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Over the course of his career as physician, teacher, and bestselling author, Deepak Chopra has received thousands of questions from people facing every kind of challenge. They have asked how to lead more fulfilling lives, how to overcome relationship problems and personal obstacles. What’s the best way to deal with a passive-aggressive friend? Can a stagnant career be jump-started? In a world full of distractions and stress, how does one find time for meditation?
Hidden among all of these questions are answers waiting to be uncovered.
In this groundbreaking book, Chopra shows you how to expand your awareness, which is the key to the confusion and conflict we all face. “The secret is that the level of the problem is never the level of the solution,” he writes. By rising to the level of the solution in your own awareness, you can transform obstacles into opportunities. Chopra leads the reader to what he calls “the true self,” where peace, clarity, and wisdom serve as guides in times of crisis. For Chopra, spirituality is primarily about consciousness, not about religious dogma or relying on the conventional notion of God. “There is no greater power for success and personal growth than your own awareness.” With practical insight, Spiritual Solutions provides the tools and strategies to enable you to meet life’s challenges from within and to experience a sense of genuine fulfillment and purpose.
Chopra's bestselling books on a variety of topics have been translated into 35 languages. His lectures, seminars, and learning materials are immensely popular, as are his television specials for PBS. In addition, he has founded his own medical center called the Chopra Center for Well Being and has won fans amongst celebrities ranging from Prince Charles to Mikhail Gorbachev to Demi Moore to David Lynch. When financier/philanthropist Michael Milken was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he claimed that Chopra's holistic methods shrunk his lymph nodes by 90%.
Chopra's interest in alternative medicine initially grew out of concern for his own health. After moving from India to set up a practice medicine in Boston some 25 years ago, Chopra succumbed to many of the stresses that plague medical professionals. As a result, he guzzled coffee, chain-smoked, and drank heavily. Once he began studying eastern philosophies by way of Krishnamurti and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he became aware of medical practices outside of the sometimes limited western perspective. This awakening changed his life.
While Chopra is viewed as a major proponent of the role of Eastern philosophies in healing, he does not reject western medicine. In fact, what makes his approach so unique is the way he incorporates the best aspects of western medical research into his theories. This amalgamation of medical philosophies is at the root of self-help volumes like Restful Sleep, Perfect Weight, and Boundless Energy. Elsewhere, Chopra has addressed such diverse issues as reversing the aging process (Ageless Body, Timeless Mind), perfecting personal relationships (The Path to Love), and achieving capitalist goals via Eastern philosophies (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success).
Chopra has also become concerned with the causes of war and violence and the principles of Eastern religions, especially Buddhism, and his books on these subjects have garnered praise from such major international figures as the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Boutros-Boutros Ghali. Consequently, Chopra continues to play a significant role in world health and world politics in spite of detractors and skeptics. With an immense body of work behind him and more volumes of wisdom sure to follow, he continues to preach the simple philosophy he is certain is the key to understanding ourselves, mentally and physically: "We're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, it's the other way around: we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences."
Chopra's father was a prominent cardiologist and an anglophile who distrusted Indian philosophies and alternative medical practices.
Despite his reputation as a serious-minded intellectual, Chopra describes himself as "playful" and "carefree."
A Personal Note xi
1 What is a Spiritual Solution? 1
2 Life's Greatest Challenges 23
Relationships 25
Health and Well-being 35
Success 47
Personal Growth 65
3 Dear Deepak: One to One 81
4 Creating Your Own Solutions 171
Acknowledgments 205
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Posted April 28, 2012
If you haven't experienced an awakening of your spirit yet, I guarantee you will after reading this book! It is the perfect "How To" book that intricately explains the question we all want answered... "HOW?"
"How do I become conscious?" "What do I have to do to reach higher states of awareness?" "How can my everyday problems be solved by using spirituality?" All these questions and more will be answered as you finally learn the real secrets to living purposefully and fulfilled, knowing that the answers are already there... all you have to do is become conscious.
I recommend this book to everyone! Religious affiliations are irrelevant. Everyone will agree they have a spirit and when you learn to use it through awareness by following the step by step procedures in this book, you too will agree this book is a must read!
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Posted April 30, 2012
I've always enjoyed Deepak Chopra's writings but this book seemed to go on and on. I got lost in all the words. I never finished the book, it got boring.
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Posted May 7, 2012
I ordered this book to go on my gift card, they put it on my credit card. I read a bit of it, and then B @ N removed it from my NookColor, saying I did not pay for it. It seems like I was paying for it twice. I'm still trying to straighten things out with B & N on this and other books that were charged to my credit card and were also put on my gift card. Avoid gift cards, it also happened to someone else I know. I can't give it a good rating because B & N wouldn't let me read it.
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Posted September 5, 2012
started off kinda slow and hard to read. The words sounded good but I would have to really think hard what they meant other than just nice lovely mumble jumble. HOWEVER, half way in the book it started to get REALLY good and I liked the ending too!
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Posted October 5, 2012
This is deep!
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Posted May 8, 2013
I love this book
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Posted March 9, 2013
Great informative and educational book on how to understand the spiritual side of life. Gives solutions to everyday situations and allows the reader to come to more of a understanding of how to read spiritual feelings.
Janet W, Katy, TD
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Overview
Over the course of his career as physician, teacher, and bestselling author, Deepak Chopra has received thousands of questions from people facing every kind of challenge. They have asked how to lead more fulfilling lives, how to overcome relationship problems and personal obstacles. What’s the best way to deal with a passive-aggressive friend? Can a stagnant career be jump-started? In a ...