Meditation in the Classroom
You don’t necessarily need to study more to improve your SAT scores or concentrate more in class. All you have to do is get into lotus position or downward dog.
According to an article in Newsweek, meditation and yoga are great ways to stay calm, focused and happier.
By meditating in school, less fights seem to break out, test scores have gone up, and kids can concentrate for longer period of time.
These findings support a growing movement that wants to bring Transcendental Meditation–a practice from India–into more and more U.S. schools as a stress buster.
According to Newsweek “some schools include yoga in their physical-education classes, private kiddie yoga classes abound and top universities regularly publish research on the benefits of meditation and prayer. TM itself, which is promoted as a 20-minute physiological technique that calms the mind and nervous system, is also showing profound results where practiced, according to proponents: better grades and SAT scores, less bullying, longer attention spans and happier kids. They point to a slew of recent medical studies to back up their claims.”
But not everyone is so Zen about these new developments. Critics (who are often parents) argue that Eastern religion shouldn’t be entering U.S. schools. There is after all a separation of church and state. “They argue that TM invokes Hindu deities and in some cases is step one toward joining a cult.”
We think there is a difference between culture and religion. But what do you think?
One thing is for sure, meditation should make you relaxed. Not bring about more stress.
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September 14th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Parents must read this blog.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Thank you, Prasanna. We hope that parents check all of our blogs often, as there is a ton of information that will help them in supporting their students.