According to the American Board of Preventive Medicine, public health is a component of preventive medicine because it promotes health, prevents disease, and manages the health of communities and specific groups or populations. Mindfulness meditation can be applied as a primary, secondary and tertiary prevention practice in public health. Additionally, it is estimated that approximately 90% of all illnesses in the United States are due to preventable conditions and poor behavioral health choices. Therefore, preventive medicine plays an important role in maintaining public health (The American Board of Preventive Medicine, Inc., 2011). Mindfulness meditation is also useful for medical practice regarding complementary interventions through health behavior change and chronic disease management. Mindfulness-based interventions and mindfulness meditation are effective in cultivating greater awareness and sensitivity towards one's body and emotions. Increased body awareness has been shown to improve health behavior and health-related choices. Mindfulness meditation is also important as a form of complementary treatment for people living with chronic conditions such as cancer, heart disease, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, chronic anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and many other conditions that affect on health and health. health behavior decisions. A systematic review of 11,591 citations on randomized controlled trials (RCTs), controlled clinical trials (CCTs), and systematic reviews on integrative healthcare found that integrative healthcare using complementary approaches such as mindfulness meditation is an emerging field. Bell et al. define integrative health care as a “representative of the transformative system… middle of the paper… mindfulness meditation groups of similar composition in West Central Florida, however a broader and more diverse topic base is needed to make more generalized Conclusions Furthermore, the majority of participants were educated and Caucasian. Therefore, there may be discrepancies between this group and another group such as uneducated African American or Latina mothers if a similar intervention was applied to those suffering from anxiety, depression, stress. or pain. These findings are limited to West Central Florida participants and professionals. Additionally, participants were asked to recall past experiences and thus there may have been recall bias past experiences with meditation and mindfulness practices and therefore there may be great variation from an individual's experience and practice of mindfulness meditation..