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This document discusses how to cultivate peace in the mind and spirit. It explains that inner transformation is needed to inspire outer peace. Our minds can be battlefields with conflicting instincts, and we have internal conflicts between options or being drawn to and repelled by the same thing. To resolve conflicts, we must practice self-knowledge, understand our spiritual needs, and develop awareness of our thoughts, body, and self-image through meditation. Meditation helps us overcome desires and gain self-understanding to achieve emotional maturity.

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GMRC

This document discusses how to cultivate peace in the mind and spirit. It explains that inner transformation is needed to inspire outer peace. Our minds can be battlefields with conflicting instincts, and we have internal conflicts between options or being drawn to and repelled by the same thing. To resolve conflicts, we must practice self-knowledge, understand our spiritual needs, and develop awareness of our thoughts, body, and self-image through meditation. Meditation helps us overcome desires and gain self-understanding to achieve emotional maturity.

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Becoming an

Instrument of
Peace
According to the preamble of
UNESCO's Constitution, "War
begins in the minds of men, it
is in the minds of men that
the defenses of peace must be
created."
• freedom from disturbance; tranquility.

• a stress-free state of security and calmness that


comes when there's no fighting or war, everything
coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom.
Patricia Mische (2000) explains the transformation
that we should seek should not only be the
transformation of our society, but also the
transformation of our spirit because the inner
transformation inspires the outer work. She concludes
that the "inner and outer transformations are
inseparable parts of one whole".
"The mind is a battlefield where the life instinct
is in conflict with the death instinct and in the
clashes with super consciousness and soon."
-Sigmund Freud

•Conflicts can be either external


or internal. In fact most of our
conflicts are internal that is
within ourselves.
Kurt Lewin showed that we have three basic types of
inner conflicts.

–
- In this type of conflict a person is caught in between two equally
attractive objectives out of which he can select only one.

–
- Here the person tries to avoid two equally undesirable objectives where he is
forced by circumstances to select one other than selecting one.

–
- In this type a person is both attracted and repulsed by the same objective. He
wants something for a certain reason and at the same time he does not want it
for some other reason.
1. Self-Knowledge
-The problems distressing the mind have to be perceived and understood.
The more you understand yourself the more you mature psychologically.

2. Spiritual Needs
-By spirituality we do not mean here being religious in the conventional
sense. Peace in one's life arises from the deep human spirit that underlies all
faiths. Here by spirituality we mean the essence rooted in man, which seeks
for fullfilment through expressing goodness in the hightest degree.
3. Practicing Awareness

• First level of awareness brings self-control, composure and sharpening


of attention.
• The second level of awareness is being mindful of the movement of the
body. It develops one's sensitiveness towards the body.
• The third level is being mindful of the activity of the mind.

Awareness helps us to overcomean inherent weakness of the human


mind. We are inclined to be carried away by our own desire, anger and
illusion.
•Self-Image
- It is how imagines one's own self. Once the self image is built, the person
tries to live up to it whether it is negative or positive.

• Meditation
- In true sense is an act of establishing awareness and it is also basically a
survival life skill.
- Is an act of awakening to reality or truth. Through meditations, soul
appealing and meaningful could be evoked in children using their natural
sense of wonder, curiosity and beauty.
Apart from beauty of
imagination, meditation opens
the door to experiencing inner
calm understanding one's own
thought process. It is this
self-knowledge that brings
emotional maturity in us. As
educators we have to find
effective methods of helping
children to understand
themselves better.
(Balasooriya, 2001)

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