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Please welcome back Deepak Chopra.
When you're talking about everyone getting in touch
with their spiritual side, how would you
recommend that happen for people?
Ultimately, the secret is to find stillness in the mind.
So between every two thoughts, there's
a little gap of silence.
If you can dip into that silence,
you've found your spirit.
That's the vortex to soul, spirit,
and universal consciousness.
Easier said than done.
No, I teach it for 45 years and I'm happy to share it with you.
I know, and I think that we want you to share that with us.
So I think I know what I'm doing,
but what do you recommend for me?
The show has been 19 years, but my career
has been about 40 years and I haven't
stopped in that amount of time.
So what do you recommend for me?
Ellen, I think this could be the best
time of your life, the most creative time of your life.
All you have to do is spend a little time in reflection.
Ask yourself, who am I, besides my media personality?
What do I really want?
If I had all the money in the world and all the time
in the world, what would I do?
What's my purpose?
What's my calling?
And even more important, what am I grateful for?
When you are grateful for life, for whatever you have,
it opens the door to soul, to abundance.
You can't have gratitude and anger at the same time--
impossible.
So this is something I've always struggled with.
I just want to know, how can I become a more brave person?
Do the things that you fear the most--
right now, starting today.
I will.
[LAUGHS] Thank you so much.
Start small, but yeah, that's a great idea.
Yeah, start small.
All right, Stephanie?
Hi, Ellen.
Hi, Deepak.
Hi.
As someone that has been dealing with leukemia
for the last eight years, what are some small things
you can do on a daily basis when you're in a low moment
to be more positive?
When you're in a low moment, just ask yourself,
what am I grateful for, and then observe any sensations, images,
feelings, and thoughts you have-- that's it,
and you'll snap out of it.
Thank you.
Chloe?
Hi, Ellen.
Hi, Deepak.
Hi.
My question for you is, how do you
find inner peace with the things you can't control?
Well, you'd realize you can't control anything in life.
We think it's a big illusion.
Can you predict what's going to happen in the next five
minutes?
You can't.
Can you predict the weather next week?
You can't.
So embracing the wisdom of uncertainty
is the doorway to creativity.
Wow.
Thank you.
All right, and Kendall?
Hi.
I'm a very busy mom of four kids,
and I have a really hard time concentrating and being
still during meditation.
Do you have any tips, or does it get easier with practice?
No, just stop once in a while.
Practice what I call the "STOP" formula.
"S" stands for stop.
Take three deep breaths and smile from your head
to your toes, observe the sensations in your body,
and then proceed with compassion.
Thank you.
The biggest pressure I think we feel
is we're rushed by other people's timelines.
We're rushed by the success and achievement of people
around us, or we're rushed by the supposed
success and achievements of others we see on social media.
And the biggest thing I'd say is, give yourself
permission to take time--
give yourself permission to recognize
that living your passion and creating a purpose takes time.
For some people, they've waited until 30, or 40, or 50, or 60.
We want it to happen in our 20s, but your best years
are yet to come.
You can't do anything until you're actually aware of it
anyway.
First of all, you have to have the awareness,
and I think some people may be hearing
that for the first time.
And then once you're aware, you can take steps.
So I think gratitude is probably the most important thing
that you can have, and you speak of that, too.
So what can people do today, and speak about gratitude
for a minute.
Absolutely.
So one of the things about gratitude
is that studies show that when you're in gratitude, when
you're feeling gratitude, you can't be in another state.
So you can't be angry, or sad, or disappointed
when you're being grateful.
So grateful for me is like a seed.
And when you're grateful, you plant this seed
in your life, which is going to grow a beautiful tree
and shade and fruits, and it helps you avoid
what I call weeds in our life.
So when we're planting sadness, or disappointment, or anger,
these are like weeds in our life.
So every day I'm trying to plant seeds of gratitude.
I recommend doing it the first thing you do in the morning,
but even more importantly, the last thing
you do before you go to bed.
Because when you do it before you go to bed,
you wake up with gratitude in the morning.
So it programs your mind to be grateful the next day.
I've been teaching for over 40 years,
and I've seen individuals totally debilitated physically,
financially, relationship-wise, and literally
allow themselves to grow into a new version of themselves.
Now what happens is, people get comfortable living
at what I call a set point.
That's their comfort zone--
they're afraid to go beyond it.
But when you begin to establish intention,
you back that intention up with speaking about yourself
in a very affirmative way.
Falling in love with yourself exactly where you are right
now, not comparing yourself to anyone else,
you become available to insight.
That is, an insight is an event that takes place
in your awareness where you suddenly or incrementally
become aware of something that you may have formerly believed,
but now you know it.
But it doesn't just happen--
it happens when you practice.
But what I want people to understand is,
regardless of how bad it is, that spot right is
their beginning-- it's not the end, it's a beginning.
And if they begin to just first see a best case scenario,
what if this best thing happened--
name it, whatever it is.
Now the moment that happens, your cells
in your body and your subjective mind
does not know the difference between something
that's actually happened or if it's
in your mind and your emotional body.
So when you begin to take that on, you
start to act differently, you start to speak differently,
you start to walk differently.
And then what happens?
The universal presence, through its law,
matches that vibration and things
begin to change in your life.
But you can't just sit around do nothing.
You can't ask what I call futile questions-- what's wrong,
who's to blame, and why me.
Those are futile questions.
You have to ask what is it within me that's
trying to emerge right now?
What gift do I have to give to the world?
Who do I want to be when this crisis is over?
Now, if you ask those questions, the universe
will answer them in a language in the way you can understand,
and then you'll walk in that direction.
This is fascinating what I read.
If you take a cold shower, it raises your dopamine level
250%.
Absolutely.
It's a natural pill that has no side-effects.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people here are going
to start taking cold showers.
I mean, I enjoy a hot shower.
Does that do anything for you, Whim, or no?
Do you ever take a hot shower?
I love hot showers!
OK, I do, too.
I love it.
I do, too.
Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, sorry.
Yes, the cold is therapeutical, and once you
get used to the cold showers, it becomes really addictive.
It's a power boost to the body.
Afterwards, your veins are so exercised
that the blood flow is much better, by which
you get a lot more energy.
And the heart rate is going down because of the millions
of little muscles in the vascular system
are all optimized, and they help the heart,
the blood flow go through the system.
So the heart rate goes down.
People who do regular cold bathing or cold showers,
the heart rate goes down with 20 to 30
beats a minute, 24 hours a day.
Wow.
That means no stress, and high levels of energy.
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