Plenty
of parents whose kids have ADHD are understandably reluctant to
medicate them – while the medications are effective and generally
pretty safe, they are still medications and it is, after all, a
parent’s job to be skeptical.
So I found this story pretty
interesting: A pilot study of 10 kids between the ages of 11 and 13 who
had been diagnosed with ADHD and were taking medication but still
having trouble at school and home were taught transcendental meditation techniques. Both teachers and students reported significant improvement in the kids’ symptoms.
In
TM, practitioners sit quietly for 10 or 15 minutes, silently repeating
a mantra, such as a sound, word or phrase. It relaxes and calms
mentally and physically, and some research has shown real physical
changes to the nervous system from it.
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