Creating Peace

Creating peace in the world requires us to first create peace within ourselves.

 Creating inner peace is a practice that ripples outward and affects the world around us in many positive ways

 Creating peace in our life as a core daily practice has an incredible impact on the world. If you want to know true peace but are feeling helpless as you look around and all you can see is struggle, war, overwhelm and suffering then I encourage you to cultivate this daily intention practice of

“Choosing peace”

 “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be”

~Wayne Dyer

Since these weekly Tap In Video’s and blog posts are both tools you can use to start your day with intention and essentially set yourself up for success, let’s recap the last 3 weeks as they are very relevant to this week’s success of creating inner peace…

• 3 weeks ago, we “tapped in” the Benefits of Meditation which led us to the intention of awareness (of our thoughts).
• 2 weeks ago, we “tapped in” curiosity which led us to the intention of opening our minds to all that is unfolding around us.
• Last week, in creating balance, we asked ourselves how we can create more balance in our lives which led us to using the intentions of awareness and an open mind to help us move towards what we want more of in our life and helped us realize what we need to move away from.

This week is a spin off of last week’s Tap In but with the intention of peace.

“What is one thing I can do today to create peace in my life?”

In order to make a choice towards peace, it is helpful to understand what creates struggle and suffering in our lives. When it comes right down to it an awareness of what and/or who you are attached to is essential. 

Here are a few examples of what many of us can identify with being attached to…

All source of struggle, suffering (and war) is the ego’s attachments to

• needing to be right
• people (our partner, children, friends/family – we of course don’t want to lose them)
• our need for acceptance and/or belonging
• winning at all costs
• possessing material things
• possessing people
• the need to feel superior
• the desire to not be judged
• the power that comes from controlling situations and people
• and attachments to outcomes (how we think they should unfold)

Inner peace comes when we can learn to detach

The source of peace is essentially tuning into the truth of who we are. This attunement or alignment with our truth and inner peace is clouded and blocked by the power our attachments have over our choices and intentions.  Our Soul’s expansive, open heart of acceptance, unconditional love, gratitude & forgiveness is what we need to tune into. With an intention to sit in awareness of our thoughts and attachments we can begin to make some choices to shift our hold on these attachment and move towards detaching. Detaching does not mean we do not care, or that we sit back and not take any action, in fact it is the exact opposite, we are fully invested in our desires and our capacity to love is greater – the shift is that we are open to other ways (often better ways) of receiving what it is that we desire and we are much more accepting of others. We are also more present in each relationship and we appreciate from a higher perspective, our life and everyone in it, .  

When we regularly practice the intention of having an open curious mind, we bring awareness to these attachments and we can begin to move away from the cause of our struggles and move towards peace. We eventually get used to making decisions based on whether it will bring us closer to peace or keep us stuck in our attachments. At first it is a commitment to stay true to this practice and be very present and mindful of our choices. Eventually this peace will become authentic and that is when it ripples outward and has the ability to profoundly affect the people and the world around us in a positive way.

How do we begin to shift from these needs of the ego to the inner peace of our Soul?

Awareness. An open mind. And the willingness to consciously think different thoughts.

• Start by thinking a peaceful thought.
• Notice how that feels in your body.
• Do you notice any changes in your physical body?
• Do you notice any changes in your emotions?

When we consciously think a peaceful thought, we then experience peaceful emotions. Then we can act upon these thoughts and emotions and make better choices from this state of peacefulness. When we bring this peacefulness to every life situation the energy around us changes. This energy expands and creates more peace.

On the flip side… if we think a fearful thought, we then experience fearful emotions. Then we act upon these fearful thoughts and emotions and we make choices from this state of fear. When we bring this fear to every life situation the energy around us changes. This energy expands and creates more fear.

You can replace the word fear with anger, frustration, sadness or any other emotion – the point is the energy it creates around us. This is why consciously choosing the thought we are going to have can shift everything for us.

So, if we want to help create peace in the world or if we want to help others around us find some peace, this practice begins with us.

Work on your own inner peace by asking yourself some key questions;

• “What does peace look like and feel like to me?”
• “What thoughts generate feelings of peace within me”
• Ask yourself every morning “what can I do today to create some peace in my life”
• Set your intention

Here are some Intention suggestions to begin your day

1. Today, I choose thoughts of peace.
2. Today, I am at ease
3. Today, I am peaceful
4. Today, I choose peace no matter what is going on around me

Practice consciously choosing peace everyday…

and for some extra awareness practice with every relationship you have…

Think of a relationship in your life. You will know true authentic peace if you can love this person enough to allow them to be exactly what and who they choose to be and do. Any attempt to control them, change them or put any expectations on them, will rob you of YOUR true authentic inner peace.

Good luck and be curious and compassionate with yourself as you find yourself shifting your expectations and releasing your attachments with each awareness you have.

This is the process.  Step by step. Day by day. Set your intention & make choices to create inner peace 😊

Now let’s Tap This In…