Abstract
Introduction
Meditation has been a practice studied from different perspectives, especially from health, but little from qualitative methodologies that account for the subjective processes of change in everyday life.
Objective
The following study pretends to get to know the meaning that a group of students attributes to the use of meditation in their daily life.
Method
From a qualitative methodology, there is an investigation in the experience of university students who participated in a general training course in which ten meditation meetings were held. The recollection of data was done from semi-structured interviews to the participants, with the review of personal binnacles in which they reported their experience in every meditation.
Results
The meditation practice had implications in the personal, relational and societal areas, emphasizing the well-being that the meditation generates in the short and medium-term, contributing to self-care, to self-knowledge and the change of the perspective on themselves, on others and the social reality, favoring the transforming actions in these areas.
Conclusion
The meditation generates a rupture in the subject’s daily life, experience that would have favored their critical thinking regarding their reality, which is complemented with other strategies from occupational therapy could contribute to the intervention processes, assuming a facilitating role for the transformation of individual life and social reality.
Keywords:
Mindfulness; Activities of Daily Living; Health Promotion; Occupational Therapy