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Rio de Janeiro's elite police learn to meditate in preparation for the Olympics

TMhome.com    Translate This Article
24 November 2015

With Olympic Games just a year ahead, the pressure is mounting on Rio de Janeiro police. But they know how to deal with it.

Security has remained a major challenge in preparation for the grand international event. Recent terrorist attacks in Paris have further aggravated fears about what the Rio police must be prepared to prevent and tackle.

To prevent stress-induced burnout, this week a group of 400 elite Rio police officers started a course of Transcendental Meditation.

A military police official explained the move in a newspaper article:

''A policeman that is less stressed will have better capacity to make decisions and will fire less during an operation.''

He also added that if TM is proven to reduce the stress, the goal is to expand teaching the technique to the whole troop.

Scientific studies have repeatedly proven that TM practice can reduce stress. Its efficiency has also been put to test in real-life situations, reducing the tensions of other high-stress occupations, like first-responders.

The meditation program will be coordinated by the Transcendental Meditation center in Rio. Celebrities and politicians have learned TM, including a former governor.

The courses will be funded by the David Lynch Foundation, an organization founded by the iconic film-maker David Lynch who has been himself using the technique since 1973. Lynch's aim is to ''prevent and eradicate [the epidemic of traumatic,] toxic stress among populations at risk.''

In Rio, by training the officers about to face major stress in TM, the Foundation is taking a practical and effective preventive approach.

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Source: Adapted from TMhome.com

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