Global peace… is it a dream?

On September 21^st every year, the world celebrates the International Day of Peace. It is symbolic, but why do we need a particular day to celebrate peace?

The reasons are everywhere as we finish what many have called Long Peace, a period from 1945 without major wars between countries. At a global point of view, the Long Peace is dead as a war rages in Europe and other conflicts threaten our world in the rest of the globe.

But I am not sure the peace we want should be based solely in the absence of war. In fact, this phrase is key:

That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences (sic) of peace must be constructed[1]

 

That is my belief, as well as so many other people after one of the worse conflicts of mankind. I do believe that the main war starts inside my mind.

Your mind.

Our mind.

And one day, it turns into something more serious.

This is why we do need a specific day to remind us about peace, so that our minds can refocus, diverting its attention from streaming, social network, problems and crisis.

We need an alarm that reminds us to look within and feel our own peace first.

Naturally, when we are peaceful, we will be acting, working, talking and moving around in a peaceful way, generating an atmosphere of peace.

Naturally, others will be touched by our peace and almost gently, their own minds will calm too.

Naturally, the dream of world peace will come to reality.

Are you with me?

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[1] UNESCO Constitution, adopted in London on November 16^th 1945. 

Why should you meditate for the world?

We should do many things for the world and there are several lists that include:

• To be honest with others.
• To be always caring.
• To recycle, to reuse and to avoid buying more things.
• Etc.

But it is not common to find to meditate as one of the important things to do for the world. And yet, it is very important.

Let’s check the former list:

• To be honest with others will help in creating a better community; it will improve relationship and stimulate your professional career.
• To be always caring will not only give someone else a feeling of inner comfort, but it will also open your heart, which will impact your relationships with others too, strengthening the community.
• To recycle, to reuse and to avoid buying more things is not only the right thing to do, to help earth and its resources; it will also help you to save money and to have a better life.

So, to meditate… what will happen to you and to the world?

First, you will feel good… meditation gives a wonderful inner feeling and it improves your mood and state of mind.

Second, by meditating you generate an atmosphere around you, due to the vibrations of peaceful thoughts. So, anyone who comes to you takes benefit of your meditation and they will also experience peace in their minds.

Third, when you meditate to the world, your thoughts travel and touch many people’s minds, bringing peace to them. It is as if your room has extended itself and covered the whole world…

The world needs peace more than never… It is everyone’s turn to send a drop of peace through meditation.

Is there any chance for world peace?

One of the best techniques movie directors use to keep attention from a very unstable audience, is to create hope in them. Just imagine a terror movie, or nowadays almost any action or detective movie; the best ones are not much the ones that show all gore, blood and flesh, but those that, even though there is a real threat, will give you the false sensation the hero or heroine is going to be saved after all. You spend around two hours waiting for that magical moment where everything goes right, and no matter how many deaths happened you will be happy.

Watching daily news have become similar to watch one of those movies. Sometimes, it seems the world is on the edge of a world peace moment. You can feel from the presenters' words, your president or prime minister's speech, even your neighbors and peers' chat at work. And then... Yes, the monster comes back and destroys all the good.

It is only hope that sustains us in all this process; an illogical hope the monster will be not only defeated, but it will be the last one. And we go and go day by day to watch the news. And if you are one of those very conscious people who stopped to listen to news from a company, you are still very attentive to the gossips around you and the comments on that. And you will keep hope in your heart, all the time.

It is only hope that sustains our economy, lifestyle and all that represents us as a society. Due to hope, pure hope, millions of dollars, even billions, move from one place to another. It is hope that is making some economies stumble back, as if you look with a very cynical eye, there is no reason for that to happen. It is hope that made you to buy that new TV screen in a world that seems to slowly stop watching TV, or purchasing a house where many experts say it is something to avoid.

Will this hope come to life at any point in time? Will we, you and I have the greatest opportunity to stop watching news, or listening to them, or talking to peers at the office about what happened in this or that war, terrorist attack or one of the many forms we see of violence nowadays?

With hope, I feel that day will come. Looking at our own history, I feel that day will come, and it will last more than one day. And the monster, one day, won't come back anymore...