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Observing an Ocean, one will notice that its waves rise and retreat regularly. Also, there are numerous people on its sandy beach, watching, playing, relaxing and enjoying.
A child is playing on the beach and a wave comes and takes back with it his toys or destroys his sand castle - he gets upset and writes on the sand "Ocean is bad".
A fisherman gets a good catch of fish from the sea, for his daily livelihood, he becomes happy and writes "Ocean is kind & my provider".
Seeing a young person drown in the sea, the sad mother writes "Ocean is a murderer".
A person walking on the beach on finding a precious pearl in the sea-shell, writes "Ocean is so benevolent".
All this time, the mighty ocean has been the same and is not bothered on how others are referring to its tides/waves. It continues unfazed by other’s expressions on its nature and behaviour.
Likewise, we humans need to be concentrating on our innate strengths/courage to carry on with our tasks/passion, undisturbed by external turbulence and deterrents. “Life is ... an Ocean…
Explore & Float!”
This book is an effort to provide worthwhile information on various common subjects, which regularly surface with varying complexities in our Life.
Our Life ahead will be a culmination of various Choices and Decisions we make today!

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Motivational

Inspirational

Meaningful Life

Positivity

Self-help

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Publié par	Partridge Publishing India
Date de parution	23 février 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781543709063
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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“Life Is … an Ocean …”
“Explore and Float!”
Deepak Chopra

Copyright © 2023 by Deepak Chopra.

ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-5437-0907-0

eBook
978-1-5437-0906-3

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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“Life Is … an Ocean …”
Contents
Preface
Background
Acknowledgments
About this book

1. Some Important Notes
a. Our Thoughts
b. Affirmations
c. Use our Strengths
d. Understand Emotions
e. Love Ourselves
f. Be Grateful & Express Gratitude
g. Our Destiny
h. Count our Blessings
i. Be Compassionate
j. Develop Patience
k. Self-Discipline
l. Practice Mindfulness
m. Maintain Humility
n. Our Needs and Wants
o. A new day everyday
p. Adopt Kindness & Promote Goodwill
q. Learning from our experiences
r. Be courageous to take Decisions, supported by our mind
s. Repair our damaged mind
2. Become A Happy Person
3. Well Brought up ?
4. Handling Our Frustrations
5. Forgiveness
6. Love & Compassion
7. Happiness & Fulfilment
8. Death Cleaning...
9. Changing Ourselves Will Change Our World
10. Optimism Leads To Happiness And Success
11. See Things The Way They Are
12. Modern Day Stress And Its Management
13. Basic Tips To Manage Our Anxiety
14. Some Effective Strategies To Take Care Of Anxiety
15. When To Drop Our Burdens…Letting Go…
16. The Science Behind Our “Belief” Systems
17. Our Survival Mechanisms
18. Our 2 Minds - Conscious And The Subconscious
19. Our Thoughts Make Our Life
20. Overcoming Our Fears To Live Life!
21. Power Of Our Beliefs
22. Declutter Our Mind Space To Let In Happiness
23. Grief & Loneliness Due To Death
24. Coping Mechanisms For Overcoming Grief
25. Psychological Counsellor’s Role As A Health Coach
26. Saying ‘No’ To Children!
27. The Fine Art of Empathy & Compassion
28. Positive Parenting
29. Good Parenting Principles
30. How To Avoid Mealtime Battle With Children
31. My Beliefs
32. Mobile Phone Addiction
33. Digital Detox
34. Positive Ways To Start And Have A Great Day
35. Positive Ways To End Our Day
36. We Can Always Enjoy Our Successes
37. Experiment Leaving Our Comfort Zone
38. “Social Responsibility” During These Times
39. Address Our Overwhelming Feelings
40. Bring Calmness To Self
41. The Need To Listen
42. Emotional Intelligence
43. Balancing Emotions And Reasoning
44. Hopeless To Hopefulness – Languishing To Flourishing
45. Our Hands
46. Wither Our Storms By Energy Vibrations
47. What Is A Prayer?
48. New Challenges Of Our Times (Sexual Abuse Related)
49. Mental Hygiene
50. Play Therapy Activities For Children
51. Being Enough?
52. Some Meaningful Quotations >>>
53. Laying Foundations for Beginning a New Life…

Life is …
all about making ‘Choices’,
specially the difficult ones!

Wishing the readers all the best
in their individual endeavour of
defining, creating and living their Life;
And hope to join them as a fellow traveller
on this magnificent journey
towards the ultimate destination.

