How to Activate Self Healing - Deepak Chopra Best Speeches

0:00 okay so that's how you showed up congratulations if you notice there are about 200 million sperm for one egg so one egg is patiently waiting and two hundred guys are racing and they don't want to stop for directions so only one of them makes it but here you are at the moment of conception you have 23,000 genes a gene is a stretch of DNA that codes for a unit of what we call heredity and a unit of heredity is a

0:46 protein so gene makes a protein you have 23,000 of these but they don't act by themselves they act in cooperation with other genes DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid which are four chemicals or four bases and instead of remembering the whole name we can say a T C and G he stands for adenine T time in C cytosine and G guanine so ATC and G are the four alphabets of life so in the English language we use 26 letters but life uses four letters and that's your

1:34 life and life of a mosquito the wife life of a rhinoceros the life of primate the life of a banana the life of a rose any thing that we call life only four letters it's called the economy of expenditure of energy do less and accomplish more and so these four letters create the genes that we have 23,000 from your father half from your mother the actual chemicals that makes the DNA I mentioned you know the chemicals are made of molecules they're ATC and G but the atoms that go

2:21 into those are mostly carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen so four atoms make up of about 95% of all the atoms in your body the other 5% are from all the other elements of the periodic table so where do these atoms come from the atoms come from the crucible of burning stars the carbon going to your making up your fingernail the oxygen going to your brain they may have come from different galaxies in different eons of cosmic history in fact the hydrogen goes back

3:07 some of it to the Big Bang 13.8 billion years in cosmic time please don't blow it took you 13.8 billion years to get here so the atoms are coming from different stars different galaxies and now during the nine months that it takes to manufacture literally a human baby the baby actually the development of the baby which is called morphogenesis and differentiation so morphogenesis to give rise to form those chemicals are just chemicals but you are this so in order

3:55 to get to form that process is called morphogenesis to give rise to form and it's also called differentiation how the one cell becomes the hundred trillion cells that it takes to make a baby 100 trillion cells which is more than all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy how does that happen 1 becomes 2 2 becomes 4 4 becomes 8 it takes only 50 replications to make all of a baby because it's exponential right 1 2 4 8 etc so 50 replications and there's a

4:41 human being and all this process is happening spontaneously 1 becoming many so that one cell 23,000 genes becomes eyes becomes nose becomes fingernails becomes hair follicles become skin liver kidney intestine brain all from that one cell and that process is called differentiation different lines of its own self and you have to remember differentiation is not the same thing as

5:27 separation differentiation is not separation so your liver is not separate from your kidney your kidney is not separate from your brain we has doctors when we when we study we think of different parts of the body but right there is the mistake of the intellect all our training is based on the mistake of the intellect because these different so-called body parts are not different things they are one activity in a whole biological organism one activity in your whole body which is one activity in the

6:16 whole universe okay so separation is actually misperception there is no separation there's only differentiation but it's the same cell remember it's the same cell and the same atoms that come from the universe so it's very important to remember that the body doesn't have any parts parts are again misnomers it implies that there's something separate from something here in fact the whole biological organism and the whole universe is an activity and it never

7:02 stops the activity keeps going on and on and on and on so when we look at that activity in a moment of perception we called it a thing I look at you and I said there she is as a body right but that's like taking a picture if I took your picture and I showed it to someone and I said what's your name Ashley that's Ashley then I think if the person was in their right mind they would say no that's not Ashley that's a photo of Ashley right so in the bigger scheme of things we are all so confusing ourselves with our photos you are not your photo this is a photo and if you took a photo of this when I was a

7:49 baby it would have looked a different photo was it still me yes of course right so when we look at things and we call them things then we are mistaking them for what they're not we are mistaking the photo for the thing in itself the thing in itself is a constantly moving activity of the universe so this process morphogenesis differentiation it's a dynamic activity so think of your body as you think of a verb the whole universe is a verb there are no nouns in the universe knowns

8:36 nouns are conventions of language and we create nouns in our mind when we take photos but actually everything is constantly on the move is on the move and this principle is called self-organization self-organization self-regulation self evolution differentiation morphogenesis is whole a process and your physical body is part of a process that is actually a universal process now it's very interesting that in those nine months as the baby is coming into existence as a human form it remembers

9:23 all its previous forms so first you look like a reptile then you look like an amphibian then you look like a primate or mammal and finally at last just the last few maybe days before you show up you look like a human being 65 percent of your genes are the same as a banana 70 percent of your genes the same is a fruit fly eighty percent of your genes are the same as a mouse ninety eight point something almost 99% of your genes are the same as a monkey so what's

