Love and peace are inseparable. Love is not possessing another person. This is a state of harmony with the whole world and, above all, with yourself. This is the confidence that you are moving in the right direction. If we seek love, we find peace of mind, and if we strive for peace, we find love.
Above all, peace is balance
The number one challenge for people doing martial arts is to maintain balance. Once you start practicing karate, you will learn that strength comes from balance and a cool head. Once you add some emotions, your song is sung.
Equilibrium and peace of mind- sources of our self-confidence. Calm does not mean sleepy! Calm is managing power, not resisting it. Calmness is the ability to see full picture without focusing on details.
If you want to protect yourself from all adversities, you have chosen the wrong planet
Peace and confidence can only be found within yourself. There is no stability in the world around us; everything around is in a state of eternal variability. How can we cope with the unpredictability of life? Only by accepting it!
Tell yourself: “I love surprises. It’s great when you know that something unexpected can happen at any moment.”
Make a decision: “No matter what happens, I can handle it.”
Make an agreement with yourself: “If I get fired, I will find a job with a more flexible schedule. If I get hit by a bus, I won't be here anymore."
This is not a joke. This is the truth of life. The earth is a dangerous place. People are born and die here. But that doesn't mean you have to live like a cowardly rabbit.
How to achieve peace of mind?
To find peace of mind, first of all, you need to change your worldview. The habit of giving yourself a break every day can also help with this.
People who have achieved peace of mind often perform certain rituals. Some pray, others meditate, some walk along the seashore at dawn. Everyone finds their own way of relaxation. This helps us better understand ourselves and understand the world around us.
Life will remain a struggle if we insist on it
Modern Western civilization has taught us to constantly strain ourselves. I don’t argue with the fact that “you can’t pull a fish out of a pond without difficulty.” But before we start doing anything, we need to stop fighting everything and everyone. We grew up believing in resistance. We tend to push events and push people. We exhaust ourselves, and this does more harm than good.
Why is relaxation needed?
Almost everything we do in life is a race for results. But deep relaxation, meditation or prayer help us take a fresh look at life. We expect that the future will give us many pleasant moments. However, our attention must still be focused on the present.
By practicing deep relaxation, we will begin to notice that some qualities acquired during the exercises gradually become habits and change our daily life. We become calmer, we have intuition.
We all have an inner voice, but it is weak and barely discernible. When life gets too hectic and noisy, we stop hearing it. But as soon as we muffle extraneous sounds, everything changes. Our intuition is always with us, but often we do not pay any attention to it.
Lots of people go through this cycle. From this we can conclude: “If you don’t have time for relaxation, it is absolutely necessary for you.”
Meditation will save you more time than you spend on it. Make it a habit - set yourself up the way you set up musical instrument. Twenty minutes every day - so that the strings of your soul sound clean and harmonious. Wake up every morning with the intention of being calm and balanced. Some days you will be able to hold out until the evening, and sometimes you will only be able to hold out until breakfast. But if maintaining peace of mind becomes the goal, gradually you will learn this art.
Forces of nature
Have you ever noticed that you can wander in the forest all day and feel an influx of energy? Or spend the morning at the mall and feel like you've been run over by a truck? Everything around us vibrates, be it grass, concrete, plastic or polyester. We catch it. Gardens and forests have a healing vibration - they restore our energy.
Vibration of concrete shopping centers– another type: they suck energy. Vibration cathedrals directed upwards. You'll lose the lion's share of your vitality in smoky bars and strip clubs.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand: our health and attitude depend on elusive energy environment. When we are full of energy, we can easily resist illness and bad mood those around you. If energy is at zero, we attract depression and illness.
Greetings, deserted corner...
It is no mere coincidence that cultures around the world have a tradition and reverence for solitude. During the period of initiation, both the American Indian and the African Bushman left their tribes, hiding in the mountains or forests in order to understand their destiny.
