Resilient Peace

It is so easy for us to get side-tracked by the moment-to-moment activities of our day.  It is not so bad when these events are neutral and harmless.  It is tempting to float away with them and to forget anything having to do with peace, or the work of peace, and to just enjoy our happy moment because, at that moment, we are at peace.  While it is great to be present to the present moment, if we are not prepared for when stressful things emerge to challenge us, it is not as easy to get back to feeling peaceful.

Making it a practice to build your resilience and your alignment with peace paves the way for less turmoil when those happy moments bump into less enjoyable ones.  It takes dedicated work to build the inner muscle of peace so that when situations and times arise that challenge us, we can flex that peace muscle and not take a dive in our emotions and away from a resonance of peace.  It is only when we can maintain our peaceful center that we can effectively serve the world and spread peace beyond ourselves.

Like any other behavior, building the foundations of peace takes habit-forming effort.  Daily exercising peacefulness and collecting evidence that proves that fear is futile and simply an illusion builds strong beliefs, knowings and habits.  Practicing peace will buoy you up and allow you to remain in the higher, more peaceful, resonance fields in difficult times than without having built a strong peace muscle.

What can you begin to do today to move towards a stronger center of inner peace?  How can you make peacefulness a part of every day?

Peace,

CJ