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Scenes From Sathya Sai Baba Schools all over the
world
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Sathya Sai Baba is a world-recognized Educator
and for many years his Schools and Universities
in India have been turning out students with
extraordinarily fine character. His wonderful
very loving system of Education in Human Values
is now spreading around the world. This 13-minute
documentary contains scenes from schools teaching
the Sathya Sai Baba Education in Human Values
program in over twenty countries around the
world. Love, Truth, Peace, Right Action, and
Non-Violence are the main principles taught to
the children in these schools. "Help Ever, Hurt
Never" and "Love All, Serve All" are two phrases
he frequently repeats in his Discourses.
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Human Values The Heart of Dymamic Parenting
(an excerpt from the book by Pal Dhall and
Tehseen Dhall Institute of Sathya Sai Education
Canberra, Australia)
The end of education is character. Sathya Sai
Baba
Good and Bad Communication Patterns
Baba has said that poor communication can inflict
deep wounds. This is so because it is the means
by which we enter our childs world of feelings
and thoughts and understand what is happening in
his life. Through sweet, soft speech we can
encourage and reinforce his individual uniqueness
and convey our views, values, beliefs,
convictions and ideas. We teach him how to
appreciate life, prioritize, cultivate
aesthetics, cultivate an undistracted mind and
make healthful choices. Used this way we empower
our child through speech and build significant
positive self-worth and self-esteem in him.
However, our communication pattern can also
disable our child when we focus on blame,
ridicule, hurt, criticism, undermining, forcing
obedience, conveying anxiety and guilt. With
these we destroy his self-confidence. When there
is misunderstanding and disconfirmation the child
experiences pain and this creates serious hurdles
in family unity. Conflict and even enmity
results from the manner in which we communicate
or fail to communicate. Undermining, ridiculing,
cynicism, disconfirming, angry responses are
processes that violate the personhood of the
child and give him the signal that he is no
important or significant. As Baba has said in
the above quotation, wounds inflicted with the
tongue do not heal easily.
Tongue is now the sharpest weapon in the armoury
of the villager it ruins many homes, it divides
brothers and neighbors, it does more havoc than a
bomb. - VA, Vol II, pg 151
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Techniques of Good Communication
There are so many techniques the parents can
employ to teach the child non-violence of
thought, word and deed.
(1) Parents use Empathy to Increase Childs
Awareness of his Feelings.
Empathy builds deep understanding and intimacy
between parent and child. It is based on
core-to-core appreciation of the childs
uniqueness. When the child is feeling helpless,
frustrated, anxious or sad the parents enable him
to deal with those feelings by helping him to
identify what he is feeling. Once the emotion is
identified the child can unload his anxiety,
fear, guilt, tension or uncertainty and get in
touch with his own inner wisdom to solve his
problem. This heightens his awareness of his own
feelings. He is also able to understand others
feelings. This is a powerful skill since it
enhances his capacity to understand himself as
well as others and to resolve his conflicts
within himself and with others.
(II) Parents ask open-ended Questions
When parents want to understand what is
happening in the childs life they ask open-ended
questions. Such questions encourage the child to
think aloud, to explore, reflect and express. It
is in such exchanges that the parent can reach
genuine appreciation of each other.
(III) Parents Practive Reflective Listening
Many people attend meetings, but no-one knows
what is said, because they are thinking of so
many things. Those who are preoccupied should
not be there. - DD, July 96
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Questions
What are the benefits of raising children through
EHV?
Can we list additional non-obvious benefits of
EHV?