Popular practice of yoga has spread worldwide, alongside fitness, health, and contemplative pursuits. Concurrently, mental distress and disorders are major contributors to the burden of non-communicable diseases. Practices of yoga-meditation are widely touted and often pursued as antidotes for stress. A qualitative mixed methods study incorporating freelisting and cultural consensus analysis...
Increasing data suggest that for medical school students the stress of academic and psychologicaldemands can impair social emotions that are a core aspect of compassion and ultimately physiciancompetence. Few interventions have proven successful for enhancing physician compassion inways that persist in the face of suffering and that enable sustained caretaker well-being. To addressthis issue,...