Join the ACS in Celebrating Your Well-Being during Surgeon Well-Being Month

As we welcome a new year, the ACS invites you to celebrate your well-being and participate in ACS Surgeon Well-Being Month throughout January. Well-being is critical for the health, sustainability, and success of surgeons, care teams, and health systems. Each week in January, the ACS Brief will provide the audio and video resources available from the Surgeon Well-Being Program.

This week, explore how body scan meditation can help release physical tension, even the tension you don’t realize you’re experiencing, and reconnect you with your body. Mentally scanning yourself allows encouraging developing awareness for each part of your body—to notice any aches, pains, tension, or discomfort—and to understand the pain and learn from it so you can manage it.

The ACS has multiple audio body scan meditation guides available. Watch today:

Salva Chak, MPH

• 5 Minute Body Scan
• 6 Minute Body Scan
• 15 Minute Body Scan

Mick Malotte, MD

• 3 Minute Body Scan
• 6 Minute Body Scan