Chris McKenna, a program director for Mindful Schools says:
“Mindfulness is providing some kind of basic sanity,” he said.
“You can’t be in a kind of low-grade stress and anxiety all the time, without shifting gears, and have good results. I think that’s why schools are interested in it, because people recognize that there’s something wrong.”
The practice, an offshoot of meditative practices long associated with Eastern religion, became accepted as secular in medicine and other areas in the 1970s, when Jon Kabat-Zinn, a medical researcher, developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction curriculum.
Research has shown that program’s positive effects on sleep, attention deficit disorder and depression, McKenna said, and variations of it are now being taught in many schools.
More recently, mindfulness has been shown to improve stress and well-being in students, as well as improve focus and memory.
Very similar messages as those found in See It. Say It. Do It! 
Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/shorewood-school-adds-mindfulness-training-to-improve-student-focus-b99213797z1-248940371.html#ixzz2xmmrQn00
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