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Confusion
over mind body and soul ask the expert Dr. Deepak Chopra the guru of the
mind body and medicine. He was born in 1947 in New Delhi, India.
Brief
History
An
MBBS from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968 Dr, Deepak
Chopra did his internship from a New Jersey hospital. Later on he trained
as a professional practitioner for several years at The Lahey Clinic and
the University of Virginia Hospital and became board-certified in internal
medicine and endocrinology. Subsequently he taught at Tufts and Boston
University Schools of Medicine, became the chief of staff at the New
England Memorial Hospital. Having become a fairly successful practitioner
he started his own private clinic and established a large private
practice. The unhealthy lifestyle he was pursuing created certain doubts
in his mind as to whether he was doing enough for the patients he was
treating.
Inspiration
From Ayurveda
These
doubts led him to Ayurveda, the ancient science of healing from India. Dr.
Chopra realized that Ayurveda was a system of health care that actually
treated the whole person. It was a system whose guiding principle was that
the mind exerts the deepest influence on the body. Ayurveda became his new
source of inspiration and healing. Dr. Chopra can be best described as
having brought a fusion between the modern medical science, and the
ancient system or art of healing, Ayurveda. The modest attempt has created
a respect for both forms of treatment.
Views
On Business and Leaders
Of
late Dr. Deepak Chopra feels that businesses have had a new paradigm
shift. Earlier the purpose of a business was to make profit. Our ancient
philosophy taught us profit was a bye product of the business that was
essentially a service to society.
Dr
Deepak Chopra feels that success in any business comes from three forms of
loyalty.
Employee
Loyalty
customer loyalty
investor loyalty
·
Employee Loyalty: The health of a company can be judged by the
employee turnover rate. Especially true for the new dotcoms where the
traffic of employees joining and leaving is very high. Just as brand
building is important for a product to create loyalty among employees is
also a necessary. For greater
employee loyalty the determining factor is the opportunity for personal
growth. The sense of self – empowerment, and spiritual growth. More and
more there is a shift in focus towards spiritual growth even in business
leadership. Therefore, employee loyalty is the most important
constituency.
·
Customer Loyalty: if the employee is loyal the stake of the
employee goes up and he will try and ensure customer loyalty.
·
Investor Loyalty: The employee and the customer together ensure
investor loyalty, which is the third important constituency of a business.
Further
expanding, Dr Deepak Chopra feels that Business has a mind body and a
soul, which in turn has three levels of reality:
·
The eye of the flash
that is physical and is more less a sensory experience or
three-dimensional.
·
The eye of the mind
that is a deeper understanding. It is an interaction between energy and
information. Matter feels Dr. Chopra is not only energy but information
also.
·
The eye of the soul
is the eye of business and that is the ultimate spiritual fulfillment of
any business or its leader.
LEADERS
as foreseen by Dr. Deepak Chopra
L:
Material Success
·
Ability to love
·
Look and listen be a good observer
·
Ability to look listen
·
Make good business
calculations and see how it affects us.
E:
Empowerment
·
Should be self empowered and also empower those that he leads.
·
Shakti believes and its five facets has the true meaning of self
empowerment.
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Chita Shakti is a
pure form of shakti that is totally independent of the
vicissitudes of life.
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Ananda Shakti is a
blissful state.
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Iksha Shakti is the
value of Sankalp in Samadhi, which in turn means dhyana and dharana. In
other words the intention to fulfill the intended outcome.
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Gyan Shakti is the
creativity taking quantum leaps.
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Kriya Shakti is the
yogasthana guru sharman.
A:
Awareness
- You
ask yourself three questions
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Who am I?
-
What do I want?
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What’s my
purpose?
These
are important facets of awareness: congruency = self awareness
D:
Doing
E:
Entering higher state of consciousness
-
cosmic consciousness
R:
Responsible
- Responsible
for getting a feedback
- Persistent
- Ability
to take risks
- Ability
to respond
- Good
health
S:
synchronicity
- Good
luck is to maximize coincidence
- Use
Creativity
·
Improbability
Dr.
Deepak Chopra has redefined the meaning of a leader be it a business
leader or a political one. He intertwines Karma and business and says for
a good business leader sound business is the Karma of his business. What
was true yesterday is even more relevant today. Today we have the
technology to spread the message to a wider audience. We are all joined
together to the web of life, which in turn is joined to the eco system on
the whole. To gain economic freedom the ecological balance should be
focused upon.
Chopra
established the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine in 1991. In
1995, he opened the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California
where he serves as educational director.
Books
by Deepak Chopra
- The
Path to Love (1997),
- Ageless
Body/Timeless Mind (1993),
- Journey
Into Healing (1994),
- Perfect
Health Library: Perfect Digestion, Perfect Weight, Restful Sleep
(1990),
- The
Return of Merlin (1996),
- The
Way of the Wizard (1996),
- Creating
Health (1995),
- Creating
Affluence (1995),
- The
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994),
- Quantum
Healing (1989),
- Unconditional
Life (1991)
Dr.
Deepak Chopra has a dedicated set of followers who are dedicated. The list
is pretty impressive and it includes the rich and the famous around the
world and a number of heads of state and Hollywood film stars.
Compiled By -
Manju
binay_dubey@yahoo.com
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