Dr. Deepak Chopra, the alternative medicine and New Age megastar, spends his Sundays meditating, walking, and contemplating life. “Sunday is a day of reset. It’s not a day of obligations,” he said. “There’s nothing that important if you miss it.” For the past five years Dr. Chopra, 72, and his wife of 48 years, Rita, 70, have lived in a luxury green apartment, complete with vitamin-filtered showers and antimicrobial coating on high-touch areas, in Union Square, Manhattan. “The air and water are filtered,” Dr. Chopra added, and “there’s no outside sound.” This year he will introduce a podcast on the Cadence13 podcast network and is on schedule to finish his 89th book.

GENTLE START I’m up at 5 a.m. I’m a morning person. We have circadian lighting in the bedroom, which changes from total darkness to pre-dawn to morning light. Then I stare at the ceiling for 10 minutes doing nothing.