Finding Your Inner Peace

With the chaos and injustice happening in the world today, it is more important than ever that we do our part to contribute to a solution. Solving chaos by adding more chaos is not the answer. To come to harmony and peace collectively, it starts first by creating it within ourselves. In this podcast, Rosa shares her wisdom and discusses further the topic of Finding your Inner Peace with guest Phil Hong (Technical Producer of the Humble and Fred Radio).

Transcript

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We're dancing to the sun Rise up,

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If we rise,

The stars will shine Rise up,

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The best time has come So finding our inner peace and rising to our best selves and I have Phil here next to me he's going to be more than happy to come in on this conversation so finding our inner peace and everything that I share is just a combination of just tapping in and just being able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to is just a combination of just tapping into that infinite wisdom through my meditations and through my personal experience where I've,

It's been a blessing and a curse but I've been able to access a level of wisdom relative to my age due to the fact that I've been through some things in my life and how I've chosen to react and get through them is that I've turned within myself and what that's done for me it's allowed me to connect to that inner guidance and that wisdom and it's really really worked for me and so I'm probably going to stress this in every podcast and I know that I'm currently just putting together a video of my full story and so again,

This is just a sharing of my own a combination of my own personal thoughts and experience and how I've interpreted the truth and how it's worked for me and it has allowed me to find a lot of success with a lot of people who have struggled for many years and I've had Cole on the show and Cole suffered a lot of trauma serving in Afghanistan and so I've worked with a lot of people who I always say I don't treat things I don't treat anxiety,

I don't treat depression I don't treat that stuff what I do is that I just teach love I teach self-love and I teach people how to connect with their truth and connect with their own inner selves if you will and I teach them that tool and how they apply that and how I facilitate that journey it's brought a lot of success for my students and so again,

This is just me sharing and I will have there are stories that are very real and vulnerable and I wish I could have every student on the show but I'm actually grateful that some have had the courage to come on the show and share their stories on how this has worked so one of the things that I want to share is about finding your own inner peace I think everyone can agree that the best version of ourselves is the part of us that is more peaceful that is at peace so obviously finding our inner peace is going to contribute to us being our best selves so that's the truth,

That's something that everyone can agree with if we're not at peace we probably won't express our most authentic selves and so finding our inner peace is a process of freeing our souls and seeing past the illusions of fear because in life there are illusions and there are truths actually in Chinese medicine they say that there are only two emotions in life there is love and fear and everything else is just a subcategory of it and so there are perceptions and there are realities so unfortunately a lot of our unnecessary pain is caused by the illusions and misperceptions in our lives so how do we know what is truth and how do we know what is an illusion and so if we can really master that and we can really identify the difference between the two and you wonder,

How?

How do you get to a place where you can really identify?

It could really help with truly finding that peace within ourselves and if there is only one wish that I had for this world it would be world peace and I believe that developing a deeper understanding and an intuitive sense to see the truth in every moment in our lives is the answer to achieving this world peace so you're not necessarily saying that the world should have a lack of wars it's more to do with being inside yourself as a human being as an individual yes,

Because I believe that peace in this world starts with peace within ourselves so before we try to deliver something outside of ourselves I think we need to start with ourselves so I'm talking about the inner peace with the knowing and understanding that that expands beyond ourselves and it expands the people of the lives that we touch directly our family,

Our friends and naturally a community,

A movement and depending,

I do believe that how big and how much it expands is just a reflection of that expansion within yourself because usually the illusion is I'm going to forward that to more powerful people I expect other actors to figure this out but it's you as well absolutely,

It's actually you only but that's a whole other topic in itself,

Right?

And so,

There's just some tips to consider that I'd like to share to help you to break through the illusions of fear and see things for what they really are which will ultimately lead you towards a path of peace so it'll just lead you so if you can imagine you're driving a car and I just made you aware of a different path and so I'm just going to share these tips I'm also very aware that a lot of the topics surrounding or a lot of the things that I talk about that's surrounding how to find peace and all that stuff I know a lot of it sounds it could sound hocus pocus or too good to be true and hard to grasp I understand that it doesn't stop me from wanting to share it and so I'm just asking for an openness to just consider and so here are some tips that I would recommend so for a person who would say okay,

I get that Rosa I get that there's love and fear and I think I'm always choosing love but how do I know?

