Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
by Deepak Chopra
Chopra's 1993 claim that aging is largely a product of belief and that awareness practices, meditation and Ayurvedic principles can slow it. The mind-body research on stress, meditation and health is real; the quantum language and the stronger claims are not supported. Read for the practices, not the physics.
Read it if…
you want a mind-body approach to aging from its most famous proponent.
Skip it if…
misused physics vocabulary bothers you; it is throughout.
Three things you will actually use
- Expectations about aging affect behavior and outcomes.
- Meditation has measurable effects on stress.
- Separate evidence from vocabulary.
Do this first
Adopt the meditation practice and the attention to how you talk about your own age.
Our verdict
Real practices, inflated claims.
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