Recent permutations within sociocultural, economic, and political contexts of the global community have created prerequisites for the development of anxiety in a substantial part of the global population. Therefore, concerns associated with a drop in the quality of life have become especially valid recently. By incorporating mindfulness into personal spiritual practices, social workers will be able to overcome stress and avoid mental health issues that it entails, thus, increasing clients’ quality of life.
The concept of mindfulness is fairly broad, yet it can be summarized succinctly as the awareness of emotional and mental health state, as well as the ability to maintain emotional balance and develop mechanisms for managing stress appropriately (Galante et al., 2021). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the focus on self-cognition and a thorough understanding of one’s emotional needs and mental health issues will guide one to building a strategy for resilience against adverse factors inducing stress (Galante et al., 2021). Thus, the integration of mindfulness as a skill of building strategic frameworks for addressing negative factors causing severe stress is vital for keeping the quality of life consistently high.
Furthermore, mindfulness allows people to introduce better control over their mental health and, therefore, their quality of life. Specifically, the integration of mindfulness techniques will inevitably lead to enhanced patient education (Galante et al., 2021). As a result, a range of ideas and perceptions that misalign with core goals of leading a healthy lifestyle will be dispelled among the target population. Most importantly, patients will be able to navigate the available plethora of information independently, distinguishing between useful and harmful ideas (Galante et al., 2021). The described change is expected to increase patients’ ability to avoid major risks to their heath, including the ones that stem from their currently misguided perceptions of their mental health (Galante et al., 2021). Namely, mindfulness will allow patients to prioritize their health and explore it, therefore, learning about their needs and the means of meeting them. Furthermore, the focus on mindfulness will help improve one’s perception of negative factors, allowing one to evaluate core risks to well-being properly and refrain from panicking in case of a threat (Galante et al., 2021). Overall, mindfulness should be regarded as a critical practice of mental health management and the resulting improvement in the quality of people’s lives.
The introduction of mindfulness techniques will allow minimizing people’s sensitivity toward negative factors that affect their mental health adversely, thus, avoiding multiple complications and disorders. As a result, patients’ quality of life will be improved to a substantial degree. With the incorporation of mindfulness into therapy, one will be able to reduce stress by promoting active health education and learning to a patient. As a result, opportunities for independent crisis management in patients can be discovered.
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