Inner Peace

Yesterday, I became very anxious and worried from watching news podcasts and reading current events in the world. Later in the day, I made some notes about what I could do to help myself move forward to have greater peace within me.

I searched online for tips Eckhart Tolle recommends for having greater inner peace. Eckart does such a great job explaining how to recognize our Higher Self and how to be our Divine Presence which is the spark of God within us. It is unconditional love and deep inner peace. I love Eckart Tolle’s books, “Practicing the Power of Now” and “Stillness Speaks”. I highly recommend them.

I have wanted to be more peaceful all my life. I have always been anxious and fearful. Being highly sensitive makes it difficult sometimes to be in the world, but I need to take responsibility for my own thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Growing up and until recently, I never expected the world to become so challenging and difficult. The suffering that people are experiencing and the things being revealed seem so unbelievable and terrible. I never would have guessed things would be so upsetting in the world like this.

I woke up very early this morning with more information from Spirit regarding how to have greater inner peace. Here it is.

I have learned that life is a temporary experience. Our Souls preplanned our entire life in order that we may learn, heal, and ascend to higher levels of Spirit when we make our transition from this world. Our main purposes for being here are to grow and heal as a Soul and to live life as our Higher Self.

It is important to learn to observe the world and our life as a temporary play that we scripted prior to birth. Everything is predetermined. If appropriate, we can make changes as we are guided to do so with the love and guidance of our Higher Self, but even the choice to make changes is predetermined by our Soul prior to birth.

As human beings, we have an ego. The ego is fearful, controlling, demanding, judgmental, causes great pain, and creates suffering. The ego will tell us we are not good enough, do not know enough, are not smart enough, beautiful, capable, do not have enough, are not safe, and more.

When we return to Heaven, as Spirit, we no longer have an ego. In Heaven, we are pure love and peace. But, while we are here on earth as human beings, the ego creates challenges to overcome to help us grow on our spiritual journey.

We are learning to overcome the ego's fear and control of us and to live as our Higher Self, which is the spark of God, the Creator within us. The more we connect with our Soul or Higher Self and live as our Divine Presence, the greater peace, love, clarity, healing, comfort, wisdom, and personal power we will have.

We must be discerning about what we give our attention to and how we respond. Many things are beyond our control and are not our responsibility to handle. Yet, the ego would tell us that people and situations are wrong, bad, something to be afraid of, need fixing, changing, need running away from, or confrontation.

We are learning to let go and turn things over to our Divine Presence and God. We are learning to let Spirit guide us if changes need to be made and as we move forward.

Other people and things do not always cause our pain and suffering. The ego within us often judges, labels, and resists what we are seeing, hearing, and sensing. It is our resistance and judgement that cause us much of our pain.

We cannot control other people or situations. We cannot force people and things to be what we believe will make us feel good and safe or what we believe is right for them. Happiness and peace come from within us. Happiness and peace come from how we perceive life as our Divine Presence.

If we continue to believe that people, things, work, money, beauty, and possessions create our happiness, we are causing ourselves to be codependent. The power to be happy and peaceful is within us now.

We must learn to be more loving, gentle, forgiving, and compassionate with ourselves and with each other. We are all doing the best we know at any given moment. Life is about learning and making new choices along the way or in future lifetimes.

While our Soul is in human form, it has an ego and that means we will not be perfect as human beings, and we are not meant to be. We must learn to accept what is, unless we are clearly guided to make positive changes from the guidance of our Higher Self, focus on the positive, and choose to be grateful.

I am learning that I must limit the news, negative conversations, and become more aware of my own negative thoughts to be happier and more peaceful. I also need to be in the silence and stillness more often.

It helps to have walks in nature, sit in the silence, be creative, make time for play and fun, sing, dance, move my body gently, pet an animal, and remember to smile. Uplifting books, movies, TV, and music also help me to relax. Positive self-talk, greater patience, faith, trust, and surrender to a Higher Power are very important things to practice.

It is also important to practice self-love and self-care. It is healthy to set boundaries, speak up, not overexplain, not take things personally, and do what is best for us while being respectful of others. 

Online, using AI, some of the things Eckhart Tolle taught to feel the stillness and peace within us are:

1) Ask ourselves, “I wonder what my next thought will be?”

This question separates us as the Higher Self from our ego. It allows us to be a witness in our own lives so we will no longer be controlled by the fearful ego.

The silence and stillness you experience during this pause from thinking is your Divine Presence. Notice it. Feel into it. Isn’t it wonderful?!

When the thought finally does come after a period of silence, we are encouraged to be the observer of the thought without getting caught up in the judging and controlling mind.

2) Another suggestion by Eckhart Tolle online using AI was to learn to feel the energy within us by closing our eyes and focusing on our hands or feet and feeling the energy within them. As we begin to feel the tingling, warmth, or movement in our own body of the life force energy, we can then feel it within our whole body while experiencing greater peace within us.

This is another way to feel our Divine Presence. While we are in this quiet space, it is helpful to listen to our own inner silence and possibly any clarity that may want to come forth in the form of guidance for us.

3) Another suggestion by Eckart using AI online was to breathe slowly and deeply to feel inner peace. As we practice being in the present moment, rather than the past or future, we will begin to experience our Divine Presence and the greater depths of love and peace within us that are accessible to us now.

The more often we connect with this Divine Presence, which is who we really are at the core of our Being, the I AM, and the more we live from that place of deeper love, peace, and Divine connection, the better we will feel, the more positive our life will become, the happier our relationships will be, and the greater positive influence we will have on the world.

