Deepak Chopra offers advice on how to manage stress and find meaning during the pandemic
," which means what can you do now — not today, now — to alleviate your stress so that you have a better tomorrow and even a better today. So that was the intention behind these efforts.How do people recognize stress in them, and how do you deal with it if it feels like you're having a real physical reaction to the stress that you're feeling?There's no stress without a physical reaction.
When they are 5 years, you get tell them, "OK, I want you to keep quiet today only for five minutes." When they're 6, then six minutes, 7, seven minutes. At 10 minutes, we introduce them to mindfulness awareness the way we do it but don't push them into it. So impermanence is a fact of our existence. What is not impermanent is that which we call I. When I say, "I am Deepak Chopra," or you say, "I am Sara Silver," what do you mean? Once upon a time that was a fertilized egg. And then it was a zygote, then it was an embryo, then it was a baby, then it was a child, then it was a teenager.
That is the essential spiritual experience that we call self-awareness or self-realization, which is actually the ultimate pursuit of every spiritual, religious tradition. When people pray, they're talking to a higher consciousness. When they meditate, they're listening to a higher consciousness. So that is what you need to communicate with anything. You and I communicate because we are listening to each other and we're speaking to each other. Same thing.
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