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" The expert on mind-body connection shares his insight on meditating, letting go of expectations and following your passion   Crystal Tate: I follow you on Twitter. Do you actually tweet everything yourself?   Deepak Chopra: Yeah, on my BlackBerry, and I love it! Sometimes I&amp;#039;ll ask myself, &amp;quot;If you can&amp;#039;t say it in 140 characters, why bother?&amp;quot; And then I&amp;#039;ll say, &amp;quot;Why am I writing all of these books?&amp;quot; The other day, somebody asked me on Twitter, &amp;quot;I want a fulfilling relationship. How do I find the right person?&amp;quot; And I tweeted back, &amp;quot;If you want a fulfilling relationship, stop looking right now for the right person and become the right person.&amp;quot; And people started re-tweeting that all over the place. It was just amazing to see how a little idea can become a meme and then infect the collective consciousness. It&amp;#039;s wild.   CT: So how do you find time to tweet, write over 55 books and do everything else? You&amp;#039;re a pretty busy guy.  DC: Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. People who constantly say, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t have time,&amp;quot; their biological clock speeds up. So it&amp;#039;s an attitude, you know? I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn&amp;#039;t mean I&amp;#039;m going to miss my train, it just means that I&amp;#039;m not thinking about it right now because I&amp;#039;m speaking to you.   CT: That&amp;#039;s a very interesting point. So I know there has to have been at least one time in your life where you felt like you didn&amp;#039;t have enough time to do something. Has anything like that ever happened?  DC: When I was in my residency and I was training as an internist, I was going through a crisis where I was rushing and seeing too many patients and not having time to actually give them any attention. So one day I told myself that I&amp;#039;m not doing that anymore because I&amp;#039;m not taking care of them and I&amp;#039;m not taking care of myself, and if I&amp;#039;m not taking care of myself, how am I going to take care of anyone else?  CT: I was reading your new book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, and you mentioned how you created a routine to survive the grind of traveling while on your book tour. One day, no part of the routine went well and afterward you realized that you could have enjoyed the day more if you had approached it without any expectations. Could you tell us more?  DC: That particular day taught me the following lesson: When things don&amp;#039;t seem to go your way, let go of your idea of how they should be, trusting that you don&amp;#039;t move the big picture. So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that&amp;#039;s just silly. If you just let go of your idea of how things should go, then you flow with the moment. It&amp;#039;s your choice, what you do with that moment. If you&amp;#039;re stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.   CT: You&amp;#039;re a big proponent of meditation. How does one begin and why do you feel it&amp;#039;s important?  DC: People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don&amp;#039;t think of it like that. I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It&amp;#039;s part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it. That&amp;#039;s why I do it. But I think for the average person, if you can sit quietly with your eyes closed and watch your breath for 10 or 15 minutes without trying to manipulate it, just watch it, and then shift your attention to your heart and just mentally repeat a few words like peace, harmony, laughter or love for a few minutes\u2014that 15 minutes of quieting your internal dialogue will make your day more enjoyable. You will be more rested. You will be more centered. It is a way to get in touch with your own self.  CT: What advice, if any, would you give your younger self? DC: Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it&amp;#039;s realistic or not. The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never &amp;quot;realistic.&amp;quot; They&amp;#039;re passionate. They trust themselves. They feel true self-esteem, which means they are not dependent on other people&amp;#039;s opinions for what they should or should not do. Also, they trust their instincts, and they know how to express their unique skills and talents. Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there&amp;#039;s some service associated with it. Go for it, and don&amp;#039;t worry about the money all the time.   Deepak Chopra&amp;#039;s latest book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul, is in bookstores now.    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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