The Role of Internal Peace in Mental Health from Rumi’s Worldview Perspective

Nowadays, the mankind is engaged with interferences that havecome about as a subsequence to the authoritarianism, avarice,haughtiness and many of the other fundamental ethicalweaknesses. Resolving of the global problems and establishmentof peace are measures taken by such organizations asinternational peace and Red Crescent.One objective of the Red Crescent’s charter is related tosustainable peace and it is stipulated in article 2 of the charter that:making efforts for the soothing of the human pains, safeguardingof human respect and endeavoring for establishing friendship andmutual understanding and sustainable peace between the nationsas well as supporting the life and health of the human beingswithout making any discrimination between them. So, thepromotion of this radical principle is accompanied by suchmovements as cordiality, mutual respect and mutual peacebetween the nations and it can set the scientific and intellectualgrounds for the creation of peace and reconciliation.Besides featuring global and social aspects, expansion of peacealso possesses an internal aspect. The individuals who deal withthe necessity of self-reconciliation believe that the human beingsare internally replete with conflict emotions and such ailments ashatred, jealousy, anger and others and unless one reachesagreement with oneself s/he cannot attain peace in his or herrelationships with others. Moreover, the use of methods ofinternal peace establishment is a solution for mitigating the painsafter hardship and war and this considerably helps theimprovement of the victims’ mental and psychologicalendurance.