10:08 happening life is evolving as you and it's been going on since the beginning of time what was there before time began well you'll have to read my next book but ever since time began you've been on a journey you've been on a cosmic journey now as you come out of the basket and as we saw and it provided it's not a caesarean section then you inhale which means you breathe in you are covered by and you swallow the secretions the vaginal secretions of your mother

10:53 and this implants your body or I should say a better word would be inoculates your body with the second genome and this genome we call the microbiome it is the bacteria of our planet that are recycling through earth through water through air so you have 2.2 million additional genes that you acquire and as you come out of the world now even if you were a cesarean section there would be this in a cure inoculation because there's touch and cooing and cuddling and kissing and breathing all in exchange with your mother with your

11:40 parents with your siblings and everything that's happening in the environment contact so there would be a second inoculation anyway but children who are born with through cesarean sections these days anyway if the obstetrician knows what they're doing they should take the secretions of the mother and make the baby swallow them and inhale them and cover their body and massage them because your immune system needs stores microbiota as they're called technically speaking you're a few human cells hanging on to a bacterial colony and if it weren't for these bacteria you wouldn't be alive we need the mother

12:29 earth the big mother to sustain us not once but all the time these bacterial recycling they have their own genes there are a hundred and fifty times more genes to every human gene in your body where are they they're in your gut in your stomach in your colon in all the openings in your body orifices and also of course skin fingernails hair etc and they produce their own metabolites and they crosstalk with the human genome all with one purpose to keep you healthy okay all with one purpose which we call self regulation or self-organization so

13:18 I've used the word self so many times what is that self that is organizing because that self is you and we call say myself right hai means the self so self is for now we will use the word consciousness which is organizing itself as the mind has the body and ultimately has the experience of the universe okay now one thing which I'll get into a little bit you are not your mind your mind is an experience you're having you see I had this thought I had this

14:06 feeling I had this desire so high is obviously not the thought high is the one that's having the thought so the thought is an object that is organized by I to have an experience of it stuff okay so your mind is your thoughts your your emotions their mental objects your body is a collection of physical objects and so is the universe and they're all organized by you as you organize yourself through a process called record recursion means you repeat the past and

14:52 then evolution which means you take a new step of creativity recursion and evolution at the same time and all the time body and mind are happening at the same time okay so this was the basis of the book super genes which was the based on the interaction between the microbiome the genome and the epigenome so now we've introduced a new term I just told you microbiome is the bacterial bacterial genes genome is what you got from your parents and epigenome epigenome means above the genes is a sheet of proteins that are made by the genome in the microbiome and these

15:38 proteins are actually in response to life so once you come out now you start to have experiences eating breathing digestion metabolism elimination the five senses sound touch sight taste smell thoughts emotions feelings desires imagination love every experience actually activates the genome to produce these proteins which are called the epigenome which then regulates the genes so soil self-regulation it's all being created by you the self the self that at

16:28 this moment may be calling it's a Deepak or Ashley or whatever a Tom but you know panocha Renee that's just the name that's just an assumed identity but what is behind that assumed identity is your innermost being for lack of a better word we can call it your core existence or what many spiritual traditions would call the soul that consciousness that has identified itself with the name and with the form and with an experience so who are we we are the universal consciousness that has attached itself to name to form to

17:15 history to experience and then you say oh I'm Deepak but that's not the real you the viewer real you is we start our meditation with who am i right well the answer is I'm a Stardust being on a cosmic journey with self awareness which will be a deep explanation in the next book which will be out in about two weeks okay so for our purposes then for practical purposes we can say that the body is a dynamic activity of seemingly non change in the midst of change of

18:02 course your body is changing right it's been changing from the moment you were conceived it's changing now it's not the same body that you had yesterday it's not going to be the same body that you have tomorrow it's not the same body that you had a year ago ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in your body are molecules they recycle once a year with every breath that you breathe in you breathe in ten to the power of 22 atoms then followed by 15 zeros with every breath you breathe out ten to the power of 22 atoms so right this moment we are breathing in and breathing out then followed by 22 zeroes of atoms and we are all intimately sharing our organs with each other right this moment no

18:48 separation right Walt Whitman said every atom that belongs you as well belongs to me you right now have a million atoms in your body that were once in the body of Jesus Christ up with our Michelangelo or Donald Trump they just the last three weeks a quadrillion atoms have gone through your body that have gone through the body of every other living species on this planet so your stomach is new every five days your skin is new once a month your liver every six weeks your skeleton every three months and DNA which I just shared with you holds memories of

19:36 millions of years of time millions of years the actual DNA the carbon the hydrogen and the oxygen it comes and goes every six weeks like migratory birds so this is my year 2000 it's already 17 model and you know I came back from New York yesterday with the same suitcase but not the same body you are not your body it's very important to remember because there no such thing as a body it's an activity of the universe and that activity is

