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Global Good News reviews Consciousness-Based Education

The importance of education cannot be overestimated. Our schools have the responsibility to develop the most important natural resource of a nation—the intelligence and creativity of our youth.

Global Good News highlights for students, their families, and teachers the benefits of Consciousness-Based Education. Founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Consciousness-Based Education enables any school to fulfill their responsibility by systematically developing the latent creativity and intelligence of students and teachers, so that irrespective of educational or socio-economic background, they experience improved academic performance, reduced stress, and antisocial behavior. They can increase their creativity and intelligence, and unfold their inner happiness.

One of the current issues in education is the rise of classroom stress, which fuels widespread problems in education, including poor academic achievement, anxiety, depression, school violence, and teacher burnout.

For the prevention of school violence—to help neutralize the stress that is a root cause of it, and one of the most intractable education issues—many schools are establishing a 'Quiet Time' period at the start and end of each school day-two 10- to 15-minute sessions when students sit quietly to rest and/or read silently.

Increasingly, during these Quiet-Time periods, schools are offering their students and teachers the opportunity to learn and practice Transcendental Meditation, a simple, scientifically proven technique for reducing stress, improving health, and developing an individual's full creative potential.

More than 600 scientific research studies on this programme, have shown that the daily experience of the state of restful alertness experienced during Transcendental Meditation leads to improved learning ability, higher IQ, better moral reasoning, more efficient brain functioning.

Students with learning disabilities such as ADHD have greatly benefitted from this practice.

Transcendental Meditation and the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programme are the key technologies of Consciousness-Based Education, which adds study and research in consciousness—the inner intelligence of the student—without making extensive changes to the existing curriculum or schedule.

The US Committee for Stress-Free Schools was established in 2005 in partnership with the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education to bring the Quiet Time/Transcendental Meditation programme to students and teachers in public, charter, and private schools throughout the United States.

Maharishi Schools now exist in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, and China. This programme has also been successfully introduced in existing schools in Latin America and in the United States.

For the last three years the David Lynch Foundation has been funding schools and students who wish to participate in Consciousness-Based Education: over 100,000 students in schools around the world have been instructed in Transcendental Meditation.

A campaign to teach one million at-risk children world-wide was launched by the David Lynch Foundation in New York in April 2009.

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