In the last seven months, I've been engaging not only in meditation, but meditation that includes

reflective self-inquiry, asking myself questions deep in meditation, who am I, what do I want,

what is my calling at this moment, what is my purpose, and what's my next step through gratitude.

How do we thrive during a time when there's so much uncertainty?

If I was to look at the global landscape right now and come up with one word for what humanity

is experiencing, it would be grief. There's no choice. We have to find acceptance of what is at the moment.

Once you find acceptance, then you find meaning.

Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the BOF

podcast. Just in time for the new year, we have a very inspirational conversation

for you today from Voices 2020, where we had the honor of sitting down with the renowned doctor

and spiritual guide, Deepak Chopra, and his longtime friend Carmen Bousquetz, to talk about the power of

meditation and what increasing our level of awareness can do for productivity, clarity,

immunity, and more. Here's Deepak Chopra and Carmen Bousquet's and Voices 2020.

Deepak, Carmen, thank you so much for taking the time to join us for voices this year.

This is a highly unusual voices with you, Deepak in San Diego, and you, Carmen, in the Bahamas.

But luckily, technology has connected all of us today to have this

very important conversation on meditation and how meditation can lead to an awakened life.

But before we get into some of the science of meditation, Deepak, I could, I just, you know,

you spend a lot of time. I've got your most recent book here with me, Total Meditation,

and you talk a lot about the underlying causes of stress in daily life.

You know, where do these, where do these things come from that create stress for us?

So thank you, first of all, Carmen, and thank you, Imran, Carmen and thank you Imran for having me.

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