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Introducing
Mother Om Mission:
A Working Model For Peace, Health and Wellness
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MOM'S EDUCATIONAL
PHILOSOPHY
MOM has several
out-reach, community-based educational programs - workshops, lectures,
and training programs to educate and mentor the individual, family
and community about preventative health maintenance and care,
healthful nutrition and exercise, and safeguarding the environment.
MOM takes an active role in the development of the community's
natural food resources through practical education and implementation
of family and community-oriented natural gardening, and youth
development and family support programs that end domestic violence.
MOM serves two distinct needs within the community: preventative
health care education and supporting the individual, family, and
community to become healthy and self-sufficient.
MOM's educational
philosophy starts with the individual's health and well-being
and is intricately woven into our programs and services at all
levels. Our philosophy stresses the uniqueness of each person's
and each community's cultural, social, and economic background.
Therefore, educational and restoration goals differ according
to the individual and community circumstances and needs. We hope
to cultivate in all individuals and communities a sense of self-esteem
and inter-connectedness and shared responsibility for the health
and prosperity of the individual, family, community and humanity
as a whole. Furthermore, we hope to educate and inspire individuals
to know their own culture and to embrace their ancestral memories
and to learn and respect the culture and ancestral memories of
others. Our philosophy stresses that the health and well-being
of a community starts with cultivation of awareness within the
individual. MOM teaches us to refrain from using things that hurt
ourselves and nature. Through awareness we learn to link paper
to tree, food to nature, air to space, water to earth, and can
distinguish among those things which create havoc in ourselves
and nature. MOM's work seeks to inform each person of our ineffable
connection to the rhythms of nature, and to understand, appreciate,
and safeguard our connection to the Whole. We want our peoples
and communities to prosper and be healthy in the most profound
way: to recognize that we are wellness; we are consciousness.
That is our natural state. Disease is an imposter. We want to
educate our children, women and men to reclaim their innate prerogative
to be fed, nourished and nurtured physically, emotionally and
spiritually and to live without violence. In short, we want to
empower our peoples and communities to achieve a secure, peaceful
and sustainable livelihood. We want to ensure that every child
and every human being and every creature has access to nature's
nutritive food. We want to live in a world where good health,
happy thoughts, and wholesome activities abound. MOM recognizes
that we can only achieve these aims through the restoration of
wholesome family and community life.
Following
are some of MOM's significant reminders that may help us to cultivate
healing and harmony in our everyday lives:
* Ravaging of nature is the impoverishment of body, mind, and
spirit.
* Nature's sacrifices ensure abundant, wholesome food which is
the foundation of healing in the world.
* Mutual respect among all traditions and faiths is the recipe
for harmony and peace in the world.
* The act of eating is an act of nurturance -- not violence.
* Violence in all forms touches upon even the mind of the universe
and causes undesirable changes.
* Each one of us has the capacity to heal the body, cultivate
the mind, to be conscious, and to know.
* When our thinking process is healthy we can transcend disease
and negativity and live in harmony with all things.
* When there is no conflict between what we think and what we
do, we are living wisely and wholly, harmoniously and peacefully.
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