Mindfulness+and+Ecoshock


 * Ecoshock[[image:Ballerina.jpg width="142" height="167" align="left"]] occurs when one travels to a place different than home. It is a physiological, social and psychological reaction to a new ecology that is often a factor when experiencing different cultures according to Fontaine (2000). It includes symptoms such as short-term illness, anxiety, withdrawal from others and fatigue and are often greatest after one to two years of immersion in the foreign environment (Fontaine, 2000). **

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We hope it won't take a year or two for you to read our Wiki, but your well-being is of concern to us. This strange Crimson Wiki Land may have you stressed to the limits. Below is a Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale. This assessment will rate your level of mindfulness. The greater your mindfulness, the greater your presence and the more resistant you will be to Ecoshock while traveling in our land.

Of course, if you do not want to take the assessment now, then you have it for reference for your travels to future foreign lands.

Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale
Brown, K.W. & Ryan, R.M. (2003). **If you would like to gauge your mindfulness, then take out a pen and paper and score yourself on the following scale.**

INSTRUCTIONS: Using the scale below of 1-6, rate each question by how frequently or infrequently you have each experience. There are fifteen questions.

1 = Almost Always 2= Very Frequently 3= Somewhat Frequently 4= Somewhat Infrequently

5= Very Infrequently 6= Almost Never


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 * 1. I could be experiencing some emotion and not be conscious of it until some time later. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

attention, or thinking of something else ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2. I break or spill things because of carelessness, not paying

present ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 3. I find it difficult to stay focused on what’s happening in the


 * 4. I tend to walk quickly to get where I’m going without paying attention to what I experience along the way ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 5. I tend not to notice feelings of physical tension or discomfort until they really grab my attention ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

for the first time. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 6. I forget a person’s name almost as soon as I’ve been told it

of what I’m doing ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 7. It seems I am “running on automatic,” without much awareness


 * 8. I rush through activities without being really attentive to them. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 9. I get so focused on the goal I want to achieve that I lose touchwwith what I’m doing right now to get there ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 10. I do jobs or tasks automatically, without being aware of what I’m doing. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

something else at the same time ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 11. I find myself listening to someone with one ear, doing


 * 12. I drive places on ‘automatic pilot’ and then wonder why I went there. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 13. I find myself preoccupied with the future or the past ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 14. I find myself doing things without paying attention. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * 15. I snack without being aware that I’m eating. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * Total: ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||


 * Grand Total ||  ||||||||||||   ||


 * Divide Grand Total by 15. ||  ||||||||||||   ||