A single solution to quickly solve each of our societal issues

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A growing amount of research & evidence proves that whatever thoughts & images in your mind, combined with the feeling of emotion, that you intently focus on for long periods of time in deep meditation eventually manifest into your life. If we all were to meditate daily for 10-20 minutes while envisioning a more peaceful, united, healthier world free from corruption, while feeling love & gratitude, our local communities would eventually transform into that we imagine. Possibly very quickly. This phenomenon is but one of the Universal Laws called The Law of Attraction. This practice would create a domino effect as more of us each collectively applied it daily in our lives, the quicker this practice would unconsciously spread in our local communities once a critical number of individuals adopt it. This, yet another phenomenon, has been observed & is the “100th Monkey Effect”. Many credible sources, such as Dr. Bruce Lipton & Dr. Joe Dispenza, show that our subconscious mind, creates 90% of our reality & that our subconscious can be accessed & reprogramed with positive thought patterns through deep meditation.

I. Educational Integration of Consciousness-Based Practices

  1. Curriculum in Schools:

• Positive Thought & Visualization Training: Courses on the role of positive thinking, visualization, & emotional states in shaping personal outcomes, teaching children to manage their thoughts & emotions for short & long-term success.

• Meditation & Mindfulness: Daily meditation practices in all public & private schools, reinforcing focus, emotional regulation, & stress reduction.

  1. Workshops & Programs in Prisons & Rehabilitation Centers:

• Meditation & mindfulness workshops for inmates & individuals in rehabilitation programs, fostering emotional healing & positive behavioral changes.

• Courses in prisons focused on self-reflection, consciousness, visualization, & the effectiveness of positive thoughts & feelings to encourage rehabilitation & societal reintegration.

  1. Public Awareness Campaigns:

• Nationwide public awareness campaigns that teach the general population about the scientific evidence behind the role of meditation, consciousness, positive thoughts & feelings, & visualization in shaping reality.

• Media outlets, public service announcements, & digital platforms should be used to distribute this knowledge to communities & workplaces.

II. Societal & Individual Benefits

  1. Crime Reduction & Rehabilitation:

• Evidence, such as the “Maharishi Effect” (studies showing a reduction in crime rates in 1993 Washington, D.C. through group meditation) will guide the integration of meditation programs into prisons & high-risk communities. This will promote rehabilitation & societal harmony.

  1. Mental Health Improvements:

• By incorporating positive thought teaching into hospitals & schools, we anticipate reductions in depression, anxiety, & stress-related disorders. Programs like the Global Coherence Initiative have shown the potential for collective consciousness to impact heart coherence, leading to improved mental & physical health.

  1. Long-Term Societal Transformation:

• When practiced by a critical mass of individuals, meditation, mindfulness, & positive consciousness have the power to create a tipping point in societal behavior, leading to more compassionate, coherent, & peaceful communities. The “Maharishi Effect” & Global Coherence Initiative research demonstrate that large-scale collective meditation & positive emotional alignment can shift global consciousness toward peace, reduced violence, increased positive health outcomes & environmental sustainability transforming society as a whole.

III. Implementation Strategy

  1. Phase 1: Awareness & Education

• Initial workshops for policymakers, educators, & community leaders to introduce the principles of consciousness-based practices.

• Formation of a national task force to oversee the rollout of meditation & mindfulness programs across schools & rehabilitation centers.

  1. Phase 2: Pilot Program Deployment

• Integrate mindfulness & meditation training as practices in the curriculum of public schools across the nation.

  1. Phase 3: National Expansion

• Based on the success of pilot programs, extend consciousness-based education nationwide, encompassing all foundational sectors.

• Continued monitoring & adaptation of policies based on scientific data, including further research into collective consciousness & its societal impacts.

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Meditation is key.

I will soon add this policy to a subsection on the thread I am building.
Re: Restorative Daily Routines; Emotional + Mental Health education for Young People

Come read other policies on the subject, discuss and engage, and help build the Bills we need to improve quality of life for ourselves, internally and externally.

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@ManifestLight369 In the case of Meditation and Mindfulness, I am personally going to stress Meditation as a therapy modality with a wide reach.

As for Mindfulness, this is difficult to define. So I personally will not be debating this vigorously, per se, but I recognize the significance and am curious to know how rehabilitative programs can adopt a perspective wherein Mindfulness is perfectly understood and utilized.

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Meditation is tricky because in some cases it means

  • empty your mind
  • Ignore your mind
  • Focus your mind
  • Fill your mind

As such, it would be helpful to pursue different styles of Meditation, and to clarify which forms are used, and when.

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Personally I would stay far away from straying into any policy that was based in subjective psuedosciences and/or impossible to prove. The Law of Attraction, for example.

We can borrow language from these “teachings” to address mental health, but I don’t see yet how we implement them without being accused for cult indoctrination. I would personally not advocate for this in most cases, but more pertinently, also do not want this ideology involved in the curriculum of my children, or to be wielded by the government.

