A Chat About Inner Peace

I felt inspired to share what I've been experiencing lately on my journey towards inner peace. Here's a little chat about it with some stories from my own life. As always, my intention is to share my own experience to help normalize the human experience so we can all feel more belonging and acceptance.

Transcript

So lately I've been experiencing a lot of peace,

A lot of inner peace,

And it's something that I've been really working on for a long time.

It's something that I have really made a priority in my life,

And it's something I really like to talk about because I know for me my pursuit of inner peace has come from the desire to reduce my suffering and feeling internally peaceful.

I didn't know if I was ever gonna get there.

It just always felt like there was so much turmoil in my mind,

And with awareness we come to see that we have control over it,

That we get to choose at any moment how we want to feel.

And I'm not talking about avoiding when you're sad.

You know,

We're gonna have the highs and lows,

But in between those big life events I just want to feel peaceful.

I just want to feel content and maybe some happiness,

But most importantly peace.

That is the thing that has really eluded me for the majority of my life,

And so I worked on it and worked on it and worked on it,

And I just want to share what I've learned about it.

I realized that it was the most important thing for me.

I started prioritizing feeling good,

And I had to clear a lot of junk out of my mind that was keeping me from experiencing peace.

And that's what it is.

It's all in the mind.

It isn't anything external to us.

It's the mind.

It's our choice.

We can build up all of these ideas and stories,

Expectations.

We can create a masterpiece of dissatisfaction inside of us,

And we can cling to that,

And we can keep it alive every day,

Or we can let it go.

And I'm realizing that feeling peaceful is what I get to feel when I let everything else go.

I was at the grocery store today,

And you know,

The grocery store is one of those very modern human things that we have to do,

And it can feel so repetitive.

And so I was reflecting on how do I make this very mundane,

Very repetitive process feel better?

And I realized I can just be present with it.

I can just enjoy it.

I have nowhere else to be.

I can be fully at the grocery store,

And I can see what there is to see,

You know?

Who can I be kind to?

Who can I give a compliment to?

Who can I give a really sweet smile to?

Who can I get out of the way for?

How can I be more patient?

And that feels a lot better than rushing through that place,

Being annoyed that I'm there again,

Because it's a part of my life.

So I can choose to be annoyed with it,

Or I can choose to make it a really lovely experience,

A nice part of my day.

And so that's what I've been doing recently,

And it feels so much better.

I feel so much better.

I feel peace.

Follow me,

You know?

I'm making peace a priority.

Instead of rushing,

I'm choosing to slow down and just feel peaceful.

I've been working with my therapist for a while on allowing myself to just be.

Allowing myself to just be.

To feel like I'm doing enough to rest when I want to rest,

And not beat myself up about it.

To do what I feel like doing in any given moment,

And be really accepting of my choices.

There is nothing else.

There's only what we feel,

And what we want.

There's no wrong choice.

There's no reason to judge ourselves for any decision that we make.

Here's a good example,

Too.

So I'm at the grocery store,

And I try to buy things that are more naturally based,

Without a bunch of toxic chemicals and things like that.

And I needed to buy some dryer sheets,

And I was at a store that doesn't have a huge selection of more natural type of things.

And so the dryer sheets I picked out had some properties that I felt good about,

And then maybe some others that were not great.

But I just,

I got them,

You know?

I got them.

And they're super fragrant.

I can smell the fakey chemical smell.

And in the past,

That's the kind of thing I probably would have been upset about.

Like,

I would have been mad at myself for that.

Like,

Oh,

I spent money on that.

It's gonna be harmful to me,

Right?

Like,

I can get wrapped up in all of that.

Like,

I've made a bad choice.

And I know this is a small and significant thing,

But it's just an example,

Because we do this with big things,

Too,

Obviously.

But I realized that it didn't bother me the way that it used to.

When I prioritize peace,

I can let that go.

But before,

That's the kind of thing that I would have got a little bit hung up on,

That I would have been upset about.

And then I may have even been upset about each time I went to use said dryer sheet.

But it's not gonna bother me.

I'm not gonna allow that to affect my inner peace.

So I know that's a silly example,

But these are the things the mind does.

These are the things that happen to us on a daily basis that will throw us off,

Right?

It's like we can be having a really great day.

And then one little thing happens.

And then it all goes crashing down.

But it doesn't have to.

So coming back to it.

I think it comes down to allowing ourselves to just be,

Allowing that to be okay,

Giving ourselves permission to just be,

Permission to just live however we want to,

Without the self judgment,

Without the disappointment,

Or the self criticism.

Just allowing ourselves to be,

To be exactly what we are,

To be exactly where we are,

At any given moment.

All is well.

All is actually well.

And again,

If it's,

If it's a little thing,

We can let it go.

We recognize how much we create in our mind that just isn't necessary or real,

Or helping us.

And it can,

Like I mentioned before,

Create so much turmoil.

You know,

There's already,

There's inevitable suffering that we're going to experience in life.

We're going to experience loss and pain.

So why,

Why would I want to create other little experiences of suffering for myself that just aren't necessary?

You know,

When I really don't have anything to be upset about,

Then let me just feel peaceful.

One of the other things I'm noticing about prioritizing peace is that I'm actually more productive,

And it feels better.

It's more in flow.

I know for me,

I used to put so much pressure on myself,

So many expectations about creating or taking action on things.

And I find that when I prioritize peace,

When I allow myself to just exist in my own flow,

Instead of creating a timeline,

Or saying,

I have to do this thing today,

Or pushing through,

Even if I feel tired or uninspired.

And if I do the thing anyway,

It's not going to feel that good.

It's not coming from a place of inspiration or creativity.

It's coming from a place of being forced.

And that's not what I want to create.

I don't feel like that is a good way to go about creating.

And so when I'm in a state of peace,

When I'm in a state of natural flow for myself,

I find that I so much more effortlessly create the things that I've been trying to force myself to do.

They just happen.

They just become a part of my flow.

It's like,

Oh,

I feel like doing this now.

I will do this now.

Or I feel like resting now.

I will rest now.

Or whatever it is.

It's such a nice state to be in.

And from that state,

I feel like what comes out of it is just easier.

My life feels more aligned,

Easy,

More in flow,

More natural,

More effortless.

It just feels good.

And that is another benefit of prioritizing peace and feeling good.

And just being in your flow without forcing,

Without beating yourself up.

It's really cool to see what would just flow if you just allowed your natural state to be what drives you.

I think we have this fear that if we don't force ourselves to do something,

Then it won't happen.

And that just isn't true.

So we have to get out of that mindset and make peace a focus,

Make flow a focus,

Make intuition a focus,

Listening to ourselves and what we need,

Make that a focus and trusting,

You know,

Trusting ourselves.

Trusting that if we need to take a break right now,

We need to take a break and that's okay.

Whatever it is for us,

Just trusting that what we feel in the moment is what we need.

And then we keep moving from that place of alignment.

And we notice that our life feels better.

And that we are experiencing more of what we really want to experience.

Okay,

I think that's it for me today.

Those are my current thoughts and feelings about peace.

And that is what I wanted to share.

So thank you for listening.

If you feel inclined to write a review,

Or let me know if that resonated with you,

I'd love to hear about it.

And I'll see you in the next one.

Until we meet again.

Reviews

Your words are so relatable! Your suggestions make so much sense to me. Thank you so much. I am going to listen to each of your talks/meditations. ☮️

This talk explains beautifully what I've been experiencing lately. I have been working to take all pressure off myself, in every aspect of my life, and live slower. You summarised the sense of peace I am beginning to feel from letting go and living in the present. Thank you for sharing 🙏🪷