As kids, we often fantasize about all the exciting things we will do once we're all grown up and living on our own. As young adults, we make plans, learn skills and set goals that we hope will help us achieve the perfect life we invision for ourselves. Then about the time we reach our thirties, reality sets in. Stressed, frustrated and discouraged over struggles and setbacks, we realize nothing is remotely like we imagined it would be. By midlife, weary from shattered dreams and disappointments, our perception begins to shift and all we really want in life is a little contentment. It is often at this juncture in our journey, that we begin to focus on finding peace.
I'm not suggesting that our entire lives are filled with strive, I'm simply highlighting some of the common challenges that can happen along the way. On my personal journey to finding peace, I discovered it's more than just a feeling, it's a state of being; a core calm where all our power resides. As I stengthened my peaceful stance, not only did I begin feeling more content regardless of the circumstance, but this inner calm seemed to frequently draw magical moments of serendipity into my life. What I mean is, the more I fortified my inner peace, the more the things I desired began showing up in the most delightful ways.
Yes, the pressures of this world can shove us out of our peaceful center if we let them. However, there are also ways we can detach from the chaos and return to our natural state of equilibrium and harmony. One way, is taking a few minutes to sit in stillness, allowing ourselves to be as we are, and to feel whatever we feel, without protocol. As we relax and let go, if a wave of emotion bubbles up, just let it flow on through and out. As I talked about years ago, emotions take no longer than 90 seconds to move through us, provided we don't mentally attach to them. So become the loving observer and just let whatever happens, happen. Eventually the mind chatter subsides and a peaceful calm will begin filling the space where the stress, frustration and pain once lived. I have found that listening to soothing music during this process helps to deepen the results.
The more often we can step away from the noise around us, and take some time to fully unwind and reconnect with our inner peace, the more we stabilize, strengthen and lengthen our ability to live from this space consistantly. When we live in peace, people are drawn to us, problems seem to unravel themselves, and our lives often surpass all those hopes and dreams of our past.