A study on meditating children at a middle school in inner-city Detroit—and the experience of their teachers and parents—confirmed that the Transcendental Meditation program increases inner happiness, self-esteem, and self-worth and reduces anxiety and depression.

Reducing stress and promoting progress and happiness
by Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation
19 May 2009

Traditionally, education has focused predominantly on what students study—the curriculum and its objective measures, including examination scores and grade point averages. What has been lacking is a way to directly and systematically develop the students themselves—their creative intelligence, capacity to learn, and natural humanity.

How much students gain from their education fundamentally depends on the quality of their alertness, or consciousness.

The success of the school, the teacher, and the curriculum primarily depend on the quality of alertness, or consciousness, of the students themselves. If students are sleepy, dull, unhappy, angry, or agitated, their consciousness does not have the quality of restful alertness that is needed for optimal learning. Their receptivity is diminished and their thinking less balanced.

Scientific research confirms that the Conciousness-Based Education program activates more of the brain’s total potential, resulting in greater alertness, or wakefulness. Development of consciousness is simply the development of wakefulness. The full potential of consciousness, characterized by total brain functioning and fully expressed mental and physical capabilities, naturally develops through regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation program.

The Transcendental Meditation program for systematic development of consciousness

Transcendental Meditation is a natural, effortless technique, practiced a few minutes twice daily, which settles the mind to its most silent, creative, and blissful level, Transcendental Consciousness—the field of one’s total inner intelligence. This practice also gives profound rest, which dissolves accumulated stress and restores balanced functioning to mind and body.

Leading quantum field theorists have identified Transcendental Consciousness as the unified field of natural law, from where all force and matter fields emerge, giving rise to all the laws of nature in the universe.

In the language of the science of consciousness, Maharishi Vedic Science, Transcendental Consciousness is the field of total knowledge of natural law, the inner self of everyone.

The Conciousness-Based Education program gives experience of this field through the twice-daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, and intellectual understanding of natural law through at least one additional class session per week.

As the full potential of the students’ creative intelligence unfolds, their thoughts, feelings, speech, and behavior become more life-supporting for themselves and others; increasingly they enjoy happy, healthy, and problem-free lives, in harmony with natural law.

Without this knowledge and experience, students struggle and often lack the clarity to achieve their academic and personal goals. They become dissatisfied and frustrated, creating problems for themselves and others. Only by enlivening total knowledge of natural law within their awareness will their power and satisfaction continue to expand, on the basis of which their behavior will be ideal.

The Conciousness-Based Education program can be easily integrated into any existing public or private school without making extensive changes to the existing curriculum or schedule.

Nearly 50 years of experience have demonstrated the Conciousness-Based Education program to be equally and profoundly beneficial for students and teachers of all backgrounds, religions, and socioeconomic levels, enabling them to rise to higher and higher levels of success, confidence, and joy.

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