PEACE AND HARMONY

Create Peace and Harmony Within Your Thoughts.

PEACE AND HARMONY

A life that is over-worked, stressed, and flits from one crisis to another is usually a life that is living in confusion and chaos with a mind in inner turmoil. If prolonged, this can lead to accidents, illnesses, and unhappiness and no knowledge of a way out of the present situation.

The demands of daily living are not exactly conducive to a life of tranquility but every day you are presented with a myriad of choices.
If you were to monitor your thoughts, would they be assertive, encouraging, affirmative, hopeful, loving to your self or other people or even towards situations?

When you are relaxed and happy, you put others at ease too. Plus, other people like to be around you as your positive energy level rises and in turn, people feel happier when they are around you too.

A peace and harmony meditation allows you to develop calm and peaceful feelings that you can feel within yourself as well as emit to the world in general. As clarity of mind evolves, you discover that through the inner silence you can discern how to utilize your thoughts for the better.

As more people learn how to meditate upon peace and draw harmony and serenity to themselves, their meditation practice will allow more people to live in tranquility.

AFFIRMATIONS
As always, choose affirmations that feel appropriate to you. Feel free to create an affirmation that's suitable to you by asking yourself the following question:
What do you want?

This will help you to create affirmations that assert your purpose and therefore have special meaning to you.
It is important that the words you use are your own or that they feel comfortable to you.
Once you become familiar with using an affirmation, you can create your own ones, based on your specific needs on a day-to-day basis.
The affirmations presented below are a suggestion and I encourage you to change the language and content to better fit what is happening in your own life.

I choose to see only the best in myself and other people
I am happy with who I am
I bring light and love to everyone I meet
I take time every day to meditate
I think, say, and do supportive and loving thoughts and actions

IN PRACTICE
The stillness of your mind will evolve and become natural through contemplation of all the energies that are positive and stem from love.
Developing a single point of focus through both meditation and the practice of affirmations will silence the worries and fears that prevent you from remaining calm and living in peace and harmony.
When you focus only on what is good, there is no room for negativity to set up residence and so it will dissolve away.
Loving kindness will flow through you and surround you, and extend to everyone that you come into contact with.

Om Shanti Peace

Part 2: When thoughts intrude: What to do when you Meditate?

Meditation enables you to separate yourself from your thoughts and handle situations differently. In doing so you maintain optimum health of body and mind.

Before you begin to meditate ask yourself if there is anything that you really have to do that can't wait ten or fifteen minutes. That's the length of time you'll spend in meditation initially.

Set yourself a goal or question and keep a record of it. That way when you receive insight or an answer to your question following your meditation you know what it is in relation to.

Some answers appear straight away, while other appear more subtly; in the form of a person you meet who teaches you what you need to learn, or a repeated song on the radio, or more likely a deep seated conviction that what you need to do is .....

Be gentle with yourself. So what if a thought intrudes. You're learning. Not one single person on Earth ever went from being a baby to a toddler without falling many times until they mastered the skill of walking. That's what it's like with meditation. It takes practice that's all.

You can do it.

Remember that meditation is all about maintaining single pointed focus.

Focus on an object. There are a wealth of techniques but one that I like to teach my students is to focus on a light.
Objects are fine too.
Over time, you may want to focus on a word or phrase called a Mantra. This word or phrase can be as simple as:
Love
Peace
Light
I Am Loved
I am Healthy

When thought do intrude, do not become attached to them, otherwise who knows where you'll end up. The mind is a vast place. Know that this will happen in the beginning but it does become less and less frequent.

You acknowledge that the thoughts are there and return to your object or word of focus. (I'll discuss other forms of mantra at a later date as you become more proficient) Continue focusing and when you sense that your ready to end your meditation session slowly open your eyes.

That's the Healthy, Wealthy, and Really Smart way to control your thoughts when you meditate.