I Find Peace Like This
I was born in the 80s. That generation who grew up at the same time that communication technology was developing at full speed. As we were getting older, new computers, music-players and phones were successfully launched on the market every day.
How does being empathetic make you feel? Does it come easy to you to resonate with another’s feelings? What is empathy after all? Contemporary researchers differentiate between two types of empathy.
Do you want to build stronger relationships with your family members and friends? Here are some tips we put together for you.
Over the following months, I will share concepts related to yoga and meditation on the Peace Blog. This week, the topic is ‘letting go’. Something that we all have needed from time to time, just so that we can get on with our lives, and leave the past, the pain, the grudges, and in some cases even joys behind.
Who am I? Do I have a purpose in this lifetime? How do I find what makes me happy? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Every other month I used to ponder on these subjects. The practice of mindfulness and meditation came as a relief: it gave me hints to who I really am and how to feel at ease when inquiring my life path. Self-knowledge started being a way of life.
Have you ever thought when does the travel actually begin? It starts when you grab your things to take the road. Here are some mindful tips to be effective. Don’t waste any more time start your adventure.
World military expenditure in 2012 was estimated to $1756 billion, representing 2.5 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) or $249 for each person in the world, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. By end-2013, 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalised violence, or human rights violations, shows the 2013 War’s Human Cost report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
This is a promise to myself and to all the peace seeking friends all around the world. I will wake up tomorrow morning and start this peaceful, joyful journey.
My start up quotation is: “if not me, who? if not now, when?”
Imagine your country goes through a severe conflict, economical crisis and collective anxiety that gets so strong you can even smell it in the air. Ask yourself what would you do? Would you run around panicking and contributing to the overall madness or would you be a tiny candle light and little island of peace in the sea of war?
We are social beings and together we create the family unit, the neighbourhood, the community, and the greater country. We make the world. Just like the individual cells in our bodies working to keep us alive and well, we, too, are cells that make humanity.
