OPRAH WINFREY AND DEEPAK CHOPRA LAUNCH SEVENTH ALL-NEW MEDITATION EXPERIENCE "MANIFESTING TRUE SUCCESS"

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Chicago, IL - Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra announced the launch of their latest, all-new meditation experience "Manifesting True Success," which is open for registration starting today at Oprah.com/meditation. The seventh, free 21-day meditation experience, which begins on Monday, March 16, will serve as a powerful guide to create life-changing success.

Over 3.6 million people from hundreds of countries around the globe have participated in past meditations, garnering rave reviews, which have been touted by Patheos -- one of the largest websites hosting the discussion on spirituality today -- as "a deeply insightful, grounded, and thoughtful guided experience that has been expertly curated by two of the most influential spiritual leaders of our time."

"What I know for sure is that our manifestations in life are directly connected to the energy that you are putting out in the world," said Oprah Winfrey. "All of us need a vision for our lives and as we work to achieve the vision in 'Manifesting True Success,' we use stillness and the defining principles of success to lift you up to your next best place."

Deepak Chopra added, "True success is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion and having access to the creative center of your being. It comes naturally when you learn to get in touch with your higher self and when your job, career, and higher purpose are in alignment."

"Manifesting True Success," led by Oprah and Deepak Chopra, offers an audio meditation each day and a series of thought-provoking reflection questions, designed to anchor the teachings with a centering thought and mantra. Through a private, interactive journal feature, meditators are able to record and view their progress, giving them an invaluable picture of their personal growth and development. The meditations are easily accessible from a tablet, computer, or the new mobile companion app, available in iTunes or google play.

For a sneak peek of Oprah and Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experience: Manifesting True Success, click here (with embed code): http://www.oprah.com/oprahdotcom/Oprah-and-Deepaks-New-Meditation-Experience

What participants can expect out of Oprah and Deepak's 21- Day Meditation Experience: Manifesting True Success:

Week One- Starting Within

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Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra Launch Seventh All-New Meditation Experience "Manifesting True Success"

Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years longer. Thats the good news.

The bad news is that starting when people are in their mid- to late 20s, the brain begins to wither its volume and weight begin to decrease. As this occurs, the brain can begin to lose some of its functional abilities.

So although people might be living longer, the years they gain often come with increased risks for mental illness and neurodegenerative disease. Fortunately, a new study shows meditation could be one way to minimize those risks.

Building on their earlier work that suggested people who meditate have less age-related atrophy in the brains white matter, a new study by UCLA researchers found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brains gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.

The scientists looked specifically at the association between age and gray matter. They compared 50 people who had mediated for years and 50 who didnt. People in both groups showed a loss of gray matter as they aged. But the researchers found among those who meditated, the volume of gray matter did not decline as much as it did among those who didnt.

The article appears in the current online edition of the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

Dr. Florian Kurth, a co-author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, said the researchers were surprised by the magnitude of the difference.

We expected rather small and distinct effects located in some of the regions that had previously been associated with meditating, he said. Instead, what we actually observed was a widespread effect of meditation that encompassed regions throughout the entire brain.

As baby boomers have aged and the elderly population has grown, the incidence of cognitive decline and dementia has increased substantially as the brain ages.

In that light, it seems essential that longer life expectancies do not come at the cost of a reduced quality of life, said Dr. Eileen Luders, first author and assistant professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. While much research has focused on identifying factors that increase the risk of mental illness and neurodegenerative decline, relatively less attention has been turned to approaches aimed at enhancing cerebral health.

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Meditation may slow age-related loss of gray matter in the brain