This study explores sensemaking as grounded in identity construction the context of workplace spirituality to uncover how individuals make sense process self-decentralisation. The paper adopts Buddhist notion non-self an analytical tool explore practitioners organisational contexts ‘empty out’ and de-centre self constructing negotiating self-identity workplace. Through 104 interviews with both ...

The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the lived experiences of urban Aboriginal Canadians with diabetes in stress and coping through leisure. A framework of resilience was used to conceptually ground the study and to analytically synthesize findings about the role of leisure in coping with stress. Focus groups were used as the data collection technique, and phenomenology as an ana...

Methoxetamine (MXE), a ketamine analogue, is one of the new "legal highs" sold on the Internet. The aim of this qualitative study was to provide an initial understanding of what characterizes the experiences induced by MXE. Anonymously written reports (33 persons) on the effects of MXE were collected from public Internet forums and analyzed using the Empirical Phenomenological Psychological Met...

Countryside has been generally recognized and regarded as a characteristic symbol which presents in human memory for a long time. As a result of the change of times, because of it is failure to meet the growing needs of the growing life and mental decline, the vast rural area began to decline. But their history feature image which accumulated by the ancient tradition provides people with the or...

A mutation is often thought of in negative terms, that is, as a damaged or altered gene that can no longer fulfil its purpose as intended. However if we reverse our view and consider the whole as the vehicle that is incapable of fulfilling its purpose then the mutation becomes a new possibility. For the purposes of this paper, religion in its traditional sense will be considered as the „faulty ...

People who have near-death experiences (NDEs) often report a subsequently increased sense of spirituality and a connection with their inner self and the world around them. In this study, we examined daily spiritual experiences, using Underwood and Teresi’s (2002) Daily Spiritual Experience Scale, among 229 persons who had come close to death. Frequency of daily spiritual experiences before the ...

OBJECTIVE Nursing is one of the stressful jobs that affect nurse's well-being. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between spiritual intelligence, hardiness and well-being among Iranian nurses. METHODS Samples of this cross- sectional study selected by Randomized stratified sampling, 125 nurses who have been working in different wards of Bushehr university hospitals. Data wer...

Spiritual pain/suffering is commonly experienced by persons with life-limiting illness and their families. Physical pain itself can be exacerbated by non-physical causes such as fear, anxiety, grief, unresolved guilt, depression and unmet spiritual meets. Likewise, the inability to manage physical pain well can be due to emotional and spiritual needs. This is why a holistic, interdisciplinary a...

Ten questionnaire subscales with a grand total of 84 items were developed to measure 10 different types of spiritual emergency. Also developed was an Experience of Psychotic Symptoms Scale (EPSS). One hundred and nine persons from the general public in Australia were administered an omnibus questionnaire, together with the EPSS, three validity questions relevant to psychosis, and a lie scale. P...

Spiritual Intelligence or SQ can be considered the ability, which gives us the power and dreams and efforts to obtain that dream. SQ is included the guidance and inner wisdom, intellectual balance, inner and outer peace and function associated with insight, gentleness and kindness. Spiritual intelligence is the ability to act intelligently and wisely. Spiritual intelligence is the inherent inte...