Well,

I don't know how you would know but I'm going to share with you how I think that you can better know and if it helps and it works great and I'm confident that it will if you can truly apply what it is that I'm trying to say so the first one is B is to know that love is truth so when we're seeking truth it's important for us to allow ourselves to always see things from a place of love so this will assure that we're not coming from a place of judgement and judgement is what skews our perceptions of people and who they truly are at the core and so if we can take a moment just to think about that I'm not saying anything most people don't know we know that judgement is not love and so if we can agree and accept that love is truth and we have the intention to see truth and we know that judgement is not love it's a basic formula to understand that the intention has to be that we can't come from a place of judgement is what I'm saying we have to be able to recognize and we have to be able to have the self awareness and recognize if we're in a place of judgement and if we are,

Anything we see anything we choose to perceive cannot be trusted you can't trust that information so if we're not in a place of love rather than having a story about what is happening just accept the fact you know what,

I'm in a place of judgement right now I'm really angry,

I'm in this place where I need to label things because this is how I feel but don't act on it no,

Because it's a product of your fear it's a product of your fear,

Exactly and so just know that before anything we just need to get ourselves in a place of love and when we're in that place we see from that place the next thing and it all kind of blends into each other but the next thing would be to trust in love trust that love is the answer to everything so when we act on something we need to pull our full faith into something or else we will never be validated with what we believe in and so it's like in anything you can't be one foot in and one foot out if you're going to start a business you can't kind of try it because that's going to affect the results you can't kind of be in a relationship that's going to affect the quality of the relationship you're either in or you're out and whatever you choose there's no right or wrong but it's just about being all in and so if the intention is truly to connect with love it can't be conditional where it's like I'll see you from a place of love this time I won't or whatever right?

It's about understanding that if we're seeking to see truth we're seeking to see more love then we need to fully trust in love because it will be challenged and to get stronger or better at anything it's when we're challenged so to access greater love how we're going to get to that point where we can come from a greater love is in the moments when we're challenged to so if we think of other things that what love is so love is patient well to grow in patience and to become better at being patient we need to be challenged with experiences that trigger us to be impatient right?

And so if we can just trust in love because that trust will be challenged in hard times if we can just remember to trust in love we will connect closer to being able to see the truth another thing,

The third one will be to be the light in the darkness again it all ties in I'm actually saying all the same thing it's actually one big point but I'm using different words so at some point we're all going to be darkness and in need of some light so there are times in my life where I've gone through things and it felt like I was I just didn't feel like I was myself I feel like I had lost myself I was aware that I lost myself I just didn't know how to access her and so I would describe it as being a dark I couldn't be for someone in those moments and what's beautiful is that everyone goes through their different phases in life and so what's beautiful is that we're actually never alone when we're in that darkness if we allow ourselves to be open we'll always have people who are maybe in their light because they're in the phase of their life where they're in their light and so long as we're open we can pull ourselves out of that darkness and so if we can recognize in a moment where we are in our lives and if we can recognize if we're able to say I'm in a place of light I'm in a good place today let's try not to deny that light to others because it's easy to shoot people down for no reason absolutely and sometimes we see the illusion that there is a reason so it's like well I have a reason they're an a-hole you know what I mean?

And so well is that the illusion or what?

Because you're in such a place of light that you can't resonate with a certain behavior or maybe that behavior is just showing something within yourself and again that's a whole other topic you feel that you're not in the light yourself so you try to make up an excuse that you are yeah and so whatever it is it's just important to acknowledge where you're at and what role you're playing in a situation and so in the moments that we can be the light just be it and how is it comes back to the first one is just don't judge or have an opinion or label another person when they do something that seems wrong you know just acknowledge it as pain and send compassion and you know time is finite so you need to value your time so I'm not saying give your time to these people right?

