Ms_Armstrong !'s List: Major Religions - Mindfulness

• mindfulness meditation can reduce symptoms of depression and chronic pain in adult patients.
• Brown University research published last month showed that mindfulness practitioners are able to gain greater control over sensory cortical alpha rhythms, which help regulate the brain's processing and filtering of emotions, including pain and depressive memories.
• And many schools are starting to catch on to the benefits of stress-reduction training like mindfulness: More American high schools than ever before are implementing yoga classes, mindfulness meditation training, wellness centers and designated nap times to help students cope with anxiety and academic pressure.

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• Now these students are doing light-years better. In the first year of Quiet Time, the number of suspensions fell by 45 percent. Within four years, the suspension rate was among the lowest in the city. Daily attendance rates climbed to 98 percent, well above the citywide average. Grade point averages improved markedly. About 20 percent of graduates are admitted to Lowell High School - before Quiet Time, getting any students into this elite high school was a rarity. Remarkably, in the annual California Healthy Kids Survey, these middle school youngsters recorded the highest happiness levels in San Francisco.
• On the California Achievement Test, twice as many students in Quiet Time schools have become proficient in English, compared with students in similar schools where the program doesn't exist, and the gap is even bigger in math.