What Is Inner Peace?
Posted on Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at 7:33 pmHow do I find inner peace is one of the best questions you can ask. It is hard to imagine something more valuable. Relationships, wealth, recognition, work, family aren’t worth much without inner peace, yet when you have it, everything is enhanced.
Looking for the best way to find inner peace has you beginning correctly by understanding the need to find it within yourself. The history of civilization is often a question of taking over more property and inhabiting it, whereas to find peace you need to begin searching inside your own sense of being.
How in the world do you look inside yourself? If you close your eyes, you can’t see anything! Of course, you can be aware of your feelings, but inner vision requires a special technique. Our thought tends to follow what we are seeing. That’s why it is said a picture is worth a thousand words, and so much advertising is done with images. Even on radio, the announcer is attempting to create an image with words.
Usually, when you are looking at anything new, you are going to keep your eyes moving around so you can take in everything and understand what you are seeing more completely. Your mind probably works about the same way, as different thoughts tend to pass by in rapid succession. When your interested in something, it is much easier to focus your attention there. Did you know that when you focus your thought on an object you begin to find interest in it?
Five thousand years ago, the ancients knew the secret found at the center of the forehead known at the third eye point. Insights into your true identity are revealed when you look upward and inward with closed eyes, focusing at this point. Intuition is associated with this area and with a little practice you begin to discover something quite fascinating. As you are looking in, you discover your real self looking up and out.
If you have ever had a mental conversation with yourself you know it can feel as if there are two people in there. This is very easy to do. You might say “I need to get the shopping done,” and answer yourself “but I need to get gas in the car first.” Have you ever wondered who is talking to whom? You can experience the answer by quietly focusing your attention upward and inward to the third eye point.
You have two separate ways of using your consciousness. The first is in accomplishing tasks in order, one by one. The second is in being aware of the wholeness of the moment instead of planning your next move. You can learn to develop and savor the experience of being present and at ease in sublime peace.
“What is inner peace?” is answered when you experience the wholeness of life without preconditions or expectations in a way that becomes an increasingly significant to you.
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