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GameVoid t1_j03dcnl wrote

As a teacher, I can tell you that getting them to sit still for mindfulness training the first 2 or 3 lessons is likely the hardest thing you will ever do. No one between the age of 5 and 18 I have ever met can sit in a room full of their peers and be quiet or still for more than 30 seconds when a guided meditation or mindfulness lesson starts up.

For some of them, it seems like the single most uncomfortable thing they have ever experienced.

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UnfinishedProjects t1_j04f0v7 wrote

We have let our phones become so addicting. They literally bring psychologists in to make some apps more addicting. Then we let all the kids have unlimited access to anything on the internet. It's no wonder their addicted.

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Gramage t1_j04u354 wrote

Tbf this was still true when I started high school and almost nobody had a cell phone

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UnfinishedProjects t1_j050qex wrote

Yeah you're definitely right. But advertising companies have never had such a direct line to the consumers brain before. They can know what you like more than you do.

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windythought34 t1_j05uzw9 wrote

In fact that is covered by other studies. These kind if "training" is only for about 50% of people nice. The other 50% just hate it. So don't be too hard to your students.

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antiname t1_j05valw wrote

Could you link to one?

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windythought34 t1_j064b0p wrote

Not with less amount of work, you would have looking it up. But that study I had in mind is older than 20 years.

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