Total Meditation by Deepak Chopra M.D

Author:Deepak Chopra, M.D. [Chopra, Deepak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Self-Empowerment

Total meditation expands your awareness, and with that expansion comes personal power. Power based on awareness is not only possible but also automatic, and therein lies a secret. The typical image of a powerful person is attached to social markers like money, status, and the ability to dictate to others. And, unfortunately, as we’ve seen throughout history, those few who achieve great power tend to lord it over those who have less power or who feel powerless.

The actual source of power is mysterious, and when the richest and most prominent public figures are being candid, they are often baffled by their rise to the top. Most will say that luck played a big part—they were in the right place at the right time. Leaving good fortune aside, the path to self-empowerment needs to be clarified and made practical.

You might be well satisfied with your life choices up to now, an indication that things are going well for you. Most people, however, look upon their life choices as a mixture of good and bad. Whatever your attitude, no amount of success so far is the same as living from a starting point of infinite possibilities. In total meditation, you reframe your expectations by living closer and closer to your source of total consciousness. Then self-empowerment starts to take care of itself. That is, you naturally align with the level of consciousness that organizes the right outcome for any situation or challenge. If your desires are aligned with positive goals, the whole issue of empowerment has been solved.

Total Meditation

Lesson 14: Least Effort

Whether to say yes or no is probably the most basic choice people make every day. The decision is made over and over, and people who are in the habit of saying no much of the time don’t make life easy. Saying yes all the time also has its own share of problems. We wind up saying yes or no basically by repeating a choice we’ve made many times in the past. Acting out of habit is arbitrary. Parents get exasperated when a child keeps rejecting any new food with “I don’t like it,” to which the frustrated answer is “You haven’t even tasted it yet.” When we reject the new and unknown as adults, we are basically reverting to that childish habit of saying no without actually using any thought.

The issue can be reframed in terms of resistance. If you met with no resistance in your life, there would be much less reason to say no. Where does resistance come from? When other people resist us, the urge is to become annoyed and to push back. But the hidden resistance that exists inside us is something we need to pay great attention to. No one would argue with the following points:

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