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Mindfulness in Hospice Care: Practicing Meditation-in-Action
Qualitative Health Research
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2005
Pages: 1329-1344
Sources ID: 21048
Visibility: Private
Zotero Collections: Environmental Context
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In this interpretive study, the authors explore the experience of mindfulness among hospice caregivers who regularly practice mindfulness meditation at a Zen hospice. They explore meditative awareness constituted within themes of meditation-in-action, abiding in liminal spaces, seeing differently, and resting in groundlessness. By opening into nonconceptual, paradoxical, and uncertain dimensions of experience, hospice caregivers cultivate internal and external environments in which direct experience is increasingly held without judgment. This inquiry points to in-between spaces of human experience wherein mindfulness fosters openness and supports letting go, and creating spaces for whatever is happening in attending the living-and-dying process.

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