Handbook for teachers in Human Values Education by Ron and Suwanti Farmer. Quotes XII

-Our behavior is determined largely by our thoughts.
-Use positive thinking and autosuggestion.
-We must repeat over and over our heart chosen thoughts and words.
-Three forms of the Wise Sayings teaching strategy:
1. Thought for the Week.
2. Prayers.
3. Others wisdom sayings.
-At Toogolawa Schools there are four prayers:
1. Prayer at the beginning of the Morning Quiet time.
2. Forbearance Prayer.
3. Prior to Eating Prayer.
4. Prayer to close the school day at Quiet Time.
-Peaceful mind-open heart are essential ingredients for any form of lasting happiness.
-Self-awareness assumes the presence of mindfulness but can be extended to include examining and reflecting upon how we think, move, speak, feel and act.
-The prime concern of Human Values Education is that each student and teacher moves ever-upwards towards manifesting their innate human goodness and excellence.
-Teaching strategies into more self-awareness:
1. Mindfulness practices.
2. Journal writing.
3. Self-monitoring.
-To regulate aspects of the self, our habitual (often unconscious) patterns of thinking, sensing, feeling and acting, the essential prerequisite is self-awareness.
-Self-regulation can be engaged in by focusing one one or more of three pathways: reflection, resilience, and relationship.