As a Healthcare Professional, there are unique circumstances in your career that can contribute to stress, compassion fatigue and ultimately burnout. Learn how mindfulness can support medical professionals.

Medical Providers face unique challenges that contribute to stress, compassion fatigue and burnout. This program was created especially for those in healthcare, to bring relief when it’s most needed.

Medical Professional Mindfulness Program

The "Relaxation Response" was developed as an antidote to the stress response.  Learn how to elicit relaxation and counteract the effects of stress.

Relaxation Response

Finding Respite

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

Look at a baby and you’ll notice a rising and falling of the belly as the breath moves.  As we spend more time being stressed out, our breathing becomes shallower.

Belly Breathing

I need to relax

Alternate Nostril Breath helps to connect mind and body and invite calm. Performing this breathing exercise for only a few minutes a day can decrease fatigue, tension, and stress.

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Use this breath anytime you want to soothe your nervous system. It helps reduce agitation, irritation and anxiety and can bring balance back into a stressed out body and mind.

Ocean Breath

We don’t realize how much tension we hold in our bodies until we stop to check-in. In this practice, bring attention to your body, inviting relaxation and ease.

Full Body Relaxation

In coherent breathing, you relax the body and mind while gently regulating your breathing. This creates a feeling of inner calm and peace.

Coherent Breathing

For this practice, drop out of thinking by paying attention to the part of the body farthest away from the thoughts: the feet!

Connecting To Feet

My mind is racing and I need to calm down

In this practice, bring curious awareness to sensations in the hands, and let that ground you in the present moment.

Connecting To Hands

Invite awareness to rest on and explore sensations in the face.

Connecting To Face

Find a comfortable posture and settle into the present moment by connecting to the back.

Connecting To Back

Bring awareness and invite gratitude for all the complex processes working together effortlessly and efficiently in your abdomen.  Let it anchor you in your day.

Connecting To Abdomen

Connect to the most powerful force always beating inside your chest:  your heart!

Connecting To Heart

Drop into the present moment and let your awareness move down your entire body, head to toe.

Connecting to the Entire Body

Check in with the present moment experiences of your entire body during this practice.

Embodied Check-In

Use the sensation of breathing at the nose to ground, focus and center you at any moment.

Awareness of Breath at the Nose

Be Still, Rest, Focus

Engage in this practice regularly to drop out of the busyness of the mind and come into sensation and stillness at the chest.

Awareness of Breath at the Chest

Invite the awareness of breath to rest on and explore sensations in the abdomen.

Awareness of Breath at the Abdomen

Stillness is available in any moment with your breath. In between inhale and exhale is a moment of stillness, as the body transitions from expanding to contracting.

Still Points

Use the breath to calm the nervous system, find stillness and enhance concentration, by brining your attention to the place in between breaths and creating a smooth breath transition.

Smoothing Breath

Breath-counting is an exercise that strengthens concentration and focus. It creates more of an anchor than just the subtle sensations of breathing, and this mental labeling technique helps centering.

Counting Breaths

Bring into mind images of a loved one and focus on how that connection feels in the body and mind.

Compassion For A Loved One

Transcending compassion fatigue

As a healthcare provider, you spend so much time caring for others, but it is important to spend time wishing yourself well to bring balance back into the equation.

Compassion For Self

This practice helps you to feel more deeply connected to all of humanity.

Compassion For a Neutral Person

This practice, of sending loving kindness out to someone with whom you have a more challenging relationship can really help transform your own negativity and ill-will.

Compassion For a Difficult Person

Recognize the interconnectedness of all beings…we all breathe, suffer, love, and we all want to be safe, happy, calm and at peace…and not just all humans, but all animals too.

Compassion For All Beings

There is a never-ending supply of love to be received and to be given. If we take the time to remember this, we begin to nurture and prioritize these qualities.

Surrounded By Compassion

This is a really useful practice that you can do anytime you’re experiencing suffering.

Self-Compassion Break

I need to be kind to myself

Sometimes you want to bring some compassion to yourself very quickly. This practice will guide you through the 3 components of mindful self-compassion.

Self-Compassion SOS

This practice is another way to bring compassion to yourself in times of suffering or stress.

Soften, Soothe, Allow

This practice develops equanimity which helps us remain compassionate to ourselves while remaining connected to others.

