What is good medicine? What is the medicine you actually need? How do you want to live?  Who is your Obi-Won-Kenobi teacher? Who are you?  What does it mean to be upright in your life? How do we create connections? We discuss all this and more in this very special guest episode with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison who is Co-Founder, President, & Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine.   Through Koshin’s leadership and vision, New York Zen Center has developed transformative training experiences like the Foundations in Contemplative Care and the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship. He is a renowned thought leader in contemplative care, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, and CBS amongst other media outlets. Koshin is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019), and the co-editor of Awake at Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016).     Pearls of wisdom shared in this episode It is not enough to simply continue to put on bandaids. You will never be free until you can be still with your pain. Love is a discipline. The armor we create can become a cage of the size of our own body and mind. Begin again. Don’t wait. Don't wait to join us at the San Francisco Zen Center at Green Gulch Farm for The Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat. September 6-8, 2024. www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreat-connect-in-nature Stop putting on bandaids and begin again- sign up for coaching with Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com Set yourself free with mindfulness- work with Ni-Cheng www.awakenbreath.org or Jessie www.jessiemahoneymd.com Need a speaker for your group on any topic covered in the Mindful Healers Podcast? Reach out to Dr. Liang at www.awakenbreath.org  or Dr. Mahoney at www.jessiemahoneymd.com/speaking Check out the hot off-the-press article published by our dear friend and colleague Dr. Anne Kennard, a graduate of the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830723002604?via%3Dihub https://zencare.org/contemplative-medicine-fellowship/ *Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice. #physicianwellness #mindfulnesscoach #alifebetterlived