Mark Bertin: A Guided Walking Meditation to Meet Uncertainty with Compassion

Our guest this week is also September's Teacher of the Month, Dr. Mark Bertin.

He offers a unique practice that uses sensory awareness and gentle movement to help meet moments of uncertainty. This meditation is designed to help you:

Practice meeting yourself with patience and attentive care

Connect with your body as both a way to calm yourself and as a way to get clarifying information about the situation you're facing

Engage skillfully with the discomfort of uncertainty, rather than defaulting to reactivity, anger, or fear

Mark Bertin, MD., is a pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher specializing in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics. He's a regular contributor to Mindful.org and Psychology Today. He is the author of How Children Thrive: The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids (Sounds True, 2018). Dr. Bertin resides in Pleasantville, New York. For more, visit developmentaldoctor.com.

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online and in our app at Mindful.org next week.

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Show Notes

Find more from Mark Bertin here.

Go Deeper

Life is inherently changeable and uncertain, and our resilience relies on how we relate to that fact. The good news is that these are skills we can build. To learn more, check out these resources from Mindful.org: