Abiding Peace

“What if peace is not the absence of noise but the presence of your true nature?” Sage

Dear Ones,

I feel inner peace becomes more important than ever in these changing times and amidst so much noise. Whether this noise comes from our own mind or from the world, we all have the ability to retreat into stillness. We don’t need anyone else’s permission, and it doesn’t have to be time-consuming either. There is a vast natural well of stillness and peace already within each of us. Or, in other words, we already ARE the peace we are seeking.

Most of you reading these words have already experienced it, even if just for fleeting moments. You know it is there. Or perhaps you are already clear that it IS you. So the most important question is: Can you give yourself complete permission to allow it? Can you allow it to nourish you, sustain you, and renew you on all levels?

You don’t have to wait until your life is perfect and free of any challenges. You can simply start noticing when peace is naturally more tangible and more visible to you. Perhaps a gap between words, a pause between thoughts, a break between activities. Perhaps you could acknowledge it more when it’s naturally there, bask in it a little more, value it a little more? Wherever you place your attention, you place your energy, and it naturally expands whatever you focus on further. So this simple practice could be life-changing.

What disturbs our inner peace more than anything else is usually our own mind. We might think it is what’s happening in our lives and in the world, but more often than not it is actually the stories about what’s happening. We’ve been brought up to identify with every thought which crosses our mind, and over the years we learnt to take ownership of every thought so quickly and so effortlessly that we are no longer aware that we are doing it. That this inner noise is our own doing.
But what if thoughts simply come and go and we don’t have to say yes to each of them? What if we could gain much inner freedom and peace by allowing them to simply come and go? Like a radio in the background of our kitchen we no longer listen to.

Most of us received the message that our thoughts are very important. And although the mind is a great gift if we use it properly as a helpful tool, it was never meant to guide us in life. It is here to help us experience this divine play of you and me, the immense diversity of 3D reality, the divine play of the illusion of separation within the truth of oneness. But if we totally identify with it and make it our master, we experience its negative expression, and eventually it will rob us of our natural innate peace and harmony.

When we start being more interested in our true nature, which already is peace, our intoxication with thoughts naturally dissipates. And in time we notice the addictive pattern of incessant thinking no longer being there. We finally experience what’s been there all the time and allows all experience, including the thinking, to appear — immense peace.

Peace as deep and vast as the ocean. Peace so exquisite that it effortlessly soothes the body and the mind. Peace so inclusive that it brings harmony into all of our relationships. Peace so nourishing that it reveals all the abundance we haven’t noticed before. Peace so profound that it allows for the best ideas and clarity to appear, that we finally understand that the divine intelligence that we are can not just function but thrive without constant thinking.

Are you ready, dearest One, to dive deeper into this ocean of peace? This week’s meditation is an invitation to do exactly that.

Lots of love,
Jana

Thursday 4th June