Why coming back to a place of inner-peace is essential to thrive and flourish in today’s volatile and unpredictable environment.
Why coming back to a place of inner-peace is essential to thrive and flourish in today’s volatile and unpredictable environment.
I haven't written much on here in the past few months as I've really been feeling everything that is going on in the world.
The energy that normally flows to inspire me to write was redirected for a period toward keeping myself and my home environment grounded, centred and aligned. I found with all the ups and downs and energetic pulls and pushes generated by the constant changes of our world environment, I have needed more energy to stay focused on what matters.
Life has never been more strange than right now, and, it has never been more important:
1. To discover your place of inner-peace. This is a place and an experience that cannot be taken from you because it exists within you, and, unique to you.
2. To think about what really matters to you so you can create, and maintain a sense of inner-balance. Without balance and harmony we cannot make decisions that are the best for us and we cannot give our best to ourselves and to others.
3. To think about what you value. Do you know your values? When we know our values we can be empowered to protect what we believe in and to disengage from external influences that do not make sense in our world.
4. To reevaluate your definitions of your values. As we live, we evolve. As we live life's experiences our understanding of the world changes. By keeping our values and understanding relevant to our reality and our present, we may practice letting go of what no longer serves us, making space for what does.
We cannot control the environment around us and we cannot allow ourselves to feel pushed around like a rootless tree in the wind – we simply would lose a sense of who we are, and, ultimately our way. The same occurs when we blame others and whats dealt to us in an environment as the reason for the way we choose to react to life. In these two ways we are disempowered.
The world around us is ever-changing...it has always been like that. Just that now, the imposition of life restrictions encroaching on our liberties, together with the rise of so much anger threatens our apparent overall sense of freedom. However, this is not true - we can still be free.
We must accept that we cannot control what happens in our external environment and choose not to be imprisoned in our own anger and expectations of others. Instead, we must realise that we can control our reactions and actions, attitudes, and mindset. We can control where we place our focus, and, ultimately we can control our inner-world. We can also fight for what we believe in and protect what we love and when we know our values, we know when to draw boundaries.
By seeing all that is right now clearly, we may understand that one of our greatest lessons as human beings in this time is to truly let go of what we cannot control, let go of our negative reactions that perpetuate a spiral of frustration, and, let go of the illusion that was created and that we feed to keep us thinking and believing that an uncomfortable existence is all that we have available to us.
Once we realise this, we have the power to discover that we are still free :
- free to make choices about how we feel and what we think
- free to empower ourselves with good feelings
- free to focus on what makes us happy
- free to do or not do
- free to interact with those that uplift us
- free to be empowered with knowledge that is available to us
- free to disengage from what doesn't make us feel good
- free to release what makes us uneasy
By realising you have a choice and that you are in full control of your inner world you are making a conscious action of self-love and self-care in order to return your mind, emotions and body to a a sense of balance and harmony.
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Reflective questions
- If I can feel better now, what could I be doing?
- I may feel I have no choices. But in truth, what are ALL the options available to me and what are the steps involved?
- If there are negative influences around me, what can I do about them to minimise their affect on me?
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