Meditational practices after being embraced by clinicians are making its way to educators. There is increased frequency of inclusion of meditation in educational setting around the world. This paper aims at reviewing the empirical evidence of Mindfulness Meditation (MM) which facilitates in achieving the traditional goals of education, to help in alleviating stress and anxiety and in achieving overall psychological well-being. Preliminary studies suggest that introduction of MM has high potential in educational setting as it positively relates to reduced stress and anxiety, improvement in attention, self-regulation, cognition and intra personal behavior and overall psychological well-being of a child. However, the research of MM in children is still in its infancy phase and it is proposed that high methodological rigor is required to attain its full benefits.
Mindfulness Meditation (MM), Mindfulness based Intervention (MBI)
