Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction Meditation Technique for Teacher Burnout:A Qualitative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Schnaider-Levi ◽  
Inbal Mitnik ◽  
Keren Zafrani ◽  
Zehavit Goldman ◽  
Shahar Lev-Ari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Meditation Technique

Inquiry-based stress reduction (IBSR) meditation technique for BRCA1 / 2 mutation carriers—A qualitative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 958-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Landau ◽  
Inbal Mitnik ◽  
Jiska Cohen-Mansfield ◽  
Efrat Tillinger ◽  
Eitan Friedman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Mutation Carriers ◽  
Meditation Technique

Challenges to Enrollment and Participation in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Among Veterans: A Qualitative Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 409-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle E. Martinez ◽  
David J. Kearney ◽  
Tracy Simpson ◽  
Benjamin I. Felleman ◽  
Nicole Bernardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

scholarly journals A qualitative study on mindfulness-based stress reduction for breast cancer patients: how women experience participating with fellow patients

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1813-1820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie P. J. Schellekens ◽  
Ellen T. M. Jansen ◽  
Heidi H. M. A. Willemse ◽  
Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven ◽  
Judith B. Prins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

scholarly journals A Qualitative study of older adults’ perspectives on initiating exercise and mindfulness practice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana C. Parra ◽  
Julie Loebach Wetherell ◽  
Alexandria Van Zandt ◽  
Ross Brownson ◽  
Janardan Abhishek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Exercise Interventions ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Abstract Background: Mindfulness practice and exercise are ways by which older adults can improve and maintain their physical, emotional and cognitive health. Methods: This single-site qualitative study gathered insights of older adults’ perceptions about initiating and maintaining mindfulness and exercise practices. We carried out focus groups with 41 adults aged 65-85 who had recently initiated Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), structured exercise, or their combination as part of participation in a clinical trial. We used a semi-structured interview to ask them open-ended questions regarding the benefits, barriers and facilitators of participating in mindfulness and/or exercise interventions. The interview also included questions regarding translation of these practices into community settings as well as the long-term maintenance potential of these practices. Results: Older adults indicated that the mindfulness training increased their awareness and self-reflection and fostered a more self-accepting attitude. Furthermore, they improved their self-care habits and reported having better familial and social relationships. The main barrier for both the exercise and Mindfulness group was time management. The social benefits and sense of community were some of the primary motivators for older adults in the exercise and/or MBSR interventions. However, the research on how to motivate older adults to initiate healthy behavioral changes also needs to be answered. The benefits of exercise and MBSR are a motivation in and of themselves, as indicated by some of the participants. Conclusions: This study indicates that mindfulness training and exercise can serve as tools to cultivate important health lifestyle qualities among older adults, who are in the midst of mental, social, emotional and physical change. If it were not for the purpose of the research or the incentives provided by the research team, these older adults may have never started the healthy behavioral changes. From the responses, this may indicate that older adults may need more incentives to begin and maintain behavioral changes other than for their own health benefit. Key Words: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, mindfulness, exercise, older adults, qualitative study

scholarly journals A Qualitative study of older adults’ perspectives on initiating exercise and mindfulness practice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana C. Parra ◽  
Julie Loebach Wetherell ◽  
Alexandria Van Zandt ◽  
Ross Brownson ◽  
Janardan Abhishek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Mindfulness Training ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Exercise Interventions ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Abstract Background: Mindfulness practice and exercise are ways by which older adults can improve and maintain their physical, emotional and cognitive health. Methods: This single-site qualitative study gathered insights of older adults’ perceptions about initiating and maintaining mindfulness and exercise practices. We carried out focus groups with 41 adults aged 65-85 who had recently initiated Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), structured exercise, or their combination as part of participation in a clinical trial. We used a semi-structured interview to ask them open-ended questions regarding the benefits, barriers and facilitators of participating in mindfulness and/or exercise interventions. The interview also included questions regarding translation of these practices into community settings as well as the long-term maintenance potential of these practices. Results: Older adults indicated that the mindfulness training increased their awareness and self-reflection and fostered a more self-accepting attitude. Furthermore, they improved their self-care habits and reported having better familial and social relationships. The main barrier for both the exercise and Mindfulness group was time management. The social benefits and sense of community were some of the primary motivators for older adults in the exercise and/or MBSR interventions. However, the research on how to motivate older adults to initiate healthy behavioral changes also needs to be answered. The benefits of exercise and MBSR are a motivation in and of themselves, as indicated by some of the participants. Conclusions: This study indicates that mindfulness training and exercise can serve as tools to cultivate important health lifestyle qualities among older adults, who are in the midst of mental, social, emotional and physical change. If it were not for the purpose of the research or the incentives provided by the research team, these older adults may have never started the healthy behavioral changes. From the responses, this may indicate that older adults may need more incentives to begin and maintain behavioral changes other than for their own health benefit. Key Words: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, mindfulness, exercise, older adults, qualitative study

scholarly journals After Awakening, the Laundry: Is Nonduality a Spiritual Experience?

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Monastic Communities ◽  
As Stress

Historically the exclusive purview of contemplative religious paths, awakening into nonduality was considered the pinnacle of human attainment, even if, in some traditions, it proved to be the threshold to even more sublime states. Awakening was traditionally available only to dedicated elite seekers, usually renunciates who practiced for years in monastic communities, their progress directed by the authorities of their lineage. Today technologies for creating the electroencephalographic signatures of advanced meditators are available for purchase, and esoteric religious practices like Zen meditation and asana yoga have been secularized as stress-reduction techniques and physical exercise, respectively. Increased numbers of teachers of nonduality not aligned with any religious lineage and requiring no religious belief are in the business of helping people awaken, i.e., achieve a discrete shift in awareness, in which the consensual, apparently manifest reality of normal waking, adult sensory experience is perceived to derive from a singular unmanifest source in a seamless whole. This study investigated whether people who awakened with the help of nonaligned teachers, usually after working with lineage teachers, considered their awakening to be a spiritual experience, and why? This qualitative study examined the awakening experiences of 26 adults of varying religious backgrounds to see how they interpreted them. Findings suggest that spiritual experiences involve non- or extraordinary features, in contrast to awakening and ongoing nonduality, considered to be the essence of ordinariness despite their being unlike consensual sensory reality. Awakening was not always easy or smooth, and the ramifications of its secularization outside a spiritual context are many.

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