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Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
Edward Creagan, M.D.
"The magic of the electronic village is transforming health information. The mouse and keyboard have extended the stethoscope to the 500 million people now online." — Dr. Edward Creagan
The power of the medium inspires Dr. Edward Creagan as he searches for ways to share Mayo Clinic's vast resources with the general public.
Dr. Creagan, a Newark, N.J., native, is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hospice medicine and palliative care. He has been with Mayo Clinic since 1973 and in 1999 was president of the staff of Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Creagan, a professor of medical oncology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, was honored in 1995 with the John and Roma Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine Award and in 1992 with the Distinguished Mayo Clinician Award, Mayo's highest recognition. He has been recognized with the American Cancer Society Professorship of Clinical Oncology.
He describes his areas of special interest as "wellness as a bio-psycho-social-spiritual-financial model" and fitness, mind-body connection, aging and burnout.
Dr. Creagan has been an associate medical editor with Mayo Clinic's health information websites and has edited publications and CD-ROMs and reviewed articles.
"We the team of (the website) provide reliable, easy-to-understand health and wellness information so that each of us can have productive, meaningful lives," he says.
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Stress blog
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Sept. 26, 2012
Dispatch distractions by living in the moment
By Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
It is obvious from the blog comments that stress is a major distraction. We live in an age of distractions — and interruptions — fueled by technology. There's no place to unwind. There's no place to hide.
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An established technique for tuning out distractions is mindfulness. A description I like of mindfulness is that it's total engagement, total absorption in the moment, not looking back or ahead, but being focused and aware of your breathing, your body and your environment just for a few minutes.
It's challenging not looking down the road or around the next curve. Or is it? After all, the past is gone. The future may never arrive. All you have is the present moment. It's up to you how to use it. Choose wisely.
Follow me on Twitter at @EdwardCreagan. Join the discussion at #Stress.
8 comments posted
May 1, 2013 5:23 p.m.
You know something we have known for thousands of years.Here and now is all there is ! Have you told people you copied buddhist thinking ?
- Joseph
November 28, 2012 8:41 a.m.
The comments I've read are helpful, but the biggest problem I have is forgetting the past. It's not easy to just say forget it, block it out, it's gone, cant turn the clocks back!
- Dale
October 28, 2012 6:04 p.m.
This is a really helpful blog. Live without regrets of past as we cant turn the clock. By same token without worrying unneccessarily for certain possibilities of future .... a future that may not come, or still may come even if you plan and act to your best to avoid them doesn't make sense. So do what is needful on the day for yourself and your loved ones and live a day at a time !!! This may give a positive shape somehow to future events anyway ...... Thank you Mr. Edward.
- Shehzad
October 23, 2012 3:39 p.m.
This may be the most obvious and least-helpful' article' I've ever read. Are 3 short paragraphs considered an article?
- Ts
October 12, 2012 3:05 p.m.
There is another stress releaver for people with schizophrenia and related disorders, they are known as the Six Steps for Recovery in Schizophrenics Anonymous. They can be found on the Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America website ... www.sardaa.org
- James
October 6, 2012 5:25 p.m.
I go to a local cancer support centre, and have learned to live in the moment there. I know the past is gone, so forget it, and the future exists only in my mind, so what is left is today, and if I can get out of bed and function, it's a beautiful day. We have so much to be thankful for, so enjoy today and let the future take care of itself. It will come whether you worry about it or not.
- Rosemary
October 3, 2012 12:15 p.m.
Well stated. Good advise for anyone regardless of the issue.
- Bill
October 3, 2012 10:55 a.m.
Thank you for your remarks about not living in the past, and that the future may never arrive. I"m working hard at living in the present and I'm now so fully aware of the gifts that I have received; my beautiful grandchildren, a loving and forgiving wife and friends who love and respect me. Yes the challenges of life still pop up, but living life to the fullest in the present is by far the best place to be. Thank you again.
- Doug
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