Contemplation

such as diet improvements, better food habits, adopting physical activity, that we as health professionals can promote to clients, determining the readiness for change in our clients’ lives. The stages of change model consist of precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. These stages help health professionals figure out where their client’s readiness lies, and assist them towards transitioning into improving their active and…

At some point most of us make a positive behavior change in our lives. Whether it be quitting smoking, increasing our fitness, managing our emotions, or conquering procrastination to improve time management. One of the ways in which behavior change is accomplished is through motivational interviewing. Karzenowski and Puskar (2011) describe motivational interviewing as a tool to help individuals within a supportive and non-judging relationship that’s goal is to elicit change and develop…

Individuals may be trying to quit addictive substances or activities, increase exercise, lose weight, and eat healthier. A case study demonstrated that using the stages of change model can increase mobility and exercise in older adults who were in the contemplation stage. The Senior Elastic Band exercise program (SEB) was implemented into their daily routines. The participants met for 40 minutes three times per week for 6 months. As the older adults were participating in the intervention, they…

stage respectively. In the beginning, Richard mentioned that no matter how much times he drank, he always knew he would quit at one point-he just didn’t know when. From this piece of evidence alone, Richard is displaying characteristic of the pre-contemplation stage. Furthermore, after getting married and an infant on the way, Richard’s drinking increased. He’d often go to bars for hours at a time and revealed that he went out drinking to escape everything. The amount of drinks ranged from six…

Reflecting on the problems I experienced with patient handover, I understand that nurses need to make changes to the traditional method of handover, to better facilitate the recipient’s understanding and thereby, making handover safer and more effective. Change management has been defined as ‘’ the process of continually renewing an organization’s structure, and capabilities to serve the ever-changing needs of external and internal customers ‘’ (Moran and Brightman, 2001. p. 111). The…

In “Meditation Three” Rene’ starts out with an attempt to contemplate the existence of God by closing his eyes and meditate. He his struck by the very thoughts that every individual does at the initiation of this process. He starts out by purging his thoughts but upon realizing the impossibility of his action he starts objectifying them. The injection of god happens when he contemplates that deception might occur of evidentiary matters. Yet he profoundly asserts himself in a moment of…

In The Value of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, a once influential professor at Cambridge University, aims to answer the question of “why study philosophy?” Russell states there are many misconceptions about the ends philosophy aims to achieve. In this text, Russell aims to address the misconceptions and explain what it truly is philosophy provides for an individual. Typically, the study of philosophy is viewed as trifling and confusing and studies the controversies of subject matter in which…

Prompt #4: To Be or Not To Be Inaction and action contributes to different perspectives of living life. These two concepts foil with each other to create a self-struggling environment that initiates internal conflict. Shakespeare’s Hamlet emphasizes the turbulence of a strong nation, Denmark, through times of death and suspicion among the main characters. Hamlet, the son of the deceased king, contemplates his role in the future of the kingdom while reconciling his defeatist attitude with…

Art is beginning to have a shift from contemplation to unequivocal distraction, which therefore creates an enormous change in the way people perceive and sense things. Historically we can understand that certain works of art had aura. Durham and Kellner (2012) explained that aura is “the unique…

he wrote devoted to those in need, he uses rhetorical strategies to develop his argument about nonviolence resistance. The terms he incorporates involves personification, alliteration, and repetition. These terms renovated this article to bring contemplation to the reader. Through his use of strategies, he starts an uprising of nonviolent resistance. Cesar Chavez uses personification to emphasize and use human qualities to abstract an idea. “In this sense, time is our ally.” In this…