20:23 happening in you but if you think you are your body then you're in a sense screwed why because this body will grow old it'll die and then you say what happened okay you are not your body you are having the experience of something that you call the body and we'll see how we have that experience because then the deeper deeper deeper deeper deeper domains of existence there's only you everything else is your own creation your mind is your creation your body is your creation and the entire universe is your creation and so don't be confusing

21:10 yourself with your body in any case that activity is influenced by all these things sound charge sight taste smell sleeping being awake breathing nutrition metabolism environment nature universe thoughts emotions memory desire imagination creativity introspection intuition higher consciousness remember all this is one activity even though it there's a list of activities it's all one holistic activity the word holistic the word health the word holy are the same word healing is the return of the memory of who we are

21:57 wholeness is the return of the memory that is sacred that is holy that is the basis of all healing okay and what do we do how do we mess it up you mess it up by saying oh I'm so stressed and everything is wrong and running in out of time and multitasking and performance anxiety and all the things that happen when we feel psychologically emotionally or physically threatened so everything from depression to anger to hostility to guilt ashame to having difficulty making decisions to feeling burnt out is

22:44 because we are interfering with the natural process of evolution so stress is that which interferes with nature basically stress is that which interferes with the spontaneous manifestation of experience in the physical world that is coming from an invisible domain of existence and that invisible domain is your spirit is your soul is your consciousness is your awareness consciousness awareness spirit soul they're all the same word so when we have that then of course we start escaping through drug alcohol abuse we

23:32 start having eating disorders and disruption and sleep and pattern and we take it out on other people we take it out on ourselves we take it out in her career and ultimately we end up with what we call this is which is disease okay everything from skin eruptions which is minor to musculoskeletal problems to aches and pains to gastrointestinal disorders to cardiovascular problems headaches inflammation hormone imbalances immune dysfunction all this directly or indirectly related to interference with

24:17 what is totally natural it's been happening for millions of years and so these are the six things you can do right away to correct the mistakes that we make as a result of the sake of the intellect I am separate from you you are separate from me we are separate from each other and we are separate from the universe and we've created these words we said this is the environment this is me why is this breath why is this air not your breath why is this air right here not your breath you wouldn't be able to live without it why are the trees not your lungs because if they

25:02 didn't breathe you wouldn't breathe if you didn't read the trees wouldn't breathe you know there are experiments where people put a animal like a mammal a rabbit or something or a rat in a in a vacuum and it dies they put a plant in the same vacuum it dies they put the plant and the animal together they both live right because the plant is breathing in the air that you breathe out as carbon dioxide and then it breathes out oxygen and you breathe so the trees are our lungs the earth is our body all those bacteria they are us the waters and oceans are our circulation the air is our breath

25:49 and the stars the fire the Agni the metabolism in our own body it's the is the metabolic fire of the universe and this is what I read also teaches us okay to restore balance we have to start with the very basic things sleep meditation stress management in all his forms movement yoga breathing properly mind body coordination through yoga and breathing and pranayam healthy emotions like love compassion joy equanimity healthy nutrition which means avoiding

26:34 anything that has chemicals and also his processed has artificial stuff like antibiotics and hormones and pesticides and inflammatory products which all called caused inflammation in our body and the disruption of biological rhythms so we have four biological rhythms as as the Earth spins on its axis that's results in a biological rhythm in our body which is called the circadian rhythm ok so if you have jetlag that's a disruption in circadian rhythm I flew from New York last night three hours difference so it's little imbalance but

27:22 then are you sitting on these grounding mats ok that's connecting you to the earth so that would get rid of your circadian rhythm ok anytime you make contact with the earth on grass on sand on the beach or you are in nature breathing in the beautiful oxygen that's coming out from those trees or looking at a starlit sky anytime you connect with nature you're balancing your rhythms and so circadian rhythms it's not only the earth is spinning on its axis the earth is also going around the Sun which brings into our body something called the seasonal rhythm and especially if you're living in the temperate climate then you know

28:08 that you've you might get a little depressed on cold winter day and spring comes and you start falling in love and birds start singing songs and everything happens in harmony right we are part of the symphony of the universe and our biology is dancing to it even though it can't name the tune so that if you want to name that tune these are the rhythms circadian seasonal lunar the cycles of the moon and tidal the gravitational effects of the Sun and the moon and the stars and the cosmos on the oceans but we have an ocean inside us which is 65% of body is ocean we once lived in the

28:56 ocean and then we stepped out of it and we brought it with us so when you ground yourself right now as you're doing then you're connecting to the earth but the earth is also connecting to the solar system and it's connected to the whole universe with a simple thing like this you're beginning to balance your biological rhythms ok so there's a lot of research on this and you know I won't have time but I'll answer your questions later a lot of research on why sleeping is probably the most efficient way to improve your health because during sleep both in dream state and in deep sleep you go from your physical body and experiences of the physical world into your subtle

