Enhance Your Inner Peace
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Learn to be true to yourself, powerful with others, and in harmony with life. Inner peace is more than feeling calm in difficult situations. Inner peace is the foundation for strong effective action. The seven laws of inner peace show you how to live a powerful life without struggle or worry. Be the master of your journey and put your inner peace into action. Karma yoga. A sense of inner peace is one of our deepest spiritual needs. We are hungry for a quiet core where we can rest in the calm of truth and know our oneness with Spirit. Inner peace is essential to a life of satisfaction, fulfillment, and cooperation. Living within your own truth and experiencing inner peace is not for sissies. Inner peace does not mean giving in or giving up. It means that you are true to yourself, that you recognize your inner power, and that you focus that power. You must be free to choose peace, even in the midst of dealing with difficult people or chaotic situations. If you’re strong enough and willing to live in peace, you can enhance inner peace in your busy life. 3 (three) Steps To Inner Peace. The first step in the journey of expanding inner peace is for you to become aware of your current level of inner peace. Knowing your inner peace will allow you to increase it so you can live a life without struggle and worry. The second step in your journey of expanding your inner peace is to accept the benefits with gratitude. Here are some of the benefits you’ll receive when you increase your inner peace. . You’ll be able to deal more easily with difficult people. . You’ll realize that you can take charge of how you perceive your world. . You’ll recognize that you can choose your life experiences: whether to have friends or enemies, prosperity or poverty, support or betrayal. . You’ll feel the harmony of doing what you love. . You’ll acquire more of what you want in your life. . You’ll identify and appreciate your talents and passions. . You’ll transcend judgements, criticism, and differences. The third step to raising your inner peace and changing your life is being still. A quiet mind generates the best results, increases concentration, and curtails distractions. To engage in what I call “stillness practice,” your only requirement is to sit quietly for 15 minutes twice a day, daily. Begin by focusing on your breathing, observing your inhalation and exhalation. Get comfortable, close your eyes, and just breathe. If you have a meditation practice, continue your practice. You might feel sensations such as itching, feeling too hot or cold, hunger, thirst, or muscle aches. That is the monkey mind...let them come and let them go, do not resist and or capitulate them. When I started my stillness practice more than 20 years ago, as soon as I sat down, I started itching. For a while, I would scratch the itch and then return to my breathing. I kept up the practice, not giving in to the thought of getting up and quitting. Soon, the distraction lifted. Now, my body and mind calm down as soon as I sit for my practice. Never fight, attack, or in any way assail your thoughts or yourself for thinking them. Acceptance is the key. Resistance could derail your stillness practice. Whatever rises up just be with that, then let it go. Whatever occurs is okay. You are the ultimate observer. 7 (seven) Days To Inner Peace There are seven spiritual laws Deepak Chopra talks about, and there are seven similar laws of inner peace. Each law corresponds to an affirmation and what I call a “spark” question. When you’re upset with yourself or with someone else, or you’re experiencing a difficult situation, ask yourself one of the “spark” questions listed below. This question will spark your awareness and help you reorient to your objective, increasing your level of inner peace. The affirmation and “spark” question support you in integrating the law into your life and accelerating your inner peace. For each of seven days, at the conclusion of your stillness practice while your mind is quiet, I encourage you to contemplate one law and its corresponding affirmation and question. When you introduce a thought into your quiet mind, the thought has tremendous power. Imagine a pebble thrown into a placid lake. The ripples continue cascading through the water and on to the shore. If the water is churned and turbulent, you’ll never see the effect of the pebble. Your thoughts are like pebbles. Your mind is like the lake. When you affirm your desires and place them in a placid mind, expect ripples: expect results: your desires manifest. Start each day with the affirmations listed below. When you’re upset with yourself or another, ask yourself the “spark” question. Day One: The First Law of Unity Affirmation—I am one with all life. I am calm, cooperative, and courageous. I am a powerful being and crucial to my world. I am the center of the Universe, and one with all things. Spark Question—Am I looking for common ground, shared interest, or mutuality? Or am I focusing on drama, conflict, or differences? Day Two: The Second Law of Perception Affirmation—I am a conscious being. I release past perceptions that no longer serve me. I am in charge of my world. Spark Question—Am I thinking clearly and responding rationally? Or am I reacting, possibly reading a treat or insult into the situation? Day Three: The Third Law of Cause and Effect Affirmation—I am the thinker behind my thoughts. I am in charge of my thoughts. I am aware of what I want in my world. Spark Question—Am I aware of my role in this event, situation, or with this person? Or am I blaming another or thinking I cannot affect the circumstances? Day Four: The Fourth Law of Alignment Affirmation—I am aligned with my path of integrity, I am whole, complete, perfect and Divine, and exactly where I am suppose to be in this moment. I am confident. I am genuine and authentic. I am clear and honest about who I am and what I want in my world. Spark Question—Am I aligned with my Soul’s path and acting from my integrity? Or do I have undisclosed or dual motives or a self-serving agenda? Am I distracted? Day Five: The Fifth Law of Mental Attention Affirmation—I mentally focus on and pay attention to what I want in my life. My actions follow my mental attention. I attract what I want in my world. Spark Question—Am I focusing on what I want in my life and expecting solutions to my problems? Or am I enjoying a tantalizing feeling from the drama of conflict? Am I focusing on my problems? Am I part of the problem or the solution? Day Six: The Sixth Law of Giving Affirmation—I value and humbly express my talents. I am pleased to share my talents with others. I receive what I want in my world, and I am grateful. Spark Question—Am I honouring myself and respecting others in my communications? Or am I skirting the truth or sacrificing myself and/ or my talents? Day Seven: The Seventh Law of Redemption Affirmation—All is forgiven; I am innocent. I transcend judgements. I am free. Spark Question—Am I free to choose peace because I am thinking clearly, am open-minded, free of past conditioning, and free of past perceptions? Or am I forfeiting cooperation for competition? Must I be right and/or win? 7 Acts of Inner Peace At the end of the seven days, you will be ready to put inner peace into action by following these acts of inner peace. Be still—Spend 15 minutes twice a day in stillness and breathe. Laugh—Tell jokes and/or laugh out loud and smile at least one time per day. Listen—Open your mind and heart to listening to someone’s story without judgement. Keep opinions to yourself—Do not share your viewpoint unless asked. Stop complaining—Do not utter a negative thought verbally. Un-clutter—Clean, clear out, and/or clear up any space that is cluttered—a closet, drawer, room, desk, car, or papers, files, magazines, or computer games stacked and lying about. Be willing to lose—Failure is a part of life. Having to be right and win are the hallmarks of unconsciousness. Wake up! We live in exciting, interesting, and powerful times. Resolve to raise yourself above the darkness and become the ultimate observer. Be still and know that you are Spirit expressing. The Atma expressing itself into the world of form. Your highest power lies within you, as you, and gives you the confidence and courage to manifest peace in your life. You can change your life and attract those people and events that support and enhance your inner peace. As your level of inner peace increases, so does your satisfaction and joyfulness. You can have what you want without struggle or worry. You are entitled to peace, love, joy, ease, accomplishment, and success. You have the tools. The rest is up to you. Remember the vastness of Spirit and awaken into its peace. Be free from duality, free from attachment, independent of possessions, ever firm in purity, possessed of the SELF. Bhagavad Gita 2:45 posted With the Deepest Love, Gratitude, and Respect Sri David |
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