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Emma L says:
Jul 29, 2010
Peace Rebel
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OPS Name
Spreading peace through being a role model as art teacher, mentor, friend, and in everyday actions.
Why this OPS?
I feel that in my every day actions there is much that I do to help spread peace throughout my surroundings. I work as a full-time art teacher at an international school here in Hong Kong and over the course of an average week I teach art to all the students in my school which includes an elementary through to high school. In this way, I am spreading positive energy through my everyday actions and behavior, teaching art, and contact with my students and fellow staff. I also feel my everyday actions towards people I come across, whether they are a close friend, to someone new I might meet socially, to someone I work with, or even to the stranger I walk past in the street can hopefully help to spread calmness by my actions and energy.
Objectives
My objective is to help bring more inner peace to myself firstly. By bringing more inner peace to myself, I can become more full of positive calming energy, and therefore become of greater still influence to those around me. As time goes by, hopefully this will continue to help spread positive energy to those around us as consciousness evolves. I hope that by doing this, I may eventually help others to also become more at peace and to be more calm, still, and ultimately in line with truth and the universe. I understand that I have a path to travel still spiritually speaking, and I hope that by doing this, it will help me along my journey.
How to implement it?
In a regular week I am in contact with every single student in my school (which goes from elementary through to high school) for at least one art lesson a week. Many students I see more often as they often elect to do extra act 'enrichment' hours, and I also am a mentor at school where I meet regularly with my student to discuss their overall well-being, be it academically, socially, personally, and so on. Our school, whilst being an international school, is on a smaller scale of about 200 students, which allows me to get to know my students much better than if I were working at a much larger school. I have previously been remarked upon by my principal as having a calming personality which helps my students. In addition to this, teaching the subject of art is in itself a very spiritual subject as it allows students to express themselves freely in ways different from other conventional means and in ways they may not be able to otherwise. It also improves their sense of self-esteem and is a subject that is more often than not done for its own enjoyment and fulfilment rather than for any external or future rewards. I hope to also implement the OPS by being a positive role model in other areas of my life. I feel that through my work as a teacher and my passion of art, I act as a positive role model to those around me who may notice that I do not appear to follow the normal pursuit for money or power. Of course, I do not 'preach' this, but rather it is through my everyday actions that those around me may notice this in my behavior. I feel that I am a good and loving friend and always enjoying meeting new people. I particularly enjoy meeting new people when the conversation is flowing very naturally between us. There may be other ways in which I may be unconsciously helping to spread positive energy as I believe that someone who is full of positive energy and peace can often give off a certain energy or aura which can be sensed by those around them. Of course I understand that I still have some way to go, but of course, if I can help those around me that is surely a good thing.
Benefits
The benefits from OPS are that I can help myself to become more aware of my everyday actions and thoughts. This will help me advance as a person, and therefore be of greater help and positive influence to those around me. I am also interested in attending the Peace Conference 2010 as mentioned in the Peace Revolution Website so I am hoping that I may be chosen as one of the Fellowships so that I may attend.