Today, on the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast, you'll hear an excerpt from the upcoming

Five-Day Stress Detox event, which begins on May 16th.

In this lesson, Deepak Chopra shows you how to counteract stress with three very simple

but powerful breathing exercises to dissolve panic and restore peace.

You can listen to Deepak's full, early-access lesson for free right now when you sign up

for the event at hayhouse.com slash detox.

Plus, you'll also receive a downloadable guide with 10 surprisingly simple tips to relieve

stress.

That's hayhouse.com slash detox.

What's wrong with our civilization at the moment?

What's wrong with our civilization at the moment is the number one epidemic of our time.

That is giving rise to not only physical illness but emotional illness and spiritual illness

and causing all the problems of our world.

This is what we call stress.

So stress is defined in Western language or in the English language or in the way we

think in modern times, stress is defined as the perception of threat.

So stress is defined as the perception or interpretation, same thing, stress is defined

as the interpretation of threat, whether it's physical or emotional or psychological,

that doesn't matter.

As long as you interpret that your life in some ways being threatened, that will call

stress.

Now in the wisdom traditions of the East, stress is defined as that which interferes with

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