Sadhguru: When we face hard situations, when
we face difficult situations,
that is the time when we need 
utmost balance within ourselves.
Medical professionals must be in the best
state of mind and body –
this is very, very important.
Now we are talking about a technology with
which we can create a chemistry of blissfulness.
Speaker: I'd like to bring in Steve Pratt,
who's the Director of 
pre-anesthesia testing in our hospital,
Beth Israel Deaconess 
Medical Center.
Steve Pratt also runs the Massachusetts peer
review, and Steve go ahead.
Steve Pratt: Thank you very 
much for having me.
It's a great honor.
I've been doing some work over 
the past ten years to help clinicians
recover emotionally 
after difficult events.
COVID is having a remarkable 
set of emotional impacts on our clinicians,
almost to the same degree as 
the medical impacts that it's having on our…
on our patients.
Our folks, our staff are terrified that they
can become sick themselves and die or bring…
bring the disease home to their loved ones.
There's a sense of guilt, both of 
those who are working,
because they feel guilty that their 
other colleagues are being furloughed
or those that were at home, 
they feel guilty
because they are not at 
the front lines helping.
And of course, the great sadness as we watch
unimaginable amounts of suffering and death,
often alone, people dying 
without their loved ones.
As clinicians, we've learned to keep many
of those feelings at arm's distance,
because we have to keep them 
there in order to continue to work.
And I'm actually worried that once we get
to the other end of this
that those feelings are going to have 
to bubble up some way.
That those feelings that we've kept buried
so that continue to do our job on a day-to-day
basis will eventually have to come up 
and I'm wondering Sir,
what, what advice you would give 
to us as leaders to help our staff
to manage to unwrap those feelings 
as they start to come up
when we give ourselves the opportunity
to actually feel them?
When we have the moment to pause and say
and realize how emotionally humongous 
this has been for the last days,
weeks, months or potentially
even years,
how can we help our staff to bring
those feelings back up in a safe way?”
Sadhguru: I very much understand and appreciate
the tremendous work that
both the doctors and the nursing staff
and the allied staff
around in the hospitals are doing.
It's unfortunate, there are you know,
in UK forty-four percent of the medical 
staff is showing signs of depression,
in China fifty percent they're saying, 
in Singapore forty percent.
I don't know what is the thing in United States,
I'm sure there are similar numbers.
So when half the people who are 
responsible for you know,
bringing the population out of this 
pandemic with limited amount of damage
and limited loss of life, are 
going through this, this is…
this doesn't bode well, either for the 
medical staff or for the larger population.
So it's very important that they are well
taken care of.
As a part of this, from our end 
we did whatever we could do.
Today, I think a few hundred thousand people
are going through this,
that we offered this Inner 
Engineering program free of cost
to all medical personnel 
across the world.
A few hundred thousand people 
have enrolled,
but it's important that 
everybody goes through this.
This is seven powerful sessions with allied
practices attached.
Simple things that you invest twelve to fifteen
minutes a day, and it will make a big difference.
You can make your chemistry blissful, no 
matter what is the situation we face.
When we face hard situations, 
when we face difficult situations,
that is the time when we need 
utmost balance within ourselves.
Our intelligence, our competence 
must work at its best.
But if we are distressed or depressed, definitely
our competence levels will go down.
This will not only affect our lives, unfortunately,
it may cost some other life
and when it costs some other 
life because of our incompetence,
then there is a cycle of problems 
that an individual will naturally go through.
When we realize that what we have done has
gone wrong for somebody else's life,
because it's not nice for 
any human being to put in a position
to determine whether somebody 
should live or die, that should never come.
But unfortunately, in the profession 
that you are,
maybe on a daily basis you're facing that situation 
and particularly now with the pandemic,
it is far more because we have still
not figured out what is the solution for this.
Right now, when the world is 
facing a situation like this,
medical professionals must be in
the best state of mind and body.
This is very, very important.
This is why as a part of this we are offering
this Inner Engineering online for everybody
and various other practices 
which are very simple to do.
Please all of you try and see and put it across
to all the doctors and nurses.
It will make a huge difference.
In UK many doctors have done this and they
are sharing what difference it's made,
a simple practice of twelve minutes, 
how the immune system is up,
protecting you. At the same time it 
also keeps up your mood levels.
It will create a balance, emotional balance
and a sense of… a sense of 
blissfulness within you
because as you're all doctors, all of you
 are very clear on this,
human experience
has a chemical basis to it.
Now we are talking about a technology with
which we can create a chemistry of blissfulness.
This is most important because only when you
are in a pleasant state of experience,
this body and this mind 
functions at its best.
And right now all of you functioning at your
very best is vital for so many lives.
So it's my wish and my blessing that all of
you should stay healthy,
function at the best 
of your competence,
so that many more lives
are not taken.
Because we still have not figured 
out a way with the virus –
we are only trying to figure
out how to dodge it, how to manage it,
we don't really have 
a solution as such.
So your work and your emotional balance and
your own well-being
and the well-being of your families is 
very vital for the rest of the population also.
Please keeping this in mind, 
keep yourself well.
