범불안 경험에 대한 자서전적 내러티브

An Autobiographic Narrative on Pananxiety Experience

Purpose: This study aims to explore experiences and causes of panaxiety and how changes are made by the re-searcher with pananxiety being the subject of study. Methods: Narrative inquiry methods of Clandinin et al. (2000)including Story Telling and Retelling have been applied. Total eight sessions of meditation have been performed from February to May 2013. In the course of meditation, Image-Based Mindfulness Meditation was applied and tape-recorded. Reports of Riding Bud, Riding Airplane, and Writing a Letter to Father which are the assignments from the meditation were collected and analyzed. Results: Experiences of pananxiety turned out to be vague emo-tional anxiety, excessive worries about safety accident, chronic fatigue, and uncomfortable personal relationship. It was able to give insight into its fundamental causes to be losing parents and experiencing abandonment in childhood. After the meditations, the subject accepted losing parents is continued toward a new life, not a severance, showed no anxiety at risks of safety accident, resolutely went away for a vacation, and felt comfortable in personal relationship. Conclusion: The result of this study may be the basic data for further narrative inquiries to use Image-Based Mindfulness Meditation to relieve anxiety and mental pains