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Deepak’s (ultra-ambitious) Spiritual Checklist

The fourth and final week of Deepak Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” workshop is about spirit, aka the soul, the true self or consciousness. Deepak says spirit is where we connect to the “infinite field of potentiality that gives rise to your mind, your body and the universe.” I can dig that. I’m less confident, […]

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Four (harder than they sound) Steps to Releasing Emotions

Meditation teacher Roger Gabriel has been giving a talk each week on Deepak Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” workshop. During week three, Gabriel said that all the organic food and yoga in the world won’t help if our lives are “emotionally turbulent,” and he outlined four steps for letting go of emotions so we don’t […]

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Deepak Chopra shares three ways to instantly combat stress

(What I learned from the second week of Deepak’s “Healing the Whole Self” free online workshop.) (Also, I have to call him Deepak instead of Chopra because Deepak is so fun to say. Deepak.) Deepak started his healing workshop by talking about the “bodymind” and self-care. He continued that theme this week, with an increased […]

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Deepak Chopra’s Self-Care Checklist

(What I learned from week one of Chopra’s “Healing the Whole Self” program) January’s happiness binge is underway: Deepak Chopra’s free workshop started this week! (I’m also taking UC Berkeley’s Science of Happiness course, which also just started. Plus Oprah is doing a 10-week interview series with Eckhart Tolle. Holy happiness overload!) Deepak (may I […]

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Happiness Binge

January is shaping up to be the Month of Gurus and Life Improvement. I have signed up and intend to complete three online classes this month about my favorite subject: living a good life. The first, which started this week, is The Science of Happiness by UC Berkeley professors Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas. It’s […]

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