Chopra - Healers and Practitioners Summit – A Healer’s Mission
As a Chopra meditation teacher, I was excited to participate in today’s Healers and Practitioners Summit hosted by Deepak and Mallika, Deepak’s daughter and the CEO of Chopra Global. Continuing education as a teacher was a core theme and I wanted to share a few takeaways with my community. There were five sessions hosted by Chopra leaders across many topics – healing, presence, limiting beliefs, natural rhythms, and dharma.
Micro to Macro Consciousness – The Healer’s Mission
What a wonderful way to start the summit grounded in consciousness. As individuals and as a society, there is an opportunity to heal. Critical mass engaging in personal transformation will lead to societal transformation.
1. The word “healer” is extremely important. The body has a healing response, and the body is self-regulating itself all the time. Healing is science and it can be validated. Some illnesses can even be reversed through healing.
2. Our own personal wellbeing is influenced by the collective wellbeing. Collective wellbeing is cultural, and it recycles over thousands of years. When we are born, we are already culturally conditioned. When you understand the nature of the mind, you realize its relational all the time. We are part of a matrix of inter-beingness.
3. Key concepts:
Seva (selfless service) means serving because you want to, and you’re focused on alleviating suffering - love in action (karma yoga).
Sanga (community) means seeking the truth, it comes with humility, and believes that if one is engaged in community supporting a cause, volunteering, etc. his or her health improves because they are participating in a collective conversation.
Sadana (spiritual practice) means self-inquiry through yoga, meditation, or ayurvedic understanding.
4. Every individual needs to have self-compassion and self-love. You get to this by asking questions (like who am I?). The unexamined life is not worth living. By asking questions the path to inner love, compassion, and empathy opens.
5. By understanding suffering, practicing compassion (desire to alleviate suffering) and love in action (having empathy and feeling the suffering of others), the ability to heal the world begins.
I couldn’t be more humbled to continue the journey of meditation, healing, and helping to move the energy of the world into awareness and a heightened level of consciousness.