To evaluate the association of a short-term mindfulness-based stress reduction program combined with auricular acupressure with preoperative sleep fragmentation, anxiety, pain, and physiological stress responses in patients with spinal metastases using a retrospective quasi-experimental before-and-after design. This retrospective quasi-experimental before-and-after cohort study included...
Currere and contemplation both offer resistance to the forces of efficiency, measurement, and control in education. While currere centers autobiographical inquiry to reconstruct self and society across nonlinear time, contemplation cultivates embodied stillness, relational awareness, and spiritual openness. Scholarship has explored each separately, yet little attends to what their generative...