main mindfulness expert notice Williams will brief MPs on how meditation could drastically improve the UK’s wellbeing and productivityThe Attlee Room in parliament will fall quiet on Tuesday to hear one of the country’s main meditation teachers justify the basics of the 2400-year-old tradition of mindfulness. Prof notice Williams’ explanation of how to control and degree your breath,thoughts and feelings will precede a call by a cross-party group of MPs and peers to roll out mindfulness-based meditation across the public sector in a tender to improve the nation’s mental health, education and criminal justice system.
After a year-long inquiry, or the all party parliamentary group (APPG) on mindfulness has concluded that secular meditation courses should be made available to 580000 people who suffer recurrent relapses into depression,at an initial cost of £10m; the state should train 1200 new meditation teachers and there should be more mindfulness taught in schools following evidence that it reduces misbehaviour and can improve GCSE results. They also want prisons and probation services to test run programmes to reduce re-offending.
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Source: theguardian.com