Compassionate Reminder For Caregivers

This practice transforms the hard feelings, such as anger, that arise in relationships.

Treating Hard Feelings With Compassion

RAIN is an acronym that stands for:  Recognize, Accept, Investigate and Non-Identification.  This practice helps to process strong emotions and focus on the task at hand.

R.A.I.N Practice:  Working With Strong Emotions

Reconnecting to Purpose

STOP is an acronym for Stop, Take a mindful breath, Observe what is going on and Proceed mindfully.  This practice encourages you to stop and take a moment to reset.

Something stressing you out?  Just STOP

Allow your mind to wander and mindfully explore where it takes you and how you feel.

Mindful Of It All: Open Awareness

Thoughts are real, but not necessarily true.  Improve how you observe and react to the thoughts that cross your mind.

Mindfulness Of Thinking: What Our Thoughts Can Teach Us

Find relief in not having to believe your own thoughts because they're not necessarily true.  Define and explore new and different ways of relating to thoughts.

Questioning Your Thoughts: A Powerful Inquiry

The administrative tasks of medical records can detract from making meaningful connections with others.  Reconnect to your desire to help and let go of the day to day tasks.

Reconnecting To What Really Matters

Overcoming day to day challenges

Time pressures are one of the biggest stressors for healthcare providers.  Practice attending to the patient in front of you, as best you can, noticing your own reactivity and stress.

There's Not Enough Time

The list of things to worry about can feel endless.  Learn to focus and pay attention to what is in front of you and not ahead of you.

This Is Going To Be Terrible

We often get derailed by what we perceive as burdensome administrative chores.  While you can't always make those things go away, you can explore your own reactivity to them.

This Is A Waste Of My Time

It can hurt when we are working and doing our best, and a patient is rude.  This is a great opportunity to engage in mindfulness.

That Patient Was So Rude...

It helps to recognize your reactivity when you're frustrated with a patient.  Use the RAIN practice to invite calm and ease into a difficult situation.

Don't Waste My Time

Medical caregivers face having to care for patients they don’t like…  This practice, of cultivating kind regard, helps preserve the ability to be compassionate, even in the face of reactivity.

Not You Again:  Dealing With Patients We Don't Like

Working on teams is tough, especially when there's someone you don't like.  You can’t control the behavior of others, but you can work on your reactivity to others.

I Have To Work With You, But I Don't Have To Like You

It can be an awful feeling: that moment when you realize that you made a mistake, but these moments are great opportunities to practice mindfulness.

When You Make A Mistake

Communication with others is a significant source of stress.  Learn to show up and be present and disregard any preconceived notions you have about what someone else might say.

I Just Can't Talk To You

Everyone encounters patients who are angry.   It is a great opportunity for mindfulness practice, so that you do not react out of your own anger or hurt.

The Angry Patient

When we hold onto anger and resentments towards others, we are creating pain and suffering for our selves.  Forgiveness takes practice but it is incredibly healing.

That Was Unforgivable

As healthcare providers, loss and grief come with the territory.  Mindfulness practice helps to connect with the direct experience of what is happening internally.

Dealing With Grief

There are not enough hours in the day to get everything done the way you would like to.  Mindfulness practice helps you see more clearly and develop new internal habits.

I'm So Overwhelmed

Sometimes we don't have enough emotional bandwidth to care deeply about each person in front of us.  Learn to reconnect to your compassion.

I Just Don't Care Anymore

Sometimes you can't alleviate a patient’s suffering.  Taking a moment to pause and focus on kindness can help ease your own stress and in turn your patients’.

The Suffering Continues

Setting an intention of service alleviates the frustration of not being able to "fix”.  When you fix, you see life as broken.  When you serve, you see life as whole.

I Can't Help You...But I Can Serve You

Practicing gratitude helps dilute the negative filter we create when looking at situations as problems.

So Many Problems!

It’s common for the mind to hang on to negative thoughts and to discount the positive things that happen.  Mindful awareness can disrupt these thought patterns and decrease your suffering.

I'm Not Enough

A shift in perspective can make a big difference in how we feel, especially when applied towards things we don't want to do.

Do I Have To Do That?

Course Introduction

In this practice, hold the breath for a few seconds and then deliberately prolong the exhale.  This will signal the body and mind that it’s OK to relax.

Medical Professional Mindfulness Program

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