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A group of children who participated in a mindfulness training study for two years was found to have gained more than an hour of extra sleep and fewer sleep problems than kids who don t practice mindfulness.
According to the experts, children who did the mindfulness training exhibited reductions in stress, improved ability to handle stress, and slept more peacefully. The researchers also noted the remarkable improvement in the kids rapid eye movement (REM), contributing to the better quality of their sleep patterns.
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine led the study among 58 primary school children and at-risk kids to see the impact of the mindfulness training introduced in some school curriculums. The results showed that those who joined the program had 74 minutes more sleep and prolonged REM sleep. Senior study author Ruth O Hara said that the REM slee