find inner peace

Ok, another way to view inner peace. For example how can we maintain calmness when we feel distraught?

When your emotions are turbulent, when you feel alone, despair, a whole cascade of unwanted emotions such as anger, sickness, sorrow, self-pity all in a single moment. Is is possible to simply flick a switch and change the way you feel?

Meditation is about cultivating the mind or refining ones consciousness so when you see the ship sink you know that you are not the ship.

Learning to have a detached approach to life. Never react or attach your self to the result of things. Let things be. Just be. Don’t let your thoughts become you. Unconditional love. Unconditional happiness. Life consists of a myriad of opposites and don’t let mental habits or patterns or social conditioning such as being judgement of others (and therefore yourself) cause you unhappiness. That you ultimately are responsible for your own happiness and self-fulfillment and that it starts from knowing (as opposed to being ignorant of) yourself. For example, if you see yourself as if you were a machine, or just your body that has needs and desires to be fulfilled then such a view of yourself may create limitations of who you believe you are. You may believe that you are worth your social function, or that you are only worth how much you earn, or purely based on the things that you do. Or you may believe you are worth as much as the way your partner or parents feel about you. These are all limited views of yourself but are easily adopted at a conscious or unconscious level. Loving yourself is about seeing yourself as much more than the sum of your parts. Inner Peace is about this realisation. Loving yourself even if no else does, and even if you feel like you’ve done or said something wrong.

Well, without being too much of an essay I think that this is essentially what we are all looking for in different forms. My dad’s idea of happiness is to have a family, have lots of money, a big house and enough money to go anywhere in the world he chooses. I believe that happiness is more of an internal thing and is about self acceptance, being able to cope with change, to understand the people around you and to be understood. Happiness comes through making the right effort and not just by luck.