29:43 body subtle body is mind intellect and ego and then you have experiences of that world that we call dreams and then you go to your ground state to your soul but all activity stops so sleep is a spiritual experience don't ruin it with alcohol and drugs or whatever in fact you can learn to wake up in sleep in consciousness so your body is deeply rested but you are having the experience of yoga in sleep yoga means Union huge union with whom with your own self but your own self is also the self of the universe so during sleep there's lots of

30:29 things happening your unconscious mind is very active by the way in sleep it is processing all that you learnt getting rid of stress making connections enhancing your immunity there's a lot of unconscious processing that's happening sleep solidifies what you learn helps you think clearly it balances hormones so you maintain normal weight it decreases the overall risk of death and of course meditation is doing that too but when you combine meditation with good sleep then you're actually getting in touch with your soul so we have been doing some studies now and I want to

31:16 show you these studies have been published these are some of our colleagues Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Appel elizabeth is a Nobel laureate she has a new book called the telomere effect and it shows how meditation actually enhances or lengthens your telomeres which are like the extensions of your genes which help you live long as we grow all the telomeres decrease and there's an enzyme that controls them it's called telomerase so we've been doing studies with Elizabeth and Rudy tansy and some all these scientists at different institutions and what we found that in one week of a retreat here at the center seduction of spirit course

32:04 the enzyme telomerase which is here it went up by 40 percent which means you're actually reversing your age through meditation can you do it indefinitely keep decreasing it till you disappear into an orgasm Wow I don't know but we can decrease how we age we can slow it and here are the papers that have been published on this okay meditation and a retreat vacation not a vacations in a casino but a vacation like the one you're having this vacation it has an impact on disease associated molecular

32:52 phenotypes these are the molecules that are produced by your genes and this is the original article in a very high-impact journal called Nature translational psychiatry and basically when we look at these activities we can predict who's going to fall sick and who is going to get healthy this is an activity that you see of your genes they're actually talking to each other I'm feeling good and then when they feel good your body feels good your body feels good and your mind feels good your spirit feels light lightness of being joyful energetic body alert mind all this

33:38 starts to happen love and compassion all this happens because you're taking care of yourself okay so we won't go into so many details but here's a chart which shows that all the genes that are responsible for healing or self-regulation they go up in their activity some of them 17 fold over baseline and all the genes that cause disease or make not cause disease but make it more likely for a person to fall sick they go down one thing you should know only 5% of disease related gene mutations so mutation is a mistake in a gene okay think if if ATC and G are the letters

34:26 and genes are the words that become the flesh then mutation is a typo okay it's a spelling mistake then the wrong protein is produced and that can cause disease but only 5% of these mistakes are fully penetrant with me means that the mutation guarantees the disease and this is where we need to do research somebody has a baraka gene that guarantees the disease or you know of the 40 or 50 genes that predispose you to an Tymers only two or three actually are fully penetrant and that's true of all diseases which means 95% of chronic illness we have the ability to change

35:15 the expression of that we have the ability to participate and change that outcome that's what epigenetics is all about okay epigenetics is all about and then you don't have to go into details right now because these are chemic names which may or may not be familiar to you because you have to be a molecular biologists who understand what DNA methylation means what histone modification means but basically it means that how you live your life which includes everything from not only the things I mentioned but how you think how you feel how you speak how you relate to others how you interact with each other your diet your lifestyle drugs if you

36:01 take or even if somebody if your mother took something that all effects gene expression and so those blue balls that you see those are proteins called histones and the DNA is wrapped around them and then every experience we have it shapes like you think of a string of beads and the beads are all kind of close to each other they're wrapped around my hand and every experience changes or modulates which genes are closed which means further away from each other and that influences how they express themselves there's no difference between what's happening in your mind in your consciousness in your emotions in

36:46 your body this is a diagram of the microbiome so this is a nerve that's called the vagus nerve it comes from you know the word the Gus means back up on so there is the two of these they're coming from your brain they influence your heart rate variability which is a sign of stress they influence all the organs in your body they influence the microbiome all those bacteria which also make chemicals that go back to feed your brain and influence your mood cognition and everything else that we call life all one system and by the way this nerve is the month that you stimulate when you practice yoga so when you do cat-cow or

37:33 you do Surya Namaskar Sun Salutation this is the nerve you're stimulating and this nerve actually causes these very profound changes that heal your body so Yoga is not just exercise Yoga is actually activating healing and self-regulation in your body the vagus nerve is very important and there's bi-directional traffic which means traffic from the brain to the body and from the body back to the brain here's a study published by our scientists at the center along with other scientists which showed that the practice

