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Qigong as a Mindfulness Practice for Counseling Students: A Qualitative Study

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	Abstract

This qualitative study explores the effects of qigong, an ancient Chinese mindfulness practice involving movement, on master’slevel counseling students. Students responded in writing both after an initial experience of qigong and after practicing the movements for 15 weeks during a mindfulnessbased course in selfcare. Themes of physical, emotional, and mental changes were present in both sets of responses. Additional themes of familiarity with the practice as well as group consciousness and interdependence emerged in the final experience of qigong. The results of this study indicate qigong is a contemplative practice that could have positive outcomes for counseling students. Because of its accessible nature, immediate results, and ability to foster connectedness, qigong is currently underutilized as a form of teaching mindfulness.

First published on November 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/0022167808327750

Journal of Humanistic Psychology 2009;49:236.

A more recent version of this article appeared on April 1, 2009


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