AND PEACE TO YOU

There was loud thunder rumblings about Midnight and flashes of light, but no rain until early Morning. It sounded like it was really coming down but according to the rain gauge we got less than one half inch. It was bright Sunshine when I got up, it lasted about an hour and then clouded up. The Sun peaks through occasionally.

I am getting a late start. It is already 11:30 AM. I have been having constant reminders that the most important thing I can do for myself and the world is to maintain peace.

We are going through a chaotic period both globally and nationally. The energy emitted sometimes is quite negative. If we let it, this energy affects our personal life, at both an individual and relationship level. It disturbs our peace.

Peace is crucial. Without peace we cannot feel love. Without peace our love stays bottled up. Without peace we cannot create. Without peace we stay stuck in a gloomy world we don't want.

We value peace, but sometimes at a conscious level, we forget how important it is. We love our emotions, and sometimes we are happy to indulge them, even when it disturbs our peace. How many times have we got riled up by a chance remark? How may times have we got carried away when our feelings got hurt? How many times have we engaged with someone, when we could tell by how we were feeling, that it was likely a mistake? Add to this list, how you contribute to disturbing your peace.

We might say, “We can't control our emotions.” Who is going to, then? Is it always necessary to let each of our emotions carry us to perdition? I have learned for myself, that I don't have to indulge in every emotion that flows through my being. I certainly am not successful all the time, but I make continuous progress.

The first step for me was to recognize and value the importance of being peaceful. There is no happiness without peace. Peace is the very foundation of the enjoyment of life. With peace, we can be joyous, loving, exuberant, and live life fully. Finding a base line of peace in our consciousness and maintaining it keeps out negativity.

I think we need to see how important this is at an intellectual level. When we recognize that, we can form an intent to bring more peace into our lives. Perhaps, I should not say 'bring peace into our lives', because the peace is already there. We are all peaceful at our center. It is the doubts about ourselves, and a whole mis-mash of unloving ideas we have taken on about ourselves, that keep us from realizing our peace.

So again it boils down to loving ourselves. It is very helpful to use some kind of meditation technique, daily, to find peace. I think I mentioned it in my last blog, imagining and emerging ourselves in a marinade of unconditional love. Let it soak into every cell of our bodies and every corpuscle of our minds.

When we develop an intent to maintain peace, we learn to catch ourselves, before reacting to an incoming hurtful message, and we can separate ourselves from the interaction. We can know, anything negative coming towards us, belongs to the source, not us. It cannot be a comment on us because we don't own it. The comment comes out of the sources craziness, not ours. It is all a painful way to ask for love. When we can recognize that, we can ignore the comment and send them love silently.

Learning to do this takes practice. We will fail many times. However, it is never to late to catch ourselves and stop where we were heading. Practice, practice, practice.

I know that I am not bringing peace, to a peace starved world, when I am not peaceful.

I want to experience a peaceful world. I know I have to start with myself.

When we are peaceful, we bless the world. We can do it. We will do it.

Love and Peace, Gregg