Benefits of Incorporating Mindfulness in the Classroom
These are the 10 main areas where mindfulness can have a huge positive impact:
- Attention and focus
- Better grades
- More effective emotion regulation
- Better behavior in school
- Greater empathy and perspective-taking
- Better social skills
- Reduced test anxiety
- Less stress
- Decreased frequency/severity of posttraumatic symptoms
- Lower rates/severity of depression
A recent study on mindfulness education in schools discovered that:
- Mindfulness helps students and staff manage anxiety and stress more effectively and resolve it better and faster.
- Frequent mindfulness practice has immense health benefits.
- Mindfulness programs can improve cognitive performance and memory.
- It helps students better manage emotions and communicate more effectively.
- Students taking mindfulness sessions have higher self-awareness and self-regulation.
- Mindfulness has a positive effect enhancing memory and concentration, and reducing mind-wandering/daydreaming.
- It helps mitigate or reduce ADHD symptoms.