School fights end at Detroit school thanks to meditation

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Well now there's a school in Detroit that's helping students deal with the stress in a unique way. Here is NBC's Kevin Tibbles.

The boisterous kids at Detroit's Nataki Taliba School are really no different than any other. Except perhaps for 10 minutes twice a day when all they hear is silence. These students aren't napping they're meditating. Transcendental Meditation was brought to the West 40 years ago by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and made popular by the Beatles in the late sixties. Today it is used in this school as a stress buster.

Jane Pitt (Nataki ™ Coordinator): It (Transcendental Meditation) is not a religion, it is not a philosophy, it's not a way of life, it's simply a mental technique. It allows the system, the mind and the body to settle down and gain very, very deep rest.

Kevin Tibbles: According to these kids it helps...

Student: I have a tendency to dwell on things that happened in the past but when I meditate it helps me let them go.

Student 2: I pay attention better now.

Student 3: After Transcendental Meditation I feel great!

Kevin Tibbles: When we think of packing our kids off to school these days we often worry about the problems; high stress, substance abuse, even violence, things that threaten a child's education. But can ten minutes of quiet time really make a difference? The research says yes. The University of Michigan followed 140 of the schools 10 to 14 year olds.

Rita Benn Ph.D. (University of Michigan Researcher): They felt more connected, they felt happier, satisfied, peaceful and calm.

Student 4: I used to get angry a lot but now it's like I'm calming down.

Kevin Tibbles: And studies show that meditating kids actually do better than kids who don't.

Student 5: My grade point averages went up a lot. From a 3.4 to a 3.8.

Student 6: Now I'm doing much better - I've evolved.

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[MrAwrsomeness]

i bet you whrn eminem was growing up he was the only white person in all of detroit

[SurfsUpStudios]

TM should be in every school....It will produce happy, healthy, more-focused and stress-free kids. I've seen it happen!

[Shaastri]

Only mentally ill people would not consider the huge amount of scientific research about Transcendental Meditation. Fortunately, educators start to look into it and find what immense help TM can be for them as teachers and for their students - in terms of greater learning ability, more balanced behaviour, better health, etc.

[keilnealquan]

lol i wouda fell asleep XD

[anetchi]

This is awesome!! Hope it spreads to other schools. Meditation is fantastic.

[Vajrayana4Rs]

@filmtress - i totally agree with your statements. self revelation is key

[YoungKrilloTV]

lol im glad i dont go to this school.

[filmtress]

The upper echelons do not benefit from calm, cool, collected children. Watch out, for they will send their cronies to stop this sh*t! Cause their gods feeds off of fears, depression, anger, strife, crime which I hope stops soon.

Meditation is one of the best practices our people can participate in. I hope we all will eventually see this more of as the norm rather than an anolomly. We need more leaders like this beautiful spirited woman. NO MORE FOOD FOR THE GODS BUT FOOD TO OURSELVES!

[ImNotMy]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Dookiebutt47]

thAta awesome so many kids are meditating, the future is loking brighter everyday