Ileana-Loredana Vitalia
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meaning in life, quality of life, expressive-creative techniques, nature connectedness.
Considering the multidimensional structure of the Meaning in Life (MIL) concept, the present paper highlights the importance of experiential appreciation (EA) as one of the key health protective or restorative inner resources sustaining the process of recovery or healing from traumatic/adverse experiences as well the adaptive/proactive coping in various life situations. The ability to connect things (in the form of comprehension, purpose and mattering) is tied to the appreciation of the lived experience to develop a more nuanced yet dynamic understanding of the meaning in life variable. The main purposes of this research were to design and to implement a humanistic-experiential scenario based on the experiential expressive-creative techniques (creative meditation, guided imagery, drawing, and music) to increase the level of experiential appreciation as well as the general meaning in life state. Statistical analyses (Paired Samples T Test) confirmed the efficiency of the experiential scenario. Consistent with other recent studies, our findings suggest that simply appreciating one`s experiences can facilitate the conscious access to the resource of confidence that life is worth living, a resource that emphasizes growth and personal development and not a simple reducing symptoms approach.
Cite this paper: Vitalia, I.L. (2023). EXPERIENTIAL APPRECIATION AS A HEALTH AND LIFE PROTECTIVE RESOURCE. Current Trends in Natural Sciences, 12(24), 106-109. https://doi.org/10.47068/ctns.2023.v12i24.011
