Week 7: Contemplative Practices Flashcards
Nurse as wounded healer
some nurses choose to be a nurse because of their own negative experiences have lead them to want to help.
some nurses are wounded healers because they are frustrated and under valued
- under staffed
- under appreciated
Multidimensional health
Caring connections
Healing involves nurse presence (Requires self awareness)
Contemplation
thoughtful and mindful thinking and acting
reduce stress through complentative practices
Tree of complentative practices: roots
- communion and connection
- awareness
Tree of complentative practices: branches
- stillness
- generative
- creative
- activist
- relational
- movement
- ritual/cyclical
Complentative practices: stillness
Complentative practices: stillness
- meditation
- quieting the mind
- centering self
- silence
Complentative practices: generative
- lecito divina (latin for devine reading)
- visualization
- beholding
- loving-kindness meditation
Complentative practices: creative
- journaling
- music
- singing
Complentative practices:
activist
- bearing witness
Complentative practices: relational
- council circle
- deep listening
- storey telling
Complentative practices: movement
- yoga
- dance
- aikido
Complentative practices: ritual
ceremonies or rituals
obstacles to complentative practices
Perfectionism
Boredom
Business
Fear
Self doubt
Mahatma Gandhi quote
Be the change you wish to see in the world
