[FairfieldLife] Re: Normal Kids, Rich Kids, Poor Kids, the MSAE and MUM kids..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

xo  The Stressed and Distressed in Achievement Cultures.. 
 Interesting article on Silicon Valley kids published in The Atlantic about the 
distress that can be found in affluent kids now. 
 A group's socio-cultural pressures for achieving perfectionism(s) is 
interesting to look at in effect. 
 Reading through the whole of The Atlantic article about peculiar 
perfection-isms as cultural pressures placed over affluent kids as a sub-group 
apparently coming to dysfunctional consequences, like with 'the Silicon Valley' 
kids.  In Fairfield, Iowa too this could be looked at, but with uniquely 
different communal expectations around what is “ideal” in a community of 
meditating families and kids.   

 

 The Silicon Valley Suicides 
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/
 
 
 
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/
 
 
 The Silicon Valley Suicides 
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/
 Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto?
 
 
 
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 Iowa town struggles with mental health awareness Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa 
town struggles with mental health awareness - Little Village 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 
 
 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 
 Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa town struggles with mental he... 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 When you live in a small town, you have a connection to just about everyone. 
With a recent string of suicides in my community in Fairfield, Iowa, it has 
felt person...


 
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa finding cultural expectations for high 
achievement through perfection-isms and possibly finding exhibited distress 
('behavioral dysfunction') like with Silicon Valley kids, in anecdote some 
meditating kids in Fairfield, Iowa may have been examples of cultural high 
pressures in achievement this way too. 
 

  With Silicon Valley kids evidently it is around producing material wealth, 
with meditating kids who may individually strive for what is held out 
formatively as a perfectly coined, “The Whole Enchilada” of an all of an all of 
perfect health, perfect education, perfect design, ideal society, 'number-one' 
spiritual experiences, and fortune-making. One might expect to find feelings of 
dissonance with reality and find distress. 
 Would make an interesting study in social science.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 MSAE School Anthem
 Fortunate are we to be born at a time such as this
Diving deep within the self we know that life is bliss
All the world we see, in the light of the unified field
As we grow in unity the truth of life’s revealed
So we give thanks for the gift of this knowledge Heaven sent
And sing the praise of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 
Education is ideal, when the knower, known, and knowing unite

 Three in one reality makes learning pure delight.
Nature must be pleased, as a witness to wisdom’s rebirth
Young enlightened sages bringing peace to all on earth
So we give thanks, for the gift, of this knowledge Heaven sent
and sing the praise, of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 https://superradiance.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/msae-school-anthem/
 

 
 
 http://www.8000now.com/audiotext/Sheer-elCohenText.htm 
http://www.8000now.com/audiotext/Sheer-elCohenText.htm
  

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is there an abnormal behavior dysfunction clustering in meditating kids, or 
meditators? Evidently there was a small cluster a couple of years ago in 
suicide that possibly [anecdotal] had some commonalities of pressure and 
depression within it similar to the Silicon Valley cluster. 
 

  The aggregate numbers do not show meditators, kids or adults, as a whole to 
be outlaying from averages. Suicide happens on average throughout the 
Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa community in sub-groups evidently across 
demographic boundaries for varying and individual reasons. See the links 
further below to public health stats. 
 

 However, reading The Silicon Valley Suicides article points out some similar 
pressures related to perfectionism and cultural expectations of achievement 
that may be similarly peculiar to aspects of the 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Normal Kids, Rich Kids, Poor Kids, the MSAE and MUM kids..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Iowa town struggles with mental health awareness Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa 
town struggles with mental health awareness - Little Village 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 
 
 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 
 
 Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa town struggles with mental he... 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 When you live in a small town, you have a connection to just about everyone. 
With a recent string of suicides in my community in Fairfield, Iowa, it has 
felt person...
 
 
 
 View on littlevillagemag.com 
http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/
 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 
 
  


---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 In communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa finding cultural expectations for high 
achievement through perfection-isms and possibly finding exhibited distress 
('behavioral dysfunction') like with Silicon Valley kids, in anecdote some 
meditating kids in Fairfield, Iowa may have been examples of cultural high 
pressures in achievement this way too. 
 

  With Silicon Valley kids evidently it is around producing material wealth, 
with meditating kids who may individually strive for what is held out 
formatively as a perfect coined, “The Whole Enchilada” as an all of an all of 
perfect health, perfect education, perfect design, ideal society, 'number-one' 
spiritual experiences, and fortune-making. One might expect to find feelings of 
dissonance with reality and find distress. 
 Would make an interesting study in social science.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 MSAE School Anthem
 Fortunate are we to be born at a time such as this
Diving deep within the self we know that life is bliss
All the world we see, in the light of the unified field
As we grow in unity the truth of life’s revealed
So we give thanks for the gift of this knowledge Heaven sent
And sing the praise of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 
Education is ideal, when the knower, known, and knowing unite

 Three in one reality makes learning pure delight.
Nature must be pleased, as a witness to wisdom’s rebirth
Young enlightened sages bringing peace to all on earth
So we give thanks, for the gift, of this knowledge Heaven sent
and sing the praise, of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 https://superradiance.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/msae-school-anthem/
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is there an abnormal behavior dysfunction clustering in meditating kids, or 
meditators? Evidently there was a small cluster a couple of years ago in 
suicide that possibly [anecdotal] had some commonalities of pressure and 
depression within it similar to the Silicon Valley cluster. 
 

