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Finding Your Light
A Quantum Perspective…
State of the Art Nursing Conference
Omaha NE
March 29, 2018
Objectives
Discuss concepts of wholeness and
interconnectedness from a new science
perspective
Identify research correlating, gratitude,
caring, and heart coherence with health.
Examine simple practices that can
address burnout and promote healing of
self, others, and the planet.
Relativity…E=mc2
Quantum Physics
“When you change the way you look at things, the
things you look at change.” Max Planck
Chaos Theory (Butterfly Effect)
A butterfly flapping its wings here can alter weather on the other side of the world…
The flap of its wings is an essential part of the initial conditions resulting in a tornado
Mathematical equations for this system seemed to give rise to entirely random behavior
However, when graphed, the output always stayed on a curve, a double spiral.
Chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.
Recap: Relativity, Quantum
Mechanics, Chaos: Energy and matter are the same things on
different sides of the equation
Time doesn’t exist in the way we think it does
Everything in the universe is intimately
connected
Things change according to the way we look at
them—perception creates reality
In spite of apparent randomness and chaos,
there is a deep order
One tiny act can have a huge effect
A small part can look like the whole thing.
Psychoneuromimmunology
and Stress Stress is a particular relationship between
the person and the environment that is
appraised by the person as taxing or
exceeding his or her resources and
endangering his or her wellbeing.
Much of our contemporary stress is based
in psychological factors around the
perception of a threatening event
Chronic high levels of cortisol are hurting
you and changing your brainClark, 2014
Become the change you wish to see in the world…
Three Primary Factors Influencingthe Chronic Happiness Level
10%
50%
40%
Set-Point Intentional Activity Circumstances
Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade 2005
Gratitude Research
Gratitude
facilitates coping with stress, reduces toxic emotions,
improves self-esteem, builds social resources,
motivates moral behavior.
facilitates goal attainment and promotes physical
health.
Grateful people are spiritually-minded
To cultivate gratitude:
List three good things each day/why you are grateful
Journal “what would life be like if xx hadn’t
happened.”Emmons, R. A., & Mishra, A. (2012).
HeartMath Research
The heart generates an electromagnetic field
5000 times stronger than our brains.
Heart tissue has ganglia with synapses similar to
brain tissue, and the heart and brain are in
communication with each other.
When a person’s emotions, mind, body and
heart are in alignment, they are in a state of
heart coherence.
This heart energy is not only transmitted to one’s
own brain, but is registered in the brain waves of
people around you.McCratey & Childre 2010
Dr. Jean Watson’s Human Caring
Theory—10 Caritas Processes:1. Embrace altruistic values and Practice loving kindness with
self and others.
2. Instill faith and hope and honor others.
3. Be sensitive to self and others by nurturing individual beliefs and practices.
4. Develop helping – trusting- caring relationships.
5. Promote and accept positive and negative feelings as you authentically listen to another’s story.
6. Use creative scientific problem-solving methods for caring decision making.
7. Share teaching and learning that addresses the individual needs and comprehension styles.
8. Create a healing environment for the physical and spiritual self which respects human dignity.
9. Assist with basic physical, emotional, and spiritual human needs.
10. Open to mystery and Allow miracles to enter.
Caritas HeartMath Pilot:
Jacksonville Baptist ER Dept% of Responses: Often/Always Pre Post
Positive Outlook 60% 88%*
Gratitude 62% 82%*
Motivation 54% 78%*
Calmness 31% 52%*
Fatigue 55% 24%*
Anxiety 30% 14%*
Resentfulness 16% 4%*
Anger 17% 6%*
Stress Symptoms 60% 37%*
Used with permission Dr. Jean Watson Sept 3, 2010 *Statistical Significance
Stress Management and
Resiliency Training (SMART)
Mayo Clinic –look for books by Dr. Amit
Sood
Blended learning included in-person, web-
based and personal learning
Statistically significant decreases in
anxiety, stress and burnout
Statistically significant increases in
resilience, happiness and mindfulness
Maggtiby & Chesak, 2017
Positive Practices
Share moments of awe
Quick coherence technique
4 – 7 – 8 breathing
“Some positive ways” worksheet
Book Resources
Casey, Karen: Change Your Mind and Your Life Will
Follow: 12 Simple Principles. Conari Press, 2005
Childre, Doc &Martin, Howard: The HeartMath Solution.
HarperCollins, 2000
Davis, Jimmy H. & Poe, Harry L: Designer Universe:
Intelligent Design and the Existence of God. Broadman
& Holman, 2002
Emmons, R. A., & Mishra, A. Why gratitude enhances
well-being: What we know, what we need to know. In
Sheldon, K., Kashdan, T., & Steger, M.F.
(Eds.) Designing the future of positive psychology:
Taking stock and moving forward. New York: Oxford
University Press. 2012
More Books… Korb, A. The Upward Spiral: Using neuroscience to reverse
the course of depression, one small step at a time. New
Harginger Publications, 2015
Lopez, S. Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want
for Yourself and Others. Atrai, 2013
Miller, William R. & C’de Baca, Janet: Quantum Change:
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary
Lives. Guildord: 2001.
O’Murchu, Diarmuid: Quantum Theology: Spiritual
Implications of the New Physics. Crossroad, 2004
Watson, Jean: Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing.
Jones & Bartlett, 2012.
Wheatley, Margaret J.: Leadership and the New Science:
Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. 3rd Ed. Berrett-Koehler,
2006
Research Articles Clark, C. Stress, psychoneuroimmunology and self-care:
what every nurse needs to know. Journal of Nursing
Care. 2014, 3:2, 1-7
Cusack, L. et al. Exploring environmental factors in
nursing workplaces that promote psychological
resilience: constructing a unified theoretical model.
Frontiers in Psychology. May 2016, 1-8.
Diener E. & Chan, M. Happy people live longer:
subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity.
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2011, 3(1),
1-43
Hart, P. et al. Resilience in nurses: an integrative review.
Journal of Nursing Management. 2014, 22(6), 720-734.
Additional Research Articles Lyubomirsky, S. & Layous, K. How do simple positive
activities increase well-being? Current Directions in
Psychological Science. 2013, 22(1) 57 –62.
McCratey, R. and Childre, D. Coherence: bridging
personal, social, and global health. Alternative
Therapies. July 2010, 16:4, 0-24.
McCraty, R, and Shaffer, F. Heart rate variability: new
perspectives on physiological mechanisms, assessment
of self-regulatory capacity, and health risk. GAHMJ
January 2015, 4:1, 46-61.
Toussaint, L. et al. Effects of lifetime stress exposure on
mental and physical health in young adulthood: how
stress degrades and forgiveness protects health. Journal
of Health Psychology. June 2016, 21(6), 1004-1014.
Nursing involves a
sense of presence
higher than human; a
divine intelligence that
creates, sustains, and
organizes the
universe—and our
awareness of an inner
connection with this
higher reality….
-Florence Nightingale
A human being is a part of the whole called by
us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest, a
kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty.
-Albert Einstein
