Dr. Anthony Youn

You know, you guys go home and just stay healthy and all that.

but i had no idea how i was going to do that and so i volunteered for my local hospital my wife and i my wife's a physician she's a pediatrician and we both volunteered for our local hospital if they needed us which god forbid like if you've got covid and you're like in the icu and dr yoon comes up to take care of you like you're screwed because i don't remember how to do any of that stuff but so thank god they never actually asked us to come in and help out um but that was

That was such a stressful time because here I am, like I'm worried about my colleagues and my friends that were working in the hospital.

I'm worried about my own family, my parents and my in-laws who are, you know, almost 80 at that time.

And then I worried about my patients and also my employees and like, how am I going to pay my employees?

So for the first time, I think since I started my practice, probably for the first time since I tell you about that patient of mine who died,

would fall asleep fine at night and then every night I wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning just with all these worries going on in my head and so I was talking my wife I'm like I can't like I get I wake up and I'm worried I'm stressed and like what do I do and we started meditating together where we would just take literally 10 to 15 minutes and you could do a guided meditation we did a lot of like Peloton meditation

Or sometimes I would do it by myself.

And just like you said, just pay attention to my breathing.

Like try to cut everything out and then just pay attention to breathing in and out.

And I tell you, Bunny, every day that I meditated, I slept all night.

And those days where I'm like, oh, I don't have time.

I'm not going to do it.

two or three in the morning I would wake up like it was crazy how it was a direct correlation there are studies that show that meditation can help you to look younger it can make changes in your brain to function more efficiently and effectively it's it is crazy how just that simple act of just what you said just breathing in and out can reduce your stress and really help to improve your life

So yeah.

Occasionally, you know, if I have anxieties and every once in a while I have some just like, and I don't know why, or sometimes it's before surgery or something, sometimes just in my car, I'll turn on a guided meditation for 10 minutes.

You feel so much better afterwards.

I think that there's so much that our society, we have lost touch with.

Even fasting was something that Christians, Muslims, people have done it for centuries, but we stopped.

We just don't have time for it.