main quality of stress. Stress throws up obstacles.

Nov 15, 2024 | firstindia.co.in | Deepak Chopra

There are few questions where it can be said that literally every answer is second-hand, but the persistence of consciousness after death is one. As sticky and complicated as the issue is, it can be broken down into three perspectives that in themselves are simple. The perspective of a believer supports life after death; the skeptical perspective denies it; the undecideds stand in the middle. Generally, anyone who belongs to one of these camps is resistant to accepting evidence from another.