We breathe, live and move in the unknown and thank god for that, because otherwise we would be doomed to eternal sameness. Everything that you call the known has already happened. But uncertainty and the unknown also have a degree of fear attached to them…ĭr Deepak Chopra: We live and move in the unknown.
And if nothing can go wrong, there’s very little to be stressful about. If you start with that, then nothing in your life ever goes ‘wrong’. So every morning I made a conscious effort to ask myself, ‘How can I be more unpredictable?’ and ‘How can everything be more uncertain today?’ because that would give me the opportunity to have a creative expression. If everything is predictable, then life would be an algorithm, there will be no creativity, and creativity and unpredictability go together. It was much later that I realised the fundamental nature of reality is that it’s unpredictable. Before you got onto this path, how was your relationship with emotions such as stress and anxiety?ĭr Deepak Chopra: As a young person I did experience stress, especially in medical school, and even in my residency and internship.
The audience at Dr Deepak Chopra’s session at Sharjah International Book Fair Thirty years on, Dr Chopra tells us that while ideas of self-transformation have now become much more widespread, the fundamental challenges still remain, with emotional predicaments in the form of stress and anxiety spreading like wildfire.Īhead of his session at the Sharjah International Book Fair, we sat down with him to deconstruct the notions of the ‘self’, away from false identity and embracing all of life’s uncertainties as an opportunity for creative expression. Living in a hyperconnected society, we want to know a lot about the world around us when we understand very little about ourselves, argues Dr Chopra.Ī pioneer of mind-body medicine in the 90s, he spoke about the transformative power of thought in relation to healing and mindfulness at a time when these ideas didn’t gather mainstream attention, which may have been a cause of receiving criticism for some of his early works.
At 76, Dr Chopra is more determined than ever to drive home the idea of the ‘self’ away from the facade of our material lives. While most of us can only dream of writing one manuscript to fruition, Dr Deepak Chopra, arguably among the most influential thought- leaders of our times, has authored 90 books in 43 different languages, in a span of over three decades.
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