There are many excellent courses and retreats that help you experience inner peace. However, when the course or retreat is over, most often that newly-discovered tranquility, instead of continuing indefinitely, does not sustain.
The reason for this is that for you to experience inner peace, many of your core attitudes and beliefs have to change irreversibly. An example would be to stop believing that your mind is actually ‘you’ speaking and start believing that ‘you’ are separate from it.
Courses and retreats suspend those attitudes and beliefs temporarily. Sustained practice is required to make permanent changes.
The situation is exactly like learning how to volley at a tennis coaching camp: your coach will make you play a volley while you’re there, but it takes much practice over the long term to make perfect volleying part of your natural game. Immediate results are out of the question.
Also, as in the case of tennis, how fast you settle into inner peace depends on how much practice you put in per week. More time, more results.
There are two suggestions I have for facilitating extended practice:
- Have a long-term arrangement with a coach or teacher
- Join a like-minded group and interact with fellow members for peer-to-peer learning and continuing motivation
Practice, Persevere and be unshakably happy!
To your increasingly peaceful life,
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