What Is Inner Peace and How Can You Find It?
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Inner peace is the very feeling of being alive, devoid of all kinds of earthly matter. Your inner peace is where you are conscious about your mind and your very existence. You are content with whatever you are, wherever you are, irrespective what you have or do not have. When your consciousness is not bothered by materialistic thoughts and trivial earthly feelings like jealousy, anger, hatred, you experience inner peace. It is that state of your conscience where you feel complete and happy. How do you reach this state of inner peace? Here are some tips to find inner peace.
1. Forgive
When you are overcome with thoughts of revenge, you are far from peace. Let bygones be bygones and accept what has happened as it is and move on in life. Do not hold grudges against people who have at some point of time wronged you. Those people may appear to be super successful in life and really enjoyed having caused you distress, but the truth is they will never end up happy in life. If you are lucky, you will watch these people suffer horribly and they may even beg your forgiveness. The first step to finding inner peace is, therefore, forgiving. It will free you of any kind of negative thoughts against anybody.
2. Accept reality
Most of us live life in constant resistance. We are always fighting against something – drugs, illiteracy, poverty, terrorism, the system and so on. The truth is, majority of us do not have much control to bring about a change in the things that we resist so much. If, instead, we accept what really is and stop resisting futilely, we will find ourselves at peace. Not that you should give up, but you must acknowledge that certain things in this world just do exist and there is nothing in your power to change it overnight. And most certainly, if we worry about them too much, nothing is going to change at all.
3. Lead a simple life
Do not think too much. Also do not think about what others will think. Others normally do not think much because even they are thinking about themselves! Just let go and simplify life. Let things happen as they are meant to happen. Do your tasks on time. Avoid procrastination in order to stop thinking about incomplete work all the while and living in anxiety. Simplify your life and you will find inner peace.
4. Do what you love
Do what you love the most and do what you really enjoy doing. Immediately cease doing anything that does not give you joy. If you do what you love, you will be happy and find inner peace. Success and prosperity are sure to follow.
You cannot find inner peace in a day. It is a gradual process of self realization and is achieved by constant determination to just be happy no matter what.
