Deepak Chopra On: Consciousness, Quantum Physics, Handling Criticism, And The Benefit Of Contemplating Your Own Death
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Editor's Note (February 2026): Since this episode was first published, documents released by the Department of Justice have revealed Deepak Chopra's connection to Jeffrey Epstein. We find these revelations deeply troubling and do not condone any association with Epstein or his activities.
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A wide ranging interview with one the biggest and most controversial names in the self-help world.
Deepak Chopra is the founder of the Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality. He is a best selling author, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His new book, Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life, is out now.
In this episode we talk about:
- Deepak's definition of the quantum field
- How Deepak handles criticism
- The concept of creative intelligence
- Breathing techniques, including vagal breathing and box breathing
- The benefits of imagining your own death
- The exercise of returning to your zero point
- The concept of the body as a verb
- And the difference between the localized 'I' and the non-local 'I'
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dan here, before we start the show I want to tell you about a live recording of this |
| 0:04.1 | podcast that we're doing in New York City on March 28th. I will be interviewing two frequent |
| 0:10.7 | flyers from this show, the legendary meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein |
| 0:14.3 | who will be just coming off a three-month solo silent meditation retreat and |
| 0:18.2 | Dr Mark Epstein a Buddhist therapist and best-selling author. The event will actually be a |
| 0:24.0 | celebration of the 10th anniversary of my first book, 10% happier, and a percentage of |
| 0:28.7 | the proceeds will go to the New York Insight Meditation Center. Come early if you want for a VIP guided meditation |
| 0:35.2 | and Q&A with me. |
| 0:37.3 | Thanks to our friends over at audible |
| 0:38.9 | for sponsoring this show and the event. |
| 0:41.3 | Tickets on sale right now at symphony space.org. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Okay, in like 2008 or 9, right when I was starting to get interested in personal growth or |
| 1:14.4 | spirituality or whatever you want to call it. |
| 1:16.7 | I happened to meet a guy named Deepak Chopra. |
| 1:20.4 | You've probably heard of him. |
| 1:21.5 | He's a medical doctor, best-selling author, one of the biggest |
| 1:23.8 | names in the self-help world. Also very controversial about which more in a moment. Anyway, I ended up hanging |
| 1:30.0 | out with him a little bit. I did some stories on him and then I wrote about him |
| 1:33.8 | extensively in my first book which is called 10% happier after which this show is |
| 1:39.6 | named. In the book I talked about how fascinating Depok was to me as somebody who was at the beginning of his interest in mindfulness etc. |
| 1:47.0 | But I also made fun of him a little bit calling out his pension for using grandiose phrases such as transformational vortex to |
| 1:55.7 | the infinite those are actual words he uttered to me I still don't know what |
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