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Welcome back to Between bells. Everyone. Americans are

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stressed between the pandemic and rising costs. It's no

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wonder why the american psychological association's stress in America snapshot

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says half of americans don't know how to manage added

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stressors. However, there is some light at the

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end of this tunnel since 1988. Our next guest

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has turned out 92 books including dozens of new york

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times bestsellers all offering up ways to help and in

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his new book, abundance. The inner path to

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wealth. The goal is to offer practical advice on

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how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of

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fear and security joining us Now to discuss is the

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author himself. Such a pleasure. Deepak chopra.

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Welcome back to the show. We are so excited

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to talk to you Once again your book was on

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full display in the heart of new york city earlier

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this week. We see you there on Times Square

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, like we mentioned, you have released 92 books

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, Congratulations. How do you continuously work to put

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out fresh new perspectives on wellness. It's just I

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think I'm compulsive and neurotic obsessive. I love to

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share ideas as soon as I have an idea,

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I start writing about it and sooner or later it

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ends up in a book. But you know,

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I focused only on one thing and that is what

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is fundamental reality and once you know that fundamental reality

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is not your mind, not your body, it's

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your spirit. Then once you connect with that it's

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a field of infinite possibilities, infinite creativity. Synchronicity

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is the source of everything that we experience. And

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that's the key of how do you do less and

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accomplish more? It's called the law of least effort

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in part two of your book, Finding your abundance

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, you write this and I want to share this

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with our viewers because it's so profound quote at the

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worst of times, you might experience more suffering and

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joy, worst of all is a sense of emptiness

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in our darkest moments. These feelings leave us anxious

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, resentful and lost for answers. Many of us

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might feel this way right now. What ways can

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people fix this feeling of lack of fulfillment? The

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emptiness. Is there an easy answer here at the

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bug? Yeah, there is. I mean it's

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I don't know if it's easy or not, but

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it's very practical and the practical is to take some

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time off. Sit quietly with their own self,

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go into a quiet mode which I call simple awareness

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and then ask very fundamental questions. Who am I

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? What do I want? What is my deepest

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desire? What is my calling? What is my

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purpose? What am I grateful for? And very

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interestingly, when you ask these questions of yourself,

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not your mind, not your body, your spirit

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, then it has a way of actually telling you

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all the answers and moving you into the answers.

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This is called in spiritual traditions, this is called

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generosity of spirit, but in fact there is no

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doubt that in every human being there is an inner

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intelligence, the ultimate and supreme genius that mirrors the

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wisdom of the universe. We just these days are

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so distracted by melodrama that we have sympathetic overdrive.

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And we're not resorting to either contemplative self inquiry or

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mindfulness or even just pressing the pause button and observing

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our reaction to react. So before you answer a

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question or before you respond to a situation, if

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you could just stop, take three deep breaths,

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smile, observe the sensations in your body and then

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speak with awareness, compassion. You'll be all set

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. I think that's fantastic advice in creating this book

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. You mix ancient teachings and spiritual practices with the

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wisdoms you've learned in your very impressive career. What

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was your process in creating this book? The book

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? My process was going back to the wisdom traditions

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and looking at what in Eastern wisdom traditions are called

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. Seven chakras, But then these are metaphors for

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centers of awareness. So the first center of awareness

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, safety and security, the second sensuality and vitality

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and energy. The third achievement and success. The

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fourth love and belongingness. The fifth creative expression inside

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intuition, higher consciousness and the 6th and 7th,

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going to levels of transcendence where all the answers come

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to you by merely asking the questions and waiting for

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sensations and images and feelings and thoughts to guide you

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. This is ancient practices part of yoga, it's

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just that people only think of yoga's the arsenals that

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you do in a studio. But yoga means union

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with the source of all the experience, which is

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your own self. I do want to talk more

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about the chakra system because you write in your book

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, quote, if you write, if you want

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to maximize the abundance in your life, you need

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to use your awareness better and better every day.

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In other words you need to evolve. What do

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you mean when you say evolve? How do we

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adapt this into our everyday lives with all the stressors

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surrounding us right now, if you look at the

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world, the major response to any challenges, what

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we call the fight of flight response, which is

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an expression of our reptilian brain or the reactive response

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, the ego response, which is a reflection of

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our dysfunctional emotional disconnected brain, fear, anxiety,

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depression, guilt, shame, and mistrust. These

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are the two major responses which we call the first

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two chakras, But then beyond that is something called

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restful awareness which you achieved through meditation. Beyond that

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is intuition, which is a more contextual relational holistic

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orientation towards the world. You eavesdrop on deeper context

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and meaning and go beyond win lose or orientation and

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beyond. The intuitive response is something called the creative

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response and beyond that, the visionary response and beyond

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that, the sacred response. So these are the

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real seven chakras biologically represented. And then in Eastern

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wisdom traditions, particularly in something called tantra, which

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is not fully understood in the West, people think

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of tantra as some kind of sexual spirituality, but

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the word tantra literally means ritual? So tantra combined

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with visualization which is called Yantra combined with meditation called

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mantra is the way you activate these different centers of

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awareness or chakras. And these practices have been there

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for a long time, but there's so many people

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who are anxious about getting back into a normal groove

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in our post pandemic world. What tips can you

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give them? I think we should now engage with

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each other even though we still, sometimes we may

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have to follow some rules, but the four is

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that I use myself have been very helpful. A

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first day stands for attention. Deep listening ask,

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what am I observing? What am I feeling?

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What's the need? How do we collectively fulfill that

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need so deep attention, deeper affection, caring for

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each other in these times. Always good to know

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that somebody is holding her back affection, gratitude and

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acceptance. Understanding the situation is what it is and

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we have to come up with creative ways to solve

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it. But there's no problem that cannot be solved

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. If we have shared vision, if we connect

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with each other emotionally and spiritually and if we complement

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our strengths and this is what we're doing with some

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of the work we do at the chopra Foundation,

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we have a special program called I am never alone

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, never alone dot love where we connect people with

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each other and these people support each other in creating

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a global community for prosperity and peace. You talked

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about a share vision, Do you think there is

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a shift for the better in the corporate world?

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In regards to employee well being? Because of the

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pandemic? Yes, there has been in fact,

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there's been a lot of data. I co founded

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as a nonprofit called Just Capital which looks at businesses

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that are actually taking care of their employees and they

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find that if you really focus on your employees,

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then if your employees are happier than new customers are

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happier, if your customers are happier then your investors

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are happier if your investors are happier you have a

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happy business. Very good advice. I have about

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40 seconds left with you. I have to talk

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to you about national unplugging day. How would you

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recommend people go about that? I think a lot

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of people have a hard time. Should we add

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unplug unwind time into our daily schedules? How do

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we approach this? I would do a nationally music

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festival and unplugged through music, poetry, dance and

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inspiration and possibly collective meditation for higher consciousness. I

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love this. We love sustainable healthcare and joyful world

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. Yes, and that's what we all want.

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Thank you so much for your time. Deepak chopra

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. We always appreciate you coming here on cheddar news

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. We welcome back his new book, abundance.

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The inner path to wealth is available now