The New York Times on how students find calm in classrooms

High school students practicing Transcendental Meditation

The article titled “Under Stress, Students in New York Schools Find Calm in Meditation” includes a report on the Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School where Transcendental Meditation technique is taught to the students in collaboration with the David Lynch Foundation.

One of the major positive take-homes is captured by the excerpt below:

““It used to be that you wouldn’t say ‘meditation’ in polite company,” said Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation, a charitable foundation founded by the director of “Blue Velvet,” that promotes and teaches Transcendental Meditation to adults and children, including those at Brooklyn Urban Garden.

“Now we’re working with all the large banks, we’re working with hedge funds, we’re working with media companies. People are having us come in as part of their wellness programs, and that wasn’t the case even two years ago.””

Indeed, the widespread adoption of meditation in schools across the country is a sign of a positive shift in the public opinion. Hopefully this will translate into increasingly systematic research and application of meditation techniques in schools across the globe.

_{Sources:
The New York Times
Feature image: The Huffington Post}

This article originally appeared on TM Home at: www.tmhome.com