Download or read book Tools for Peace written by Andrew Marr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixth-century abbot who wrote a practical rule for his community and a twentieth-century thinker who has roamed through literature, cultural anthropology, and religious thought-what would these two men have in common to generate a conversation between them? The religious study Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and René Girard combines their insights on how to understand and overcome violence in the world today. In his Rule for monks, St. Benedict explored ways that people can live in peace with one another and with God. René Girard probed human experience to seek the roots of violence that tears human communities apart and separates people from God. A dialogue between this abbot and this modern thinker across fifteen centuries deepens the insights of both into the causes and cures of human violence and gives us the tools to apply their ideas in our troubled world. For both St. Benedict and Girard, peace is rooted in God. Anyone who yearns for harmony in the midst of the violence that surrounds us today can learn much from Tools for Peace, essentially joining in a conversation between two people who share a desire for the serenity of God for all times.

Download or read book Weapons of Peace written by Mary Trask and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a chaotic, uncertain world, Weapons of Peace brings stability and hope through the most powerful tool in your spiritual arsenal-peace. Filled with gripping, life-changing testimony, Weapons of Peace gives you encouragement and power to overcome fear and worry. And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts (James 3:18 AMP)." "Greatly tormented by fears as a child, I have learned by personal experience how to overcome fear and to walk in peace. The Holy Spirit has taught me how to speak and release the peace of God over others, causing some immediate and dramatic deliverances and healings," writes author Mary Trask. Weapons of Peace shows why peace in these last days is not only fundamental to the Kingdom of God but is also a weapon for establishing the Kingdom of God both in your life and the lives of others.

Download or read book Working for Peace written by Rachel MacNair and published by Impact Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete guidebook yet to social activism. Forty active peace workers -- psychologists, social workers, communication specialists and other professionals -- offer detailed practical guidance on getting yourself together, maintaining an effective group of volunteers, and getting the word out to the larger community.

Download or read book The Practice written by Barbara Schmidt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mind has a way of interfering with personal happiness, often causing stress and doubt. Getting in touch with one's inner source of peace and following its guidance over the mind's often-unfounded concerns requires training and discipline. Knowing this truth intimately, Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Founder Barb Schmidt developed a three-part spiritual discipline called The Practice. The Practice is a toolkit to be used throughout the day to guide people who are looking for confidence, less stress, and deeper meaning along life's path. These tools are a compilation of the great Truths taught by authentic teachers and masters throughout the centuries from various religious and spiritual traditions. In the first three chapters of The Practice, readers are guided through the daily routine: Waking Up, Living Present, and Letting Go. Beginning with a morning meditation, a thread of peace is followed over the course of the day through the repetition of a sacred mantra, practicing focused attention, reading for inspiration, and reflecting on the day. In the concluding chapter, readers are provided with an opportunity to deepen their experience of The Practice with engaging exercises By regularly taking the steps to go within each morning, stay present throughout the moments of the day, and letting go of attachments when the day comes to a close, readers will find that they are better able to do the following: Remove the obstacles that interfere with inner peace Manage stress and cultivate more patience, empathy, and compassion Have more courage when facing fears and making changes Overcome habitual behaviors and make better choices Reduce negative thinking and ease feelings of anxiety, worry, and stress See the blessings beneath life's more difficult experiences Know a deep feeling of wholeness

Download or read book Protect Your Peace written by Sammie J Dow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace is not the absence of issues, trials, mistakes, and frustrations. True peace is something we hunt for and capture in the most chaotic moments and it becomes the anchor that holds us steady in the storm. True peace is not connected to our circumstances and situations, good or bad, as we journey through life. True peace is found in our connection with God. Peace is a decision. Once you make the decision to pursue real peace, you must protect your peace at all costs. Peace is one of the most fragile possessions we will ever own, and it must be guarded, covered, monitored, and nurtured with everything we have to ensure it remains present and intact. Protect Your Peace is a collection of personal reflections from a very challenging season in Sammie's life. It is an intimate recollection of his thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Protect Your Peace is designed to aid you in building your box of tools to protect the peace in your own life. is intended to support your journey of becoming mentally and emotionally healthy. Managing your mind and emotions is a constant process. However, it will dramatically improve your life. If you are ready and willing to do the work, this book is a great jumpstart for your journey!

