Seven Simple Steps To Inner Peace - Sri Chinmoy

These Are Some Suggestions For Bringing More Peace Into Your Mind.

1. Choose Carefully Where We Spend Time.
If you are a news addict and spend an hour reading newspapers everyday, our mind will be agitated by the relentless negativity we see in the world.
It is true, that we can try to detach from this negativity.
But, in practise, we will make our progress easier if we don’t spend several hours ruminating over the problems of the world.
If you have a spare 15 minutes, don’t just automatically switch on the TV or surf the internet.
Take the opportunity to be still or at least do something positive.
The problem is the mind feels insecure unless it has something to occupy it.
However, when we really can attain a clear mind we discover it creates a genuine sense of happiness and inner peace.

2. Control Of Thoughts.
It is our thoughts that determine our state of mind.
If we constantly cherish negative and destructive thoughts, inner peace will always remain a far cry.
At all costs, we need to avoid pursuing trains of negative thoughts.
This requires practise. – We cannot attain mastery of our thoughts over night.
But, at the same time we always have to remember that we are able to decide which thoughts to follow and which to reject.
Never feel you are a helpless victim to your thoughts.

“If you have inner peace,
nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.” - Sri Chinmoy

3. Simplify Your Life
Modern life, places great demands on our time.
We can feel that we never have enough time to fulfill all our tasks.
However, we should seek to minimise these outer demands.
Take time to simplify your life; there are many things that we can do without, quite often we add unnecessary responsibilities to our schedule.
Do the most significant tasks, one at a time, and enjoy doing them.
To experience inner peace, it is essential to avoid cluttering our life with unnecessary activities and worries.

4. Spend time To Cultivate Inner Peace.
Every day we spend 8 hours a day to earn money, can we not find time to spend 15 minutes to cultivate inner peace?
No matter how much money we earn, it cannot bring us inner peace, but, if we spend 15 minutes on meditation and relaxation techniques inner peace can become a possibility.
Meditation does not just mean sitting still for 30 minutes; in meditation we seek to experience a state of consciousness which is flooded with inner peace.
To experience this inner peace we cannot allow any thought to enter into our mind.
True inner peace occurs when we can transcend the world of thoughts.

“You cannot buy peace; you must know how to manufacture it within, in the stillness of your daily practises in meditation.”
- Paramahansa Yogananda

5. Be Immune To Flattery & Criticism
If we depend on the opinions and praise of other people, we can never have inner peace.
Criticism and flattery are two sides of the same coin.
They are both the judgements of others.
However, we should not allow ourselves to be affected by either.
When we do, we feed the ego.
We should learn to have confidence in ourselves.
This does not mean we will love ourselves in an egotistical way, it means we value our real self and have belief in the good qualities that are part of everyone.

6. Be Active Selflessly
Inner peace does not mean that we have to live a life of a hermit.
Inner peace, can be felt amidst dynamic activity.
But, this action should be done with selfless motives.
When we serve others we forget our sense of self, and it is when we forget our limited self that we can have inner peace.

7. Avoid Criticising Others
If we want inner peace, we should feel that our inner peace depends on the well being of others.
If we are indifferent to the feelings of others, then it is impossible to have inner peace for ourselves.
What we give out comes back.
If you offer a peaceful attitude to others this is what we will see return.

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Thank you G.P for sharing these steps to inner peace with us.

Peace within is a start...*smile*

Just one thing, inner peace to me is not the turn off everything else and it is absolutely not to literally close your eyes and ears so that the reality will not be visible. On the contrary, when having found your inner peace, you can really start to make a difference, as long as you stay open and do not shut yourself into a bubble of self goodness
Blessings to you and thanks for sharing this wonderful post...
may you and your circle always have more than you need...Joseph/EagleBear

Gunilla & EagleBear for taking the time to comment.
I enjoy sharing with like-minded; my way of showing online peace.
So glad you are here G.P

What else can we do , but sharing our thoughts and beliefs and hope that there somewhere we will meet *smile*

Thanks
Thank you for joining us GP,
my way of having complete peace, is when I build a fire, as I place each piece of wood, I talk to the Elders, as the fire is being started, I ask questions of the heavens...as the fire builds and flames grow and dance, I call out to Creator to hear me, hear this simple humble manchild servant just asking to be heard, then I sit, I pray, I listen...and the answers start to flow from the flames and smoke of my fire....I hear, see, feel and know it is Creator, it is the Old Ones, the Elders, it is my call for an answer being placed in me from ourside my body, it is not something that my simple mind could think, it is great things that come into my spirit and some I can speak of and some I can not, All Things are as they should be, even when things apear to be bad, all you need do is just look deep into this situation and you will always find the good as well and the good is the true purpose...blessings Joseph/EagleBear
But do you actually mean that Eagle Bear?
"All Things are as they should be, even when things apear to be bad, all you need do is just look deep into this situation and you will always find the good as well and the good is the true purpose"
The conclusion must then become , that we do not have to try to make a change anywhere . All is already good....
I do not think for a moment that THAT was the intention of God or any higher power.

Remember the deluge. It became the man's punishment because we failed to do our best :)

And when looking at Jesus he was a true revolutionary, who demanded of us to react on injustices and so on...
He was and still is a role model for humanity...*smile*


Peace is to center yourself - by letting go all your emotions and all your feelings that are negative. Feel your inner strength, for there is a spirit within you that shall carry your burdens and your cares for you, when you allow it to, by being positive in your consciousness.
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Yes G:P talks about inner Peace and I so do agree with all of you.
But you must also see the diffrences between this concept and creating pecae and non-violence in the world. Or have I missed something ? :)
To G.P

My comment was to Joy. And your title was steps to Inner Peace. Yes just "Amen" to that.

Then how to reach peace and non-violence in the world. That's another question. Or isn't it ;)



Only that which is true can be your truth. Thanks G.P. for this page.
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Wishing you & everyone a great start to the new week!

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