Developing peace in our lives is not difficult. It doesn’t have to be cumbersome. And it most certainly has a direct, positive influence on all aspects of life. Achieving personal peace is often about how we direct our focus on the matter. It becomes about what we consider important and most relevant and especially, how we want to direct and utilise our time. These are our key points of focus to help you develop peace in your life:
Take a look at some key points to focus on. If you only develop ONE aspect, it will still make a difference to your life. Choose what will help you… and then add it to your own personal Toolkit!
Physical Peace:
Make quiet time for yourself EVERY day. That means quiet, preferably silent. Even just 10 minutes gives you an opportunity to ‘be’ with yourself, in your own space. It reconnects you to you.
Ensure you get ‘alone’ time at least once per week. Time when there is no-one else in your space, and no-one asking for your time or attention.
Ensure you get good sleep. Do not settle for poor quality sleep. Sleep is restorative and essential.
Get your body active. Walk, move, exercise, dance, garden, decorate. Don’t let your body stagnate at a cellular level - make it work, make it function.
Relaxation time is good for the soul. Do what you enjoy, indulge in your hobbies, or be creative and absorbed in what you love.
Be in nature. Get out and let the Earth’s natural elements will nurture you.
Change your surroundings. We create ‘fixed patterns’ of movement in places we reside. If you change the physical nature of the environment, it changes the way your sensory awareness responds.
Mental Peace:
Make an active choice to bring awareness to your thoughts. And listen to their flow. Do they serve and support you well? Or do they lessen and diminish you? Be more aware.
Don’t dismiss what troubles you. Things don’t go away if we just try to ignore them. Be bold, be brave, and address troubling issues as soon as you can.
Learn to quieten your mind. Your brain is always running with a backlog of processing. This continuous activity consumes energy and focus.
Dedicate your intention to creating more clarity and focus in your thinking. As you ponder and process, purposely ask - is this clear? Can it be made clearer?
Use your intelligence! Surprisingly, we don’t contemplate or give due consideration to most of daily life happenings. Change that. Become deliberate.
Identify what stimulates your curiosity and include that into your life as often as possible.
Identify what ignites your creativity. Whatever gets you into flow, enlivens you, and helps you to produce something you’re proud of. That, is direct mental stimulation and satisfaction.
Emotional Peace:
Validate your feelings. Don’t try to ignore or suppress what you are feeling. You are entitled to feel. Suppressing them may cause them to build up and fester inside.
Raise awareness of how feelings move through you, and what they connect to as they do so. Do they connect to the past? The future? Are they within your heart, your gut, or somewhere else?
Untangle your feelings. We gather and collect a mass of emotional content. If it doesn’t get ‘sorted’ it gets ‘entangled’.
Consider the support of a healing therapy if your present is often emotionally deluged by the past. Therapy can help you clear and balance the past.
Cultivate relationships with people who you can trust and share openly with. And tell them when you need help and when something is troubling you.
Purposefully bring enjoyment into your life. It brings light heartedness and generates energy rather than consuming it.
Find out what is fun, what makes you laugh, and get more involved with that. Fun is relaxation and stimulation at the same time. It is highly restorative.
Spiritual Peace:
Contemplate what you have faith in. That doesn’t have to be religion. But it’s important to identify what strengthens your inner being through the presence of faith.
Encourage your own self-respect and respect of others. Self-respect is an act of kindness to yourself, and it will strengthen your inner self value and moral core.
Acts of self-kindness are important. It makes you equal to the kindness you offer and generate for others. Self-kindness is self-love.
Contribute to the wellness of others. As we give and share, there is a natural reciprocity that takes place. It is a mutually beneficial encounter.
Identify your own moral code and live by it. Don’t break your own rules for living. Guilt occurs in those times when you go against your own code.
Let truth guide you. And always ask first “Is this true?” before you respond or react. Response is a considered action. Reaction is automatic and often thoughtless.
Regularly focus on your heart’s desires. Let your inner being show you what is good for you and what will strengthen your presence and your journey in life. Your loving heart’s desire will always try to align you to a higher purpose.
Take a browse at some key points to focus on. If you only develop ONE aspect, it will still make a difference to your life. Choose what will help you… and then add it to your own personal Toolkit!
This Personal Peace Toolkit accompanies our main 'Peace - The Final Frontier' article , which you can read HERE