Download or read book The Anatomy of Peace written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Women s Mental Health written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. “ this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

Download or read book Little Flower Yoga for Kids written by Jennifer Cohen Harper and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn’t it be great if your child could exercise, have fun, and build concentration skills all at the same time? In 2006, the Little Flower Yoga program was developed by teacher and certified yoga instructor Jennifer Cohen Harper, when her successful use of yoga in her kindergarten classroom led to requests by other students, teachers, and administrators for yoga programs of their own. Harper slowly began to teach more and more yoga classes, and eventually recruited other yoga teachers with education backgrounds to continue growing what had become a flourishing program. Little Flower Yoga for Kidsoffers this fun and unique program combining yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read format. Written specifically for parents and kids, the book aims at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions—all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement. The book details the five main components of the program: connect, breath, move, focus, and relax. Drawing on these components, Harper shares practical activities that parents can use with their children both on a daily basis and as applied to particularly challenging issues. And while this book is targeted to parents, teachers may also find it extremely useful in helping students achieve better attention and focus. For more information about this innovative program, visit www.littlefloweryoga.com.

Download or read book Peace with Self Peace with Food written by Galina Denzel and published by Pure Belonging. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not about willpower, and it’s not about the food. Most people blame their eating behaviors on a lack of willpower. Eating intuitively hasn’t worked. Eating less and moving more? Trying to change your body image? These only last so long. Many people are worried that they can never have a healthy relationship with food. Peace with Self, Peace with Food looks past all that, and gets to the heart of what causes our battles with food. Through her years of training and practice in trauma healing — as well as her own reconciliation with food and self — Galina Denzel has developed a program to help readers embark on their own journey to healing. Personal and ancestral traumas inform behaviors around food, and Peace with Self, Peace with Food will help you identify patterns laid down even before you were born. Patterns that have long contributed to your eating behaviors, and continue to affect your relationship with food today. Through the exercises in Peace with Self, Peace with Food you will come to understand your eating habits and the neurobiological network that has held them in place until now. What’s more, you will see food, your mind, and your body in a new light. Not as enemies to be tamed, but as allies that can teach you how to care for yourself, and for your health, with love.

Download or read book From Stress to Stillness written by Gina Lake and published by Gina Lake. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most stress is created by how we think about things. From Stress to Stillness will help you to examine what you're thinking and change your relationship to your thoughts so that they no longer result in stress. Drawing from the wisdom traditions, mindfulness meditation, psychology, New Thought, and the author's own experience as a spiritual teacher and counselor, From Stress to Stillness offers many practices and suggestions that will lead to greater peace and equanimity, even in a busy and stress-filled world. You will learn:• How we create stress and how it affects the body• How to recognize thoughts that cause stress• How to disidentify with thoughts• How to de-stress• How mindfulness meditation changes the brain• How to meditate and why• Tips for quickly moving into Stillness• How to change your lifestyle to reduce stress

Download or read book Pathways for Peace written by United Nations;World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

Download or read book Tools for Sanity written by Mystic Girl in the City and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, freedom, and fulfillment are available to you in each and every moment... ""Well done, a fresh voice among so many sound-a-likes" - Adyashanti " "Tools for Sanity" is an invitation to unfold into an effortless peace. An invitation, if you're willing, to see yourself and your world in an entirely different light. Tools for Sanity reveals: Four tools we can all access at any moment that can lead us directly to personal liberation. Transforming unconscious or painful patterns into peace. Engaging in our modern world with ease and effortlessness. What awakening into our true nature is, from Kiran's personal account. Navigating relationships with sanity and authenticity. Warning: Contents of this book may be hazardous to your ideas about reality, and/or may challenge your beliefs about enlightenment.

