Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Meditation Studio, the five-star app, and Muse, the brain-sensing headband that helps you meditate.

I'm Patricia Carpice. I'm super excited to tell you a little bit about Muse S and the new sleep section.

The sleep experience was created to help you turn off your busy mind at night and relax into a deep sleep with guided sleep journeys, beautiful soundscapes, and special meditations.

If you've ever struggled to get to sleep or find yourself counting sheep in the middle of the night, you'll want to check this out.

When you wear your muse S overnight, the new sleep tracking features give you insights

and data to help you better understand your sleep habits.

Each morning, you can review your detailed sleep information on the Mews app sleep results screen.

It's very cool.

Check it out at choosemuse.com.

Put it on your holiday gift list and use promo code.

Use Stress Less for your discount.

Today's guest is Dr. Ron Epstein, a family physician, palliative care doctor, author, researcher,

and teacher of communication and mindful practice in medicine.

His book, Attending Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity, explores how the foundations of

mindfulness can help clinicians expand their capacity to provide high-quality care,

and how doctors, patients, and their families can more collaboratively and

mindfully approach medical decisions. He shares how the practice of mindfulness in medicine

helps support a deeper understanding and connection between clinicians and patients,

how we can flourish and be more resilient in the midst of uncertain situations,

and how health care professionals can more skillfully cope with the discomfort of ambiguity,

something we can all learn. He also discusses his hope that the human aspects of medicine

can become at least as important as the

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