A Proposal for Schools, Colleges and Universities
Escuela sin Estrés has been created to ensure that any child who wants to learn and practice the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program can do so at any time during his or her education. This is because the TM program is the most thoroughly researched and widely practiced, non-religious, non-pharmaceutical program in the world for developing the full creative potential of the brain and mind, improving health, reducing stress, and improving academic outcomes.
Coral, Age 17, practises TM since 7 years
Escuela sin Estrés works with schools of all cultures and economic backgrounds, so students can learn the technique and get the complete follow-up program throughout their student years to ensure that they gain the maximum benefits from their education.
Education is about knowledge and development. It is important to understand that our brain does not come fully assembled at birth. Through the natural processes of maturation and experience, our brain is being created anew at every moment to support all of our thinking, deciding, and behavior.
The ongoing creation—and re-creation—of our brain is a dynamic process, so education—at any age—is critical, because that is when we gain the key experiences that will develop our brain in a healthy manner. This is why Escuela sin Estrés recommends Consciousness-based Education, which can be implemented in any educational system or school without changing the curriculum.
Fulfilling the Goals of Education
Extensive research and decades of experience with Consciousness-based Education have demonstrated that this approach, which adds study and research in consciousness to the existing curriculum in any country, eliminates the weaknesses of current education.
Research verifies that students at Consciousness-based universities and schools improve significantly in mental capacity, academic achievement, health, and social behavior, compared to students in other institutions. At the elementary and secondary levels, year after year classes of students at Consciousness-Based schools, who enter at an average level of performance, score among the highest in their nations on national standardized examinations by the time they graduate. They also distinguish themselves by winning top state and national prizes in an unusually wide range of subjects, including science, mathematics, speech, history, poetry, drama, art, music, and sports.
These scientific findings and educational outcomes give additional support to the abundant research indicating that Consciousness-based Education develops greater use of the brain’s potential.
Experience and research also show that when any university or school adds to its curriculum a Consciousness-Based course for all the students, the same desirable changes in academic performance and behavior take place. Students grow in enthusiasm for knowledge, in alertness and creativity, and in exemplary citizenship — the ability to achieve their goals while promoting the interests of others. Increasingly they enjoy the "fruit of all knowledge" — a problem-free, happy, healthy life, spontaneously in harmony with natural law.
The program is effective. The research is abundant. The time for the adoption of Consciousness-based Education is now.
In addition to the benefits to students, research and experience document the profound benefits to society as a whole when our children dive within.
Education for World Peace
Individual peace is the unit of world peace. When large groups of students together practice the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, including Yogic Flying, an influence of coherence and harmony is generated in the whole society—in the city, state, or nation as a whole, depending upon the size of the group. This effect is documented by nearly 50 studies showing reduced negative trends and improved quality of life in society. This influence of coherence in society, named as the Maharishi Effect in honour of the Founder of Transcendental Meditation who predicted in the 1960s, is the expression of increased brain wave coherence during the practice of Yogic Flying. In this way, the growth of harmony in society is fundamentally connected with development of full brain potential.
By offering Consciousness-based Education to the coming generation, we can promote a strong foundation for a healthy, harmonious, and peaceful world, thus fulfilling the purpose of education on both levels: the individual and society.
Escuela sin Estrés supports the establishment of Universities of World Peace, and the use of the University of World Peace curriculum in existing schools whenever possible, to train rising leaders in the skills necessary to become professional peacemakers.
Thank you for your interest. And please remember that Consciousness-based Education is not a luxury. For our children who are growing up in a stressful, often frightening, crisis-ridden world, it is a necessity.