The best way
to know your future
is to
create it !!

I most sincerely, and with deep gratitude,
dedicate this humble work to all who encouraged and provided me,
during the last few years of my life,
with wonderful opportunities and understandings that have helped me
successfully face the challenges that my Life offered.
Needless to say, all this helped me immensely to
learn, develop and grow into the individual I am today.
Following the tradition of my earlier 2 books,
I dedicate this book also, most lovingly, to my grand children
Nabhya, Aysha and Khush
and all other youngsters of today,
in whose hands lies the future of this world.
I sincerely wish that
“Life Is ... an Ocean ... Explore and Float!”
also guides and helps the future generations in their endeavours to
become Better, Positive minded & Compassionate human beings
such that their life journey becomes wonderfully rewarding,
one which is full of positive thoughts, empathy, gratitude, compassion and positivity.

Our mind is
like a parachute…
It works
only when it is open!
Preface
I t is my absolute duty and privilege to start this book by repeating the ‘SERENITY PRAYER’ which gives me the needed strength, solace, peace of mind and encouragement - every single time I say it:
God grant me:
Serenity to accept the things that I can’t change,
Courage to change the things that I can, and
Wisdom to know the difference between them.
The marvellous effect of this prayer on your success too can be assured when you say the same, as many times as you think you need to, and actually can. I am confident of this.

As with water of the river,
it runs and runs,
runs incessantly,
is nevertheless always there,
was always at all times the same,
and
yet is new, in every moment…
(From Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse)
Background
I had concluded in my 1 st book - “ Life’s Little Learnings ” (2015) that:
“During our difficult times, most of us are often unable to face the present, as also to look at our future optimistically. We instead think about it pessimistically. We normally forget that these tough times cannot last forever, and will pass soon. We also forget that we need to muster all our inner strengths to boldly face the current challenges, and look at the possibilities of a better tomorrow, instead of overly concentrating on today’s problems.
We need to remember, that our ultimate success can come through only when we make a beginning somewhere, instead of waiting for it to happen on its own. We need to make a choice on that now. In fact, even the today that we are living is a collection of results of the choices we made in the past. In the same way, our today’s decisions will be the base of our tomorrow’s reality.
Our life ahead will be a culmination of various choices and decisions we make today, based on our experiences of yesterdays, and thereby opening up our tomorrows – the choice is all ours. Always…”
“ Life’s Little Learnings ” laid emphasis on effects of Compassion, Gratitude, Positivity and Mindfulness on our body, mind, intellect and life. I had all hope, faith, belief, and confidence that its practical suggestions would help the readers get enough motivation to recognize their problems as challenges, convert them into opportunities, and finally to tap their inner resources to live life well.
Following it, my 2 nd book “Unlimited Learnings” (2017) was also my further attempt to encourage the readers to make a difference through self-growth. It has always been my endeavour that the readers get enough motivation to help themselves become a better person - as part of their spiritual growth, to acknowledge their abilities & capabilities, to remain positive & grateful, and continue to attempt passing on this wonderful infection to their entire social environment.
As I strongly believe and promote, we need to briefly relook at our individual past and its specific experiences before committing to ourselves to live our present, in order to have a wonderful future and a fulfilling life with abundance of happiness & satisfaction.
All human beings have an innate ability to make the best of adverse circumstances, in order to create a victorious life, by overcoming - not escaping - our suffering, and thus creating a life worth its value. Our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves. And, we can definitely tear down these limitations.
I now present “ Life Is ... an Ocean ... Explore and Float! ” , for your self-growth and conscious progress.
Deepak Chopra
New Delhi
Reach me at >> dchopra49@gmail.com

What is the meaning of Life?
Life itself has no meaning –
It is an opportunity to create a meaning…
Acknowledgments
I express my sincere & heartfelt thanks, and gratitude to all my teachers, motivators, authors, columnists, spiritual leaders, and most importantly my counselees who have inspired me immensely during the last about 30 years of my life. I humbly extend my sincere gratitude to all of them. Every family member, friend, colleague, and casual acquaintance has made significant contribution in shaping my opinions and views besides teaching me invaluable lessons, and moulding my personal life. Discipline during my early years has taught me the virtues of hard work, honesty, practice and perseverance.
In my Life, I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve lost, I’ve gained, I’ve missed, I’ve achieved, I’ve trusted, I’ve made mistakes, but most of all, I’ve Lear