Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You
By Deepak Chopra
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I talked to a long-time friend today. Deepak Chopra and I have done close to a dozen interviews about his books over the years, many of those conversations knee-to-knee.
Today, we talked by phone on Open Book with Diana Page Jordan about his newest book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul. God, he’s razor-edge brilliant. Deepak has written more than fifty books. How can someone be so prolific, and squeeze in, for example, our half-hour interview, and he was on The View earlier in the day, while writing a new book, while meeting with philanthropists about funding a more peaceful world.
Time. One of his five body breakthroughs in the book. To be stressed over how much one has to do in a short period of time speeds up your biological clock, impedes your progress, leaves your emotions and thoughts tangled and tortured. Deepak is effervescently present. I love it. The feeling, and that he illustrates one of his key points.
He says the body is an informational field — you have to feed the right information into the body. For example, consider someone telling you they love you, then someone telling you they are done, forever, with the relationship. Very different body responses, right? No matter what is happening, move from Fear into Love. It is this connectivity that ignites the cells, turns on the genes, alters the DNA that will make you younger, happier, that will heal whatever ails you.
Simple. It is your belief that runs your body. One of my favorite closing questions over the years has been “what is your best hope for your book.” Probably a decade ago, I asked Deepak that question, and he stymied me with his response, that he didn’t believe in Hope. Why not? We reprised that point today. He says the presence of Hope, cannot exist without the presence of Despair. And, he simply Knows.
So how do you heal, get younger, be happier? Build whatever you intend into the mechanism. For example, the giraffe, he says, has a long neck because the creature has his sights set on those leaves high up on the trees. The intention turns on certain cells, genes, DNA. Used to be we thought we were done growing mentally long before we hit our teen years. Oh no, not so! Science has been good to us! It is revealing that there is more to learn about the nature of consciousness, Deepak says, and we know now about the brain’s plasticity.
Add joy and loving kindness, and we have amazing lives! His message — we can literally reinvent our lives. Isn’t that cool!
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December 1, 2009 @ 2:24 am
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Brian said,
January 7, 2010 @ 6:24 am
My college freshman daughter needs to learn about not getting stressed. It’s definitely tangling things up.
Diana Page Jordan said,
January 7, 2010 @ 7:22 am
Brian, I agree — stress sucks. But as Deepak reminds us, it’s all about faith.
Thanks for writing!
Best,
Diana
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