I'm just saying that as you move with the ebb and flow of life and we all know that we can't control our environment we can't confine ourselves in areas where life is perfect right?

We're managing our lives where we carry our stories and our experiences with other people who have their stories and experiences so accepting the fact that we're going to interact with people and we're going to be put in situations where you know something may happen outside of us that we don't like and we don't agree and in the moment that we acknowledge it just check in with yourself to see where your mind goes with that and if you have that bit of extra time because you've filled up your bucket and you've been filled by your bucket but with you know from the blessings in your life and the great people in your life and all of a sudden you have this one interaction with someone rather than just labeling them or rather than just you know labeling them as negative or toxic just do yourself and them a favor and just don't don't do anything but at least you don't have to do anything but at least just don't label them you haven't gathered enough information to know everything about what's going on with them and if you don't have the time to do that that's fine but at least don't give your thoughts about them enough credibility because there's not enough information that's been gathered if anything if you're in a position to kindly bring awareness to that person to save them the judgment of others that will drive them into deeper patterns then do it otherwise just at the least just don't label them just be a light for them because I can tell you right now what happens is that how you naturally want to react to these people is likely a reaction that they receive from everyone and what saddens me is that that person in a world where they perceive it whether it's consciously or subconsciously they perceive those judgments it's very hard to come out of that darkness they don't stand a chance and so if we can recognize that we're actually contributing to their behavior and take a little bit of responsibility just you know and that responsibility is not to make us wrong is if we can allow ourselves to say you know what I'm responsible here it is my responsibility to make them aware or to not judge them and to be a light if we can accept responsibility then we'll do something about it and so that's the only reason why I'm saying that we take responsibility not to make us wrong but it just then directs us in a different way in how we move forward with that does that make sense?

Yes and so and then the fourth one again it's all saying the same thing is to actually I have five but is to be you so how do we how we choose to react to a person's way of being is a reflection of us so don't let other people's pain or imperfections or stories take you away from being who you are you know just to just choose to be a reflection of love and hold space for those acting from a place of fear it's actually going to heal you and the other person I promise because what we're experiencing is just a reflection of what we're choosing or allowing ourselves to believe but how would you say to someone who will say that you know I'm being me and I'm providing my opinions as a result well how do you tell someone who uses fear as their identity?

Yeah so you know what and the question I would ask is is this person aware that that's what they're doing?

