2121

It’s very important to keep the peace in your environment and in your mind. Today, I experienced so much debilitating anxiety, where I felt like I couldn’t do anything. My mind moves so fast sometimes I don’t even realize where I am. I have gotten much more aware and better with dealing with it, but it still gets to me some days. But then, when it gets really bad, I am reminded somehow that it doesn’t have to be this way. My running around trying to put away everything (chaotic environment) and my ruminating in my head(chaotic mind) is something that surprisingly, I have a lot of power over. All I have to do is become aware of it, and then do something that calms me, or picture someone or something that calms me. I also have found realizing the extreme importance of keeping my own inner peace helps me to actually cultivate it. The self-compassion part of it is what changes my actions and thoughts from frantic to peaceful. It doesn’t have to be that way, I can feel calm and at ease, and I always deserve to feel that way. I have been through too much in this life to not allow myself to feel peace.

Some things that helps me cultivate peace are:

-Nature

-Yoga

-friends

-family

-animals

-books

-music

-taking time to relax

-sitting with myself, hands on my knees, focusing on one point(drishti)

-painting

-podcasts

-self-care (e.x. doing my hair)

-eating lol

Taking the time to create peace in your life, to have inner harmony, balance, and stillness is so important and we take it so for granted. We think doing a lot and talking a lot will make us happy, when half of the time taking peaceful, mindful moments are where a huge source of happiness and contentment lies. Being in the energy of love also really helps. Taking deep breaths helps. Just pick one thing you can really connect and sink into, spend some time digital free and feel the abundant bliss that is available to us always when we take some slowed-down, indulgent “me time”.

For the environment piece to peace (haha), it is important to create routine and structure in your everyday life. This includes a daily routine, and and organizational system in your living space that is not too strenuous, realistic, but also keeps everything in its place. Its back to the old, untidy space = untidy mind. If you are feeling like it is particularly difficult to cultivate inner peace, look around and see what ways you can change and rearrange your space to serve you better in everyday life. For example, maybe its keeping all of you books you are currently reading in the same place, or creating spaces solely for certain projects or activities. For example, my coffee table is designated for manifestations and to-do-lists. Having areas where you know things/activities go or are being done is so helpful. Then when you clean up its that much faster, and then when you are just moseying about you mind isn’t thrown off with all of the random stuff everywhere. Don’t get me wrong, I’m far from organized, and I admire that part of myself, but if I can at least have some morsel of a structured system in my living quarters, let me tell you it goes a long way when you are naturally scatter-brained.

A big part of peace is also simply letting it go. Take a deep breath now. In, then out. In again, now let go a few things. In again, now let go, let out the rest of it. Ahhh. PEACE