Inner Peace - Steps Towards Inner Peace
We have a challenging world in which we live, and we need inner
peace now more than ever. This is not an easy task but it is something you can
find if you follow a few simple to understand but difficult to enact steps to
achieve inner peace. Inner peace begins with love, followed by forgiveness and
learning to give. Finally you have to learn to smile a lot and learn to
meditate, to quiet your mind down. If you can learn to do these things you can
learn to have a life of inner peace.
Love
If you want a life of inner peace you must begin by learning to
love. This is the power to open your heart to feeling and being willing to open
yourself up to being hurt occasionally. Opening your heart will bring you the
highest joys and the deepest hurts but it is only when you can truly
authentically experience both of these that you will be on the way towards
inner peace. Love is the first step, love is how you begin, is it at the center
of inner peace and everything else.
Forgive
Next after love comes forgiveness. Forgiveness is the second
step to gaining inner peace. Now forgiveness here has two parts. You need to
learn to be able to forgive others if they hurt you. The more you can forgive
the hurt you get from others the more inner peace you will have. The more
important part of forgiveness for inner peace is learning to be able to forgive
yourself. You must learn to forgive yourself for all of the things you have
done wrong, etc. We cause pain to ourselves more than we ever get pain from
others, and we must be willing to forgive ourselves for the pain we have
caused.
Give
The next step to inner peace is getting out of ourselves and
learning to give to others instead. When you can move the focus away from you,
your needs, your perceived troubles and tribulations and towards the needs and
trials of others you will begin to find inner peace. Inner peace comes from
being in service to others. The more you give the more you receive in inner
peace.
Smile
The next step of inner peace is learning to smile. Smiling does
amazing things for the soul. Smiling opens your heart and the heart of the
person you are interacting with. And as written above, inner peace begins from
the heart and the power of opening the heart begins with the smile. Smiling
takes less effort than frowning and costs you nothing. So smile, you will be
well rewarded for it.
Meditate
The final step to inner peace is learning to quiet the mind. This
is best achieved by learning and practicing meditation. It does not matter the
type of meditation you choose to learn, it can be yoga, Buddhist mediation,
Christian prayer, etc. All that matters is that you take time every day to
learn to slow down and not allow the noise to overwhelm you. The external noise
is extreme in today's society, but the internal noise is much much worse. Slow
down and enjoy the quiet, you will be glad you did.
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