Mind Body Wellness and Its Impact on Psychological Well-being

This essay delves into the concept of mind body wellness, exploring its psychological impacts and benefits through the lens of various research studies. It begins by defining medicalization and how mindfulness, as a self-help practice, can influence the perception and treatment of health conditions. ...Read More

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Medicalization is the process by which human conditions as well as their problems are
defined, visualized an also treated as mere medical conditions and therefore they are treated by
healthcare professionals as subject of medical study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
However, Barker had provided another view by which it is stated that different material that help
to promote the concept of mindfulness in an individual automatically help in medicalisation and
reveals how self help can conceal social factors that harm well being. He had stated that
mindfulness is a popular as well as paradigmatic alternative healing process within the context of
present medicalisation trends. Unlike the role played by social media in developing ideas about
illness and healing, the self help mediation book are every much helpful for three reasons.
Mindfulness results in expansion of the diseases of definition much beyond that as defined by
medicine. Moreover the etiological model of this do-it you healing procedure of mindfulness
help[s in intensification of the need for therapeutic surveillance and intervention. Moreover, this
principle also states that healing is a never ending process which locates individuals within a
cycle called the disease–therapy cycle. Therefore the researcher has dotted that cording to him
state that the popular mindfulness resources and a proper concept of mind body and well being
will help an individual to properly define, take out causes as well as the treatment of diseases
which will ultimately help in the expansion of the terrain of experiences and problems which are
usually mediated by medical concepts. He had stated that mindfulness is a potent illustration of
the changing characters of the concept of medicalization itself and helps in better development of
quality lives. Therefore, in reality, I should also use mindfulness resources besides the regular
technique of medical approach so that it could provide a comprehensive treatment that will help
in overall mental, physical and spiritual development of patients.

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Schultz et al. (2016) had conducted an experiment on native women had faced severe
traumatic events in their lives. They had introduced programs which used experiential learning in
natural environments which mainly contained four important aspects such as recreational,
developmental, educational as well as therapeutic. They mainly focus on three important
outcomes like healing, education as well as personal growth. When they undertook the Trial of
Tears, it was seen that it helped them in developing the ability of the challenge as well as the
outdoor experiences that resulted in the facilitation of the changes in different personal health
behaviors. It also helped them to develop a cultural understanding of the role of hardships in
knowledge acquisition. Through the reflections provided by the participants, it is seen that
reconnecting with ancestral histories, developing a bridge between past and present as well as
emphasizing narratives of the survival and resilience are successful in providing unique
opportunities for connecting with one sol and existence. The qualitative fatal had suggested that
engagement with place and experiential learning like the hardships, encountered, connecting
with body, discomfort, doubt and disequilibrium experienced, breaking down, the mind and into
the body, reflecting –all these had helped them to bring engages in the health believed, attitudes
and behaviors which the westernized system through its individualistic approach was not as
much fruitful. Authors have therefore stated that deep engagement with mind, body and nature
along with their interaction outside the traditional healthcare system should be considered as
interventions and is also effective in promoting positive health behaviors. From this, I can learn
that on going for personal trails, and meeting with regular Endeavour with the nature will help
me to fight with the hardship of life and help in spiritual awakening aside out luxurious life, this
will in long run help in providing peace and calmness to our approach towards life and help in
being enlighetened.

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Not only in native settings, but positive results were reflected when programs for
implementing mind body wellness principle were also integrated in outpatient clinics. According
to the work of Gimpel et al., (2014) mind body medicine has found positive response from the
patients which had been effective in establishing a proper interaction between the mind, body,
behaviour and also environment to affect physical as well as psychological health functions they
are found to be extremely helpful in stress related, behavioral as well as chronic diseases. The
researchers have suggested that the mind body medicine program had indeed helped in the
improvement of the measures of the psychological health. It helped effectively in decreasing the
level of sufferings form the chronic disease. Moreover the program which instilled the mind
body wellness also led to an improvement of the disease coping ability of the patients as well as
also in the appraisal of the individual ailments. All these ultimately help the patients in
enhancing the quality lives. The attributes like personal flourishing, coherence as well as
mindfulness all seemed to have active interaction with each other and had positive impact on the
overall health of individuals. The researchers have clearly mentioned though their work that
although mind body wellness principle incorporated programs so not help in developing the
physical symptoms of the ailments but are highly dependable for the facilitated symptom relief
and also subjective coping. Patients tend to manage their personal stress in much developed ways
and also help in the decrease of the stress related disorders and diseases. .moreover this method
also had impacted on the attitudes, awareness as well as the cognitive processes on subjective
well being. These program also helped in development of personal growth, activate immanent
potentials and also in personal development. I can also take part in mind body medicine program
so that I can not only help in development of physical attributes but also help in an overall
development of my personal happiness which is an intrinsic attribute for better life.

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Rentala et al., (2015) had conducted randomized control trial where they have stated that
the incorporations of principles of mind, body and wellness in the treatment of mental disorders
have had profound effect on the participants. Depressive disorders on the participants lead to
significant dysfunction which included disability as well as poor quality life in those sufferers.
Body-mind-spirit had significant effect on the individuals which helped in the improvements of
the different outcomes like well being, quality of lives and also functional impairments.
Therefore this had been suggested as one of the most important complimentary therapy which
when used along with the conventional treatment helped in the improvement of prospective
outcomes in depressive patients. Participants were found to acquire comprehensive knowledge
about different types of depressive disorders, carried out different self help activities and roles
and also achieved a sense of control which helped in the improvement of their overall well being
in their lives. Often developing ideas about mind body principles help in developing self
confidence which will help in taking self help activities. These will make us prevent from feeling
lonely in the world and we can stand beside ourselves only for gaining success by overcoming
barriers.

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References:
Barker, K.K., 2014. Mindfulness meditation: Do-it-yourself medicalization of every
moment. Social Science & Medicine, 106, pp.168-176.
Gimpel, C., Von Scheidt, C., Jose, G., Sonntag, U., Stefano, G.B., Michalsen, A. and Esch, T.,
2014. Changes and interactions of flourishing, mindfulness, sense of coherence, and quality of
life in patients of a mind-body medicine outpatient clinic. Complementary Medicine
Research, 21(3), pp.154-162.
Rentala, S., Fong, T.C., Nattala, P., Chan, C.L. and Konduru, R., 2015. Effectiveness of body–
mind–spirit intervention on well‐being, functional impairment and quality of life among

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depressive patients–a randomized controlled trial. Journal of advanced nursing, 71(9), pp.2153-
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Schultz, K., Walters, K.L., Beltran, R., Stroud, S. and Johnson-Jennings, M., 2016. “I'm stronger
than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place. Health & place, 40,
pp.21-28.