Meditainment is an inspirational site (that was sent to me by a friend on StumbleUpon) and they  produce easy-to-follow meditations include relaxing stories, music and natural sounds that unlock the beautiful power of the calm mind.

Take a journey of inner peace – be taken on a 20 minute  guided meditation that calms your thoughts, where you follow a story where you visit a house in the middle of a forest. Relaxing by an open fire, you enter a meditative state and tune into your inner peace. Its lovely !

Their programs are shown on the entertainment systems of many hotels and hospitals, as well as on the in-flight entertainment systems of major airlines such as Air Canada, Virgin Atlantic, US Airways, China Airlines and Qantas.

They offer over 60  meditation MP3 audio files available for download from Meditation Downloads Library which you can sample for free.

FREE Secret Garden Guided Meditation Sample

Enjoy !

The concept of peace is notoriously difficult to define. In simple terms it can be seen as harmony achieved by the absence of war or conflict and for nations, this could indicate that those not involved in violent conflicts with neighbouring states or suffering internal wars would have achieved a state of peace. International Peace Research Institute, 1996 defined as a “negative peace” – an absence of violence and its counterpart concept, “positive peace”. The Global Peace Index is a  a measurement of peace that seeks to determine what cultural attributes and institutions are associated with states of peace.

The Global Peace Index has approached the task on two fronts – the first aim is to produce a scoring model and global peace index that ranks 140 nations by their relative states of peace. And secondly, to use the underlying data and results from the Global Peace Index to undertake investigations into the relative importance of a range of potential determinants that may influence the creation and nurturing of peaceful societies.

Global Peace Index (GPI) has been expanded and updated with the latest available figures for 2008, a year on from the completion of the first GPI, which ranked 121 nations according to their relative states of peace. The index is composed of 24 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, which combine internal and external factors ranging from a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring countries and the level of respect for human rights. These indicators were selected by an international panel of academics, business people, philanthropists and peace institutions. The GPI is collated and calculated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

For more information see The Global Peace Index – Vision of Humanity at www.visionofhumanity.org.