2007-2011 I taught a modality where creating well-formed belief statements was part of the curriculum. The five key elements that 500 adults accepted and learned where:

1. present tense / 2. first person / 3. positiv words / 4. short & to the point / 5. energizing & meaningful to oneself


For example: I share my knowledge, get to travel the world
, and have a blast along the way.

(Instead of: I want to share my knowledge, although not only in Germany, and I hope that I’ll enjoy myself, meet people that like me, get to see interesting places, and… stop!! You get the point 😉 )

 

It wasn’t until I experimented and taught this modality to children, that one of them TAUGHT ME the missing principle:

6. Good for all

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Since then, I practice this intention in everything I do.

Thank you, wise children, for enlightening me…

 

Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) is a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”.

At its base is the belief
“Umuntu Ngumntu Ngabantu”:

“I am because we are and
we are because I am.“

The word Ubuntu originates from the Bantu languages of the Zulu and Xhosa and means „humanity / humanness”. „compassion“ and „publich spirit“ as well as the experience and the consciousness of oneself being part of a larger whole.

It is often used in a more philosophical sense to mean “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity”.

This refers to a fundamental attitude based primarily on mutual respect and recognition, respect for human dignity and the desire for a harmonious and peaceful society, but also on the belief in a “universal bond of sharing that unites all that is human.”

Source: Wikipedia