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Meditation ‘can help us combat workplace stress’
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   posted by Conrad Landin in Britain

   STRESSED-OUT health workers should take up meditation, the Royal
   College of Midwives conference heard yesterday.

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   their shifts because there was no-one to take over their duties.

   Midwives are also at increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder
   due to childbirth incidents outside their control.

   And Denise Cohen, a midwife and rep at the Royal Free Hospital in north
   London, suggested the NHS should offer meditation classes to relieve
   workplace stress.

   She said stress was often concerned with “thinking about the the future
   and the past,” and mindfulness techniques could ensure that workers
   were “fully present and in the moment” while on shift.