The great Teachers - Christ, Buddha, Magomed - drew inspiration from solitude, as did the millions of monks, mystics and seekers of truth who followed in their footsteps. Each of us needs such a treasured place where phones don’t ring, where there’s no TV or Internet. Let it be a nook in the bedroom, a corner on the balcony or a bench in the park - this is our territory for creativity and reflection.
Everything is one
Since the 17th century, science has had Sir Isaac Newton's method: if you want to understand something, break it into pieces and study the pieces. If this does not add clarity, divide into even smaller parts...
Eventually you will get to the bottom of how the universe works. But is this true? Take a Shakespeare sonnet and break it down into nouns, prepositions and pronouns, then break the words down into letters. Will the author's intent become clearer to you? Lay out the Mona Lisa into brush strokes. What will this give you? Science works miracles, but at the same time it dissects. The mind breaks things down into parts. The heart collects them into one whole.
Health and well-being come when we look at the world as a whole. This fully applies to our body, our lives, and all of humanity.
There is an opinion that in our time it is difficult to be mentally balanced, that every day a person is faced with many problems, questions, obligations, which makes his head spin.
Few people can calmly react when they are shouted at, humiliated, rude, when a loved one leaves or when money is lost.
But there are such people. Sometimes they are considered abnormal.
How is peace of mind beneficial?
Exactly calm and balanced people they stop the wave of aggression, evil and discontent - and with their calm turn it into adequate communication.
Adequate from the point of view of the Universe, which does not understand our vanity and psychosis.
Mental balance and inner peace, as my experience shows, are also very beneficial for our physical health.
We can get rid of many existing diseases in a non-medicinal way. And we can avoid new ones from appearing.
And how our family and friends rejoice when we become internally calm!
When there is one less unbalanced person in the family)).
The result is more constructive conversations and decisions in the family. And at work too.
How to find peace of mind?
Method number 1. Stop playing and pretending
When we not sincere, pretending And we deceive– It’s difficult to be mentally relaxed. After all, we often deceive even ourselves.
We play some roles: leaving the house, each of us is no longer what we are alone with ourselves, what we are inside ourselves.
We try to smile when we want to cry. We maintain good-natured relationships with colleagues when in fact they annoy us.
All these games and pretending take away mental strength and throw you out of balance.
All you need to do is be yourself!
Yes, it is not an easy job - to learn to be yourself, to stop pretending. However, it is possible.
Stop playing and pretending Method number 2. Do something because you want it, not because others want it.
Mental balance is disturbed when we begin live and act at the direction of other people.
We already don't listen to ourselves, we listen to what other people tell us. And how can we be calm and balanced in such a situation, if even sometimes we don’t understand why we should do what we don’t want to do?
We are used to living in accordance with the desires of the people around us, but we have forgotten about our own. We allow others to manipulate us, we allow them to violate our personal boundaries. And at the same time we lose a lot of energy - because we go against ourselves.
Doing what we want and not doing what others want from us does not mean that we are refusing to help someone. This means that we listen to our Soul and respect ourselves.
Listen to yourself Method number 3. Know yourself and love yourself
More often communicate with yourself alone to understand the motives of your desires and actions. To understand what you like and what you don’t like. Define your personal boundaries. And don't let others violate them.
Ask yourself questions: “ Why do I need it…?», « Why am I doing this now?"And be sincere with yourself.
Then you will become more confident. Because you understand yourself. You know what motivates you, what you really want. You do not judge yourself, do not criticize, but are calm even about what could previously cause hostility and irritation.
Because it is you, your most beloved person, who has his own advantages and disadvantages.
Know yourself From self-acceptance and peace of mind begins to develop. You don't judge yourself anymore. You just accept yourself with all the qualities that you have.
Even with those that we call “negative”. After all, the Universe does not have “negative” and “positive”. We place the “+” and “-” signs ourselves. The Universe simply has a quality.
When they become a part of your life, then you will notice that you have more of your personal energy and internal forces. And as a result, you will find peace of mind.
Peace of mind and balance are very important for every person, because they indicate that a person is doing well, despite external circumstances. And finding such peace of mind and tranquility can be difficult. How to do it?
