For the Entire School:
Reducing Stress and Creating Harmony in the School Environment and Community

Just as individual stress restricts harmony and happiness in individual life, collective stress and tension in the school creates disorder and lack of harmony in the whole school environment. When the Transcendental Meditation^® program is implemented widely in the school, not only does the school atmosphere change markedly; but also the surrounding community becomes more calm and peaceful. These effects begin to be noticed even within a few days when a sizable group of students and teachers begin this program.

Many research studies show that when large numbers of people together practice the Transcendental Meditation program, and its advanced procedure, the TM-Sidhi^® program, including Yogic Flying, then coherence and harmony increase in the whole social environment, as measured by such variables as decreased crime, decreased violence, and decreased accidents.

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Dr. Betty Lackey, an award-winning educational leader in Detroit with 40 years of teaching and administrative experience, implemented the program: “When I arranged for 10 teachers in the school to start Transcendental Meditation, you wouldn’t believe the change—that group of teachers swept the tension away, and really transformed the whole building. TM is something very practical for in-service classes. When teachers practice TM they radiate a serenity and silence and peace that create a classroom more conducive to learning.”

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Dr. George Rutherford introduced the Transcendental Meditation program at Fletcher-Johnson School in Washington, D.C., to help quell tensions among his inner-city students: “We had amazing results. I used to have to be in the streets all the time to stop the fighting, but after we started the TM program, I didn’t have to go out there. You walk into the school and you feel it’s tension-free—a stress-free school right in the heart of the inner city, right around where we had plenty of violence.”

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