I recommend you sit in a comfortable position with your eyes closed and your phone ringer off. Turn off any other device notifications so you will be uninterrupted while you are connecting with your Divine Presence. I suggest you sit in the silence and stillness during the meditation, but if you need gentle, soft, instrumental music that has no words, that is fine too.

I suggest you have a timer next to you so you can relax deeply without falling asleep. Have a gentle ringer on the timer so it does not startle you when it goes off.

Place your hands on either side of your lower abdomen. On the slow inhalation, silently and slowly say to yourself the mantra affirmation, “I am loving.” With your hands, feel your stomach rise as you breathe in. Watch this happen with your mind’s inner eye.

On the slow exhalation, silently and slowly say to yourself the mantra affirmation, “I am peaceful.” Feel your stomach lower as you breathe out and watch this happen with your mind’s inner eye.

It is very important that you keep your focus on the rise and fall of your stomach during the entire time you are sitting in the meditation. If you find yourself thinking, put your attention back on the rise and fall of your stomach as you breathe in and out. Keeping my attention on the rise and fall of my stomach has helped me tremendously from thinking. 

You are training your lower egoic mind to take instruction from your higher mind or Higher Self. It takes practice and dedication, but it is worth the greater love and peace you will feel and the improvements you will notice in your life and in your relationships.

After a few minutes, shorten the mantra affirmation on the slow inhalation to silently and slowly say, “Loving.” On the slow exhalation, silently and slowly say, “Peaceful.” Do this for the rest of the entire meditation.

I suggest doing this meditation once a day for about 30 minutes. If you need to start with only 5 minutes a day and work up to 30 minutes, that is fine. By practicing being in your Divine Presence on a regular basis, you will begin to heal your emotions and feel greater love, peace, comfort, confidence, clarity, wisdom, and power within you. By living as your Divine Presence, you improve your life and your relationships.

I do this simple, but powerful meditation when I go to sleep every night even if I am lying on my side. I also do the meditation when I am going back to sleep in the middle of the night. I may play some peaceful instrumental music while I do this to help me fall asleep. I highly recommend it. You may not be able to have your hands on your stomach when you are going to sleep, but you can keep your mind’s inner eye focused on the rise and fall of your stomach as you drift off to sleep. Again, that is the trick to keep from thinking so you can relax.

You can change the mantra affirmation to whatever works best for you. I sometimes slowly and silently say on the inhalation, “All’s well. I trust.” I repeat this on the exhalation. After a few minutes, I reduce that to slowly and silently saying on the inhalation, “All’s well.” On the exhalation, I say, “I trust.”

Another mantra affirmation I may use is to slowly and silently say on the inhalation, “Thank you.” I repeat this slowly and silently on the exhalation. By feeling grateful and thankful, we begin to let go of our resentments, anger, worries, anxiety, suffering, and frustrations.

When you connect with your Divine Presence, also called your Higher Self, you receive Divine Healing which is the Love and Peace of Spirit. You may experience a gentle release of unwanted emotions, a letting go of limitations, a dissolving of fears, lightness in your heart, relaxation, greater comfort in the physical body, renewed joy, more energy, and greater overall well-being.

Healing from the High Realms of Spirit may create sleepiness, warmth, coolness, a breeze, tingling, beautiful colors, understanding, pleasant dreams, wisdom, insights, spiritual awakenings, inner visions of Ascended Masters, Guides, Angels, joyous visits from Loved Ones and Pets in Heaven, and guidance about your life.

Divine Healing has the potential to alleviate pain and facilitate healing. You may feel the unconditional Divine love, Self-worth, and Self-acceptance of your Soul, healing Angels, God, Source, however you may name it.

I may assist you in connecting with your Divine Presence and receiving Divine Healing in a Private Session with me. Relax and enjoy a beautiful, uplifting, healing, empowering, and transformative experience!

4) Another suggestion Spirit reminded me of is to notice how we are feeling throughout the day. Are we anxious, worried, sad, mad, lonely, feeling not good enough, unlovable, afraid, tired, confused, or unfulfilled?

Our natural state of being as our Higher Self is love, peace, and joy. The part of the Creator that is in us as our Soul is in perfect harmony, wholeness, and wellness. If we do not feel this way, we can connect with our Soul in silence and stillness or through loving, creative, and empowering activities to remember who we really are.

Ask yourself from time to time during the day, “How am I feeling?” Most of the time, unless we are being mindful and intentional, our egoic lower thoughts determine how we feel.

If you do not feel good, notice what you have been thinking. What have you been giving your attention to? How have you been responding in your mind and what have you been resisting?

The good news is you can choose to think differently by focusing your attention on positive thoughts and positive things to feel better, peaceful, and powerful. Happiness is a choice we often must make. Gratitude and positive thinking create a joyful, peaceful life.

This is the task at hand and what we have all come to do. This is the Game of Life. We are here as Souls learning we are more than our physical bodies, to overcome the ego, to connect with our Divine Presence, to be the Divine love, peace, compassion, empathy, and intuitive wisdom within us, and to share our Divinity with our family, friends, animals, nature, and with others in the world.

This is the great Spiritual Awakening humanity is going through from approximately 2020-2050. Living as our Higher Self means we take responsibility for our lives, the thoughts we think, the feelings our thoughts create, and the things we do.

This is how the world changes for the better. The more we love, forgive, accept, and encourage our self, the more Divine Light we reflect into the world to uplift, support, and help others through the darkness. We help each other remember that the Light, the Divine Peace, and the unconditional Love are within us now. They always were. We are powerful Divine Beings!