Mindfulness part 2

I know that I already wrote about mindfulness in a previous post, but I stumbled upon an interesting article about it and I couldn't help sharing it here.
The title of the article is This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning. and you can read it here. As you can tell from the title, it is about an elementary school that replaced the traditional punishment for disruptive students, for mindful meditation.

According to the author of the article, the room that the school uses for mindful meditation is almost the opposite of the typical detention room, it is nicely decorated and comfortable.
The children in this school who would be sent to the principal's office or to detention, are ''encouraged to sit in the room and go through practices like breathing or meditation, helping them calm down and re-center'' which is probably much more effective than the traditional kind of ''punishment.'' The results have been--though probably mindfulness is not the only factor--a dramatic reduction in suspension rates (zero in the last year), and an important increase in attendance.
This reaffirms my belief that mindfulness could be beneficial for the Chilean classrooms if we start taking it seriously; and not only for the classrooms, in fact, I believe it could be beneficial for the students in their life outside the school, and for the whole community if these practices start spreading.
As a way of introducing the concept in a class, maybe this video could be used:

The video could easily be used for to trigger conversations in a speaking activity, or during listening comprehension activities. For instance, you could use EDpuzzle (a brilliant virtual platform that allows you to crop videos, insert questions, insert audio comments, and assign homework to your students) to ask questions, here I used an extract from the video to demonstrate this.

So, to conclude, I'm not saying that mindfulness will work anywhere at anytime, what I'm saying is that it is worth giving it a try and seeing if it works for our particular group of students because if it does, the benefits can be amazing.