38:19 so before meditation you say what Who am I what do I want what's my purpose what am i grateful for well it changes your body just being grateful changes your body this is a study in heart failure patients and inflammatory markers that went down published in a journal from Columbia University in New York and gratitude also physically changes your brain okay so your brain actually changes and it gets activated in the frontal part of your cortex which regulates different parts of the body okay now what we're looking at something called bio field science so bio field science says that our bodies are like

39:05 electrical batteries the earth is like that too and so as the whole universe electromagnetic field so the biofield is the energy that comes from your body and this bio field the coherence the order or the disorder of the field corresponds in many cases to how you're feeling so if you're feeling anger and hostility and mistrust and cynicism and guilt and shame and depression and fear then your bio field will be not so key coherent the human bio field can be measured about eight feet from where you are but of course being part of the electromagnetic field of the cosmos it extends indefinitely so right now all of

39:52 us are emanating a bio field depending on the state of our well-being and our bio fields are interfering with each other's because their electromagnetic fields and so we are being regulated by each other we are regulating each other we are being monitored by each other and we are monitoring each other so there's no such thing as the separate self there's no such thing as a separate body there's no such thing as the separate mind our minds are embodied but they're also relational we cannot separate you cannot separate yourself you know I told you you separate the animal from the plant dies you separate

40:38 the plant from the animal it dies but at a deeper level there is no such thing as the separate self we are all part of one body we call it the universe we are all part of one mind whatever you want to all call that one mind God the hinds of the infinite spirit a non-local consciousness awareness it doesn't matter so now we have the ability to actually measure the bio field in fact you're regulating your bio field right now by sitting on these mats which are grounding you to the earth okay and our collective bio field is going through

41:24 these walls electromagnetic energy has no walls it's not impeded that's why you can send somebody a text message or an email or a photo or a song and we are doing that right now on Facebook and so we're all connected and so how you feel influences how other people feel who you are not what you say not what you do but how you're feeling right this moment so if you are all feeling happy and contented and joyful right now and people on the street will start smiling even though they don't know what we're doing it's the only way to change the world is to change ourselves because we are the world we are the universe okay

42:11 so this is now all the energy medicines everything that people call Reiki and energy medicine this call can be understood as bio field medicine this is an emerging frontier these two papers have been published and most of the scientists here are from here and they have been published in good journals okay we can also measure the bio field indirectly through brain waves and heart waves and this is a study we did right here at the center in collaboration with Scripps where we were able to show that within seconds of meditation your brain and your heart move into a healthy direction okay and these studies again are published in good journals like

42:58 frontiers and human neuroscience and you see Sheila's there and I'm there and all our colleagues are there collaborating and these studies have documented what wasn't possible to document before this is a report in new scientists from somebody else's study which says human thoughts to switch on genes but basically it's little misleading because what happened is in this particular study people had what they call a wireless powered optogenetic designer cell implant which that means they took the cells of a mouse put them in a test you then had a group of people meditate

43:43 in the lab and the genes of the mouse changed their expression it's a little misleading okay mind control it's not mind control its consciousness controlled because the mind is quieting down in meditation and genes of course I said you know if 80 percent of your genes are the same as a mouse then what happens in you should influence the mouse or in the test whether the mouse knows it or not you know the most doesn't have these concepts that you and I have just like the dog in the White House what was the name bored didn't know that Obama was the president right all it was in the Oval Office but how

44:31 does the dog respond to the president the way the president treats the dog simple and you don't even know what the inner experiences so we have personal consciousness we have transpersonal consciousness we have collective consciousness we have trans-species consciousness which means our consciousness we share it with other species other life-forms and ultimately we are all expressions of one consciousness okay so at the highest level that would be love as the ultimate truths at the heart of the universe ultimate truths at the heart of the

45:17 universe and now a scientific basis to show that so what are these higher states of consciousness well you're beginning to experience them transcendence as in meditation be experiencing joy flow experiences feeling one with each other feeling one with the universe activating our intuition intuition is a form of intelligence that is holistic that is nurturing that does not have a win-lose orientation that goes beyond cause effect that then takes leaps of creativity and ultimately touches the collective inheritance of our spiritual

46:07 cultures so all religions are founded on the basis of higher consciousness of transcendence going beyond thought experiencing oneness going out of the circle of time in Rumi has a beautiful promises come out of the circle of time into the circle of love time is created the moment we separate time is is basically the egos mind that's why the more stress you are you say I'm running out of time and then you start running out of it because your biological clock speeds up heart rate goes up rhythms get disrupted platelets get jittery hormones

46:55 get distorted inflammation the body have a heart attack run out of time when time actually doesn't even exist it's just a way of measuring experience okay but in our awareness is not in time our experiences our entire thought is in time emotions are in time the experience of the body is in time the experience of the world is in time but who we are is not in time so in all the great religious traditions what they call the religious experience is called transcendence higher consciousness sacred response the second experiences the emergence of values that

