6 Sure ways to invite peace to our mind Forgiveness: The highest and most beautiful form of love and is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. "The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi Meditation: Meditation makes the mind thoughtless. This is the highest state of peace of mind and is the best methods to bring about transformation and nurture the natural qualities within. Meditation techniques simply involve a process of transforming yourself, your thoughts, and recognizing the negative thoughts, and changing them into positive and peaceful thoughts. Take control and master your mind through one of the meditation techniques and you will forever be able to be the peaceful beacon in the eye of the storm of any adversity .Try and experience it. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour every day, you will tend to become calm during the remaining part of the day. It bring peace/ freedom from emotional swings thereby experiencing inner calm. Your mind will not be disturbed as much as before. This will increase your efficiency and you will turn out more work in less time. Jealousy gives only restlessness: Practice not to be jealous. Social activity: Keep your mind positive in doing constructive things. Indulge in activities like social work, it may not always earn money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even if you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or chanting of God's name . Practice Spirituality: the route to crush ego Cultivate goodwill over hate. Healthy forgiveness is virtually instantaneous, it is inexpensive and it gets one out of 'victim consciousness.' It plays a critical role in the life of a person. It is inevitable if you must have peace of mind, otherwise you may carry the burden of guilt throughout life. Guilt is one terrible psychological disease for which the only therapy is forgiveness. Those who fail to take the issue of forgiveness seriously most often live miserably, as they are haunted by the consequences of their offences for life. Forgiveneness has to be combined with forgetfulness in order to truly achieve the peace of mind. It means that once you are offended, and the offender has apologized, showed remorse, and exhibited a sense of repentance, then you should not only forgive the offender but should also forget the offence committed, and the injury inflicted upon you. At the level of an individual appropriate steps must be taken to prevent the circumstances that occasioned the offence in the first instance. This could be in form of changes in habit, discipline or related emotional or psychological adjustments. At the level of the society both preventive, and curative measures must be institutionalised to checkmate the evil action that eventually result in forgiveness. It could be in form of policy review that bothers on peoples welfare, unemployment, value system, and ethics among others. Forgiveness is a daily affair that has to be practiced in interpersonal relationship inorder to achieve a peace of mind. This is one veritable way of enjoying the peace of mind .Apart from the peace of mind which forgiveness gives, it also makes one to be at peace with God. Some benefits include: Ability to pray without any hindrance, removes the burden of guilt and enhances a clear conscience. By Forgiving others we can be sure of God’s forgiveness of our sins too. So in short the healing powers are within us. |