How To Be More Peaceful

In this teaching, Geoff Bell-Devaney talks about the importance of turning towards our fear and embracing it with courage and compassion. He explains how we can do this by being accepting of this painful emotion and being gentle with ourselves when it arises. He explains that by infusing our being with peace and ease, those states can become our new way of living.

Transcript

We all want to know how to be more peaceful, Especially during these challenging times. And I would like to give you a tip that might help. But first of all, And this won't take long, I just want to explain to you why you should even listen to my tip or me. You don't know me, But I've been practicing and teaching meditation mindfulness for over 25 years. And I've done a lot of silent meditation retreats. And just over a year ago, I did a six week silent meditation retreat and I went into it hard. Broken. Our relationship had ended not that long before and it was not a fun time. But it taught me much. It taught me that we can create inner peace and the way that we do that is by constantly infusing our being with ease, With peace, Loving kindness. What that does is it gets us out of these old habitual patterns of being caught in not only thought but emotional energetic loops, You know, Which are compounded by being so busy in this world and stress that that can become our familiar. Our way of being, Being stressed out. And by infusing our body somatically in a very felt-sense way with peace and ease over and over. We shift out of those old patterns and we start to come back to, You know, Our true state of being, Which is peace. And he's like, When we were little kids, You know, It's easy to forget it in this busy, Effed up world. So I hope that's helpful.