You can use anything you do to find happiness and inner peace. Your daily walk is an especially good choice, since generally speaking there will not be compelling demands for your attention (no phone calls, no boss, no doorbell… the list could go on).
As I and several others continue to shout out, you are the silent witness to your thoughts, and in that “witness-ship” is perfect inner peace, aka happiness.
Here’s what you do. As you walk, keep a tab of the thoughts you are thinking.
You might think, “OK, now I am going to try what Lucky prescribed. I hope it makes sense.”
Contemplate on how that itself was a thought, and that you were the being that was aware of it.
“I need to walk faster to get real exercise.”
Again, contemplate on how that was a thought, and that you were the being that was aware of it.
- The important thing is to watch your thoughts as objects, and not allow them to creep up on you.
- As you walk, you hear various sounds; if you are on a city pavement, you hear cars approach and drive away; or maybe you hear birds singing.
- Your disposition towards your thoughts should be just like your disposition towards these sounds.
- The sounds come and go; you do not feel those sounds are “your voice.” Thoughts are exactly like them.
- You will find that you are very peaceful when you are able to watch every thought (especially first-person thoughts, i.e. the ones involving “I”).
Practice thought-watching every time you exercise. If done enough times, it will become automatic and effortless. Then start doing it during other parts of the day, first during similar undisturbed moments, and then even when you are busy. Aim to watch your thoughts all the time… which means you will be deeply peaceful all the time!!
To your increasingly peaceful life,
Let me say at the beginning that you should reside in your inner peace not only at the beginning and end of the day but during all the intervening hours as well. I plan to write several posts on those intervening hours, one for each profession; this “Beginning and End of the Day” post will apply to all professions, so I have decided to write it first and refer to it in the profession-by-profession posts that will follow.
Inner Peace at the Beginning of the Day
Positioning yourself in your inner peace should start first thing in the morning.
- If you use a clock-radio, a good way to remember this is to tune your radio to an inspirational station.
- If you use an alarm without a radio, or if you do not use an alarm at all, be sure that you have an inspirational picture or object in plain view when you open your eyes. Change the picture every week.
- Then spend approximately 1 minute steadying yourself in your inner peace (earlier posts and my free course clearly instruct you on how to find it). Resolve that you will abide in that inner peace throughout the day, then proceed into your daily routine.
Inner Peace at the End of the Day
The day is over and you are in the process of lying down and going to sleep.
- Sit on your bed and feel thankful to the Universe that you experienced another day.
- Briefly dwell on the fact that at one time it will all be over. Try and imagine how your family, your favorite surroundings and your work will be taken from you at one point. Hope in your heart that you will be able to enjoy another day with all of them.
- Spend around a minute focusing your attention on your state of inner peace and not paying attention to your thoughts and your environment.
- Inhale and exhale three times, with exhalations taking twice as long as inhalations.
- Lie down, allow thoughts to flow freely without interfering in them and drift off to sleep.
Start practicing these actions now. They will help you become aware of the ‘big picture’ of existence, an oft-ignored reality!
To your peaceful life,
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You can use anything you do to find happiness and inner peace. Your daily walk is an especially good choice, since generally speaking there will not be compelling demands for your attention (no phone calls, no boss, no doorbell… the list could go on).
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