Objectives

• In this module you are expected to be able to

• Define peace and personal peace
• Discuss the importance of achieving personal
peace
• Discuss ways which you and your students can
achieve personal peace
 PEACE

Salam, kapayapaan, kalinawon, kalilintad,

shalom, kalinong
 What is Peace?
• The absence of war or other hostilities
• An agreement or treaty to end hostilities
• Freedom from quarrels and disagreements
• Public security
• Inner contentment
 Two Components of Peace
• Personal Peace
• Communal Peace
 Communal Peace
• Pertains to relationships between peoples
 Personal Peace

• Are the peace that comes within the person.

 Defining peace
- It is important that we define peace to give
this abstract concept a concrete face.

- Downside of defining something is that in the

process, we are in danger of oversimplifying a
complex concept.
 Components of Personal Peace
• Harmony with our self
• Harmony with others
• Harmony with Nature
• Harmony with God
 Harmony with our self

• Central to having personal peace is having

harmonious relationship with oneself. In harmony
there is equilibrium, stasis, and stability

• Let go of our prejudices and intolerance because

they serve to harm our relationships with other
people.
 Harmony with others
• The dictionary defines harmony as “The just
adaptation of parts to each other, in any system
or combination of things, or in things, or things
intended to for a connected whole

• This definition of harmony is important for our

purposes because we believe that as human
beings we are all connected and one with each
other.
 Harmony with God

• (in a Judeo-Christian background) harmony

with God is the most important thing in
achieving personal and communal peace
because belief in God allows us to recognize
that we are all creation of a supreme being.
 Harmony with Nature

• Time to time we have to go out and recharge

our spirits by communing with nature. Nature
allows us quiet time to introspect, reflect and in
the process, to be in touch with our inner self.

• This is something we cannot do if we live in

communities where we are exposed to traffic,
pollution, noise, and overpopulation.
 Cultivating Personal Peace
• In cultivating personal peace, we have to have
harmonious relationships with ourselves, with
other, with nature and with Go. By having
these four harmonies it would be much easier
to relate with our fellowmen because we
would have rid or at least minimized our
prejudices, our propensity for anger, conflict
and confrontation and the stresses that we
encounter everyday.