Deepak Chopra and Intent

The Higher Health (Part 2)

Admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:28:17 +0000

In the first post we discussed the possibility that higher health was possible, reaching beyond our current conception of wellness. Such an advance depends on two things. The first, which isn't new, is to comply with the current prevention measures that too many people ignore. The words "diet, exercise, and stress management" roll off the tongue so easily that one can learn to ignore them. Yet recent research only confirms how damaging poor lifestyle choices are. Even in the...

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The Higher Health – A New Map for Prevention

Admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:21:08 +0000

Wellness seems to have reached a plateau in America and other wealthy industrialized countries. The information about how to prevent many kinds of lifestyle disorders, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes, has been widely distributed. Longevity steadily increases. Advanced research on incurable diseases moves forward, if only by small increments. You might think that the picture of health is clear. All we need is two things to achieve wellness for almost everyone: more...

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One American Dream Fades – Will Another Be Born?

Admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:56:43 +0000

The United States remains the country that foreigners criticize the most and want to move to the most. Pursuing the American dream remains a potent motivator for every wave of immigration. It is also a constant theme among this year's crop of Republican hopefuls, who criticize President Obama for tearing down national greatness and pride. Yet beyond hope and rhetoric there are some undeniable facts that counter our embrace of the American dream. First, the dream was based on democratic...

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Cancer: A Preventable Disease Is Creating a Revolution

Admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:08:52 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP Cancer is the most dreaded of all diseases, and ever since a “war on cancer” was declared forty years ago, massive research has made progress, although the battle is far from won. Very little of this research has been directed at prevention. Advanced medicine, like the person on the street, has tended to think of cancer as something we have no control over: it happens to us or it doesn’t.

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Obama’s Chances in 2012: A Season for Reason

Admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:07:35 +0000

On all fronts there are efforts to energize the Obama converts who have lost a little faith, or a lot, over the past three years. Despite the oft-repeated fact that no sitting President since Roosevelt has been re-elected with unemployment over 7.4%, it's also true that incumbents retain a huge advantage and that Obama's presidency has been unique from the day a black man won the election. From now until next November his candidacy will be like a fragile patient who must be...

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Arthritis: When the Knees and Hips Go

Admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:33:47 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP

Arthritis would seem to be a simple mechanical failure of our bodies. Through wear and tear, the cartilage wears out in certain joints – primarily the hip, knee, lower back, neck, and hands – leading to stiffness, pain, and eventually almost total immobility. The wear-and-tear explanation appeals to common sense. Evidence for it comes from ancient skeletons, since our ancestors became arthritic,...

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Possibly a New World (Part 2)

Admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:55:10 +0000

It's a well-worn truth that the modern world is built upon science and technology. But this truth doesn't dominate everyday life as much as one might think. Science is materialistic, and it explains the world through objective data. People lead their lives, at least partly, apart from materialism. The spiritual side of life exists and always has, which defies objective data. So does art, which isn't mystical, not to mention emotions, intuition, morality and much else that makes life worth...

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Being Alert to Sleep Apnea

Admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:32:39 +0000

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A New Year, And Possibly a New World

Admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:09:03 +0000

It's fascinating, as time turns another small corner, to think of how worlds shift and collide. There is no evidence that a person as brilliant as Shakespeare understood that Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo had already revolutionized the human mind. The same thing may be happening now, and many brilliant people seem unaware of how our present-day world --meaning our conception of reality-- may undergo a seismic shift. I’m not thinking of fossil fuels and Arab uprisings, not...

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Winning Back the Future: Here’s how! – Part 2

Admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:51:21 +0000

In the first post, the question was raised whether a better future can be imagined out of the dire situation we find ourselves in. At the present moment we rely on science to answer our deepest questions. But science isn’t the only way to ask who we are and what we want from life. It's part of the human design to want freedom, and yet freedom cannot exist when you must waste energy on fear, anger, tension, insecurity, and stress - all the natural ingredients of living behind...

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