  The aggregate numbers do not show meditators, kids or adults, as a whole to 
be outlaying from averages. Suicide happens on average throughout the 
Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa community in sub-groups evidently across 
demographic boundaries for varying and individual reasons. See the links 
further below to public health stats. 
 

 However, reading The Silicon Valley Suicides article points out some similar 
pressures related to perfectionism and cultural expectations of achievement 
that may be similarly peculiar to aspects of the meditating community in 
Jefferson County, Iowa.  Would make an interesting study.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Read through these excerpts about the Silicon Valley Kids and substitute the 
word, “meditator” for the word “affluent” as used in the article. Substitute 
“Non-meditator” for “poor”, and substitute “Meditator” for “Rich”. One can come 
to see some cultural parallels in striving for achievement with perfectionism 
that can shake out as distressed feelings and behaviors.  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Excerpts: 
 "..a presentation on affluent youth as a largely unrecognized at-risk group. 
 Her research suggests a U shaped curve in pathologies among children, by 
class. At each extreme—poor and rich—kids are showing unusually high rates of 
dysfunction. On the surface, the rich kids seem to be thriving. They have cars, 
nice clothes, good grades, easy access to health care, and, on paper, excellent 
prospects. But many of them are not navigating adolescence successfully.
 ..One of the two major causes of distress, Luthar found, was the “pressure to 
excel at multiple academic and extracurricular pursuits.
 In one study, for example, kids were asked to choose and rank their parents’ 
top five values, from a list of 10. Half of the values were related to 
achievement (“attend a good college,” “make a lot of money,” “excel 
academically”), and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Normal Kids, Rich Kids, Poor Kids, the MSAE and MUM kids..

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

In communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa finding cultural expectations for high 
achievement through perfection-isms and possibly finding exhibited distress 
('behavioral dysfunction') like with Silicon Valley kids, in anecdote some 
meditating kids in Fairfield, Iowa may have been examples of cultural high 
pressures in achievement this way too. 
 

  With Silicon Valley kids evidently it is around producing material wealth, 
with meditating kids who may individually strive for what is held out 
formatively as a perfect coined, “The Whole Enchilada” as an all of an all of 
perfect health, perfect education, perfect design, ideal society, 'number-one' 
spiritual experiences, and fortune-making. One might expect to find feelings of 
dissonance with reality and find distress. 
 Would make an interesting study in social science.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 MSAE School Anthem
 Fortunate are we to be born at a time such as this
Diving deep within the self we know that life is bliss
All the world we see, in the light of the unified field
As we grow in unity the truth of life’s revealed
So we give thanks for the gift of this knowledge Heaven sent
And sing the praise of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 
Education is ideal, when the knower, known, and knowing unite

 Three in one reality makes learning pure delight.
Nature must be pleased, as a witness to wisdom’s rebirth
Young enlightened sages bringing peace to all on earth
So we give thanks, for the gift, of this knowledge Heaven sent
and sing the praise, of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment
 https://superradiance.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/msae-school-anthem/
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is there an abnormal behavior dysfunction clustering in meditating kids, or 
meditators? Evidently there was a small cluster a couple of years ago in 
suicide that possibly [anecdotal] had some commonalities of pressure and 
depression within it similar to the Silicon Valley cluster. 
 

  The aggregate numbers do not show meditators, kids or adults, as a whole to 
be outlaying from averages. Suicide happens on average throughout the 
Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa community in sub-groups evidently across 
demographic boundaries for varying and individual reasons. See the links 
further below to public health stats. 
 

 However, reading The Silicon Valley Suicides article points out some similar 
pressures related to perfectionism and cultural expectations of achievement 
that may be similarly peculiar to aspects of the meditating community in 
Jefferson County, Iowa.  Would make an interesting study.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Read through these excerpts about the Silicon Valley Kids and substitute the 
word, “meditator” for the word “affluent” as used in the article. Substitute 
“Non-meditator” for “poor”, and substitute “Meditator” for “Rich”. One can come 
to see some cultural parallels in striving for achievement with perfectionism 
that can shake out as distressed feelings and behaviors.  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Excerpts: 
 "..a presentation on affluent youth as a largely unrecognized at-risk group. 
 Her research suggests a U shaped curve in pathologies among children, by 
class. At each extreme—poor and rich—kids are showing unusually high rates of 
dysfunction. On the surface, the rich kids seem to be thriving. They have cars, 
nice clothes, good grades, easy access to health care, and, on paper, excellent 
prospects. But many of them are not navigating adolescence successfully.
 ..One of the two major causes of distress, Luthar found, was the “pressure to 
excel at multiple academic and extracurricular pursuits.
 In one study, for example, kids were asked to choose and rank their parents’ 
top five values, from a list of 10. Half of the values were related to 
achievement (“attend a good college,” “make a lot of money,” “excel 
academically”), and the other half to well-being and personal character (“are 
honest,” “are kind to others,” “are generally happy with yourself and your 
life”). When the kids chose a greater number of achievement-related goals, that 
usually correlated with personal troubles, Luthar said.
 From their answers, Luthar constructed a profile of elite American adolescents 
whose self-worth is tied to their achievements and who see themselves as 
catastrophically flawed if they don’t meet the highest standards of success. 
 The yardstick for the children of the meritocratic elite is different, and it 
can intimidate as much as it can empower.
 
The second major cause of distress that Luthar identified was perhaps more 
surprising: Affluent kids felt remarkably isolated from their parents.

 The kids in the affluent communities she studied felt their parents to be no 
more available to them, either emotionally or physically, than