Hospice palliative care aims at providing all-encompassing services for patients with terminal diseases suffering from physical, mental, social and spiritual symptoms and pain.Since clinical Buddhist chaplaincy training has been practiced for more than 10 years in Taiwan, there are two topics 1 would like to discuss below: (1) the comparison between spiritual care and mindfulness-based care: body, mind, and spirit as compared with body, feeling, mind, and Dharma; and (2) the relationship between the Fourfold Mindful Establishment and the triune brain model (i.e., the innermost reptilian brain, the old mammalian brain, and the neocortex).
The Beginnings and Development of Christian Hospice Care 201 How to Choose the Right Term for Buddhist "Spiritual" Care Models for Hospices? 201 Care of Mindfulness: Body, Feeling, Mind, and Dharma 202 A Comparison of Spiritual Care and Care of Mindfulness 203 Another Comparison of Spiritual Care and Care of Mindfulness 204 How to Understand the Fourfold Establishment of Mindfulness from the Perspective of Brain Research? 205 A Personal Reflection on the Relationship between the Fourfold Establishment of Mindfulness and the Triune Brain Model 205 The Relationship between the breathing Establishment of Mindfulness and the Reptilian Brain of the Triune Brian Model 206 The relationship between the Emotional Establishment Mindfulness and the Limbic System of the Triune Brain Model 206 The Relationship between the Mental Establishment of Mindfulness and the Neocortex of the Triune Brain Model 207 Conclusion 207
