Mindfulness training helps kids sleep better, Stanford Medicine study finds

A Stanford study has found that children who learned techniques such as deep breathing and yoga slept longer and better, even though the curriculum didn’t instruct them in improving sleep.

At-risk children gained more than an hour of sleep per night after participating in a mindfulness curriculum at their elementary schools.

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Research paper: A school-based health and mindfulness curriculum improves children’s objectively measured sleep: a prospective observational cohort study https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.9508

News Source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/07/mindfulness-training-helps-kids-sleep-better–stanford-medicine-

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