After all, this is not taught either at school, or at work, or in the family. But this is the basis of a person’s life, his Spirit, his Soul. And what a person will be like - calm or restless - depends on whether the person lives in accordance with certain laws of the Universe or violates them.
What is peace of mind and balance of a person?
In this life, each person lives according to certain programs laid down by society, parents, friends and acquaintances, watching movies and reading books.
As a result, a person reacts by inertia to current events in accordance with established stereotypes. That is why there is mental anxiety, mass fears, condemnation or rejection of anything happening in the world around us. So what is peace of mind and balance of a person? How to achieve it?
And all a person needs is to think about who he is, why he lives and where he aspires. And when he understands that his personality, his consciousness and ego were created for the purpose of evolution and development, then his thoughts will be calm, his Soul will be calm.
There will be joy in the Soul because a person helps it accumulate positive and blissful experiences. When a person lives in vanity, when his thoughts are chaotic, this indicates that there is no unity of his Soul with his personality. Then there is nothing to talk about peace of mind and balance.
In addition, there are or Laws of God, which are given not only to man and humanity as a whole, but also to the entire Universe for development and evolution. And when the Soul becomes primary in a person, and his personality, ego and consciousness follow it, then man walking in life he is calm and can control his life, his destiny.Such a person is both in good health and in good spirit. When a person has problems with mental balance, when his psyche is unstable and his thoughts are chaotic and chaotic, this means that a person lives, first of all, by his personality, and not by his Soul.
There is even such a thing as personality cult and idolatry. This is when a person, instead of living by the Soul, chases after external things, creating a cult of clothes, things, food, and it can also be anything: computer games, rock stars, fans at the stadium and much more.
However, the Soul is always primary, and the body and its personality are created precisely by it for the development of man.
And therefore, in order to find peace of mind and balance, you need to love yourself, your Soul, that inner self that exists constantly. When a personality follows the Soul, it begins to live harmoniously and manifest itself in accordance with the Laws of God.
Then a person will gain peace of mind, because the tasks of the Soul are fulfilled, the person develops and inner peace and joy appear.
This does not mean that you need to abandon the material world, you just need to live in it in harmony and balance. If you perceive the world around you as a gift from God, a gift from your Soul, and treat everyone you meet as a piece of your Soul, a piece of God, then you will have inner peace of mind, balance and harmony.How to find peace of mind
There are people who don’t read newspapers, don’t watch TV, and of course they don’t know about disasters and terrorist attacks and aren’t interested in them. Such people are considered soulless and callous.
Although in fact it is they who maintain and maintain balance and harmony on Earth, without getting involved in human negativity and without showing negative thoughts and emotions that settle as low energies in earthly space.
How to find peace of mind? There is a simple way to be calm and not show hostility towards people around you. When you meet a person on your way who causes irritation, you need to imagine that this person is your child, albeit not very well-mannered, but still yours. native child, and send him love.
Then you will have inner peace, and you will find peace of mind, and the world around you will also change in better side. And of course, you need to know such things that the Soul, as a particle of God or Spirit, represents the Unity of everything that exists in the Universe, creating everything in the Universe.
And here it is important to understand that mental anxiety is created by an immature personality, the human mind and ego. Because they contain old patterns, patterns of behavior and ways of thinking. In other words, there is inherent duality or division based on the struggle for survival.
Therefore, the mind and ego want to control a person, to be his master. As a result, a person divides those around him into friends and strangers, into dark and light, in other words, he fights for his survival. However, he does not need to survive, he is already eternal, because his Soul is eternal.
A person’s ego and mind exalt him, increasing his importance, vanity, and pride. The ego says that you are beautiful, priceless and don't care about other people. In this case, you need to fill your ego with love, tell it that you want to live according to the laws of the Soul, according to the laws of God or Spirit.
The ego will not want to lose you and will begin to serve you, rather than you serving it. And when the ego serves you, serves your Soul, then there will be harmony between the personality, ego and Soul. You will find peace of mind and peace of mind.
