139: How to wake up to your true purpose with Deepak Chopra, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Deepak Chopra, M.D., is one of the most renowned spiritual teachers of our time. The author of more than 80 books, including 25 New York Times bestsellers, Deepak's groundbreaking work on metaphysics and the mind-body connection has touched millions of lives. At this year's revitalize event, Deepak joined me on the main stage to discuss consciousness and its role in longevity. You could hear a pin drop as the crowd listened attentively to his nuanced take on some of life's biggest questions. One topic that kept surfacing was this idea of "waking up," which Deepak writes about extensively in his upcoming book, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential. There are many things keeping us from true awakening, stuck in a state that Deepak describes as "a lucid dream in a vivid now," and the rise of social media is a big one. From his perspective, social platforms actually often encourage us to focus on the self—and in the process only make us feel more separate from one another. They take us away from our shared humanity and cause a lot of suffering, self-loathing, and jealousy in the process. Waking up to our shared experience is the key to freedom, joy, and a life of possibility. Over the course of the 30-minute interview, Deepak also names the one higher purpose we all share, says what's wrong with today's wellness world, and explains how anxiety is a modified form of consciousness. Tune in for more thought-provoking—and sometimes mind-blowing—insights from the spiritual leader and latest recipient of mindbodygreen's annual Lifetime Achievement Award. This podcast episode is a special recording from our sixth annual revitalize event, which was held in Dove Mountain, Arizona, in June. The insights we learned on the main stage this year were too good not to share. To contact Colleen or Jason with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jason Walkub, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host for the My Buddy
0:06.1	Green podcast where I'll be bringing you deep and insightful dialogues with some of the
0:10.2	greatest minds and wellness. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a five-star review and comment.
0:16.2	And don't forget to visit us at my buddygreen.com for your daily dose of wellness,
0:20.8	and make sure to check out all of our great offerings including our
0:23.7	online classes and trainings. Thanks and enjoy the podcast. Today's
0:31.8	podcast is part of our special revitalize series.
0:36.0	Revitalize is our biggest event of the year where we gather over 200 thought leaders
0:40.5	for a weekend of community and conversation about the biggest, most important
0:45.1	wellness topics of our time.
0:47.7	This year the insights we learned on the revitalized main stage were too good not to share,
0:51.9	so we're broadcasting them all in this special
0:54.1	podcast series. Be sure to stay tuned until the end of the podcast so you can hear
0:58.8	all the experts answer questions from the live studio audience we had at Revitalize.
1:04.0	Enjoy.
1:07.0	So next up, we have a man who truly needs no introduction,
1:12.0	a spiritual icon who's the author of more than 86 books,
1:17.2	including 26 New York Times bestsellers.
1:21.1	I don't think anyone can beat that here.
1:23.0	His life's work has been around consciousness and connection, work we desperately need, especially now.
1:30.0	According to Harvard Business Review, 40% of adults in America report feeling lonely,
1:35.2	and research shows that loneliness can make us up to 50% more likely to die prematurely.
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