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Manage time to 'balance your life'
HLUBOKA, Czech Republic, 23 February 2005 (BWNS) -- Good time-management
in all the important spheres of life will help meet the challenge of
living a balanced life, a speaker told a Baha'i youth seminar that
attracted participants from 30 countries.

"Baha'is are called upon to walk with practical feet on the mystical
path," German psychiatrist Hamid Peseschkian told the "Changing Times
European Youth Forum," which was held at the Townshend International
School from 26 December 2004 to 1 January 2005.

Dr. Peseschkian offered a model of a balanced life that gives equal
emphasis to four major areas -- health and body, work and achievement,
contacts and relationships, and spirituality and future.

"The Baha'i Faith has the vision of a new generation of people who on
the one hand exercise moderation in all things but on the other have a
faith-centered life and not a work-centered one," he said.

The seminar, organized by a team of European Baha'i youth, is the third
annual event of its kind, its reputation for learning and camaraderie
attracting participants from many European countries as well as from
Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Namibia, New Zealand, Samoa, and the
United States.

The keynote speakers were Mr. Ali Nakhjavani, who until recently served
as a member of the Universal House of Justice, and his wife, Violette
Nakhjavani.

Mr. Nakhjavani gave his insights on the world situation and on spiritual
matters, and also recounted his memories of growing up in the Holy Land.
Mrs. Violette Nakhjavani paid a tribute to the Hand of Cause of God,
Madame Ruhiyyih Rabbani, whom she accompanied on many of her travels for
the Baha'i faith.

Other speakers included Italian industrialist Giuseppe Robiati, who
spoke on the Baha'i view of a new world order.

Workshops addressed a variety of themes such as consumerism, the art of
communication, leadership and power, and using the arts to express a
vision of a new world.

Keith Sabri of Australia performed two one-man plays depicting Baha'i
historical events.

(Seminar photos by Kamran Granfar.)

For more information about the seminar, see
www.changing-times.org