Think you are a being of peace and peace will become your personality.
When you find it within yourself, you will find it everywhere.
A hole is being filled that exists in the heart of our education system, where the skills and abilities of self-management should be, by providing School Enrichment Programs for students.
These programs ensure a well-rounded education, and help students of all levels discover a greater sense of self. They understand who they are as a person and begin to realize their potential, and why they have been unmotivated or bored in class. Their self confidence, classroom performance. grades and study skills improved.
By not learning to govern ourselves we forget we give power to the object of our resistance. When we are not taught how to manage our thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behavior, we find it hard to manage with relationships, roles, and responsibilities.
Self-management means to have the ability to empower the self and to have the desire to improve and change oneself. For example, on the International Day of Peace, September 21, a CHILDREN’S PEACE FAIR, was organized last year 2023 by an Enrichment Team of Hilary Rosek, Jim Tokos and Bri Burghard, from Maine-Endwell Central School District, NY. These educators brought together fifth grade students. with a united and enthusiastic desire to promote peace and cooperation.
A magician set the tone with ‘Magic Words and Tricks’ to bring about understanding and conflict resolution. Students could rotate freely to visit several ‘peace activity tables’. These included Bells of Peace, Yard Games, Yoga, Mindfulness, Make a Peace Banner, Origami, Peace doves, Tropical birds, Drum Circle, Peace Rocks painting, Mindful Mandalas, Building Bridges of Peace, Games of peace and chalk drawings, Storytelling, Trees and Tales, Save the Bees, and more. A Ginkgo Tree was planted as a symbol of peace and hope, and a quiet Peace Walk held around the solar field.
The following poem for this Peace Day program, served as a guide to read, to remind and refresh the students daily to create peaceful thoughts and perform right actions.
Wishing
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do.
Set a watch upon your actions; Keep them always straight and true.
Rid your mind of selfish motives; Let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden of the sphere you occupy…
Then remember day by day,
Just to sow the seeds of kindness as you pass along the way…
- by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
September 21, observed as International Day of Peace, is an annual UNO initiative to remind us to continue cultivating a Culture of Peace. A culture of peace is a set of values, attitudes, traditions and modes of behavior and ways of life based on respect for life and for creating an end to violence through the promotion and practice of non-violence through education, dialogue and cooperation. Explore what you can do for peace. Reflecting and discussing the virtue of peace along with its extended family of love, joy, bliss, purity, power and wisdom, helps re-emerge the powerful pure energy of these virtues within the self and others, and life becomes free of fear and full of enjoyment.
Sister Chirya is a student and teacher with
the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
for over 40 years. She is published globally.
