TRANSCRIPT: Day 15 Perfect Health Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey

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Welcome to the final week of our 21-Day Meditation Challenge. Day 15 Living Well. We commend you on your ongoing commitment to care for your body, mind, and spirit.

In order to begin integrating all that we’re learning into our daily lives, it’s important to create a healthy lifestyle, or matrix, to support our goals.

Examining all aspects of our lives – our food choices, the amount of time we take for exercise, or unhealthy habits that we long to change – will help us make those transformations, both small and large, that lead us to perfect health.

Day 15 – Living Well

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

OUR CENTERING THOUGHT:

My little changes amount to big benefits.

OUR SANSKRIT MANTRA:

RAM.

Everything I desire is within me.

Journal Questions

What does living well mean to you?

How do you envision incorporating everything that you’re learning into your daily life?

List the positive changes you have made during this Challenge.


OPRAH WINFREY

Welcome to Day 15. Living well. So we're now in the final week of our 21-day meditation challenge, perfect health, over the past two weeks we've started to understand what it means to be, and feel healthy and strong, we now know that we're the stewards of our own well-being, and perfect health is something we can all achieve. 

In week one we invited perfect health into our bodies, in our lives. And last week we learned how to find balance by exploring new techniques and making life affirming nourishing choices for ourselves. 

So today Deepak leads us into our final week, as we explore, how we now can integrate our perfect health concepts, into a positive and sustainable lifestyle, and as we do that we can experience greater joy, greater vitality, and ultimately greater love.

Before we meditate together let's get comfortable and listen as Deepak shares how we can truly live well.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

An odyssey is a journey that offers new information at every turn. And over the past two weeks, we've enjoyed a very fruitful odyssey together.

To create a positive lifestyle, we have to cultivate an environment that makes positive choices easy, natural, and fun. Our first step is to stop thinking in terms of discipline and self-control, instead we need to create a matrix, or an arrangement, for daily living that will support healthy decision making.

Everyone has some type of matrix already in place, and some of us live inside the setup that makes positive choices easier. A bowl of beautiful ripe fruit on the counter top at arm's reach, or a walking date with a friend every afternoon, for example, are certainly part of such a matrix.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind can consciously, and freely choose, the most beneficial things, to restore and maintain balance. 

A truly sustainable matrix is flexible to our individual needs and celebrates a life well lived.

Most importantly a sustainable matrix is built by small gradual changes.

In our remaining days, we'll explore new habits and lifestyle changes that you can begin to adopt, as you build your own personal matrix.

With that in mind, let's prepare to meditate together, and begin by considering today's centering thought:

My little changes amount to big benefits.

My little changes amount to big benefits.

Now let's begin, make sure you're comfortable, and close your eyes.

Begin to witness the breath, slowly and deeply.

Inhale and exhale. Inhale, and exhale.

Introduce the mantra:

RAM.

RAM.

RAM.

Everything I desire is within me.

Whenever you find yourself distracted by noises, physical, sensations or thoughts, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra:

RAM.

RAM.

Continue with your meditation, in a little while you'll hear me ring a soft bell to let you know when to stop.

RAM.

RAM.

RAM.

Now just mentally.

RAM.

RAM.

RAM.

~ MEDITATION ~

Now stop repeating the mantra. Allow yourself some time to rest. When you feel ready, open your eyes.

Throughout your day contemplate the centering thought:

My little changes amount to big benefits.

My little changes amount to big benefits.

My little changes amount to big benefits.

Namaste.

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