Episode Details

In this episode, Barbara and Gin discuss:

• Getting started with your own meditation practice.
• Science backed meditation.
• Ways to meditate, other than the traditional sitting still.

Key Takeaways:

• When you take the time to do yoga or meditate, you will find time expand and open.
• The genes involved in stress response are turned off, and the genes involved in the relaxation response are turned on when meditating.
• The purpose of your mind is to do the thinking. In meditation, you can give the mind a simple task to focus on.

“You don’t have to take a ton of time to get results.” —  Gin Carter

 Transcription

Barbara:           Welcome to another episode of Marketing Tips for Doctors. This is your host, Dr. Barbara Hales.

Today, we have a great guest by the name of Gin Carter. She is in the business of helping people and the whole world feel better. In her most recent past, she was a conservation biologist for the Smithsonian Institution.

Now, from yoga to stress management to therapeutic horseback riding and criminal justice reform Gin has her hands in many realms all still backed by her basis in science. Meditation is one of her favorite things to teach and she believes that by using meditation to connect with ourselves we are better able to connect with each other and do good work in the world. This couldn’t come at a better time. Welcome Gin!

Gin:                 Thank you

Barbara:           Because of all of the stress that we are under now I think that meditation would help a lot of people regardless of whether you’re a health professional or people at large and I have no doubt that meditation will not only alleviate the stress that we’re feeling but make us better people as well.

Gin:                 Yes, that is definitely true.

Barbara:           A lot of people feel like they don’t have time for self-care or to meditate aside from now when people are finding lots of time since they’re sequestered. Why is it so important to make that time?

Gin:                 Yes, it’s definitely important to make that time. When we go through our life and we are having stress it affects us not only mentally but also physically as well and so by taking that time it allows us to combat or counteract those stressful things that are happening in our body and our mind and helps us to be able to do our work better. So, you don’t have to take a ton of time to get results and that’s one of the things that I love teaching the most is that it can really be even just 5 minutes of your day to start.

I often see once you do take that time then people start to make more time. And that is another thing I see a lot is that people say I don’t have time to meditate or I don’t have time for yoga but when you do make the time to do it then all of a sudden you feel more expansive and you feel like you h