Schools Pushing MEDITATION in public schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meditation is a religious practice. It is being taught in our public schools throughout Virginia under the disguise of benefits.

All religions have benefits. Regardless, the US Supreme Court has ruled that religion doesn’t belong in schools.

Didn't know that i's connected to any religion but unlike superstition, it is very useful.

[Anonymous]

There are several studies linking meditation and cognitive function. If OP wants her kid to be cognitively limited, she should home school.

A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology has found that 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation and 10 minutes of physical activity can help improve emotional wellbeing and cognitive function.

For this study, a group of research from Ontario, Canada, recruited 16 children with ADHD from local community clinics between June 2019 and January 2020. The children were between 10 and 14 years old, and 11 of them were boys. Just 20% of the participants were non-white.

Over a series of days, the children were asked to engage in 10 minutes of exercise, 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation, and 10 minutes of reading (which was a control by which to assess the other interventions). These activities were assigned in a random order. The researchers asked the children’s guardians not to give them ADHD medication in the 24 hours before visiting the lab.

The researchers took measurements on the children’s executive functioning (including working memory, ability to control impulses, and task-switching capabilities) and psycho-emotional state at three points in time: before the activities, immediately after the activities, and again 10 minutes later.

After analyzing the results, the researchers found that mindfulness meditation improved children’s working memory, ability to control their impulses, and task-switching skills.

The results also showed that 10 minutes of exercise provided benefits to children’s emotional well-being, such as a mood boost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have perfect reasoning ability. You all are clueless.

I am not writing in links so the links can prove my point, but to make the point that all the links you send are meaningless, because all the sources you bring up also have written articles making my point.

You can be selective about the words you use, and pretend that you are using something secularly. It is still the wrong place for it. You think you’re being cool by adapting these behaviors, and don’t take a minute to think for a second of what they mean. You are the same people who are tearing down statues because their origins are linked to slavery, but refuse to look at the roots of meditation because it makes you think you are hip with your expense yoga pants.

You are just empty heads.

Are you an atheist? What are your positions on kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the words “under God “? Do you believe in this national prayer day in the schools? Most of the people I’ve known who oppose meditation schools are conservative Christians who just don’t want “that religion “in their schools. Even though it’s not a religion.

It doesn’t matter who I am for my point to be valid.

Regardless of whether I am an atheist or conservative Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or satanist, it doesn’t make my point less valid.

Anything that includes the word God has an explicit choice for opt out, and it is not served in disguise.

If they want to calm kids down they can let them breathe fresh air with a longer recess, not practice meditation in a stuffy classroom.

“It doesn’t matter who I am b/c I’m a russian troll.”

OP, go practice deep breathing in a garage.

[Anonymous]

https://blog.calmclassroom.com/mindfulness-meditation-classroom-helps-academics