World Meditation Day: Heal From Within with Chaka Khan
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Join Michael and Chaka this Friday, December 19th @ 12 PM ET, for World Meditation Day sponsored by the United Nations and The Chaka Khan Foundation! Learn more at https://chakakhanfoundation.org/meditate/.
Begin 2026 guided by spiritual clarity and energized by possibility! Join Michael for a powerful virtual New Year's Day Meditation, Visioning & Activation, livestreamed from Costa Rica! Sign up at https://events.agapelive.com/begin-again/ (Early Bird discount ends tonight, 12/17/25!)
Today, Michael welcomes global music icon and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Chaka Khan. A 10-time Grammy winner with more than 100 million records sold, Chaka has collaborated widely across music's spectrum while also shining on stage and Broadway. Beyond entertainment, Chaka is an author, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, co-founding the Chaka Khan Foundation with her sister, Tammy Michelle, to uplift overlooked communities through wellness, education, and creative expression.
Conversation highlights include:
-UN World Meditation Day: Healing From Within livestreamed event on December 19th– what it is, how to join, and why collective stillness matters
-How Stevie Wonder introduced Chaka to Transcendental Meditation, shaping her spiritual resilience in the music industry
-Chaka's Full Moon Meditations—why lunar phases affect us (as we're mostly water) and how having a calm presence helps families and communities
-From Dr. Emoto's water work to sound for plants: imprinting peace and love as a daily practice
-The work of the Chaka Khan Foundation focusing on wellness, dignity, and support—reconnecting incarcerated parents with kids and providing communication boards for neurodivergent children
-A wider view of communication and the unique gifts of autistic "star children"
-Chaka's most profound insight: the absence of love makes us vulnerable; self-worth and compassion restore strength, and so much more!
Finally, Michael leads a guided meditation on amplifying peace and pairing it with gratitude to radiate blessings.
🪷 Learn more about the UN World Meditation Day on December 19th and the work of The Chaka Khan Foundation here https://chakakhanfoundation.org/, and follow Chaka across social media.
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| 0:00.0 | The way we can do that is I found through meditation. |
| 0:04.0 | And it just really came pretty naturally to me, you know, thinking, well, what can I do? |
| 0:10.0 | I try to remain calm myself. |
| 0:13.5 | First, you got to do yourself. |
| 0:15.0 | Right. |
| 0:15.6 | You got to think about, you know, what's going on. |
| 0:18.7 | What can I do about it? |
| 0:20.3 | How can I help? And the way you can |
| 0:23.2 | be most helpful is to calm down and see and look at what's going on around you. Right. |
| 0:30.3 | And make a decision. And I'm going to fly off the handle about this or am I going to calm down |
| 0:36.3 | and sail right on through it? Right. And you can do that. |
| 0:42.5 | We all have that. We all have that power. Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of |
| 0:49.9 | Take Back Your Mind. take back your mind. Peace and Bless, everyone. |
| 1:28.9 | I am Michael B. Beckwith, the founder of the Agapar International Spiritual Center, as you know. |
| 1:34.1 | And I am your host of the podcast, Take Back Your Mind, in which I get to have wonderful conversations with individuals who are making a mighty difference on the planet. |
| 1:49.0 | Individuals who are encouraging people to take back their own mind from the noise of the world and to begin to hear the sweet whispers of your own soul, your own calling |
| 1:54.0 | to make a mighty difference on the planet at this time in human history and beyond. |
| 1:58.0 | And guess who I am with? I am with Chaka Khan. |
| 2:02.4 | Oh, my God. |
| 2:05.2 | It's good to see you there in Georgia. |
| 2:07.5 | You. |
| 2:08.3 | So good, see you if ever. |
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