47:42 comes from that experience not as rules and regulations like Ten Commandments but as natural outcomes of the experience one less truth goodness beauty harmony evolution connection love compassion joy equanimity so that's the second aspect of the religious experience and the third aspect of the religious experience is the loss of the fear of death because death happens to an experience it doesn't happen to you that happens to a thought in every moment that is happening to thoughts right you had the thoughts this morning they're dead unless you're what is it

48:29 called OCD okay then you recycle them but otherwise okay otherwise the thoughts are born in every moment of time what about emotions are also born in every moment of time what about perceptions there are subhan and die every moment of time you know you are perceiving me giving this lecture but when I came at 9:30 that was a different way right so that guy's dead this is new in every moment we have experience that is born and that is dying as soon as it is born the first part of my sentence dies by

49:17 the end by the time I complete the sentence so every experience is being born dying all the time right do you agree thoughts feelings emotions perceptions sound taste smell touch everything that we call experience it's just like a on-off phenomena so birth and death are happening all the time and you say what about the present well you can't catch the present can you can you catch the present you can't because as soon as you try to catch it it's over right that's why the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein he said

50:03 our life is a dream we are sleep but once in a while we wake up enough to know that we are dreaming so you're here you thought for the weekend but actually you're here to wake up try this now as you're listening to me just turn your attention to who is listening so be aware of the listener and what you're experiencing right now is your being being is a presence it's

50:52 prior to thought prior to emotion prior to experience without being there's no experience the experience is in time comes and goes comes and goes comes and goes but being is not in time and being is who we are that's when the bhagavad-gita when when thought Krishna is teaching Arjuna he says your innermost being yourself was never born and is not subject to death water cannot wet it wind cannot write weapons cannot shatter it fire cannot burn it it was

51:38 never born and it will not die okay what dies is born is experienced mental experiences emotional experiences perceptual experiences which are actually fluctuations of our own self what's a thought it's a modified form of yourself a thought is a movement of consciousness what's an emotion a movement of consciousness what's a perception a movement of consciousness see a mind-body universe are constantly going on and off and what's going on and off is you the self

52:24 of the individual which has attached itself to certain memories certain desires certain experiences and taken name-and-form but as long as we identify with the name and form then we're in a sense living in the dream to wake up to the dream is to wake up to the presence that is always that the presence that you experience just now with when you were a baby was there when you were a teenager it's always been there it has taken innumerable forms this is another study that we've been doing here with profit help program but some of the

53:09 things that you're doing you know when we we look after ourselves when you get a healthy massage when you meditate practice yoga go on a good diet engage in healthy emotions you know these are like literally trillions of things that we can measure their called this is the science of metabolomics so all the metabolites all the proteins all the inflammatory markers gut microbiome it would take a shipload just to measure I mean how's this data if that's every bit of data was in the form of a penny it would take a lot of containers to capture this data but we have this published now and it shows that you're

53:56 transforming your body with just the simple practices that I spoke to you about these are some studies we're planning now right now in breast cancer well-being surveys microbiome studies studies yoga pranayama with movement with some of these studies already show that different asanas asana the word asana means seat of awareness consciousness so different asanas have different self regulatory mechanisms and for physical and psychological well-being our emotions have very specific effects on these chemicals in our body opiates dopamine serotonin

54:42 emotions act as immunomodulators which means they modulate the activity of the immune system and of course nutrition nourishment is very important the closer we our food comes from the energy of the Sun the healthier it is because the Sun and the light of the Sun is what give nourishment in the first place plants eat photons and then read the plants we are also eating the energy of the cosmos and the more colorful your food all these Ayurvedic herbs are basically have high color lots of taste and they

55:27 regulate the activity of our genome so these are well-known herbs that people know about Google ooh and triphala and others these are some very common things that can be found in any kitchen but you see they all have color they all have taste and they all have different tastes the taste of life sweet sour salty bitter pungent astringent the seven colors of the rainbow and then you are getting in touch with nature now we have just begun studies on this process adding or or grounding and so when you are in direct contact with the earth your body becomes suffused with negative ions that come from your body and these

56:15 are electrons that equalize or get rid of the free radicals they neutralize the free radicals that build up in our body as a result of stress so you see this is inflammation this is healing through earthing through grounding what your by the way do you feel any different sitting on these these mats some do some don't but of course at all subtle but this is what's happening when we are connecting to the earth so these are some of the things that happen when you connect with Mother Earth reduce inflammation reduce pain better sleep increasing energy normalizing hormones

