Greater academic achievement - youth who meditated at
Quiet Time schools had improved grades, attendance, and
standardized test scores in comparison with control groups.
Improved youth wellness -youth who meditated at Quiet
Time schools showed improvements in interpersonal
relations, quality of sleep, and self-esteem; and significant
reductions in depressive symptoms and anxiety.
Improved classroom climate- Schools with the Quiet
Time program experienced strong reductions in fighting and
student suspensions (David Lynch Foundation, n.d.)
Studies done on Meditation:
A 2011 study was done on Meditation on the brain by Sarah
Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital
and Harvard Medical School. The study took a group of
people who had never meditated before and put them
through an eight-week mindfulness program. Brain scans
revealed differences in brain volume after 8 weeks in five
different regions in the brain. In the experimental group
that learned meditation, there were four regions in the brain
that thickened in grey matter.