How Human Rights Contribute to Peace
After a long day at work, many of us have the privilege to go home, take a hot shower, cook dinner, and sleep in a warm bed. For those of us who live a life of relative comfort and have our basic needs met, it can be hard to imagine what life would be like […]
What We Can Do With A Sense Of Awareness
A realization that comes with an age is that we don’t get a second chance at the days that go by. Have you ever felt that you move through your life like a sleepwalking person, feeling demotivated and drained? How to cope with that and how to make the most of each moment that we experience? The […]
Seven Steps For A Yogi Path
There’s a lot of confusion about yoga these days. For many, it’s just a brand to market their products, or a tool used in social media as a way to get thousands of likes and followers. However, yoga is not only about a perfect headstand pose, or holding your leg behind your neck. The asana […]
How Can Music Sustain Peacebuilding?
The existence of music is almost as old as the evolution of a human. Words in melodious sounds used in conveying information to a particular group of people constitute the entity of music as a cultural symbol. Different types of music are peculiar for different cultures. For example, the Yorubas* have their orin ibile (traditional […]
Connecting to Inner Peace Through Victoria Falls
As a global traveller, when I reach a destination that ignites my happiness, a rush of inner peace sweeps over me. Such a place is the top of Victoria Falls on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border in Africa. In the dry season, you can literally stand on the edge and watch water from the Zambezi River fall […]
Research Shows That You May Need A Holiday Soon
Peter is in the office with Talia finishing up on his work. Both of them are expatriates mostly travelling through several countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. They are working on huge emerging projects that involve several people, and reports can be frustrating. Actually travelling, as cool as it may sound, ceased to be […]
How to Use The Two Sides of the Brain to Experience More Happiness?
Have you ever wondered which side of the brain you are using more? Are you working with halves or operating from a place of wholesomeness making use of all your abilities? Studies and popular theories tend to generalise and divide people into 2 groups: those who use the left side of the brain and those who […]
Can We Train Our Brain for More Empathy and Compassion?
We often hear that we have come to this world only to fight for our own interests and individual survival. But is this true or could it be possible that as human beings we have the compassion that moves us to worry about others as an instinctive characteristic? These are the questions widely discussed in […]
How Personal Development Can Bring Inner Peace
Personal development is a lifelong and continuous process. As a term, it is used quite commonly and misunderstood the most. Personal development is the process of analyzing your own behaviour, skills and qualities. In order to be better at life, one needs to analyze the above to set life goals and priorities. This, in turn, […]
Are You an Active Listener?
In the field of teaching the second language to kids, there is a criterion called Active Listening. It’s a period of time that the kid doesn’t talk or communicate verbally. He or she just listens, and you are sometimes confused if they get what you teach. In this case, parents and teachers usually become anxious […]