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Meet Harvard's Professor Of "Happiness" | Dr. Robert Waldinger

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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The Importance of Mindfulness in Modern Medicine

meditation is something you don't feel good at. Your mind starts to race. You never master it. It's a lifelong practice. The whole practice is simply coming back to the present moment when your mind wanders. That's a hard sell to us achievement oriented people who want to do well on tests, right? But even like not necessarily teaching it to med students, but teaching the premise of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, to students to bring to their patients.

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