Download or read book Peace Education Evaluation written by Celina Del Felice and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice and research of peace education has grown in the recent years as shown by a steadily increasing number of publications, programs, events, and funding mechanisms. The oft-cited point of departure for the peace education community is the belief in education as a valuable tool for decreasing the use of violence in conflict and for building cultures of positive peace hallmarked by just and equitable structures. Educators and organizations implementing peace education activities and programming, however, often lack the tools and capacities for evaluation and thus pay scant regard to this step in program management. Reasons for this inattention are related to the perceived urgency to prioritize new and more action in the context of scarce financial and human resources, notwithstanding violence or conflict; the lack of skills and time to indulge in a thorough evaluative strategy; and the absence of institutional incentives and support. Evaluation is often demand-driven by donors who emphasize accounting given the current context of international development assistance and budget cuts. Program evaluation is considered an added burden to already over-tasked programmers who are unaware of the incentives and of assessment techniques. Peace education practitioners are typically faced with forcing evaluation frameworks, techniques, and norms standardized for traditional education programs and venues. Together, these conditions create an unfavorable environment in which evaluation becomes under-valued, de-prioritized, and mythologized for its laboriousness. This volume serves three inter-related objectives. First, it offers a critical reflection on theoretical and methodological issues regarding evaluation applied to peace education interventions and programming. The overarching questions of the nature of peace and the principles guiding peace education, as well as governing theories and assumptions of change, transformation, and complexity are explored. Second, the volume investigates existing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods evaluation practices of peace educators in order to identify what needs related to evaluation persist among practitioners. Promising practices are presented from peace education programming in different settings (formal and non-formal education), within various groups (e.g. children, youth, police, journalists) and among diverse cultural contexts. Finally, the volume proposes ideas of evaluation, novel techniques for experimentation, and creative adaptation of tools from related fields, in order to offer pragmatic and philosophical substance to peace educators’ “next moves” and inspire the agenda for continued exploration and innovation. The authors come from variety of fields including education, peace and conflict studies, educational evaluation, development studies, comparative education, economics, and psychology.

Download or read book Peacebuilding written by Luc Reychler and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the contributions of people working in the field, and clarifies how fieldworkers fit in the overall peacebuilding process. Part I introduces concepts and tools for sustainable peacebuilding, with chapters on selecting and training fieldworkers. Part II focuses on seven specific peacebuilding activities, including mediation, monitoring, linking development aid and peacebuilding, and dealing with the media. Part III addresses practical and emotional problems that fieldworkers confront, and Part IV provides an overview of lessons learned. Reychler teaches international relations and directs the Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Paffenholz is research fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Germany. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Tools Of The Cross written by Larry Mathis and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever stopped to consider that Jesus Christ used the same tools each day as a carpenter wood, a hammer and nails--that were used to crucify him? Knowing that he would die on the cross, how did he cope with this reality? What can you learn from him to deal effectively with the stresses you face every day? In a brief but powerful read, the authors share insights and real life stories from a cross section of Christians. These stories not only allow Christians and non-Christians to more fully appreciate what Christ did on Calvary, but also model how to use the spiritual tools Jesus employed to deal successfully with the rigors of modern life and walk more closely with the Master Carpenter.

Download or read book The How to Inner Peace written by Constance Kellough and published by Namaste Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ego pulls a veil down between who it tells us we are and the awareness of the truth of who we really are." In this inspiring and consciousness - changing book, Constance Kellough, author and publisher of Eckhart Tolle and other great spiritual thinkers, invites us to make an evolutionary shift from egoic fear to felt Oneness. Through numerous examples and practices, she guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of Innerbody Meditation. You could read all the books about meditation and spirituality published today...or you could just read this one.

Download or read book Protecting Your Inner Peace written by J. Michael Goulding Msw Lcsw and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author J. Michael Gouldings self-help book Protecting Your Inner Peace provides an insightful primer into managing many of lifes stressors. There is a greater need today than any other time in history to protect the inner peace we inherit at birth. Many of us often find ourselves disconnected from our highest sense of self, however we perceive it to be, by allowing draining forces into our lives. While it may be easy to defend ourselves from the pushy person we may never see again, it is more challenging for those closer to us. Safeguarding our inner peace from family, clients and people in the workplace can be rather challenging. Protecting Your Inner Peace offers straightforward solutions to real life problems and teaches the reader to make peace with the most formidable opponent of all: oneself.Gouldings work presents solutions by employing principles of Aikido and evidence-based psychological techniques. Protecting Your Inner Peace is a fusion of stress management, anger management, assertiveness training, and time management. This book helps you to: ?Çó Sort out your distractions and focus on what is relevant in reaching your goals. ?Çó Protect yourself from others who are trying to take away your time and resources. Learn to honestly protect your boundaries with the people that you see every day while still maintaining positive relationships with them.?Çó Project your message past anothers defenses so you are heard and recognized. ?Çó Strengthen your standing in the world community by forming alliances with others. ?Çó Avoid misperceptions and the energy they waste by visualizing things as they really are. Protecting Your Inner Peace promotes the idea that peace is what you ultimately seek and gives you the tools to help you make your life a more peaceful one.