I am still encountering entirely too many frazzled people all around me on a daily basis. Do we all have days where we want to pull our hair out? Sure. But we have to keep these mini traumas in perspective of the grand picture that we deserve inner peace and happiness. With the media constantly bombarding us with images and words of "how bad" everything is, it is almost a miracle any of us find any tranquility at all, especially in an information age that gets the latest bombing or plane crash from around the world delivered our doorstep in an instant. I am thinking that maybe living isolated in the mountains of Virginia, like the family in the TV show the Waltons, may not have been as "depressing" as we might first have thought.
For purposes of this lesson in serenity let's think
A Quiet Morning, A Cup of Tea, A Warm Dog, And A Prayer.
Work on putting these four elements in your life and you will be on your way to harmony with the still side of things.
A quiet morning represents a place. Centering yourself somewhere whether real where you are or in your mind or a place you have been to or imagined. Look at the serene image of this pond for example. A quiet setting sets the stage.
A cup of tea, or other warm beverage, represents something you are doing that gives you immense joy, and that good feeling inside. There are many examples like your favorite hobby, to laying out in the backyard in your hammock, to gardening, etc. You should not have to work to think of something you enjoy doing.
A warm dog represents relationships. Whether they be a pet, a significant other, spouse, children, family, girls night out, friends, Active Rain contacts, all those you have found in your life that you come to, and when you are with them you feel good. Love and kindness toward others is not only for them but it helps us develop our own inner happiness and peace.
Finally, a prayer. The famous serenity prayer allows you intellectually and down in your soul, to know that you have to have acceptance of what you can control and the letting go feeling of what you cannot control. This is your spiritual connection to peacefulness. We all have to figure out this spiritual journey to our own way of seeing life but this prayer is a great foundation for you. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
May you find a quiet morning, a cup of tea, a warm dog, and say a little prayer. You are so worth having peacefulness in your heart each and every day. It is important too, because your inner peace will be this great strength for you and be reflected as a calming effect to those in your outside sphere. It will be one more thing of beauty you bring to the world.
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