INNER PEACE
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in such a hectic, fast-paced world. Everything is about efficiency and output, speed and production. No wonder the culture we live in is so destructive. When your focus shifts away from peace, be it in the world, or even in yourself, wars start. And it's no surprise that almost every North American, on a daily basis, feels like they're fighting some kind of war. Whether it's a war on drugs, a war thousands of miles away, a war on their own emotions, a war on obesity...the list goes on, and none of them make us feel good. And, to top it all off, we're too busy to even notice that we're caught in the crossfires, standing in the middle of these battlefields.
Can you imagine if the world was focused on simply breathing? If we all took five minutes out of our day, and stopped to breathe, to share a human connection with each other and the world, every day? If, instead of religiously turning on the news to see suffering and strife, we saw people around the world getting together to give each other a hug? When we focus on peace, on slowing down, we become peaceful ourselves. When we focus on the human connection we all share, when we focus on our breath and the gift of our lives, we become peaceful again. We forget about the battle drums wailing at us, trying to drag us in to these battles we never asked for, and we revel in the most basic, beautiful connection we all share - a desire for peace.
THIS WEEK, TRY THIS
Take a moment out of each day this week
to quiet your mind. Set aside everything for even five minutes, and
just sit. Allow whatever thoughts that come up to pass through you,
and then leave. Simply observe your Self, and your mind, and marvel
in the peace that comes from living in the moment.
As another task, try your hardest to limit the amount of 'news' that you take in, especially that of conflicts and strife. Sometimes we need to protect ourselves from the media machine that we see every day.
1 comment:
Concentrating on breathing is definitely the best thing to do. It helps you relax and soon you begin to feel at peace. I always do that in a situation of anxiety or stress. Life is beautiful when you search for a solution within :)
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