S E291: Deepak Chopra Talks Self-Care During a Pandemic

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Spiritualist Deepak Chopra (and author of Meta Human) talks about staying connected during the pandemic. He challenges people to venture beyond the spiritual grind of the quarantine and experience a heightened state of awareness.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Let me just tell a story when I used to teach in Harlem high school kids and I was
0:17.5	teaching them grammar English and I gave them all a little tiny book that DePoch Chopa wrote about love.
0:27.6	And it was a little small book.
0:29.9	It was pocket size, but I thought, you know, while I'm teaching them these lessons about you
0:34.0	know syntax and subject verb agreement that I wanted to also give them something that
0:39.0	could help their spirit and it was something I would give every semester to the new crop of students that would come in.
0:45.0	And now this man is helping the world kind of deal with all of their issues through a spiritual lens.
0:51.0	Let me welcome the iconic,
0:53.6	Depak, Chopra. Welcome to the Karen Hunter show.
0:56.6	Thank you very much. Thank you for coming through. First of all,
1:02.0	you are in quarantine in California. Just want to know where in the world are you?
1:08.4	In California, yes. Okay. I'm in California. what's your process in getting through every day?
1:15.8	What do you do every day to kind of plug in to your center to you know, you're smiling? So something's going on that you're doing right I just want to know what you're doing.
1:27.7	I start my day by quietening my mind in meditation and introducing four intentions, joyful energetic body, loving compassionate
1:37.4	heart, reflective alert mind and lightness of being. That's it and then the rest of the day I'm guided by those
1:46.6	intentions. So right now of course I have time to do extra yoga and meditation but
1:52.2	also I'm looking at all the literature around COVID-19 and what
1:57.4	is causing people to get sick.
1:59.3	And one of the things, you know, I'm realizing is there are three pandemics going on. One is the
2:05.0	COVID-19 infection. The second and the morbidity and all the suffering that comes with it.
2:12.1	Second is the financial crisis as a result which is related to that.
2:16.6	And third is the stress and panic which is recycling through social media and through news networks.
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