My primary reason for blogging is to share what I am reading (listening to or watching) with my web site visitors. I do this to make my web site more interesting and more useful.
I blog about research into the benefits of mindful mediation and mindful living with my “primary” intended customers for mindfulness training: Nurses and other Health Professionals. I say that these are my primary intended customers, while always welcoming anybody who is interested in Mindfulness from any background, because I have been a nurse sine 1976 (and Nurse Practitioner since 2006) and I have special feelings about nurses and other health professionals and an understanding of the stressful challenges facing the profession which has been so good to me.
I also blog about research into how mindfulness and meditation actually work.
The process I follow is simple: I keep up to date through subscription to Medscape (an online knowledge aggregator for the health professions) and the American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA) Mindfulness Research Monthly. When I read about research which I think my “customers” and website visitors might find interesting I read the study (if full text is available) or the available abstract. I cite the research where it is available in a journal or on Pub Med. I may use SciSummary, an AI program optimized for summarizing scientific articles to produce a draft in language which is more natural and less formal than scientific research. I further edit the summary for clarity, brevity, and add comments reflecting my perspective on the article.
I have used a similar approach to blogging about webcasts or books. From time to time I may post my own thoughts, or in the case of this post, share about my approach to the practice of teaching mindfulness and establishing a mindfulness teaching business.
