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Darrah,
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For many people how they conduct their
day,
especially how they start their day
is such an underpinning current to how
the rest of their day goes.
Can you share with us a bit about how you start your days?
So I go to bed with the intention
of pure awareness,
and settling into...
infinite formless identity.
And I cultivate that awareness in sleep.
I've been doing that for decades now.
And so...
I have a witnessing awareness experience
even in deep sleep or dreams,
and there's a recognition that I'm not the body-mind.
Then when I wake up you know before I
get into the identity of Deepak Chopra,
which takes a little bit of time,
I just have the same awareness between waking,
and sleeping and then between the
sleep sit and the waking state just that little
gap of pure awareness,
and I enjoy that.
And then I start my meditation process,
and it's all while I'm still in bed I...
obviously sit up to do that.
And then I
go have a wash or whatever I have to do
and then I do yoga.
I do yoga seven days
a week.
When I'm traveling I still do my
yoga every day seven days a week in my
room.
And I always get a yoga mat from the hotel.
And then after I'm done, which
is about usually eight, nine o'clock
I also introduced these intentions, which I
have mentioned before,
joyful energetic body, love, compassion in the heart,
reflective alert mind,
lightness of being.
And then when I'm done, you know and believe
it or not my day doesn't usually start
till 11:00. Or even later.
But when I'm done then I'm totally available to
whatever is needed of me.
I'm 100% available
and I have to look at my schedule you
know I get my schedule
on my whatsapp every night,
and then check it.
And then I go with whatever needs to be done.
I usually try not to do anything after
five o'clock in the evening.
So I have the whole evening free,
and I then...
depending again who I'm with...
If I'm alone I go for a walk, I go to a restaurant,
I walk the streets of New York,
just enjoying the sensory experience,
sensual experience.
But otherwise if I'm
with my family, I am with my family.
I have a short reflective meditation in the
evening, not the long one that I have in the morning.
Maybe 15 minutes, or maybe 20
at the most.
And then I go to sleep with the
same routine that I mentioned.
I break it once in a while now I'm going to be on
tour for PBS etc.
So...
it gets late.  If I'm
doing a lecture, a public lecture for a
big audience you know and many times on
my tour I will be doing public lectures
and it's huge audiences sometimes 2,000
people or 3,000 in a concert hall in which
case my evening starts at 6:00 and won't
end till midnight because I do a reception,
then I do the lecture, I do book signings, I
smile, they take photographs. I go back to
my hotel at midnight.
And... or even later.
So that's a pretty good summary of how my days flow.
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