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KMID : 1003020150160020096
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Qualitative Research
2015 Volume.16 No. 2 p.96 ~ p.109
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An Experiential Study on the Mindfulness Breath Meditation
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천정은:Chun Jung-Eun
김형록:Kim Hyung-Rog
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe participants’ experiential meaning and have a deeper understanding of essentiality or meaning of experience through a qualitative research.
Methods: This study collected program participation process by recording targeting 4 general public who participated in breath meditation program for 4 months from March to July 2015. Interviews were conducted to learn about participants’ experiences. As for the method of research, qualitative analytical method was selected and 4 steps of Giorgi’s technological hermeneutics for data analysis was emploved.
Results: Breathing meditation program experiences were divided into participation motive, experience as a process of practicing breathing meditation and meditation experience as change. As for the maintaining factors of such experience, they were mindfulness and attention, returning to the base point of lower abdomen, strengthening experience together with holy words and experience of safe practice space.
Conclusion: The process of learning breathing meditation is repeated recursively during which respectively right type of breathing meditation method is found to be practiced also in daily life as a time of introspection. It was also able to induce positive self appearance in interpersonal relationships. Accordingly, it would be possible for people to find their respectively right type of breathing meditation methods to be used in their daily lives.
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KEYWORD
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Meditation, Mindfulness, Qualitative research, Breath meditation, Experience
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