57:00 biological rhythms improve blood pressure improve muscle tension on and on and on each of these has a pill tube you know next time you watch television you'll see there's a pill for each of these and they say ask your doctor but be warned it could give you sexual impotence it could kill you and there's nice music in the background and just now please ask your doctor trillions of dollars when all you have to do is go back to your source ok so this is our healing system our consciousness is guiding our biology through the brain

57:47 and the brain is of course not who we are is the brain creating the mind is the mind creating the brain you know if you ask materialists what's the mind it says they say what it's what the brain does if you ask psychologists what's the brain it said it's what the mind does so is the mind doing the brain is the brain doing the mind are they're doing each other what the heck is going on but it's you which is neither the mind nor the brain but the consciousness which is not in time which is our inner stuff our innermost being that is orchestrating

58:35 this whole activity mind brain body chemicals gene expression all self regulation that's why we say self regulation so your body is a process it's not a thing it's not a structure it's a verb it's not a noun your body is also an energy and information field your genes and their expression are influenced by your thoughts emotions relationships your social interaction environment this is the science we call epigenetics you can change the neural networks of your brain to optimize your well-being and this is the science which we call neuroplasticity I said to you

59:20 only 5% of disease related gene mutations are fully penetrant you can change your relationship to time by always coming back to this moment I shouldn't even say moment because moment passes as soon as it happens coming back to the presence in which you're having experience self self referral being aware ask yourself who is listening right now feel their body who's feeling this body who's having this thought that's why those questions that we start with our meditation are so important Who am I you're not your name

1:00:07 you're not your form you are the consciousness of the universe what do you want you want to know yourself what else is there to know if you don't know yourself how will you know anybody else okay you want intimacy with your own being what is your purpose to evolve what are you grateful for existence we did ask to be exist but here we are so as we practice these very simple things we start to transform our relationship with time because we know that our true being is not in time and

1:00:54 for all this the key is self-awareness and when you self-aware you reinvent yourself your body or mind etc now we can extend this those are the six pillars we can start to begin to question our body as a thing your body is not a thing it's a bundle of sensations images feelings and thoughts in your own self we can start to engage in a different way in which we experience time and therefore how we age we can make sure that sleep becomes a spiritual experience we can even learn what is called yoga nidra so we start to

1:01:40 have witnessing awareness and sleep meditation of course is something which is very crucial we can be a little more mindful of what we put in our body taking a few micronutrients if necessary probiotics if let's say not getting hung up on chemicals practicing yoga and pranayama making sure we move not putting any toxin in our experience of life whether it's the toxic environment toxic relationships toxic food toxic behavior learning to be adaptable and flexible having a youthful youthful I'm

1:02:27 not saying that you know you're childish you might even make it to the White House with that but by eautiful I mean child like innocence what is childlike innocence wonder it's the capacity to wonder the capacity to be curious the capacity to have an open mind children are innocent because they're still full of possibilities to live with possibility to live with a sense of adventure and joy if you're not enjoying your life right now you think you're going to enjoy it when you make a lot of money or do this or get this job well if you're not present for your life

1:03:14 right now you won't be present when you arrive you have to be present now to get the full flavor of experience that is a childlike mind and of course then the experience of love not just as a sentiment not just as an emotion but love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe okay so in the last few minutes what I want to do is talk about the fact that with all this human being still suffer because human beings unlike other animals don't think about the past I mean do think about the past they're burdened by the past and they fear the future if you kick a dog the dog also

1:04:01 has memory and if you meet the dog five years later it might attack you but learn like a human being the dog won't plan for five years how to get even all our problems are because of the past and the memories that we hold on to so the great teachers of a danta say I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me if you allow yourself to be victimized by the past then you will suffer if you allow yourself to imagine something in the future which hasn't yet happened then you're playing not with reality but something that doesn't exist so human suffering comes

1:04:49 from what in the Vedanta coiled the five clay shots clash as a Sanskrit word for human suffering not knowing the true nature of fundamental reality there's perceptual reality this world okay this is a perception a perceptual experience he said this world is what there is well this world that you are having the experience of is a human experience this world looks totally different I imagine to an insect with a hundred eyes to a bat that experiences the world through the echo of ultrasound through a

1:05:34 chameleons whose experience of the world is through two different axes their eyeballs movements such a way that you can't even remotely imagine what this room would look like to a chameleon our perceptual experience is shaped by what is called the conditioned mind the fragmented mind so if you take a group of kittens you put them in a room that has only horizontal stripes then it will only see a horizontal world if you take the same group of kittens you put them in a room that has vertical stripes it will see a vertical is the world horizontal is the world vertical well for those little kittens it is and then neurons are shaped by their experiences and so this is

