{"id":169605,"date":"2021-05-20T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=169605"},"modified":"2021-05-17T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:19:52","slug":"uconn-magazine-dispensing-stress-vitamins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/05\/uconn-magazine-dispensing-stress-vitamins\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Dispensing Stress Vitamins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you might prefer a small spoonful of snark to a large spoonful of sugar with your guided meditation? Have you been wanting to try a meditation practice but just haven\u2019t known where to start? Either way, Greg Sazima \u201990 MD might just be the guru for you.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the psychiatrist and Stanford University professor published \u201cPractical Mindfulness: A Physician\u2019s No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation for Beginners,\u201d which he says is \u201cmeant to lower the bar to entry for readers interested in mindfulness but skeptical of a mystical approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sazima brings a large dose of humor to everything he does, including teaching meditation. But he takes the practice quite seriously, having seen so many of his patients who \u201cweren\u2019t getting any better\u201d find a way through meditation. He says mindfulness and meditation have a \u201cvitamin-like quality in the way that they preempt the stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other reason Sazima is so evangelical about meditation is personal. He calls the book, accompanying podcast, and blog a pay-it-forward mission for the practice that he believes helped him beat a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer into remission.<\/p>\n<p>Meditation\u2019s effect on his fight with cancer motivated him to write \u201cPractical Mindfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/02\/12\/dispensing-stress-vitamins\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been wanting to try a meditation practice but just haven\u2019t known where to start? Greg Sazima \u201990 MD might just be the guru for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":169606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1868,2235,179,102],"tags":[2254,2253,1299,2245],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-169605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-meds","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-health","category-uconn-magazine","tag-alumni","tag-magazine","tag-school-of-medicine","tag-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 23:24:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169609,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169605\/revisions\/169609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/169606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169605"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=169605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=169605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}