The Face Of Difficult Life Events

If you eat alone, you will find you may pay more attention to what is on your plate and how it tastes in your mouth. Body tyranny has ruled the lives of girls and women for generations but you have the power to stop it now and set an example to all the other females in your life. Walk down the street with your head held high remembering you are a person, not a dress size. Or do you feel that life is something that engulfs you, sending you spinning in all kinds of directions without even asking your permission, let alone giving you a choice about which direction that might be. And for all of us, one of the most powerful of these inner resources is a sense of inner peace that is available to us all, if only we can find it. You are not born knowing how to navigate and cope with these kinds of challenges, your job is to learn from others and from your own experience to grow the resilience you need to cope, without losing your own sense of humanity and what really matters. It will be a commitment that you won’t regret once the tough times hit. People sometimes think Inner Peace is all about adopting some spiritual dogma and practice, and it is true that some belief systems, including Buddhism and say a daily yoga practice, will put a special emphasis on connecting to and working with Inner Peace, but this is not the exclusive territory of any of those practices. We are, crucially, free to choose, even in the face of difficult life events. In some ways it might be easier to understand precisely what I mean when I talk about Inner Peace by understanding better precisely what it is not. Once we know what these are, we can go about removing them so we can, in this case, find our Inner Peace. The good news about that, though, is that if any of these resonate you have now identified them and can now confidently set about removing them to clear the way to Inner Peace.

Hard Luck Story

Think of something material you yearned and even worked hard for. Did it do the trick? Think back to a time when you thought a new relationship was all that you needed. What are you afraid will happen if you show your displeasure? You may be shocked to hear this but anger may just hold the key to the door that you need to open to find your Inner Peace and lead your most productive and meaningful life. Good enough for what or for whom? And what’s really going on when you tell yourself this, over and over again. Telling yourself this is like giving up before you’ve even started. Of course, that way, you can never fail but equally, you can never gain either! Welcome to the closet which is full of old skeletons. We all have them hidden away and we all worry about them coming to light. Open the closet door and let them out. You will find them a lot less frightening in the light than lurking behind a closed door in the dark. I think you will find one of the big anti addiction programs teaches this as an integral part of learning to heal and if you pay close enough attention, life will teach you it too! Here are my two favorite roads to Inner Peace Simple meditation. Some people want to run a mile when they hear the word meditation but that’s just because they don’t know that it does not have to be complicated. You do not have to chant om or burn incense.

Emotionally Scarred

Of course, if you choose to do any of these things, all power to you, but they are not a prerequisite. Find a short meditation practice online and make a commitment to practice for just one week and then review whether you have a better understanding of Inner Peace at the end of that week. Remember, you won’t get the benefits unless you actually do the meditation. The choice is yours but do something because Inner Peace does not know you are calling and will not, without some effort on your part, just show up at your door. Some people use the terms meditation and mindfulness interchangeably and it is true that once you practice meditation you do become more mindful or more aware of yourself and how you are. People who practice mindfulness, especially through meditation, have often reported that it’s relaxing and reduces stress. Mindful people understand their own emotions and that of other people better and so are better able to react to stressful events better and handle issues more calmly. You can think of this shift in thinking as being almost like becoming an observer in your our own life. Of course you will care, but you won’t allow your expectations to dominate your thinking and leave you disappointed every time something turns out a different way from how you expected it to be. See how you can still be aware these imaginary versions of you exist but how by letting go of being attached to them, they lose their power. Think of something you enjoy doing but have never considered doing by yourself. This could be visiting a museum, taking a trip, or eating out in a new place that’s just opened in your town.

All Things Must Pass

But you will, if you remain open and don’t cheat with this task, discover there is something very calming and very peaceful about spending time with yourself. Without the distraction of conversation or everyday chat with a partner, you will find yourself becoming more aware of not only everything around you but how you fit in. If you travel alone, you will find others will gravitate toward you and want to know more about you. They would never do this if you are travelling in a pack or as one of a duo.