Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the Brain Sensing Headband, and Meditation Studio,

the five-star app. I'm Patricia Carpice. Today's episode is a little different for us. It's an

interview about how we can be a bit more mindful as we face the kind of health scare that we're

facing now with the coronavirus.

Please note, the interview isn't with a CDC specialist or even a virus expert,

so it's not about what you specifically need to do day-to-day to prevent or limit your risk.

There's plenty of that information available.

This interview is more about how we relate

to the uncertainty that it presents and use our mindfulness practice to be more skillful and

resilient each day. Dr. Mark Burton is a developmental pediatrician and an assistant professor

of pediatrics at New York Medical College.

He incorporates mindfulness practices into his work as a pediatrician and in his frequent lectures to parents, teachers, and health care professionals.

Today we talk about how we can be more skillful when we get triggered or hooked into

feeling a sense of panic or anxiety about it all.

We have a choice to do what we can do to stay healthy as we're hearing daily from doctors

and the media.

And we're certainly learning how to make good choices over what we can actually control.

He suggests that we may want to notice where our tipping point is, that place where we go from problem solving to panic.

I really like his ideas about how we can be with what's unsettling and what feels out of our control.

And while we can't stamp out all of this uncertainty, we can change our relationship to it. These are interesting times

for sure. Now, here's Dr. Mark Burton. Dr. Mark Burton, it is so great to have you on Untangle

today. Thank you. Oh, thank you for having me here today. Well, this is an interesting topic

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