Mindfulness for Medicos

   “Sometimes there’s just no way to hold back the river.”  – Paulo Coelho Let them flow! Many a times, we all may have experienced that when we let our emotions move freely, give them a breathing space, just feel them without acting on them or suppressing them, after a while, they will change. In therapy, we call it grounding or anchoring ourselves in the midst of emotional waves.   Try doing this for a minute or so. Say you are feeling anxious for any reason, and instead of avoiding the uncomfortable sensations, running away from your feelings, pushing it or challenging yourself to feel this way or that way, try sitting with the emotion and holding it.   Open yourself to this emotion and soon it will change to some other emotion, like sadness, which may transform to shame or guilt and your mind may be telling you that you are hitting rock-bottom and soon that transforms to gratitude, then to joy or humor, or happiness and love and may be compassion and agai...