There will be no mental anxiety, because development will take place, consciousness will expand, you will understand that the world around you is a part of yourself.
A person lives for a long time in separation from his Soul, from God. That is why all the worries, illnesses, fears and despondencies. Now we need to learn to live in a new way, according to the Laws of God or the Universe, striving towards God, having lofty and good goals and intentions based on universal Love.
The state of mental balance is difficult to overestimate. Only when we are internally calm does life bring true satisfaction.
There are many obstacles to our balance. These include various worries, difficult memories, and fear of the future. The list goes on :)
How to find peace of mind? In other words, what can you rely on in life to maintain peace of mind? Before answering this question, let's figure out what it is?
What is peace of mind?
Peace of mind− this is the presence of a favorable internal atmosphere. Mental balance in any team and with any person is possible only when inner world a person is filled with creative energy, which makes a person happy, because he (the person) breathes and enjoys only bright feelings.
Mental imbalance or occurs when a person has chosen the wrong life path- a conflict arises between consciousness and soul.
Two aspects of life
First, let's look at where the roots of peace of mind may be.
The fact is that our life has two aspects: transitory and eternal. We can also call them relative and absolute.
The transitory aspect includes:
Our body; thoughts, emotions, desires, feelings that arise in us; our relationships; our property; our offspring; the fruits of our labor.
Everything relative is changeable, contradictory and limited. Every day brings with it new worries and concerns. Joys are overshadowed by sorrows, gains by losses, pleasures by pains. The white stripes of life give way to black ones... And finally, we have to part with it ourselves :)
It may not be very pleasant to admit this, but this is the natural order of things. Anyone who hopes to find support for peace of mind in the transitory will inevitably be disappointed.
For people who often have to deal with financial difficulties, it may seem that the basis for peace of mind is money. Those who suffer from illness will see it in health. Of course, good health and material well-being important. But, nevertheless, these are values of a relative order.
After all, even if you are not ill and quite wealthy, this does not guarantee you inner peace.
Arseny Tarkovsky subtly noticed this in his poems:
« Everything that could come true
To me, like a five-fingered leaf,
It fell right into my hands.
Only this is not enough…»
So, on the one hand, constant changes in external circumstances threaten to disturb our peace. On the other hand, the internal thirst for more does not allow it to be preserved for a long time.
What then to rely on?
How to find peace of mind (fulcrum)
The basis for peace of mind can be found in that which is not subject to the influence of time, space and causality. These are precisely the characteristics that the Absolute has. The eternal aspect of life is like the invisible foundation on which all its concrete structures (including man) are built.
To find peace of mind, you need to hear your soul and understand your inner world. And in order to really hear your soul, you need to close your eyes for a while to everything that you love or hate, to everything that you are proud of, to put aside everything that for you is an assessment of yourself and your life. This will be your first step towards your essence, towards your soul.
When you learn to enter this state, namely, to disconnect yourself from all imposed beliefs, addictions and all opinions, all levels of your soul will become accessible to you.
Hidden something
IN different traditions this idea is called: the first cause, the supreme law, higher mind, Logos, Paramatman, Tao...
A person may not profess any religion and be far from philosophical theories, but everyone deep down knows that there is “Something”. This innermost something is the unchanging Absolute. It is in it that the basis of our balanced state lies.
Summarize
- We have found that a state of mental balance is equally necessary as to the lucky ones, and people with difficult fate; We saw that the support for our peace must be sought in the absolute aspect of life; The idea of the Absolute different names present in many philosophical theories and religious teachings; Everyone intuitively senses the absolute within themselves.
Conclusion: with The secret of peace of mind is to establish a connection with the eternal aspect of our own nature - the Absolute.
How to do this is a topic for another discussion. And the task of this article can be considered completed if you now realize the need for such a connection. May peace of mind and tranquility remain with you forever. Look at your life above, we all live here on earth to take “tests and exams.”