Sexuality tends to get a bad rep in spiritual practices, and vice versa. But are they all that different after all? In this episode of “Ask Deepak” on The Chopra Well, Deepak Chopra explores the connection these two energies share. Sexual energy manifests itself as charm, attraction, love, infatuation, and intimacy. It is the merging [...]
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Deepak Chopra: Tweets from the Cosmos – Tune In
When Twitter first appeared, I responded to its idealistic side, which aimed to form a global community that could create change beyond national boundaries. Tweets are now used for a million reasons that don’t aim as high. But it occurred to me that tweeting might be an excellent way to test the shift in consciousness [...]
Intuitive Guidance 101: Daring to Move Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Stepping onto the spiritual path isn’t all peace and roses. It pushes us into a place that moves us beyond our usual comfort zone. As we attune to the highest within us and listen to inner guidance, that guidance sometimes pushes us to try new jobs, to stretch into new creative projects, and to sometimes [...]
Backpack Meditation: A Mindfulness Tool You Can Take Wherever You Go
Throughout the day we have different stress triggers. We can be triggered by all kinds of circumstances, people, noises, even the weather. Yogi Bhajan said that 85% of our behavior is automatic and determined by our environment. If we let our environment dictate our mood then our life will feel like an emotional roller-coaster. The [...]
Find Out What You Want – Step #9
”Why does God allow children to suffer and die?” read the question. To which I answered: “Because God sees death as a beautiful transition, not a horrific disaster.” And he responded: “Every torturer sees someone else’s torture and death as beautiful.” And what did I say to that? I said this: “What if death is [...]
Where’s the Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘N’ Roll in Our Spiritual Teachings?
I have a bone to pick with spiritual gurus: They’re just such goody two-shoes. Where is the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll?
Deepak Chopra: What is Synchronicity?
Do you ever feel an uncanny sense of things aligning in your life? In this episode of “Ask Deepak” on The Chopra Well, Deepak explores the meaning of synchronicity in our lives. The word derives from the root “chronos,” which means time. Thus “synchronicity” means “in time.” It is associated to coincidence, which is characterized [...]
Confessions of a Former Vision Board Junkie
By Sarah Anne Stewart For a good portion of my life, I was a Vision Board junkie. I wrote goals and affirmations, sketched pictures, snapped photos, and pasted dozens of magazine pictures onto huge, intricately color-coded collages. My “vision of the future” had to be precise, and represent all the things I was determined to [...]
Los Angeles: Join Rev. Ed Bacon at the filming of new OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) show, 6/6/13!
Join us this Thursday in Venice Beach, CA for the filming of HELP DESK, a new television show on the Oprah Winfrey Network! This show features renowned self-help experts making themselves available in public spaces to provide advice to anyone who needs it. Help Desk is a deeply substantive series that grounds some of the [...]
Honoring My Mother on the Anniversary of Her Passing
It’s a practice of healing and cleansing, one of renewal and expansion. As the shift happens, a rawness sets in. It is a total unshielding of spirit/heart/energy…whatever you choose to call it, it really doesn’t matter as it is one in the same. Once the breakthrough has taken place through yoga, you can’t hide. Today [...]
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