Cultivating inner peace is very important, especially when things are chaotic. Find out how to cultivate inner calm, even in the least peaceful of times, and stay calm no matter what.
Peace. We all want it, need it, and do what we have to in order to keep it. Some people make it seem like peace is virtually impossible and some situations make things even worse. It might seem impossible to have a peaceful mind and heart when nothing around you is peaceful, but is it? Join SpiritualBlossom to find out how to stay calm, and keep your personal peace intact regardless of what is happening. Discover how things and people can compromise your peace, but how you can keep that inner peace anyhow. Life might get out of hand, with conflict, fights, or chaos, but you can remain calm and peaceful no matter what. Read on to find out how.
What is Inner Calm?
Inner calm is a state of emotional and mental peace where you free yourself from stress, anxiety, or excessive worry, even when you're dealing with difficult situations. It doesn't mean that you're not stressed. It doesn't mean that you're not scared. It doesn't mean that you're not dealing with something that you'd rather not. It just means that you stay calm no matter what happens. That can be very difficult. It's not something that everybody is good at.
It is something that everyone can do though. Even if you haven’t always been the most emotionally calm person you know and you react more quickly than you could to things, you can learn inner peace. A lot of people don't know how to be peaceful inside themselves because it's natural to want to react to things and it's not always seen as a virtue to remain calm. We are encouraged to react to our feelings instead of thinking things through. Inner calm requires self-awareness. Find out how to unlock the power of self-awareness here: Unlocking the Power of Personal-Awareness
Can’t I Wait For Things to Settle Down?
You can wait for things to settle down before you are calm, but if you do that, you may never be calm again. We can’t control what happens. We can’t control what other people do. We can’t always work hard for things to go a certain way. Things and people have a way of being unpredictable. If you allow people and circumstances to predict whether you have inner peace, you will allow them to have complete control of you. It is far better to learn to practice inner peace than to allow your peace to be controlled by the outside world.
What Can Compromise Personal Peace?
Pretty much anything that happens in your life or in the world around you can compromise your personal peace. Only if you let it though. Things that happen at your career as well as personal relationships can compromise your personal peace. Things that affect your health or the health of the people who you love can compromise your personal peace. Your immediate community or the entire world in general can compromise your peace as well.
Career
Our jobs can be extremely stressful. Conflicts in the workplace between leadership and employees can make people wonder why they get up and go to work in the morning. Not earning enough money to live the type of life that you would like it to finance creates other forms of stress. Hard work without appreciation breeds resentment and compromises everybody's peace. Breakdown of communication, lack of team cohesion, limited opportunities for challenges or advancement, and basic exhaustion which leads to burnout can compromise your peace in your career. It's no wonder but our jobs are some of the most stressful things in our lives. Happiness is possible though. Find out why here: Being Happy, Even in Dark Times
Personal Relationships
Our friendships, family relationships, peer relationships, and romantic relationships are supposed to make our lives better. Sometimes they make everything worse. Fights, breakups, disagreements, or even frustrations with trying to find ways to spend more time together can compromise our peace. The people who will love can hurt us, even if it's unintentional, worse than people who don't matter to us and even people we would call enemies. When things go wrong and our relationships, it can feel like your whole life is in chaos.
Health
Some people say if you don't have good health, you don't have anything. When you are sick, tired, in pain, or unable to take care of your health by doing the workouts and healthy diets, your body can become depleted. It can make it difficult to think, communicate, and poor health scares some people more than anything else in the world. If you don't have your health, you can't participate comfortably in the things that you want to. If you're sick enough, you won't even be able to work to support yourself. It is understandable that your sense of peace might feel taken from you if your health is compromised. Trauma can throw your sense of peace off, and it can damage your health, but you can heal. Find out all about healing from past trauma here: Healing Form Past Traumas
Community
Community provides a sense of belonging and personal identity. However, sometimes it also compromises your peace. When people are at odds in your neighborhood, in your city, or when nations are at odds with one another, fights and even outright war can be declared. When your neighborhood is fighting, or your religious community is up in arms about something, it might seem impossible to maintain inner peace. Your entire environment can be shaped by your community. When things go wrong it can be difficult to remember that your personal community doesn't completely control you.
Why Cultivate Inner Peace?
Seeing how much can compromise your sense of personal peace, why is it important to maintain inner peace? It's all about what makes things better for you. You can think better if you maintain inner peace. It helps you to come up with better solutions and communicate better. So people will listen better and your health will benefit too.
You Can Think Better
When you remain calm and peaceful, your mind functions better because you can focus. You are not ruled by the chaos that is surrounding you, and you're not in panic mode. This is always the best mindset for being able to think anytime your mind wants to fall to pieces because things are falling apart around you. Just stay calm and think. Gemini is an intellectual sign. Read about that Zodiac sign here: Gemini Zodiac Traits and Love Compatibility
You Come Up with Better Solutions
When you can think clearly, you can come up with better solutions. During times of difficulties or chaos, that is especially important. The mind automatically wants to go into fight or flight mode when things go wrong, and sometimes decisions are automatic when you allow that to happen. If you stay calm and keep control of your mind, instead of running or fighting, you can see solutions. You can see ways to control the chaos, or just not be affected by it.
