Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

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's just silly.

I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.