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Feeling at home within yourself Ife Calhoun is a student at Ideal Academy Public Charter School in Washington, DC. About a year and a half ago, she won first prize in the children’s division of a songwriting competition sponsored by the Global Mother Divine Organization. Her song, ‘A Place That We Call Home,’ highlights the special feature of her school, the practice of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. Ife, accompanied by her friends, Desiree Campbell and Devonnia Hill, sings: ‘When you’re feeling blue and don’t know what to do, The girls then joyfully sing the catchy refrain: ‘When you’re feeling sad, and you’re feeling all alone, The second verse again expresses the good feeling enjoyed through the practice concluding, ‘It’s nice to feel at home.’ ‘You Can’t Put Me Down’ Desiree also wrote a song, ‘You Can’t Put Me Down,’ for the competition and took second place in the children’s division. Performing solo, Desiree’s song tells of the inner strength and joy that her practice of the Transcendental Meditation Technique has brought her. Desiree sings: ‘You can’t put me down. You can’t put me down if you try. Her song continues, expressing her confident and harmonious outlook towards life. ‘The world is my family. Let’s not argue. Let’s meditate. A deep, transforming inner silence Ideal Academy’s Principal Dr George Rutherford, who put the Quiet Time with Transcendental Meditation Programme into place at his school several years ago, says he has tried every government programme to improve academic performance for over 40 years—and nothing has worked as well as Quiet Time. In the midst of the activity of Washington, D.C., 150 students meditated. A visitor to the school, who meditated with them, described that he experienced silence—not just an absence of outer noise—but a deep inner silence that awakens the brain, fuels creativity, solves problems, awakens self-confidence, removes stress, and promotes health. After their group meditation, speaking sweetly and gently, the visitor shared with the students his thoughts on their practice of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. ‘Inside of us is the source of our happiness,’ he began. And the reason we meditate, is so that we can operate from that happy place. ‘And when it’s chaotic and noisy,’ he went on, ‘then the world can be troublesome. That’s why we meditate. It’s such a blissful calm place. When you open your eyes, if you operate from that same place, then all of what’s supposed to be hard becomes easy. Though the world may be hard, it will get easier.’ An older schoolmate of the girls smiled as he gave his angle on the school. ‘When I came to Ideal, I was skeptical about it because I had never been to a school that did Transcendental Meditation. And then I tried it and it was just like, wow! Wow!,’ he said with joy and laughter. ‘That’s why we meditate,’ the visitor confirmed, ‘to get connected to that calm, relaxed, perfect self’—in Ife’s words, ‘a place that we call home.’
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