Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Finding Peace

Peace is found within.
We often seek peace outside ourselves and never really find it.
Peace is a state of mind that is not attached to what others say or do.
Peace is a gift of grace where we live with love and gratitude in mind.
Peace is a song we sing when we are alone and in love with our lives.
Peace is a sweet safe knowing that we are always loved and cared for.

I can hear and feel when I am seeking for something or someone to give me peace.
I know when I have become attached to a condition or situation or person.
I feel when I need someone or something to go my way.
These mental conditions always yield unpeace or uncertainty.

It is through choosing peace that I find my way home.
It is through releasing my attachments that I feel peace.
It is through forgiving my fears and judgments that is feel love.
It is when I practice the fine art of letting go that I know peace within.

The condition of peace seems rare for most people.
Often people search endlessly for medication, substances or a person to give them peace.
The practice of quieting the mind and living a purposeful or joy-filled life brings peace.
The gift of gratitude for everything often allows us to see the blessing in all that is.

When we breathe fully and freely, celebrating the life we have, we can see what peace offers.
When we realize peace is a dynamic creative state rather than boring and empty, we choose peace.
When we open the door of our mind to simplicity and quiet joy and gratitude, we know peace.
Peace is a gift that comes with practice….the practice of letting go of our needs and demands.

In the complexity of the world, with its distractions, emotional distortions and detours, we are dissuaded from living a fun safe and easy life.
We often need to find a teacher, a role model, an example of how to live and love unconditionally.
We may need to feel the unconditional love from another to know the possibility of true love.
And when we know we are loved no matter what with no conditions, we can rest in the knowing.

Love and peace and joy all go together.
When we know and live with all three in our minds and hearts, we feel safe and secure and are at peace.
So be it.
You are the peace of God.
You are the blessing of peace in our world.
Thank you for your willingness,
Betty Lue 

These keys will help and lead you to the Peace you seek!
Twelve Daily Steps To Optimistic Living
1. Focus on my successes rather than on my failures.
2. Notice that which I have accomplished rather than that which I’ve left undone.
3. See and acknowledge my beauty rather than focusing on my imperfections.
4. Notice and acknowledge all the times I’ve followed the optimum conditions,rather than judging myself for the times I have not.
5. Acknowledge all my wins each and every day.
6. Create and maintain an environment that nurtures me.
7.  See problems as opportunities to learn from rather than as obstacles to avoid.
8.  Tell the whole truth on a moment to moment basis in order to maintain impeccable and loving relationships.
9. Be conscious every moment to put positive thoughts into my mind rather than negative, knowing all thoughts are creative.
10.  Appreciate my feelings as a means of understanding myself, thus directing and creating my reality.
11. Continue to forgive myself and others as a means of creating a state of Grace.
12. Fill my life with joy and ecstasy by practicing daily the art and skill of verbally expressing my gratitude for all that I have.