[Prevent burnout in health care with mindfulness and compassion]

There is a growing body of evidence that mindfulness and compassion are effective in reducing stress in health care. Focus meditation brings back the wandering mind to our breath and body. This attention skill can be practiced as STOP-sign: 'Stop, Take a breath, Observe and Priority first' when facing an emergency. Insight meditation helps us to observe our thoughts, let them pass and bring clarity. This noting technique can be practiced as SOAL: 'Stop, Observe, Accept, and Let go' when there is emotional distress. Better emotional regulation may also protect us from over-identification to negative affect. Mindfulness promotes transformation from empathy to compassion with focus on intention and motivation to alleviate. Compassion training may generate positive affect as antidote to empathy fatigue. Self-compassion embraces our difficulties in our life with the insight of common humanity and improves self-care. Group training at work place can be effective for implementation in health care.