So then I would be the light in the situation and say okay I hear you and I see why you feel that it's easy to say you know this is my opinion and thus I'm me as a result yeah so but if they're saying and I'm coming from a place of fear so if they've identified that they are coming from a place of fear then they're pretty much saying that they are playing the role of the dark now if they say no I'm coming from a place of love for myself because I shouldn't have to deal with that and that's not fair to me I agree as well because we need to have boundaries and that's what I'm saying is that we need to set those boundaries so that we can stay the light that we are and protect ourselves absolutely and so we don't really have to give our time to these people but if a situation crosses your path and it's happened to you where you didn't ask for it despite all your boundaries you've got judgment on your way yeah you got you know it's just a reaction it's a thought process that happens within a split second in your mind and in that split second if those moments happen you know 30 times a day that's 30 seconds a day where you got pulled out of being you know who you are and the reason why it's actually triggering you why you have an opinion is because it's not making you happy and so you know stay happy and to stay happy you need to be in a love judgment free zone it's just is what it is so but again it's all it's all based on like the the situation I would you know I would have to see what a person saying but if I notice that they're really coming place of judgment and you know I'm not trying to make them right or wrong so you know you can see how everyone can keep contradicting themselves it's easy how they you know people would settle with one sort of fact it's like you're insert a label here and all of a sudden you can settle with your own self totally and almost as if it's almost as if you've got a false sort of a false light yes as if you know that ah that's I've completed this I've figured this out yes even though it has nothing to do with the actual truth or you being you yes yes absolutely and and also recognizing to that you know I'm not saying to be in denial either of what you're seeing it's just that are you sure that what you're seeing is that that person's an a-hole or can you go a little deeper and recognize that that person's in pain you know if we can if if people's actions and behaviors were expressed through cuts and wounds when a person is cut open and they have an open wound and they're bleeding their guts are spilling and they're like oh like I'm dying and they're like there's this like scene where it's just obnoxious right you're going to reach out and be like oh my god you would okay you're going to give him a towel or you know when we drive by an accident we're like we always want to look and we're worried right but you take away the blood and the organs and the in the guts and it's just being expressed emotionally and in a and with with behavior then people would have a different we all of a sudden see it differently right in front of your face it's on your face and so do we need you know there was actually an awesome commercial I remember where there was like this this homeless it was an adult you know they were homeless and everyone walked by and then they did another scene where there's a baby sitting there and someone stopped and grabbed the baby so it's like you know what we're seeing with her eyes as an adult acting like a child or an adult acting you know out of you know behavior kind of thing we're passing someone judgment as a result of that yes because they shouldn't be that way and so if we need to be creative and try to see them as just a child where you know because that's what we are we all have that child in us but if we can just see emotional pain the way we would and react with the way we would see physical pain and see it as a vulnerability it just might allow us to have you know those split seconds where we you know all of a sudden went to judgment where we can just you know it might allow us to just shed a little bit of light within ourselves and them and that's all I'm really saying you know I'm not saying to put your time into it you know I'm not saying it's just it's just that we are here to serve and it's about having a happy balance and sometimes you know another topic right there that we can talk about is like purpose everyone's like I don't know what my purpose is what's my purpose what's my meaning of life and it's like start with just when things come at you start with just being of service because that's what purpose is purpose is like what's my purpose what am I here to serve well what we're here to serve is just goodness right and so you know in doing that what we will experience is that you know there's something about that that will make us feel good about ourselves and when we feel good we keep wanting it we keep doing it and allow that to evolve to whatever right next thing you know you I don't know start a yoga studio or you start a what do you call it like a community of any sort you start a community to help people like a union or a forum or yeah whatever like you know who knows and I'm not saying it has to go that way charity yeah or what it may serve for you is that you know your purpose is to have balance in life but that's what balance is is that to enjoy your life and to enjoy it with the people that you enjoy it with and in the midst of you you know having to share this planet with people who may not have it figured out like you do give them something send them a treat give them something at least right and give them some hope and leave knowing that you're in balance that there's a happy balance between serving and living your own happiness and that's really all that I'm actually saying so trusting in love being from the light yes love is the truth you know know that love is truth trust in you be the light in the darkness be you and the other thing was just to know that truth comes full circle truth will always come full circle it always comes down to love and if we don't see this in the first half of our lives we will start to understand this in the second half because what life is about it's just really about surrendering to the simple fact to just be love to just come from a place of love and just really that's what all the lessons of our life is about and so there's so many good things happening in the first half of our lives right you know we're making friends we're having exploring boyfriends and girlfriends we're going to get married got up a house there's so much things that are more self driven that naturally happen that to think about the depth of love and this and that we don't have to but in the second half of life when we've achieved all those things or if we're struggling to achieve those things or we've gone through struggle that's when we start to surrender and we're like oh right and so how much cooler would it be if we could just realize that in the first half and not have to go through the suffering right and just find balance in that while still doing everything that we desire as well so yeah so just love comes you know love and truth comes full circle and so you know same goes with relationships if there is a relationship that's truly out of love and it's no longer in your life you'll find yourself constantly it'll come back somehow and so yeah so basically you know when we can just accept those five points and just sit with it don't try okay don't try to be those things but just be curious about it allow it to penetrate a little bit and just see if you notice anything change within your own inner peace within your own self and what you feel so yeah so that's kind of what I wanted to share with you today so anyways if you guys have any questions if you have any comments you can just email me at rosa at risemybody.

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