Deepak Chopra Quotes About Habits

• The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Thinking, Body

• If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and stand back. Solutions incubate at a deep level, not at the speed demanded by your mind. Take a break and come back the next day. Allow the answers to arise from your center, even if it takes a while. However much you have to retrain yourself in this practice of Least Effort, the ability to come from your center is worth the highest price anyone could pay.

  Deepak Chopra

  Struggle, Next Day, Years

• The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Keys, Being Positive

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.

• When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Tired

• A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Choices

• Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

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  Listening, Pay, Way

• What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Perception, Body

• You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.

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  Fields, Essentials, Body

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing”, p.11, Random House

• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

• When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

  Deepak Chopra

  Regret, Stress, Exercise

• The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy. It controls your heart rate, your blood pressure, your immune function, all of your subconscious impulses. That's not a minor role; the baseline brain is a marvel of complexity and efficiency. But too much of it is devoted to habits, old conditioning, unconscious reflexes, and lack of self-awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Blood, Self

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