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1Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton University, Johnson, NY, USA.
Abstract:
This study adopted the humanbecoming concept inventing model to explore the phenomenon of feeling afraid. Through simultaneously immersing with explicit-tacit knowings, exploring with pattern preferences, and explicating with pondering possibles, the author unveiled the now-truth of feeling afraid as paralyzing hesitation arising with daunting uncertainties of dissociating affiliations. This now-truth was shapeshifted into an ingenuous proclamation, articulated within the language of the humanbecoming paradigm. The final declaration portrayed feeling afraid as languaging the originating of connecting-separating, with Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) as the chosen artform. This inventive inquiry enriches nursing knowledge by deepening understanding of feeling afraid as a universal humanuniverse living experience.
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