Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.How can we rethink teaching practices to include and engage the whole student What would student experience look like if we integrated silence and feeling with empirical analysis Tuning the Student Mind is the story of one teachers attempt to answer these questions by creating an innovative college course that marries the spiritual and the theoretical integrating meditation and selfreflection with more conventional academic curriculum. The book follows Molly Beauregard and her students on their intellectual and spiritual journey over the course of a semester in her class Consciousness Creativity and Identity. Interweaving personal stories student writing and Beauregards responses along with recommendations for further reading and a research appendix it makes the case for the transformative power of consciousnesscentered education.