Deepak Chopra Meditation is one of the more popular guided meditations that people ask us about and search for on the web. We did a little research and pulled together some of our favorite guided meditations from Dr. Deepak Chopra, with a short summary and some reflections on each.
One thing to note starting out, I didn’t find any one particular meditation that would qualify as the definitive Deepak Chopra Meditation technique per se. Rather, what I found was a wide variety of guided meditations, which, I believe, reflect this extraordinary man’s rich, deep, and varied experience with meditation.
Deepak Chopra Meditation
So let’s dive in. Also, these are not listed in any particular order of preference but more loosely reflect their popularity according to Youtube and Google.
1. Deepak Chopra Meditation 360p
What You Can Expect
In this Deepak Chopra meditation, Dr. Chopra starts by providing some overarching context about the mind body connection by explaining how everything in your mind has a corollary in the body. Your mind, body, consciousness, relationships, environment, and biology are all woven into a single process. Your heartbeat, and your biochemical composition, these are all related.
Through meditation you can reverse the effect of the more toxic elements in our lives—negative habits, emotions, environment, substances, thoughts, etc. The key, as he describes it, is to experience inner silence so that the body returns to homeostasis and self-repair.
Dr. Chopra then transitions into the guided meditation. He leads us into a breathing exercise and a very simple breath observation exercise. He gives you a simple mantra – “So-hum” – to reflect the in and out breath respectively. This, he tells us, is the natural sound of the breath. Quietly we say this to ourselves and watch the breath and allow ourselves to become totally absorbed in this practice.
My Reflections
I can say that you will definitely have an experience listening to this, especially if you have good headphones. In fact, I highly recommend a good set of headphones for all of Dr. Chopra’s guided meditations.
This composition features rich tones of music, at once ambient and cosmic, and it resonates with the musicality and warmth of Dr. Chopra’s voice and guidance.
This guided meditation is accompanied by a compelling visual light display that goes well with the music if you are into that kind of thing. It’s an ethereal misty essence spinning in quasi-geometrical patterns of light.
One thing to note, Dr. Chopra stops leading the meditation after about 5 min and then the rest is music and visual.
2. Wild Divine – Mindfulness Observation Meditation
Mindfulness Guided Meditation with Deepak Chopra by WildDivine
What You Can Expect
This is the most advanced of all the Deepak Chopra Meditation videos featured in this post. The focus is on understanding how your spirit is the ever-present witnessing awareness. Dr. Chopra starts with a broad context and tells us how mindfulness training is an ancient technique to develop the capacity to connect with the ever-present witnessing awareness. When we have achieved that connection through our practice, it is akin to waking up your soul and, according to Dr. Chopra, you have reached cosmic consciousness. The witness state transcends both waking and sleeping. The highest form of mindfulness is to witness our self without judgment.
Achieving the witness context is a very advanced spiritual attainment. So what is a simple way to practice mindfulness exercises for those of us who have not yet attained yogic mastery or buddha mind? Easy, we can start simple with mindful eating, walking, thinking, etc.
After this teaching, the video continues with music and visual imagery.
My Reflections
I had to hustle to keep up with this one. It’s great, but also dense. If you are like me, you may need to listen a few times. I enjoyed it, but, like I said, I had to make effort to follow him since he goes deep fast. As long as you are ready for that, no problem. Also, this Deepak Chopra Meditation is really more of a short teaching than a guided meditation, per se. It is, nevertheless, powerful and will give you some deeper context for your practice and some ideas for simple mindfulness practices.
3. Deepak Chopra: Centering Meditation
What You Can Expect
This Deepak Chopra Meditation is simple and effective. It provides both a simple guided meditation technique as well as some further context for how to take that meditative energy into the rest of your day. Dr. Chopra gives you a mantra to repeat which you can do anywhere and anytime. Then he encourages you to take advantage of the new perspective and quality of awareness you have generated and see how the world and the events of your life look different to you after performing the mantra.
My Reflections
Short and sweet. Dr. Chopra is passionate and convincing and transmits the power of this simple mantra. Try it!
More from Deepak Chopra
Would you like to see more videos and articles related to Deepak Chopra? You might like:
[Podcast] Listen to our interview with meditation teacher and Deepak Chopra student Any Kelley
https://aboutmeditation.com/podcast/boston-buddha-andy-kelley/
[Video] How To Embrace Paradox Through Jokes with Deepak Chopra
https://aboutmeditation.com/what-is-a-joke-with-deepak-chopra/
[Video] The Reality of Truth: a Controversial Documentary
https://aboutmeditation.com/reality-of-truth-controversial-documentary/
How does meditation effect your DNA?
https://aboutmeditation.com/chopra-meditation-your-dna/
What Should I do after Meditation?
https://aboutmeditation.com/what-should-i-do-after-meditation/
Do you see colors when you meditate?
https://aboutmeditation.com/do-see-colors-when-meditate/
Primordial Sound Meditation
https://aboutmeditation.com/primordial-sound-meditation/
5 Tips To Quiet the Mind
https://aboutmeditation.com/how-quiet-the-mind-during-meditation/
If you enjoyed these guided meditations from Deepak Chopra, you’ll love our free How To Meditate mini course.
