Podcasts and Practices of Mindfulness

During this podcast, Donna Gabriel interviews Dr. Michael Krasner, a physician and mindfulness expert, and he speaks about his perspectives on clinician well-being the role that empathy plays in burnout and professional efficacy, and the importance of giving healthcare providers opportunities to cultivate attention, awareness, and reflection to optimize the clinical experience. You will learn about The double-edged sword of practicing empathy, when empathy goes wrong and its potential effect on clinical efficacy, the influence of mindfulness, including mindfulness-based stress reduction, on empathy and efficacy, and common misunderstandings about mindfulness and what it really means. 

Link to Podcast: https://mindofmedicine.buzzsprout.com/1830395/8979691

Dr. Epstein is a family physician, palliative care doctor, author, researcher, and teacher of communication and mindfulness practice in medicine. His book, Attending, Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity explores how the foundations of mindfulness can help clinicians expand their capacity to provide high-quality care, and how doctors, patients, and their families can more collaboratively and mindfully approach medical decisions. He shares how the practice of mindfulness in medicine helps support a deeper understanding and connection between clinicians and patients, how we can flourish and be more resilient in the midst of uncertain situations, and how healthcare professionals can more skillfully cope with the discomfort of ambiguity. He also discusses his hope that the human aspects of medicine can become at least as important as the technical aspects of the future.

Link to Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/untangle/dr-ron-epstein-a-perspective-on-medicine-mindfulness-and-humanity-for-better-healthcare?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 

Dr. Mick Krasner is a professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University of Rochester and practices primary care internal medicine in New York. He has been teaching Mindfulness-Based programs to patients, medical students, and health professionals for more than 20 years with a keen focus on the connection between health professional well-being and the effectiveness of the healing relationship. Dr. Krasner discusses the growing role of mindfulness-based practices in assisting physicians and other medical professionals in coping with the many stresses of their profession. Dr. Krasner outlines some of the foundational tenets of mindfulness-based thinking as well as his experience across the globe in engaging his colleagues around this very unique brand of The Helping Conversation.

Link to Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-mick-krasner-m-d-professor-of-clinical-medicine/id1524862928?i=1000488696539 

This website shows you how to practice mindfulness and meditation in a number of ways. There are step-by-step basics for practices, it describes how to meditate, and gives you practices for every day. It also gives you simple guided meditations that show you where to get started with incorporating it into your daily life, answers any question you may have about it, and lists the benefits of these practices. 

Link to Website: https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/ 

Dr. Kabat-Zinn and his and his colleagues have helped thousands of people learn to use the power of mindfulness to transform their relationship to pain and suffering, and to discover new degrees of freedom for living with greater ease and quality of life. He guides you through a mindfulness meditation practice in this video for pain relief and goes through mindfulness of breathing, what to do about pain, working with thoughts and emotions, resting in awareness, and mindfulness in everyday life. 

Link to Practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCNXi_0lsCk 

The Ottawa Hospital has made a set of five videos to learn how you can use mindfulness to manage chronic pain and stress. The videos share introductions to different aspects of managing symptoms that include mindfulness, your body, emotions, sensations, thoughts, the stress response, compassion and continuing your practices. 

Link to Practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCl4u0BUuE&t=0s 

Dr. Mark Bertin offers tools that healthcare providers can turn to when they’re caught up in stress, feeling overwhelmed, or simply facing the challenges of the day. This practice shows three different practices for healthcare workers that includes a simple breathing practice, a mindful way to wash your hands, and the doorknob or S.T.O.P. Practice. They are meant to draw you back to what we are meant to be doing in the next moment, acknowledge our experiences, make observations, and proceed practices with intention. 

Link to Practice: https://www.mindful.org/three-daily-mindfulness-practices-for-healthcare-workers/

In this guided loving-kindness meditation, Dr. Mark Bertin offers an opportunity to bring awareness to patterns of thinking, settle the mind, and dedicate a few minutes to self-care. This practice strengthens our intention to notice and label whatever may arise, as a tool to anchor ourselves. While you follow along, simply recognize where your mind gets caught up in thinking about the future or the past. Quite often we get lost in thought—even while meditating. When this happens, we can use an immediate sensation or a phrase to ground ourselves again.

Link to Practice: https://www.mindful.org/a-compassion-practice-for-healthcare-workers/ 

In this practice, you are asked to make space to honor yourself, connections formed with patients, and the full spectrum of emotions that accompany working as a healthcare provider. Find deep relaxation and grounding through mindfulness, self-compassion, and letting go. This was written by Sydney Siegel, MSW. from Simms/Mann UCLA Center of Meditation. 

Link to Practice: https://www.simmsmanncenter.ucla.edu/resources/guided-meditation-hcw/