I think parents need to be informed and need to give permission if they want their kids to participate in these meditation practices. I would NEVER give my kids permission to take part in something that has to do with yoga, meditation or the like. I know many parents that feel the same way. Some public schools are already introducing some sort of new age stuff like this, without letting parents know. Not ok.

@ilhanavcioglu284

3 жыл бұрын

Why the push back??? This should be happening at all schools! Not sure why Lidia is so concerned about this.

@kathysabatino4264

3 жыл бұрын

I was in the classroom when this would happen once a week. I was amazed at how it helped the students calm

@donblosser8720

2 жыл бұрын

A number of the hand positions and body positions the kids in this video are doing certainly do look like it's a yoga session. If that's what they are doing then every teacher is a yogi, a Hindu practitioner. Can Christian teachers have prayer times in a public school? I'm sure that the benefits of prayer to God could also be expressed in the same kind of scientific jargon. I googled "What is a yogi? and got: Beyond yoga postures themselves, a committed yogi uses pranayama (breath work), meditation (mindfulness), mudra (ritual hand gestures), karma yoga service, and ethical guidelines outlined in yogic philosophy. The Yoga Sutras outline four levels of yogic practitioners. These levels are called ashramas, or levels of spiritual life.

@donblosser8720

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathysabatino4264 What a positive school environment you would have if students and teachers prayed to God for one another and read from the Bible how God wants us to love one another. 🙏 Also, is having calm students the ultimate goal? You could do the same thing with drugs. Oh wait, aren't a lot of behavior labeled kids already being drugged with ritalin and other psychotropic drugs?

The Wikipedia article on "mindfullness" contains the word "Buddhist" 78 times, in addition to related words like zen meditation. So why does Buddhism get a free pass in the public school system when God, prayer, and the Bible have been kicked out? From Wikipedia: "Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention in the present moment without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Buddhist traditions, and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan meditation techniques... The practice of mindfulness may be a preventive strategy to halt the development of mental-health problems. However, too much mindfulness can produce harmful effects, such as worsening anxiety in people with high levels of self-focus or awareness of their bodies or emotions... Critics have questioned both the commercialization and the over-marketing of mindfulness for health benefits-as well as emphasizing the need for more randomized controlled studies, for more methodological details in reported studies and for the use of larger sample-sizes... The Buddhist term translated into English as "mindfulness" originates in the Pali term sati and in its Sanskrit counterpart smṛti. It is often translated as "bare attention", but in the Buddhist tradition it has a broader meaning and application, and the meaning of these terms has been the topic of extensive debate and discussion. Buddhism Mindfulness as a modern, Western practice is founded on Zen and modern Vipassanā,and involves the training of sati, which means "moment to moment awareness of present events", but also "remembering to be aware of something".[107] Early Buddhism Sati is one of the seven factors of enlightenment. "Correct" or "right" mindfulness (Pali: sammā-sati, Sanskrit samyak-smṛti) is the seventh element of the Noble Eightfold Path. Mindfulness is an antidote to delusion and is considered as a 'power' (Pali: bala) which contributes to the attainment of Nibbana. This faculty becomes a power in particular when it is coupled with clear comprehension of whatever is taking place. Nirvana is a state of being in which greed, hatred and delusion (Pali: moha) have been overcome and abandoned, and are absent from the mind. According to Thomas William Rhys Davids, the doctrine of mindfulness is "perhaps the most important" after the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. T.W. Rhys Davids viewed the teachings of Gotama Buddha as a rational technique for self-actualization and rejected a few parts of it, mainly the doctrine of rebirth, as residual superstitions.[109] Anapanasati is mindfulness of breathing. "Sati" means mindfulness; "ānāpāna" refers to inhalation and exhalation. Anapanasati means to feel the sensations caused by the movements of the breath in the body. The Anapanasati Sutta gives an exposition on this practice.[note 14] Education Mindfulness in the classroom is being touted as a promising new intervention tool for young students. According to Choudhury and Moses, "Although still marginal and in some cases controversial, secular programs of mindfulness have been implemented with ambitious goals of improving attentional focus of pupils, social-emotional learning in "at-risk" children and youth, not least, to intervene in problems of poverty and incarceration".[165] Emerging research is concerned with studying teachers and programs using mindfulness practices with students and is discovering tension arising from the moral reframing of eastern practices in western school settings. As cited by Renshaw and Cook, "Unlike most other approaches to contemporary school-based intervention, which are squarely grounded in behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and ecological systems theories, MBIs have their origins in Eastern religious traditions".[162] Some school administrators are concerned about implementing such practices, and parents have been reported to take their children out of mindfulness programs because of their personal religious beliefs. In a firmly controlled experiment, Johnson, Burke, Brinkman, and Wade evaluated "the impact of an existing and widely available school-based mindfulness program". According to their research, "no improvements were demonstrated on any outcome measured either immediately post-intervention or at three-month follow-up".[169] Many questions remain on which practices best implement effective and reliable mindfulness programs at schools, and further research is needed to identify the optimal methods and measurement tools for mindfulness in education.[citation needed] Shortcomings The popularization of mindfulness as a "commodity"[254] has been criticized, being termed "McMindfulness" by some critics. According to John Safran, the popularity of mindfulness is the result of a marketing strategy:[254] "McMindfulness is the marketing of a constructed dream; an idealized lifestyle; an identity makeover."The psychologist Thomas Joiner argues that modern mindfulness meditation has been "corrupted" for commercial gain by self-help celebrities, and suggests that it encourages unhealthy narcissistic and self-obsessed mindsets. Mindfulness is said to be a $4 bn industry. More than 60,000 books for sale on Amazon have a variant of "mindfulness" in their title, touting the benefits of Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating, Mindful Teaching, Mindful Therapy, Mindful Leadership, Mindful Finance, a Mindful Nation, and Mindful Dog Owners, to name just a few. Risks In media reports, people have attributed unexpected effects of increasing fear and anxiety, panic or "meltdowns" after practicing, which they suggest could expose bipolar vulnerability or repressed PTSD symptoms.