Deepak Chopra Says Meditation Improves Health

ABC News:

Deepak Chopra, the thoroughly modern guru, walks through Manhattan tweeting, delivering inspirational messages in 140 characters or less. "The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness," he tweets to the more than 106,000 people who follow his updates.

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Comments

[SiddhaliShree]

Meditation essentially means total relaxation. When a person is completely relaxed they are less likely to get sick or a disease. Through meditation / relaxation toxins dissolve, the body becomes stronger and the mind thinks more clearly. Meditation has been an ancient practice for thousands of years, its seem only now the western world is finding learning, accepting, and incorporating it into their lifestyle. For more on meditation and health visit my spiritual blog http://siddhalishree.com. Best!

[NoSillyName]

Chopra isn't the first or the only person to say that meditation is healthful.

Studied on TM have been ongoing since the 1970s and early on it was reported to be healthful.

This is a non-issue.

[chandu11]

And I say:
"Eating healthily improves health".
"Exercise improves health"
"Not drinking in excess improves health"

Ok, where's my money?

[PlaceboStudman]

Of coure meditation helps health, and good health helps one to meditate better. It's a mobius strip of the mind/body connection that most people of a spiritual nature have known for centuries, perhaps millenia

[Kilobugs]

I wonder what is the relationship between the pyramids and meditation they clearly show in the ancient cultures,
http://www.sourceoforigin.com

[blogisti]

Ah, Deepak, sometimes you get things backward. Good health improves meditation. Meditate on that one awhile. First we get Health Care, then we can meditate quite happily because we won't have to worry about catastrophic illness bankrupting us.

[PlaceboStudman]

Yin/Yang, Good/Evil, The DNA double helix, it's all interdependant on one another. Meditation affects health and good health improves one's ability to meditate, it's a mobius strip of life

[Balzac]

Tell em, Deepak.

[JohnFromCensornati]

He says a lot of other nutty, unsubstantiated stuff as well.
He sells books, too.

[PuzzledinPeoria]

True. Folks who actually have to work for a living tend to be less healthy.

[LOCUTUS13]

Depends on the work. If you sit all day in an office, work under high stress or hate your job I have to agree. But if you love your job and it gets you exercise and into the fresh air I would disagree. Would you say a park ranger who loves his/her job is in a unhealthy occupation?

[lwaxanatroi]

If you read the whole article, you'll find a statement that "paradigm shifts happen one funeral at a time." This blew me away. One thing about a true spiritual teacher: they don't sugarcoat. They tell it like it is and I, a not-quite-recovered Sixties hippie, appreciate that mightily.

So my task in this body in this timeframe is to live a life that makes my funeral NOT one of those that is necessary for the paradigm shift. I may not make the full shift this time around, but not getting in the way is my new purpose in life.

Thank you, Dr. Chopra. And happy birthday.