{"id":13045,"date":"2015-08-04T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:18:28","slug":"school-in-thailand-brings-peace-happiness-and-opportunity-to-orphaned-and-abused-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/school-in-thailand-brings-peace-happiness-and-opportunity-to-orphaned-and-abused-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"School In Thailand Brings Peace, Happiness, And Opportunity To Orphaned And Abused Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cBack home I was hot-tempered. Since I learned TM, I feel a lot calmer. I feel that I am happier and my learning ability is better, relationships are improved. I feel that I&#8217;m happy all day.\u201d \u2013Mai, 16<\/strong><\/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 <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, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;These girls come from poor families or broken homes; some are orphans, violently abused or at-risk of being sexually abused.\u201d  A Buddhist boarding school in Thailand is filling in the gaps left by society \u2013 providing a safe-haven for abused, orphaned girls and giving them the education they deserve. <a href=\" https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/school-in-thailand-brings-peace-happiness-and-opportunity-to-orphaned-and-abused-girls\">Watch the video<\/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":13048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[295,98,297,275,22],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-meditation","tag-school","tag-students","tag-thailand","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045","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=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13221,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions\/13221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}