You Speak Better
When you have inner calm and you're not ruled by your emotions, you can think better, you can come up with better solutions, and because you're in that good headspace, you communicate better. You don't say things in the heat of the moment. You don't say things that you have to apologize for later. You remember what you say better because you speak more deliberately. Words have power. Discover the power of the magic word yes here: The Magical Things That Happen When You Say Yes
People Listen Better
Because you're communicating better, people will listen better to what you have to say. Of course there will be some people who won't listen to anybody under any circumstances. Don't worry about them. Worry about the people who will listen. Worry about getting your message across to the people who want to hear what you have to say. When you're calm, you're more confident. When you're more confident, people will automatically believe what you have to say more easily. Your inner peace will help them to have some inner peace.
Your Health Benefits
Your health is always better when you remain calm. Allowing yourself to become upset or panicked will make your blood pressure rise, your heart rate rise, and chemicals and hormones get dumped into your bloodstream that are bad for you. Allowing yourself to become upset instead of staying calm won't shorten your life if it happens once, that allowing yourself to be thrown off by upsetting things can become a habit and over time. That will damage your health and shorten your life significantly. So, stay healthy by staying calm. Holistics can improve your health too, or can they? Find out here: Healing Holistically- Is It Legit?
Inner Peace During Difficulties
Maintaining inner peace during difficulties isn't easy, but it can be done. When you first start learning to be peaceful during difficulties it's very hard, but the longer you practice doing it, the easier it will become. Some techniques you can use for this are to reject being baited into a reaction by people and to practice self-control. You also have to stop and think and take plenty of time before you decide what to do. Then, make informed decisions with a calm mind instead of emotional decisions.
Reject Baiting
Some people will deliberately try to get a response from you. This is called baiting. They know just what to say and do to upset you. Don't react. The more you react, the more they will bait you. The more they bait you, the more control they have and the more power over you they have. The less you react, the more frustrated they will become. Eventually they will have no choice but to leave you alone and try to find someone else to bait. It is not worth your time, resources, or emotional energy to respond to people that behave this way. So don't.
Practice Self Control
The first thing many of us want to do when something unsettles us is to have an emotional reaction. That’s the worst thing you can do if you want to maintain inner peace. Emotions are normal, but reacting to just your emotions without considering the entire situation will keep you from making a good decision. Remember that our emotional selves are only part of who we are. We are also physical, spiritual, and intellectual beings. Those parts of you need to be honored also. So control your emotions.
Think
When you reject being baited, and you control yourself, you can do the most important thing. That is to stop and think. Emotions aside, what is really happening? Is the hysterical neighbor trying to give you a hard time because you cut your grass a few days late, or is she just afraid of weeds growing in her yard? Is your least favorite coworker targeting you, or is it just a personality conflict that you need to ignore? If you find yourself in a terrifying emergency situation, which steps do you need to take to ensure everybody's safety instead of panicking? Never stop thinking, especially during chaotic or difficult times. You will be able to think yourself out of chaos.
Take Your Time
Sometimes you have to make a quick decision, but what about times when you don't? Slow down, take a step back, and take a break before making any decisions. With time comes clarity. Maybe there are some missing details that could help you. Maybe you just need to calm down a little bit. Maybe you're just tired and you need some sleep before you move forward. Take as long as you need.
Make Informed Decisions
Now that you have set your emotions aside, after taking as much time as you need to, make the best decisions for dealing with difficulties and chaos. You might think of the best thing to do all on your own, or you might need to speak to somebody about it. Either way, a calm mind makes better decisions than a panicked one. If you are calm, nobody is more qualified to decide what to do during chaotic times than you are.
What If Peace Isn’t Possible?
Peace is always possible. If you are the person who remains peaceful when everything around you is falling to pieces or everyone around you is fighting, you will become the person who restores peace. What if people won't allow you to restore peace, but they continue fighting? You're going to have to let them because you can't control everything. You can be the calmest, most peaceful person in the room and people may become angry with you because they don't understand why you're not having the same emotional reactions to things that they are. You can't change that sometimes.
No matter what other people do though, you can choose to remain peaceful within yourself. You can refuse to be outraged. You can refuse to shout. You can refuse to enable people who do. Most especially when times are difficult, you must do your best to remain calm, peaceful, and keep your mind steady. Remaining calm and peaceful even in the least peaceful times is a choice that you can make. It's not always easy, but you can do it. Alays.
Inner peace might seem tough or impossible when things are difficult or chaotic, but it's not. It might actually be the thing that restores peace to an otherwise horrible situation. Even if it doesn't, it always benefits you, because it helps you to think, make better decisions, and your health is better. Ways to maintain inner peace during difficulties are to not react when people want you to, control yourself, and think, taking as much time as you need to make informed decisions. Inner peace is possible even in the toughest of times. So when there's no peace around you, become that peace yourself.
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About the Author: Lady Saoirse has studied magic and lore for most of her life but started walking her own Magical Path after being spiritually reborn in the desert. Today she is a High Priestess for The Temple of the Goddess, she is a psychic advisor and spiritual counselor, she shares her gifts as a Psychic and Content Writer for Mysticsense and SpiritualBlossom, and she writes for PaganPages.Org emag.
