A LIVED EXPERIENCE IN BEFRIENDING EMOTION, DEEP LISTENING AND MINDFUL SPEECH: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPIC STUDY

Research confirms that meditation is a widely used and an increasingly popular intervention that positively affects the individual at cognitive, physical, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual level. And have also proved that trough meditation, integration of the mind and body is cultivated and desirable mental qualities such as affability, compassion and equanimity are nurtured. In the form of personal narrative journal entries, this article presents how the regular practices of sitting meditation cultivated mindfulness activities like self –awareness, befriending ones emotion, deep listening, mindful speech and action in the first author's daily activities including the classroom teaching and learning environment The setting of this autoethnographic study is Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan, where the first author is one of the teaching faculty.