The practice of LKM could reconnect African American women with their own needs and facilitate the freeing up of energy for self-care and the freeing up of space for more healthy relationships.

LKM’s Specific Value for Reducing Stress among African American Women

LKM is a quiet, contemplative, mind-training practice used to cultivate positive emotions, such as friendliness, warmth, caring, joy, and compassion. Various techniques are used to arouse feelings of loving-kindness, including visualizing oneself or the person smiling or being joyous, reflecting on the person's positive qualities, and using brief mental phrases, or mantras, to cultivate positive emotions.

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Mind-body interventions are health and fitness interventions that are intended to work on a physical and mental level such as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, meditation, and yoga.

Mind-Body Intervention

 Woods-Giscombé, C. L., & Black, A. R. (2010). Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU therapeutic framework. Complementary health practice review, 15(3), 115-131.

Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU

Mind-body interventions showed beneficial effects on the immune response to vaccination and markers of inflammation.

Mind-Body Interventions Enhance Covid-19-related Immunity

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an educational therapy program with the goal of teaching individuals both formal and informal/everyday mindfulness techniques to help reduce psychological distress.

Standard MBSR programs are 8-weeks in duration consisting of 26 hours with a 6-hour one day class (total of 32 hours). Participants are also expected to practice 45 minutes per day at home during the program.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM)

NTU (pronounced ‘‘in too’’) is a concept that originates from the Bantu people of Central Africa. The term NTU refers to the universal and unifying vital life force and spiritual essence at the core of all physical existence. Some techniques are meditation, prayer, nature study, role-playing, reframing, guided imagery, and the use of family drawings and genograms. 

NTU Psychotherapy

Examples of mind body interventions include:
- Massage Therapy
- Meditation
- Tai Chi
- Qi Gong
- Walking Therapy
- Yoga


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