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seem, provide an idea about the depth of their of life, Spiritual Intelligence, Burn-out,
reflections and their sense of observation. This Resilience. Several national and international
will remain an ongoing activity. publications and presentations have been
carried out.(6,7,8)

iv. Practices which emphasise the Inner
self, so as to help students to become • Results and programme evaluation:
aware of the Peace Within, The Divine
Within: Guided Meditation workshops and 1. Research: quantitative and qualitative results
practice sessions for Integral Health and of effects of meditation have consistently
Well-being demonstrated improvement in the quality
of well-being and physiological-biochemical
• Context: in the parlance of modern psychology, parameters in scientific studies and randomised
well-being is defined as a ‘unifying concept control trials. In schoolchildren, college
of hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions.’ students and obstetric patients the effects
However, according to the spiritual have been noteworthy. The results have
perspective, the term refers to ‘awareness been shared in four publications and many
and transcendence to a higher state of presentations at national and international
consciousness, which human beings are platforms. Four M.D. and two Ph.D. students
capable of accessing.’ have undertaken scientific studies on effects
of meditation on health and well-being.
• Practice: guided meditation practices are being
conducted in diverse groups of school and 2. Medical students have been trained to carry
college students, trainee teachers, healthy out meditation sessions during their posting
adults, nurses and patients suffering from in the Guided Meditation elective. Students
hypertension, critical illness, chronic renal were asked to conduct guided meditation
failure, post-partum patients and others. sessions for oncology patients and students of
Elective guided meditation has been other batches. The results were very touching.
introduced for Final MBBS students as a
part of CBME curriculum. The duration v. Assessment of Spiritual Intelligence
of each session is 15-20 minutes and overall of students entering medical college: a
duration of intervention has varied between research project
8-12 weeks. Many single/limited sessions
have also been carried out. • Context: Spiritual intelligence [SI] is reported
to provide meaning-giving and context-
The parameters studied are: creator functionality, besides enhancing
academic engagement and care competence.
Subjective: Peace, Happiness, Enthusiasm, Enabling medical students to become aware
Feeling Relaxed, Inspired, Energetic, Control of their own SI has a potential to provide
over anger; a transformational edge to the learning
Objective: Heart Rare variability, KDQOL, process.
Happiness, Perceived stress, Psychological
general well-being, Self-esteem, Quality • Practice: we studied spiritual intelligence,

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