versus in this every week and we have
teachers now throughout the world
teaching this form of meditation which
is not an improvised form it's a very
ancient as a seven thousand years of
history right it's worked for thousands
of years so work for us today it's like
a well-trodden path right right now that
would be the first step than for us to
know first of all quiet ourselves
meditation and meditation can it start
with a few minutes a day and it expands
into whatever works for you as a habit
yeah generally though to be effective it
should be about 20 minutes per day but
twice of it twice a day yeah better in
the beginning of the day and then the
end of it yes early in the morning and
then about late afternoon I know person
to meditate for myself only time I get
raising a family and that kind of thing
is to grab it the very first part of the
day yes and that's what I'm freshest
anyway yeah and then if you do it later
afternoon when you're fresh again for
the rest of the evening because
meditation lowers your stress hormone
levels it gives you depressed and as you
know if you're deeply rested and you
feel very donella yeah one of my
favorite laws of the universe is a law
of Dharma and if I may quote this I'd
like to quote it everyone has a purpose
in life a unique or special talent to
give to others and when we blend this
unique talent with service to others we
experience the ecstasy and exultation of
our own spirit which is the ultimate
goal of all goals could you can you
explain that a little bit well every
child that is born as a couple of unique
talent so unique gifts what we do as a
society and as parents is that we
frequently focus on the weaknesses and
not on the strengths for example if your
child is weak in mathematics and good at
music then usually get him a math tutor
not a piano teacher
and if you did in fact focus on the
strengths and not the weaknesses and
that same child might become a very
great musician and he could easily hire
an accountant to do his math for him
what we do though is just the opposite
we focus on the weaknesses and not on
the strengths if you look at children
and what they really enjoy doing you
know when do they do something that is
almost playful and they playfully
express their talents so each of us has
a unique gift and a unique way of
expressing it and when we express our
unique talents in our unique grades and
one of the symptoms is that we lose
track of time we're having such a good
time it's not even work it's clay so
again if you could sit down close your
eyes quite in your mind and ask yourself
if I had all the money in the world and
I had all the time in the world what
would I do well that's your unique
expression that's your song and when
you're singing a song and helping other
people as well then you're practicing
the law of karma so that's what the
Chopra Center well-being is for you
absolutely right and one aspect for me
is this show yes absolutely and one
thing that I also wanted to let the
public and the audience know is that
everybody has at least one of those
purposes and the thing about it is when
you experience that joy you feel
unstoppable don't stop at it give me
anything if it's traveling you love
traveling and you should work in the
travel agency fill of food create a
restaurant whatever you love use that to
help other people the best way to get
what you want is help other people get
what they want and you do that by
singing a song right
and when you're singing your song you're
also instrumental in making them realize
that hey they can do that too if she can
attain that he can attain yet you're
also away and i think this with you
you're a leader in showing the world
that hey this is what i am supposed to
do I'm not any different than you I'm
not any different than any of you and we
all have that potential good we're going
to take a quick break and then we come
back I've got a couple more questions or
you so we'll be right back in just a
second
Brian's a student that I had in my
resource class um came from a very poor
background Brian just needed a friend so
we paired him with a community leader he
would take him to rodeos and then he
would take him to plays and different
things that this child would never have
been exposed to this man taking his time
to come and have lunch with him meant
more than anything point a kid in the
right direction this is General Colin
Powell of America's Promise call us and
help keep America's Promise
and we're back with dr. Chopra the next
question I have for you is I read an
interview where you said that you
believe the state of poverty that
poverty and well for a state of
consciousness and kind of continuing on
with our question that we were talking
about if you're following your life
purpose are you going to be in the state
of consciousness of wealth automatically
is it going to be a natural yeah wealth
consciousness is a state of awareness
where you don't worry about money
because you know that the source of
well-being and the source of wealth and
the source of economic freedom is within
you it's the source of everything else
and being pure potentiality there's an
infinite supply of it so if there's an
infinite supply if you knew that you had
you know X billion dollars in your bank
you wouldn't be worried and what you do
and you do have it all in your own
consciousness when you worry about money
then it doesn't matter how much actual
money you have in the bank and you're
the poor person so you know if you're
thinking about it all the time if it's a
source of concern if you're worried what
will happen to your bank balance when
the stock market crashes if you are
constantly concerned about paying your
bills then actually it doesn't really
matter the physical amount of cash you
have you're still a poor person because
your state of consciousness as one of
concern so it's a state of awareness now
when you don't have that concern because
you know there's an infinite supply and
that you're singing it you know there's
a poem by Rumi is one of my favorite
Birds he says I want to sing like birds
saying not worrying who hears or what
they think when you're expressing your
unique abilities in your unique way and
you're at the same time of service to
your fellow human rings then where it
comes from
there's always more coming you know when
we do projects here sometimes we don't
even look at how much money there may or
may not be in the cash supply hi you
know the money will come from wherever
it is in the moment and where is it in
the moment it's in the universe in every
seed there's the promise of thousands of
forests every seed has the promise of
thousands of forests if you look at
nature nature is lavishly extravagantly
wastefully abundant and that's God's
mind if you are by the mind of the
universe when we align our mind with
that mind then there is no there is no
dearth of abundance but again remember
the rule the rule is if you want to make
money then you have to help other people
make money whatever you do whatever you
want in your life if you want success
you have to make other people successful
if you want love you have to make other
people feel loved if you want respect
you have to make other people feel
respected if you want money then you
have to help other people make money so
you deserve the always being of service
and its circulation the so nobody should
ever have a personal consciousness of
poverty if they are following their
patrulla Dharma they're following their
song that's right why does he I think
always think in terms of giving human
beings are meant to serve to give to
love and if you just have those as your
main priorities then you'll never have
to worry but in it so why do we worry
again it's not the hypnosis of social
conditioning in social conditioning is
telling us that this is what's important
out here the best car the
the best-looking wife the best house and
yeah if you look at what people
