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Running Head : MINDFUL PRACTICE

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Mindful Practice

Living as a medical practitioner means facing each day the various problems and difficulties that each patient is suffering from . Dealing with turmoils and conundrums will bring about physical , emotional intellectual and spiritual stress to any person . However , practitioners are able to live through such enormous amount of stress with the help of mindfulness

Mindfulness is the act of being mindful or aware of the things that you are doing here and now . Understanding what is happening in

your surroundings and accepting the things as they are is its main goal . A mindful practitioner is someone who knows how to become more aware of her /his own mental processes , listen more attentively , become flexible and recognize bias and judgments , and thereby act with principles and compassion (Epstein , 1999

I remember one time when I was having my first hospital rotation specifically in the pediatric ward , I encountered a patient having an aplastic anemia . The whole unit setting gave me so much stress to deal with : too many patients , lack of resources , and absence of a reliever My patient was suffering from excessive bleeding to the point wherein I packed red blood cells and administered to him . Later on , he even suffered from allergic reactions post blood transfusion as he started to manifest fever , itchiness , and chills . Pressure started to rise as this occurred , especially when the other patient started to have some problems and needed my assistance . There...