Mindful Meditation Has Been Discovered To Foster

The Ability To Handle Stress Increases With The Practice Of Meditation. In A Culture Like Ours In Which Inner, Spiritual Growth Is Totally Neglected In Favor Of Materialistic Pursuits, We Might Have Something To Learn From The Hare Krishna Devotees' Meditational Practices.

Educators, Long Disturbed By Schoolchildren's Lagging Scores In Math And Reading, Are Realizing There Is A Different And More Alarming Deficiency: Emotional Literacy. And While Laudable Efforts Are Being Made To Raise Academic Standards, This New And Troubling Deficiency Is Not Being Addressed In The Standard School Curriculum. As One Brooklyn Teacher Put It, The Present Emphasis In Schools Suggests That "we Care More About How Well Schoolchildren Can Read And Write Than Whether They'll Be Alive Next Week."

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow Percent Of The Hours They Spent As It.

Empathetic People Are Superb At Recognizing And Meeting The Needs Of Clients, Customers, Or Subordinates. They Seem Approachable, Wanting To Hear What People Have To Say. They Listen Carefully, Picking Up On What People Are Truly Concerned About, And Respond On The Mark.

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow 40 Percent Of The Hours They Spent At It. But For Low Achievers, Studying Produced Flow Only 16 Percent Of The Time; More Often That Not, It Yielded Anxiety, With The Demands Outreaching Their Abilities...the Low Achievers Found Pleasure And Flow In Socializing, Not In Studying.