Tag: Peace

  • To radiate peace, calm your heart and mind

    To radiate peace, calm your heart and mind

    Have you ever noticed those people who walk into a room and just bring an aura of peace? The energy of the room shifts, they bring a calm that’s hard to put into words. We might call it a calming aura and for me, it’s a state I aspire to.

    When these people walk by or enter a room, you can see others visually relax, drop their shoulders and a peace filters in. Around these kind of people, you might feel reassured that everything will be okay and whatever you were worrying about will resolve and turn out for the best. You might even feel that peace when they’re not close by and you think of them.

    Your calm creates safety and you will radiate peace.

    When you bring calm, you’re not a distraction to others. You create focus, motivation and energy for people around you to push forward. You may even feel more comfortable and more like yourself when they are around. It’s a pleasure to be around them and they will help you to be your best.

    Calm in your heart (mind) will send the same energy out across the room and space.

    We wouldn’t be human if we were able to be like in this state all of the time. Even on the difficult days when your energy is disrupted or things don’t go your way – choose calm over anger.

    A few tips to help create your own calm and peace:

    • Rethink your work or rest space at home or work. Give yourself a corner for calm
    • Moving your body believe it or not, will get rid of that erratic energy and bring calm to your bodily rhythm and mind
    • Get creative. Pick up a peaceful hobby like painting or music
    • Music. Make yourself a playlist or five that reflect where your mood is at and encourages it to come down down down. I sometimes used the 8hr thunderstorm recording, it’s very peaceful
    • Head outside and get some D, the sunshine vitamin one lol
    • Get a good nights sleep
    • Try one of the many relaxation apps
    • Put the devices away, especially before bed. Try reading a book
    • Guppadea? Make yourself a nice hot cuppa and chill in your calm space
    • Scrapbook. I’ve been looking back through my sketchbook art recently and it’s been very calming. You could make your own book or draw
    • Giving of yourself. Working for others is good for the soul. Donate your time to helping a charity, volunteer organisation
    • Your daily switch off mechanism. Develop your own for after work. For me it’s swimming. I swim 30 minutes each day after work and I love it. Its calming, tiring, a switch off, a cool down an indicator that it’s my other time now

    When you feel calm, you’ll create peace within yourself and your surrounds and it’s a great thing for a healthy mind, body and spirit.

  • The freedom of letting go

    The freedom of letting go

    Learning to let go is such a useful skill and yet it’s often not easy. I think it’s one aspect of life that is a continual challenge met over and over.

    With objects I have this internal struggle of keeping waste, leftovers or extras unused portions for later use. The reality is, they largely don’t get used and if so, 2 or more years later they’re still there and they sit around creating background stress.

    Items left unused and sitting around your living environment I think produce a low level kind of energy loss. If they’re visible, they’re a constant reminder of their existence and current state of not being used.

    If they’re not visible, at some point the amount of unused things gathered in our lives causes us to do a massive clear out, the spring clean! It’s because in some way, we’ve gathered things that we know are truly not needed.

    The funny paradox is, as you let go of more and more, momentum builds and the process gets easier and easier until the massive things in your life that you thought you’d never release into the river of the universe, suddenly become miniscule. And off they go.

    Tonight as I stood with people who I’ve a long history and been through some tough times with, I felt a strong sense of peace.

    Letting go emotionally of past events, wrongdoing or grudges or pain, is one of the most freeing things. I wish I was better at it.

    Tonight, I felt it. Freedom. Forgiveness and release of the past. I was just fully present. We stood together as we are now, in the moment with all past released. It was very freeing.

    Letting go is such a core skill in life. When I’m able to do it quickly and speedily, I feel growth. It’s definitely something to study and practice more.

    Here are some tips I’ve found useful in letting go:

    • Assess if the object or thing is being used. If it hasn’t been used for a year, out it goes
    • How life goes and how we want it to go drives feelings of lacking. Release the grip on the how, and see how easier life flows
    • Revisit the idea that plans and life change. Do the things you need to live and see how it turns out
    • Reconfirm that we change and grow. And so the old self may be no more, and you may have different needs now
    • Meeting the expectations of others is a massive one to let go. Reconfirm that not everyone will understand, get or like you. Let that one sail. You don’t need anyone’s approval
    • When I get there, I’ll be?! The destination may be a long way off, enjoy the way there and all of the small details and joy along the way.

    Hope these are useful for you. Letting go for me is one of those daily things to practice.

    Are you good at letting go? What tips do you have?