Presentation
Meditation Facilitates Nurses’ Expanding Consciousness Within Unitary Human Caring Science
41st AHNA Annual Conference: Weaving Traditions to Create Solutions & Find Balance. (2021)
(2021)
Abstract
This qualitative research explicates Caritas-Veritas-Consciousness (Watson 2018) within the lived experience of doctoral nursing students practicing TM in deep relationship with Spirit/Soul/Source. TM is a simple, natural technique facilitating health and healing, grounded in Vedic traditional ways of being.
Purpose: Spirit and science converge, enhancing understanding of expert nurses’ descriptions of lived experiences when practicing TM as viewed through the lens of Unitary Human Caring Science (UHCS) (Perkins, 2019; Watson 2018), an emerging consciousness of authentic truth and reality found in Caritas-Veritas eupraxis, the core and trim of nursing (Watson 2018). To embody and embrace Veritas, is to act with “honor, goodness, truth, beauty, commitment, dignity, and nobility in service to humankind.” (Watson 2018, p. 22). The values of the good, the true and the beautiful, are evident in human-universe, as the whole of Unitary reality.
Method: Giorgi’s (2009, 2003) descriptive phenomenological method uncovered the meaning of the lived experience of participants practicing TM, as written descriptions were viewed through the lens of UHCS (Perkins, 2019; Watson 2018). Exploring eupraxis of expert nurses shifts Caritas Literacy to Veritas Presence, uncovering more fully and clearly the values embodied in caring consciousness and sacred experience.
Results/Discussion/Conclusions When practicing TM, nurses found themselves authentically present and balanced at work- school-home, with feelings of bliss, peacefulness, and inner integrity foremost, potentiating the experience of sacred space amidst daily stressors, whilst care, compassion, grace, gratitude, and appreciation resided within. Illuminating expanding consciousness, Caritas-Veritas unfolds as eupraxis in UHCS.
Atendees will have opportunities to learn:
1) The meaning of nurses’ lived experience of practicing TM as viewed through the lens of UHCS.
2) Caritas-Veritas, what it is, and how it is lived in eupraxis by nurses practicing TM.
3) How caring consciousness and sacred experience enlighten and potentiate healing processes of human-universal oneness sustaining humanity and health for all.
Key Impacts:
1) Science and spirit converge with enhanced Caritas-Veritas consciousness.
2) In human caring, novice to expert nurses, as human-universe, bridge theoretical perspectives and eupraxis, highlighting nursing as a sacred calling.
3)How transcendental meditation as an ancient vedic tradition can enhance health care and education.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer June 8, 2021
Citation Information
Joyce B Perkins and Catherine Aquino-Russell. "Meditation Facilitates Nurses’ Expanding Consciousness Within Unitary Human Caring Science" 41st AHNA Annual Conference: Weaving Traditions to Create Solutions & Find Balance. (2021) (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joyce-perkins/23/