1:06:22 happening to us too you're born be given a name so this your Deepak you're Indian you're born to this family this tribe if you will this nation this religion and you're screwed for the rest of your life you're defending an identity which has given to you write your name in your form everything a label a judgment and the value what are you before that what you are before that is infinite possibilities infinite potential but then having assumed the fragmented mind then we grasp and hold

1:07:07 on to what to experiences that don't last even a second this idea that there's continuity of experiences another illusion and why is that the idea that there's continuity will experience an illusion because of memory memory of the past so memory of the past reinforces that there's continuity in fact the world is new in every moment you know in the Shiva sutras Lord Shiva says step out of this river of memory and conditioning and see the world as if for the first time the fear of impermanence impermanence of experience

1:07:53 identification with a false constricted habitual self which is the ego and the fear of death these are the five causes of suffering and these all come from telling ourself a story which is based on a false understanding of who we are we think we are the body mind the body mind is an up jekt of experience when i say to you where are you where are you right now I'm here at the Chopra Center so normally you know we all think when you see what's the most common word we use

1:08:40 in any language hi right so when I ask you where are you you say I'm here let me ask you where are you please raise your head okay so our assumption is I'm here and Deepak is there now this is a big hallucination if you go inside your body there's no I to be found there's no I hear there's no I hear there's nothing so either I doesn't exist which would be kind of silly because we use I all the time I went to

1:09:28 the movies I went to Chinese food or whatever I don't like the taste of strawberries or I do like I'm in love it's the most common word viewers so I could not be a hallucination but I cannot be found so I must not have a form hi is the one that is experiencing form highs experiencing thoughts I experienced experiencing this body as experiencing the world and I is not in time to court the great Indian poet he

1:10:14 said in this play house of infinite forms I caught sight of that which was formless and so my life was blessed your true essence is spirit which has no form and you know when in religious or spiritual traditions people say faith it's not belief leaf is a cover-up for insecurity if I told you do you believe in electricity would say what do you mean here it is do you believe in gravity I'm standing on the earth do you believe in yourself I exist where is that that exists I can't see it

1:11:02 why can't I see because it's the one that is seeing why can't I touch it it's the one that's doing the touching there's no experience that you can have without I you say lift your hand boom right heis the source of intention as the source of reflection why is the source of every experience with its physical mental perceptual without I there is no experience and I his eternal is being if we know who is then we have actually solved everything so all our

1:11:53 problems not come from not knowing who we are and who we are is the infinite being having a finite experience you know you've heard these expressions they are the Sharda who says we are spiritual beings having a human experience well I would phrase it a little differently depending on the audience and when we are non-local beings having a local experience non-local means no location in space or time but having this local experience and so when we get in this place there are very practical values we start living in possibilities we start

1:12:40 living in creativity we start harnessing the power of intention we experience synchronicity for coincidences good luck being in the right place at the right time now if you ask people who have achieved the extraordinary things they say I was in the right place at the right time I was lucky God was on my side I was in a state of grace there were many coincidences it all means only one thing they were connected with themselves and being connected with himself they were connected with all that exists because the self as I said of the individual is the self of the universe the Sanskrit expression Hartman is Brahman so at this

1:13:28 level and only this level there are solutions to perceive problems otherwise you can't solve a problem that was created by the mind with the mind the mind is a hindrance what you need to do is get to the source of mind and the source of mind is the source of thought is the source of perception is the source of every experience an object of experience cannot be the source of experience I'll repeat that sentence an object of experience cannot be the

1:14:14 source of experience or to say it even further deeper an object object in consciousness cannot be the source of consciousness so if you have all these scientists looking for consciousness in the brain they can't find it looking for consciousness in the body looking for conscious in the universe can't find it why because it's consciousness that's doing the looking consciousness cannot be found in an object in consciousness consciousness can only be found by going back to the source which is really

1:15:02 true meaning of yoga yoga huge going back to your source whether it is true all the practices you know the eight limbs of yoga yamas and niyamas sand Preity Hara and which is withdrawal of the senses pranayama yoga asanas beyond karna focused awareness day on meditation and Samadhi transcendence these are all come together so we can find ourselves and when we find ourselves we do return to the South we actually discover all the secrets of the universe so we took a journey starting

1:15:48 with how we came into this name-and-form but remember it's our destiny to assume infinite names and forms and don't get stuck on one name or not one form room is born when I die when I die I will soar with angels but when I die to the Angels what I shall become you cannot imagine what I shall become you cannot imagine imagination as even Einstein said is much more important than knowledge because imagination comes from our consciousness and then there's knowledge then there's creativity and

1:16:35 then there's all the other things that we call reality there's awareness thought feeling perception reality that's that's the sequence now many people who study philosophy there's no I've heard this big art said I think therefore I am well the court was wrong I am therefore I think because without being there's no being has to be there first and then thought and feeling so that's basically