Meditation for Healing Burnout

摘要

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, is the founder and Huffington Foundation Endowed Director of The Jung Center's Mind Body Spirit Institute and an adjunct professor and former director of education at MD Anderson Cancer Center's Integrative Medicine Program, in Houston, Texas, where he teaches Tibetan meditation to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers, and researches the effects of Tibetan mind–body practices with cancer patients. He is also an adjunct professor at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Dr. Chaoul has studied in the Tibetan tradition since 1989, and for almost 30 years with Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, completing the 7-year training at Ligmincha Institute in 2000. Since 1995, he has been teaching meditation classes and Tibetan yoga workshops nationally and internationally under the auspices of Ligmincha International and is the research director for Ligmincha International. Here, Dr. Chaoul discusses his insights on the role of meditation in addressing burnout.