Peace
1 week ago
I want to be a peace in my life…accept the things that are out of my control and be fearless enough to change the things I can.
How to find peace.
It made me
content again. 
"A lot of this time I was looking for peace externally, never really realizing that it's always within."
How I did it: Excuse me for sounding metaphysical and esoteric, but I learned to connect with the inner life force within me that keeps ticking despite what's happening around me. When I realized that that life force is there, steady and calm, I stopped worrying about things beyond my control, and learned to be steady and calm myself. There is the peace!
Lessons & tips:
- Learn to be quiet with yourself.
- Find a one-syllable mantra (like peace!) and say it over and over until you feel it.
- When life feels overwhelming, ask yourself if you're ok. Really ok. Even when disaster strikes, you are still here, and ready to get to the next moment. Emotionally, you may feel like a wreck, but physically, your body is still present, still living, still ticking in a way that's moving you away from the disaster. Focus on that.
- As often as you can, be an observer of your life and your thoughts. By calmly observing things unfold around you, you can achieve a greater sense of peace because you are removed as being hyperactive and reactive. Only then are you more empowered to take the right kind of action, while discovering peace is with you.
- Do not replay bad events over and over again in your head. You will only relive the trauma, the sense of loss, and cause yourself more harm than the event itself actually caused you.
Resources: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle; Loving What Is by Byron Katie
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Oh god, with everything going on right now, no chance! Graduation practice, class reunion zero, graduation itself, attempts at a new job, college stuff. TOO CRAZY, no peace at all.
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1 month ago
As of right now, nothing in my life is peaceful. I feel like I’m stuck in the middle of the ocean during a hurricane. I’m not sure what to do or how to start, but I’m working on it.
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Peace is important
2 months ago
We all need to find peace in our stressful lives, school and work and life can clutter your mind, I want to break free from all of that.
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Peace for today.
2 months ago
I have had so much chaos in my life. It seems like my life has been a series of crisis after crisis. I want to learn how to live in peace regardless of what is going on in my life. I want to learn to be assertive and know what I want and ask for it. I want to learn to live in harmony with God and with myself.
kristenslist is ready to go back home.
Finding peace, whatever that means.
4 months ago
Right now finding peace seems like an abstract blob of words. But I do know it is something I need. For the past year or two my mind has been full of questions about my past, why did i end up this way?, remembering my face as a child and wanting to start from that place, that point of simple sweet extreme happiness. Looking back, I can see so clearly who I was supposed to be, but cannot translate that person into present, into who it would make me now. I cannot imagine myself as the self I believe I was supposed to be. I must find peace with who I turned out to be.
lotzlisa achy!
WoW
5 months ago
I am always chasing it? If I could learn to stay still i think it may come to me.
candela70 is peacefully and contently going about life...
finding peace
6 months ago
although i am aware that finding peace is an inner thing, i find that there are always external sources (other people) sabotaging my tranquility & contentment. some people thrive on drama and they want to drag you onto their stage. i dont sweat the small stuff, but i hate people that make themselves victims and feel sorry for themselves and want everybody else to feel sorry for them too.
Find Peace
8 months ago
I am tired of pretending to be happy and working so hard to present an image of happiness and stability. I have a family that constantly lets me down, and I am tired of the front. I have obviously made a bad choice in my life to marry this person and have these kids, so I need to find whatever peace I can in this screwed up life. I accept my bad choices, and I want to find some small corner of peace.
