It’s been said that what everyone wants most is to find
peace, whether they know it or not.
Is this true?
Yoga and meditation will surely send you sailing in that
direction with greater ease, but what about our thoughts?
According to Marc Chernoff’s article 8 Things You Must Give Up to Find Peace, you'll be on the path to peace if you let go of the following:
- Old regrets and excuses
- The burning desire to have all the answers
- The false hope of a pain-free life
- Ties to insensitive people
- Obsessing yourself with negative news
- The belief that fulfillment resides in the end result
- Measuring your success by material wealth
- The need to keep everything the same
We know we should do all these things, but we don’t. Why? What
gets in the way?
Our ego. Our restless, restless mind-ego.
Judging instead of loving. Fearing instead of loving.
Believing in negative unexamined thoughts we acquired in childhood that lodged
in our psyches and went undetected for years.
Then how can we limit or stop our ego-mind from judging and
fearing?
By calming it.
Everyone knows taking deep breaths will calm you down in a stressful
moment – imagine what an hour of deep breathing will do for you through daily yoga
and/or meditation?
I invite you to try. The world doesn't change, just how you perceive it.
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