Making Peace with Ourselves

After so much time being under tension, finally it’s a time to sit back and relax. The world has become so much heated nowadays. How about our neighborhood? How about our own lives? It’s time to pay attention to our surroundings. For some of us, who have been working so much harder than ever, it’s time to retreat for a while.

And to ponder …

• How have I lost my energy lately?

• Where have I been putting my attention lately?

• Have I been putting my focus on useful things or useless ones?

• Have I been focusing on peace or focusing on war?

• Are my conversations of anything leaving me feeling good, or feeling bad?

• Have I treated myself with unconditional love and compassion? Or have I even treated myself with critical thoughts?

• Have I spent most of my time with joy, or have I spent most of my time with being upset and yelling?

• Do I create positive connection with surrounding people, have I been opened and listening fully, or have I involved in bitter argumentation?

• Have I become overworked but feeling that this doesn’t even help me much?

• Have I really wanted this way of life? A life full with worries and thinking about how this world will become?

• A life full of tension and stress? Is it worth it?

Phew!

Rumors of wars, prices rising high, many people getting fired from their jobs, traffic jams, people getting more emotional everyday, strikes everywhere, some places have fighting all the time, riots in other places, some nations have famines, starvation, environmental crisis, moral crisis, economy crisis, everywhere never seems have peaceful atmosphere.

So much worries come into our life. How to survive within these situations of daily life?

I believe we need to focus and acknowledge the times when we had better chosen peace over conflict. We need to focus and acknowledge when we experience peace internally and in our external world. We need to move our focus away from the stress, from the triggers of emotional distress. The life still has the positive over the negative.

We need positive filling. We need to be restored. But how to become positive in the midst of this negative filling world?

We need to make peace with ourselves. To experience peace ourselves, we need to notice each act of peace, no matter how small it is. When our inner feels the sense of peace, we will experience clear thinking, the absorbed feeling of the internal peace will give good impact to our mind, our way of thinking and act will reflect the inner peace and the actions will influence the whole part in our life.

So the conclusion is, if we are going to experience the peace, we have to start with ourselves and BE the first person(s) that have peace.

It could be just a small step, but would have a big impact in our life. Possibly by starting a new small activity, reorganizing the schedule, do the same thing but do it the new way, spare some times with new community, have a short vacation, meet new people, perhaps also donate to a charity, play with children, have a fun walk with friends or even pets. There are so much things that may seem useless for some people, but these can refresh our minds again, bring refreshment into our life again, after so much tension comes into our daily life.

Making Peace with Ourselves. We need it badly. We need to drive the positive energy back into our inner selves. We need to create a clear vision of what we want, start experiencing it internally, and bring it into the real act.

Stress, anger, fear, pain, resentment, everything. All of these things will never stop coming into our surroundings. The important thing is about how we react towards these tensions. That’s why we need a different way, a different act.

It’s not about when the tensions stop coming into our lives. It is about how we react towards these things.

We have to stop beating ourselves. Enough with the tensions that have been coming into our daily lives.

It’s time to make peace with ourselves.