Inner Peace

Spirituality - Thirteen Keys for Finding Inner Peace
How can one achieve that inner peace?
1. Meditate or do spiritual exercises. This will give you a reference point for it that will eventually spill over into your daily life.
2. Practice your faith consistently. You'll develop strength to see you through adversity, plus understanding of purpose for it.
3. Practice gratitude for everything in your life. Even the things you don't like are here for your learning and growth. Gratitude leads to inner peace.
4. Look for the good in yourself. Look for the good in everything and everyone around you. A warm glow of peace will fill you when see the good.
5. Promote peace in yourself. Choose to stay calm in the face of challenges.
6. Love yourself. Self-compassion and self-nurturing creating a foundation of inner safety in which it's easier to stay calm and peaceful.
7. Forgive yourself for anything you've judged in yourself. Release and enjoy this again.
8. Let go of grudges and resentments against others. Forgive and forget for greater inner peace.
9. Practice honesty with yourself and others. When you are true to yourself, this is present.
10. Remember, you are much more than the body and personality that you normally identify with. Your core, your divine essence, is peace.
11. Focus on the positive. Expect the best, do your best, and you will receive what is best for you. Accepting this, you find inner peace.
12. Become a Neutral Loving Observer of yourself and your life. Then you can accept things you don't like, but see more choices for improvement.
13. Look at life as a grand classroom. You are here to learn and grow and uplift yourself. Greater learning and self-awareness bring inner peace.
Take any one of these suggestions and really put it to use in your life for the next month. Check to see if you feel greater inner peace at the end of the month.
-Ilenya Marrin