Your Best Life: Mindfulness - The End of Suffering

Your Best Life: Coping With Emotional Pain in a Demanding Work Environment

“…Mindfulness-training programs have proven repeatedly to ease tension, reduce stress and increase a sense of well-being [7]. The practice of mindfulness or living in the present moment, reigns in guilt (a preoccupation with the past) and helps overcome anxiety (a fear of the future).…”

Your Best Life: Tolstoy's Three Questions for Life

“…In a previous column [3], I described the virtues of mindfulness, or living in the moment. Mindfulnessbased practices increase efficiency and reduces stress [7].…”

“…(2) Who are the right people to listen to? (3) What is the most important thing to do? [5] Convinced that he would succeed in any endeavor if he possessed the answers to these three questions, the king sought the advice from the most educated in his kingdom.…”

CORR Insights®: Among Musculoskeletal Surgeons, Job Dissatisfaction Is Associated With Burnout

“…Many of the ''attributes'' listed above with regard to physician training and success in medical school and practice need to be recognized as pathologic, rather than traits to be emulated. Recent work in mindfulness [5], stress management, individual coaching and counseling have demonstrated some effectiveness [2,3,6,8].…”