Spirituality and Personal Energy
Sahaya G. Selvam
This reflection has a simple thesis: the secret of affective maturity consists in the ability to maintain an equilibrium of inner energy level. One might call this inner state: serenity, peace, and equanimity; however, it is not a passive serenity but an energised vitality. Using insights from contemporary psychology and the classical Christian spirituality, I will explore the dynamics of our inner energy. I will point out the relationship between spirituality and stable energy levels, and the adverse impact of energy-swings on spirituality and affective maturity.
What is personal energy? Physics defines energy as the quantitative capacity of a body to work on another. There are different types of energy such as heat, light, sound, gravity, etc.
In the human being, ‘personal energy’ is the inner state […]
Reading Room
Reading Room
My contribution to Sunday Nation, Kenya
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26 April 2020
Covid-19 tests self-learning skills of students today
Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the status quo of the contemporary society on several fronts. Its impact has been felt across almost every aspect of life, including healthcare services, economics, entertainment industry and sports, work and family life, and in religious and educational practices. Amidst these global disruptions, the winners have been the contemporary twins, Information Technology (IT) and internet.
On the education front, the immediate focus has been on providing an emergency response, to keep the learning going remotely via the internet. If our investment of resources right now just targets a stop gap measure, we might miss an opportunity to make a systemic change to education. Covid-19 has thrust us by force, as it were, into how education ought to be carried out […]
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Salesian Mission and the HIV prevention programme in South & East Africa
Salesian Mission and the HIV prevention programme in South & East Africa:
The Background: It is true that there was an “Life Choices: Abstinence and Being Faithful Programme” run by the Salesians in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. It is important to note that while in South Africa it was run only in Cape Town – in one community, in Kenya and Tanzania, it was run in all the institutions of Salesians of Don Bosco and some of the institutions of the Salesian Sisters. It is also true that the five year project (2005 to 2010) was funded by USAID and PEPFAR. The Salesian Mission at Washington had applied for the funding on behalf of the Salesians in the three countries and had acted as the office for monitoring and evaluation of the project.
The current web-news concerns the allegations by means of a journalistic report made by Lepanto Institute and re-reported by […]
Youth Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Youth Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
My presentation on 9 March 2015, at a joint teleconference between Institute of Youth Studies at Tangaza University College, Kenya and the Institute of Family Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
The purpose of the paper was to provoke some discussion among the students of both the institutions.
Preliminary Remarks
0.1. It could come as a surprise to some of my listeners that the speaker this afternoon is not an African. This is the advantage that scientific method offers us. A person from anywhere could scientifically look at a global or local phenomenon anywhere using the methodology of science. This said, having lived in two countries in the African continent for the past 23 years, and having travelled across the continent visiting at least 10 other countries, I […]