{"id":12459,"date":"2014-12-31T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2015-05-01T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:25:32","slug":"nbc-nightly-news-san-francisco-schools-transformed-by-the-power-of-transcendental-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/nbc-nightly-news-san-francisco-schools-transformed-by-the-power-of-transcendental-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Nightly News: San Francisco Schools Transformed By The Power Of The Quiet Time Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> Originally aired on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1xyATF5\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>NBC Nightly News<\/em> on Tuesday, December 30th, 2014. The students, teachers, and administrators of these schools learned the TM technique as part of the David Lynch Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Ai6AVb\" target=\"_blank\">Quiet Time Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced 20 minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It is easy to learn and enjoyable to practice, and is not a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle. Over six million people have learned it \u2014 people of all ages, cultures, and religions \u2014 and over 380 published, peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation\" target=\"_blank\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique markedly reduces stress, anxiety, and fatigue, improves learning ability, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-31-at-11.00.22-AM-e1420045708469.png\" alt=\"Students Meditating\" width=\"480\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12465\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Transcendental Meditation help at-risk students reduce stress and learn better? NBC Nightly News reports on several schools in San Francisco where over 1,800 students, faculty, and administrators practice the stress-reducing, evidence-based Transcendental Meditation technique\u2014with remarkable results. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/nbc-nightly-news-san-francisco-schools-transformed-by-the-power-of-transcendental-meditation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[234,235,233,98,22],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-nbc","tag-quiet-time","tag-san-francisco","tag-school","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}