There are plenty of science experiments where people are divided into to groups, a control group and an experimental group. The control group was given some kind of fake treatment or nothing at all. The experimental group was given the actual treatment. Then results were obtained and it was shown whether the treatment did anything or not. In most cases the experimental group showed actual signs of improvement while the control group barely showed anything at all. During our enrichment work shop we watched a recorded experiment that unfolded called The Changing Minds at Concord High School. The students in the experimental group were given a chance to meditate for a few minutes a day while the control was told to do nothing. Overtime results showed that students who meditated significantly improved their results in class. How does this apply to me though?
Granted i see the benefit of this daily meditation, it doesn’t surprise me that people performed better in class when they did it; however, that fact that we were forced to watch this does not sit to kindly with me. The whole principle of wanting to calm our bodies down and keep them at rest is a good idea but in order to do something like this you have to want to do it not be forced to do it. I feel that i lost a bit of what the workshop was trying to give me due to this. Had i actually been given the option of going to it or not i believe i would have been more inspired in the project and possibly wouldve tried applying it to myself.
