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AVERILL PARK, NY,  February 13, 2024 — The American Meditation Institute (AMI) proudly announces that Jiya Patil of Pleasanton, California is the winner of the 5th Annual National Conscience Month Essay Contest. For her creativity, this year’s honoree will receive a $2,000 scholarship toward higher education for describing her personal rewarding experiences of using her Conscience as her decision-making guide.

In her award-winning entry, Ms. Patil, a senior at the Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California, writes about how she overcame persistent emotional challenges to finally use the Conscience to determine her thoughts, words and deeds: “My mind races to more examples of how we exploit opportunities to help ourselves, ignoring how it may affect others: cheating on tests to keep up with the class, deforesting trees to expand agriculture, overfishing to maintain eating habits, etc . . . I hope to let my Conscience guide me away from engaging with this tragedy. By choosing not to feed into it, I might ensure […]