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Effective teachers sustain respectful and caring relationships with children and adults (Cooper, 2003; Essa, Taylor, Pratt, & Roberts, 2012; Ray, Lambie & Curry, 2007) . However, the stressors faced by teachers may lead to negative consequences that can undermine their ability to sustain personal health and positive interactions. Meditation is a tool that can mitigate teacher stress, promote emotional wellbeing, and contribute to affirming exchanges between teachers and students.  \nStress is the relationship between the person and environment.  \nStress is an ordinary part of everyday life for all individuals. Selye in his epic book The Stress of Life (1984) explains that stress is a condition that forces physiological and or psychological burden(s) on a person. Similarly, Lazarus and Folkman, defined stress as: “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being”(1984, p. 19) . Although these definitions are over 30 years old, they still hold true today, particularly as it relates to teachers. Teachers are prone to enormous stress as they face the demands and expectations of students, parents, administrators, local communities and society. Some stressors from a typical day include facilitating appropriate individual student conduct, developing effective individualized curriculum and learning activities that meet  \n4  Vol 43, No 1, 2015  \nthe learning needs of children, and amplified workloads associated with increased demands for accountability including high stakes testing. In the absence of positive coping strategies, stress may lead to increasingly negative outcomes; specifically, stress experienced by teachers may lead to emotional exhaustion, a precursor to burnout.  \nThe Practice of Meditation  \nOne approach teachers can use to mitigate stress is the holistic wellness practice of meditation. The practice of meditation offers a promising approach to promoting teacher wellness while developing empathy and compassion. Walsh and Shapiro (2006) define meditation as “a family of self-regulation practices that focus on training attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby foster general mental well-being and development and/or specific capacities such as calm, clarity, and concentration”(pp. 228-229). The practice of meditation may be traced back to ancient times as an active element of spiritual practice by many religious groups, including Christianity (Shear, 2006). Meditation is a personal and internal activity with the aim of facilitating mental clarity.  \nIn the last several decades the practice of meditation has become prevalent in Western culture and many contemporary health providers include meditation as part of their alternative strategy to combat a multitude of health related difficulties their patients may face (i.e., neurological issues, digestive and metabolic concerns, pain, insomnia, depression, stress) (Ospina, Bond, Karkhaneh, Tjosvold, Vandermeer, Liang, Bialy, Hooton, Buscemi, Dryden, Klassen, 2007) . According to the National Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Health Statistics Report \\#12, in 2007 there were more than 20 million adults in the U.S. practicing meditation, which translated to closely 9.4 % of the adult population at that time (National Institutes of Health, 2010) .  \nDimensions of Early Childhood  \nOne of the benefits of meditation is that it promotes holistic wellness, particularly in the area of emotional and spiritual wellness. An overwhelming body of evidence","cbCaikHn6H6NSaHy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikHn6H6NSaHy","pdf",272205,"English","# Meditation and Teacher Stress\n## The Practice of Meditation\n## Dimensions of Early Childhood\n## Mindfulness\n## Meditation Resources","[{\"question\":\"How does meditation help early childhood teachers with stress?\",\"answer\":\"Meditation mitigates teacher stress by promoting emotional wellbeing and reducing stress-related negative outcomes. 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