Here are five key thoughts that I've found helpful for me to protect my peace.
These have been tested during crazy times, while me and hubby have been saying yes to some of the most unlikely things.
Because we knew in our gut that our path aligned with those crazy jumps.
Somehow we've over and over again found ourselves from setups that were not specifically created for a family.
And those seasons have put our peace to test.
While they've also been such unforgetful beautiful adventures.
Through the most turbulent phases, these five thoughts have proved themselves true to me helping us to navigate those seasons.
And they've carried the fruits of gratitude and peace as the after taste when coming out of the fields of pressure.
As you read through, focus on listening with your heart, not your head.
This is not regular knowledge that you can wrap your head around just like that.
This is you studying a living substance that leaves you clues.
It's you connecting with your soul to let wisdom you're seeking flow through you.
It's about the search, not the end result.
A journey, not a destination.
A who and a how, not why.
I would be so glad to hear your thoughts about this, what stirs up for you as you dive into these thoughts.
>> Peace is about being, not doing <<
Who we are is the home nest for our peace.
If our peace was a dove, it would rest in that specific place.
Our identity.
As identity is such an abstract substance, this is how I've seen it in practice in partnership with peace.
Let's imagine people saying things about you and I that are very hurtful.
What I've learned is that oftentimes those kinds of words touch an area in our identity that holds some pain.
What we might end up doing then is that we go into bitter tasting action trying to prove those words wrong.
And while the action begins from painful thoughts the outcome is never anything to celebrate.
The bitter taste never fades away from the results.
The underlying source of peace is going back to our identity.
No matter what stage we are in with building our identity into healthy stage, in there we can find our peace.
Reminding ourselves who we are is a strong fortress.
Yet the secret is that you detach yourself from any action, accomplishment or result you've made.
And focus on just your worth in itself.
Who are you and how are you loved and held in just that stage?
With nothing to offer.
Just being.
From that place you protect your peace like you were standing on a fortress.
>> Peace as presence <<
When you understand that peace is not something to achieve you come to the essence of peace.
Peace is like presence.
Imagine you being in a quiet room alone with your eyes closed.
When someone enters that room, even if they came really quietly, you can still most likely sense them.
Peace is the same way.
It hovers over you and abides within you and you just sense it.
As much as you sense when it's not there anymore.
When you operate out of realizing the presence of peace, it helps you to find out what drives it away.
When we're busy in life it's so easy to just go with such a rush that we forget about acknowledging out of which stage we operate from.
It gets easily crowded in our head, the thoughts that don't feed our peace come and offer themselves constantly to us.
And when we walk with those thoughts our peace has no space there.
The beautiful thing is that we don't need to chase peace.
When we feed our mind choosing powerful life filled thoughts we naturally host the presence of peace.
>> Training your peace like a puppy <<
This thought has come very handy for me in various setups.
As a highly sensitive person and an introvert the stuff gets pretty intense in my emotions and mind if I let it.
The understanding of how I can train my peace has been life changing.
The key to this is that peace is trained when the tumult rises.
Yet the secret training tool is to always go back to your identity.
What comes to steal your peace looks like this.
Self doubt.
Second guessing yourself.
Forgetting who you are.
Focusing on the lack.
The ugly comparison.
I get that last mentioned training ground, comparison, a lot when doing new things.
How you train your peace in these moments is simple.
First recognize the source of the shooting arrows.
Then remind yourself what is the opposite force for that.
For comparison it's going back to my own unique value as well as appreciating what others bring to this world as well.
Seeing the richness of all of us bringing something valuable to the table.
When you know these two, the source stealing your peace and the antidote, you start the training.
By acknowledging how ugly feelings you're experiencing you're not getting stuck to that phase.
You speak the reality over you.
Why this helps?
Sometimes when the feelings take such tumultuous role you just thinking what you know to be true in the contrary isn't enough.
You hearing yourself saying it out loud can speak a lot louder.
Maybe even dance a little, haha.
Moving your body the way you feel most authentic to what you speak is a powerful reminder to your whole being.
The joyful dance where you shake things off from your shoulders and lift your hands up like celebrating being alive today, right now, in this place.
Like training a puppy takes constant repeat, training your peace takes too.
These three phases for training my peace are constantly in use for me, the last time yesterday.
When I do new scary things and embrace growth there's nothing better than having working tools to combat what before got me off the track.
I don't have to go back to my toxic traits to hide.
I can take a stand for my peace.
And it's a beautiful reminder of how powerful we are in every situation.
No matter what ever it is that comes to try to steal our peace.
>> Intuition abides with peace <<
When I'm operating out of peace this one thing happens.
My intuition flows more freely.
My body is not in a stage of agony.
I can recognize small details and bigger themes in the season like indicators more easily.
It's like my peace spreads itself as a map as I go.
And my intuition points out where to take the turn and when to slow down or run up the hill.
The way these two align compliments each other's strengths.
Peace protects your mind and body in a state of safety.
While intuition pokes you gently to the directions and actions you feel aligning with your path.
The serenity of your mind and posture helps you to go through the turbulence that always comes when you follow your intuition.
You enter into a new territory that challenges you, what you've learned and who you think you are or can become.
When you let your intuition lead your steps you need peace.
It's your helmet when the accusing, alarming lizard brain thoughts start shooting into your brain.
"What am I doing here? I'm the underdog with no proof of getting through this!!"
"Why does this feel so hard, I must have made a mistake!?"
"Why on earth did I ruin my life with such a stupid decision? No one in their healthy state of mind does this!"
There's where walking with peace in your intuition comes up handy.
That's when you go back to knowing who you are.
You're so loved and held.
It's all going to be okay.
>> Peace as a posture <<
You know that feeling when you're trying to make something happen and it all comes for nothing.
And yet in another instance your life aligns in an unexpected way and there's your chance.
I've often made big decisions with shaking hands on times like that.
Not everything has been perfectly aligned, but there's been that sense of something just being right.
You know how intuition is hard to explain with words.
I like the word vibrancy, it speaks so well about how intuition feels like.
It's that posture of you letting something flow through you, naturally like a river flows through the wilderness.
When you're forcing it, it just feels different.
How do you recognize the ways of vibrancy and the forced willpower from each other, you might ask.
It's not so easy when your peace is shaken and your mind is racing "is this for me or not!?!?"
But it's simple.
This is how I recognize it.
Your posture is receiving, not demanding.
It's relaxed in a way how misty morning feels like in nature, things happen at their own pace.
With vibrancy your breath flows deep, while the grasping energy takes you to shallow breathing and bodily tension.
Your head is not leading but your gut, your soul.
When you can mentally or physically let go of something you've been forcing and grasping, that takes you to this posture.
The beauty of open hands to receive and space for letting go.
Did you recognize anything familiar to you from these five thoughts?
Post your comments in the comment box, I would love to hear.
