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Pattern of Expanding Consciousness in Midlife Women: Creative Movement and the Narrative as Modes of Expression

Carol Picard, RN; PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts

This study is based on Newman’s theory of expanding consciousness; it expands Newman’s method to include creative movement as a mode of expression. The researcher engaged in two in-depth interviews and one creative movement group experience with each of 17 midlife women. Results demonstrate expanding consciousness at midlife, with patterns of meaning identified in relationships with others, self, and spirit as well as challenges of loss, illness, and threats to relationships. Activities of consciousness were choosing, balancing, accepting, and letting go. Concepts of flow, turbulence, and a movement dialectic were identified in study findings. Creative movement supported self-awareness.

Key Words: creative movement • health as expanding consciousness • narrative • Newman’s theory • pattern • women

Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, 150-157 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/08943180022107438
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