Edgar,
A fascinating news clip. Thanks passing that along.
I think the freshmen may benefit quickly, or most, because they are in an
environment new to them, overall, at college, living away from home for the
first time. So the freshness and newness of a practice like meditation,
learned and engaged in for the first time, may go nicely with that package of
"being away".
The sitting for them, too, is surely a respite from the cranking gears of
thought and thinking. The sitting can clear the decks, provide a rest, and
make the gears ready for more heavy lifting ahead in lecture-time class hours.
I think a lot of money and time was spent on studies and publications like this
by the "TM" organization in the 1960s and 70s. Claims were made profusely
about increases in clarity and creativity to be reaped and gained.
I'm suspecting that those gains and these gains may all be from something that
1970s psychological writers called, "The Relaxation Response".
I doubt that the folks in the college study have come to awakening. We might
call them beginning practitioners. As such, though, it still shows something
about practice, in general, regardless of how far a person takes it, or has yet
thus far had time to take it.
In college, I never meditated before lectures; but I think I remember praying
before exams. ;-)
--Joe / (long-expired Freshman)
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > New study shows meditating before lecture leads to better grades
> >
> > April 9th, 2013 in Psychology & Psychiatry
> >
> > Meditation may work especially well for freshmen.
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