EFT and Meditation Center
‘Mastery’ can be described as: “One who has the control, use or disposition of something at will” (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principals, 1980:1286). Members of the experimental group in this study who practiced CSM reported effects that signified the experience of greater personal mastery as a consequence of the practice of CSM.
The category ‘Effect of increased personal mastery’ and its subcategories are formulated from the following direct verbatim quotations:
Participants reported that they experienced increased personal control over their impulses, had less acting-out behavior and were more in control of their lives.
NOTE: (The comments by Afrikaans have been translated freely into English and are expressed in terms of a symbol assigned in accordance to the speakers’ name/surname (for example T, TS, B et cetera.)
L: “At school, I remember times when I shouted that I felt dizzy. I’ve just stopped that. I just calmly organize the situation,… you don’t have to lose your temper, you don’t have to lose control. (I) work in a much more controlled way.
T: “You don’t feel all the time that things are collapsing, (that) there is a danger or lacking somewhere, you are just about.”
J: “[The more practiced I am in it (inward focus/centering) the quicker do I get to the ‘inner chamber’ (inner self.)]
TS: […I’ve got more control.]
A: “[I… have, not that I’ve had terrible outbursts previously, but have (now) a lot fewer (outbursts)]
E: [Previously, I had not control over it, but it is easier for me this time to diet.]
AS: [If I get to the end of a lesson, I just keep quiet and wait until they (the learners) keep quiet. And they’ve become so cute that they tell each other; ‘Come on shoosh, shoosh, shoosh.’ They know that I am not going to give in, I am not going to scream, I am not going to say; ‘You have to keep quiet’ and I must say that I don’t think I would have done it earlier.]
RC: [I think as far as my eating habits are concerned… I am really minded to eat healthy.]
TC: [The meditation … has taught one to solve a specific problem – all is not hopeless. You can concentrate on the thing that is the problem.
Increased Focus and Attention
Participants reported that they experienced that their attention was more focused on issues at hand that had to be dealt with.
B: [You disengage easier from things, things in the background and you go on easier with your things.]
RC: [(It is) easier for me to become relaxed. Before the (practicing of) meditation it was difficult to switch off and to become relaxed.]
J: [(Problems have been solved) by staying positive and to accept what the situation is, and to concentrate only on that which I can really change.]
E: [If you meditate, because you are more focused and, very often do the problems you experience in your everyday life – whilst you meditate it surfaces in your meditation.]
A: [My concentration has definitely improved because of meditation.]
T: “Before I started, as I say, every afternoon I used to be really exhausted…, I wasn’t concentrating because I was very tired.”
Participants reported that they had experienced fewer feelings of depression, anger and irritation.
T: ‘You don’t feel gloomy (as I used to be).”
RC: [I am also a depression sufferer and I have really become better.]
AS: [Whilst I say this, I realize that it (CSM) has helped me (to experience) less depression… I have decreased my antidepressants myself.]
E: [But I have to say my depression is a lot better… I have seen a great change in myself.]
D: “I am not so aggressive when I get angry.”
“Even when you are driving and get agro – then you can say your mantra, get calm and carry on (laugh).”
“I noticed less anxiety.”
R: [There wasn’t that continuous ‘agitated’ feeling, that you feel something.]
Participants reported that they experienced that they were more organized.
E: [This time round, I was ordered – I was also the day before the school closed (for the holidays) then my desks stood neatly at the back (of the classroom) and I- the children did every thing.]
RC: [(I am now) More organized.]
Increased personal mastery was indicated by increased personal control, increased focus and attention, a decrease in negative emotions and increased organization. It therefore seems as if CSM had a positive effect on the intra-psychic context of human existence in members of the experimental group – the promotion of psychological well-being.
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