With that said, I do believe the “Pursuit of Happiness” is inalienable right and your attitude reflects a deep interest in this pursuit, so I commend you for this and for the proposal, while maintaining that I think Spiritual laws should remain spiritual.

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I appreciate your passion and your insight. I am open-minded and strongly encourage you to support your policy with scientific evidence and facts. When I said “impossible to prove” earlier, I should have said, “impossible to replicate”, as one would be able to using scientific method.

I believe you are onto something, in terms of addressing a particular need for programs that might resemble Children’s Self-Help to exist, whereby they can be taught Visualization techniques, Focus techniques, and “Cognitive Arts”, like this.

I am fully on board with Children being taught about mental health and mastery of their own emotions. I personally don’t think the way to do it is through spiritual guidance, be it religious or New Age. But I do see where you are coming from.

I can see Cognitive Arts possibly being an important subject in Health classes from 6th grade to 12th grade.

So, I would put “Law of Attraction” in a category of Philosophy. And yes, Philosophy should be taught. But I doubt there is a way to include “Law of Attraction” in a Natural Scienc class, as it applies to “humans manifesting destiny etc”. Not, at least, if the science cannot be replicated and observed.

Going forward, I think I would advise you to push this bill by concentrating on the measurable Therapeutic benefits, and the definite need for Mental Health Education for Young People.

Thanks for the ideas exchange.

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One last thing is,

I don’t want any Media outlets spreading awareness of the government’s bidding, on behalf of the government.

I think you are saying that this is an outcome that would be upheld by private citizens and/or a corporate or non-profit sponsor, which is fine, but then, it shouldn’t be the business of the government to produce and enforce laws that adhere to those interests.

I don’t want any private group which adopts institutionalization of “thought control” to be influencing what happens in schools. I do want prisons to hire practitioners from private agencies, or embedded in prison system itself to educate inmates on emotional and mental mastery.

I DO want part of Physical Education classes to involve some portion of daily meditation, breathing and/or yoga, but I DON’T really want there to be any context or underlying narrative or “universal laws” guiding the meditation. It should just be a time to clear and calm the “waters of the mind”, with a very simplistic guided focus on the self.

So, for this kind of thing to work in government, I think you need bottom-up growth, and national incentives, and very specific laws.
I DO think all companies must allow their employees some time in the day for “Meditation”, which is aside from their “breaks”. I DON’T know how you enforce this, exactly. But ultimately, I think it is worth looking into.

These are just some of the gray areas we stray into here with mental health, unfortunately. I don’t profess to be an expert on anything, I am just weighing-in, because it’s a topic that is close to me, that I am also working on.

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I have contacted the BBC and Westminster
( U.K. Government ) about this:
( No reply … lol )

During WW2 BBC… The Silent Minute called upon Men and women of goodwill of the British Commonwealth and elsewhere on land, sea and air, on the battlefields, in air raid shelters , hospitals etc … to Unite in thought —Irrespective of Philiosophy or Religion— to devote 1 minute of their time to pray / focus on peace.
BBC radio signalled The Silent Minute
to begin at 9pm (21.00) with the sound of Big Ben ( Bell)
The Silent Minute had the support of King George 6th, PM Winston Churchill, the Cabinet and President Roosevelt in America. Nazi high command became aware of it.
Soon after the end of hostilities in 1945 a high ranking German Officer was quoted as saying:

“ During the war you had a secret weapon for which we could find no counter measure and which we did not understand, but it was very powerful. It was associated with the striking of Big Ben at 9 O’ Clock each evening… I believed you called it ‘The Silent Minute’ “

Both Einstein and Nikola Tesla spoke about
Energy, Frequency and Vibration

Maybe it was the ‘Collective Consciousness of humanity’ … coming together … millions of minds praying and focusing on peace/ victory over the Nazis…

I wonder if The Silent Minute could be instigated
Millions of minds focusing on peace/ prayer.

There has been research upon the Quantum Field ( Unified Field) Also Meditation decreasing crime rates.

I have heard in the Hebrew religion that
‘ Thought x Emotion plus gratefulness to God’ creates reality

An experiment conducted in the early 1980s, during the height of the Lebanon war, sought to discover whether meditation could reduce war. When 1,000 people in Jerusalem meditated on world peace war deaths in Lebanon went down by over 75 percent. Not only did war deaths go down, but crime, traffic collisions, fires, and other destructive events also went down on the days the group meditated.
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From this and other similar studies that showed that war deaths and injuries went down on days groups were meditating on peace, scientists reluctantly concluded that group meditation seems to prevent war. In reporting on these unexpected findings, world-renown quantum physicist John Hagelin Ph.D. commented: “There is far more evidence that group meditation can turn off war like a light switch than that aspirin reduces headaches. It is a scientific fact.”

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Study John Hagelin was referring to: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002788032004009

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