165: How to raise mindful kids with Mallika Chopra, Deepak Chopra’s Daughter

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As the famous Deepak Chopra’s daughter, Mallika Chopra sure knows a thing or two about how to live mindfully. Chopra sat down with mbg Chief Content Officer, Olessa Pindak, to discuss her new book, called Just Feel, as well as how to raise mindful kids in an overstimulating, fast-paced world. Tune in to hear advice from this mother, author, and entrepreneur on how parents can help their kids overcome their anxiety. With Chopra’s tools, anxiety might not seem so scary—in fact, it might even become pretty manageable. To contact the mindbodygreen team 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! Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	Hi everyone, I'm a Lessa Pindac, Mind Body Green's Chief Content Officer. Today I'm
0:13.4	I'm a Lessa Pindac, Mind Body Green's chief content officer. Today I'm excited to welcome Melika Chopra,
0:15.7	author, entrepreneur, and mother of two teenage daughters to the Mind Body Green
0:19.5	podcast.
0:20.6	Melika has been educating people about the importance of meditation since her own father,
0:24.8	Deepak Chopra, taught her at the age of nine. So it's fair to say, she's had some meditation practice.
0:30.8	You'll hear about the time in life when she strayed from her dad's teachings and why she
0:34.2	came back to it when she was pregnant with her first daughter, as well as what it was like
0:37.8	to grow up with a father who was at first attacked and vilified for his awakening.
0:42.4	Melinka also shares her wisdom for how to raise more mindful kids, keep anxiety at bay,
0:47.0	and the importance of taking microsteps.
0:50.0	I'm thrilled to introduce such an insightful and inspiring voice in the mindfulness community.
0:54.2	Malika, welcome to the podcast.
0:56.4	Thank you.
0:57.4	I'm thrilled to be here.
0:59.0	So let's start out with a question and I think you probably get asked more than any other, which is you are the daughter,
1:03.4	Deepak Chopra.
1:04.4	And I think when people hear that, they must think that your life must have been very
1:08.0	mindful right from the start that you came right out of the womb and started meditating.
1:12.0	But you say that it actually wasn't quite like that?
1:14.5	No, so one, I am extremely grateful that I was born into this family and for all of the gifts that my mother and my father gave me.
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