[Photo by Paul David]
Q: I’ve heard of children in schools learning yoga, meditation and mindfulness. Does this help even the kids who have experienced the most challenging situations in life?
A: Close to a year ago, I listened to Dr. Camara Jones describe her Cliff Analogy at a conference. In her description, the health care system is portrayed as a cliff, where different types of interventions are in place to prevent people from falling, or being too badly injured by a fall, from the top. Some interventions place an ambulance near the bottom of the cliff to rush you off to the hospital quickly after your fall (tertiary prevention). Some interventions place a safety net half-way down the cliff to break your fall and lessen the impact a bit (secondary prevention). Primary prevention in this scenario is placing a fence at the edge of the cliff to keep you from falling after you are well on your way to the edge of the cliff because of life’s circumstances.
[For more of this story, written by Sara de Campo de Gonzales, go to http://www.abqjournal.com/7241...r-of-cliff-edge.html]
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