Empowering your thoughts triggers peace of mind.

Peace of mind is a way of living in the present moment. In the immediacy of life, we are always a few actions away from chaos. Life is an organic process, in constant motion. Ergo, letting go of the Ego's need for control is how best to live this life and maintain a sense of effortless equilibrium. Not for the gratification seekers, is this methodology. However, for people who operate life with a hurry-up life-script and are highly stressed, and want to actually manage their lives differently, deepening their awareness of how to do this begins with the first step: being present. Not later. Not tomorrow or next week. Now.

Changing an approach/action/reaction to a situation is a powerful action. Doing things the same way and expecting a different outcome is what Einstein stated as a marker of insanity! Actually thinking for a few moments before responding/reacting is already an improvement. Our brains hardwiring does the firing. Bringing into awareness is the profound discipline of self mastery; pause then respond.

Technology has massive benefits, however it is artificial intelligence. The brain is not artificial. It is an organ. In our vastly accelerated lifestyle we operate in a faster modes of connecting. Instant gratification or not at all. Fail fast.

Awareness is an antidote.Mindfulness as a way of life creates a state of equipoise. The ideal of a balanced life means taking responsibility for ALL of your actions. Less people/life skills malfunction moments, less to mend.

In Transactional Analysis Therapy; the therapeutic framework is defined by the Three Ego States, Parent/Adult/Child. Then there are the Ego drivers: Be Perfect. Hurry up. Try Hard. Please others. Be Strong. The Ego drives will fire off according to your life script/narrative's needs. Expanding your role in life is learning how to meet your needs. We are here in this life to excel, thrive and flourish. We are born princes and princess's who often become frogs.

Reclaiming authenticity begins with trusting in the process of life. Authenticity, lifting the veil of illusion, revealing what is behind the fear generated mask. Being bullet-proof, barricaded avoidant, whatever label your want to tag onto your persona as a mechanism for keeping people at a "safe" controlled distance, keeps you isolated. Breaking free from the binds of flawed perceptions is an opportunity to challenge your inner critic's stinking thinking. It is illusory thinking that your can do this later/when.... "when" has a habit of NEVER happening.

Cultivating peace, developing a place within the recess of our psyche that we can retreat to, is a powerful discipline, an antidote to the propensity of over-thinking. In contemprary and ancient spiritual/mythological and philosophical readings much is written and recommended about the importance of Ego deflation, detachment, mindfullnes, compassion and empathy in order to transcending patterns/themes of an individuals lifetime.

Breaking the treaty is becoming who you were meant to be, means letting go of who you are not.
A journey of lifetime. Slowly peeling the layers of illusory thinking away. There is strength in being vulnerable, taking risks and actualising instrinsic courage.

Fear triggers stress which stimulates increased brain activity/impulsivity. Discipline is training the mind to explore the space between an action and a reaction. It may only be for a nanosecond but it is will make all the difference in the outcome if thinking about doing it differently is applied. Patterns and theme dominant habitual behaviours, default settings, our brain is hardwired to connect and react in a nano-second.

Fight or flight or respond with Ego strengths intact? Every action is energy in motion, E-motion. Therefore, autonomous being is available in the present moment. To retrain rogue, reactive, neural pathways, it is recommended that simply pausing, breathing and thinking about a response or even requesting time to do this with generate new/positive patterns in the art of Self-Mastery.

Your ability to breathe deeply, a few chest opening/expanding breathes, for a few moments will make a massive difference in harnessing fear by bringing in you back to the present moment.
Then you can give your self what you need. Often when we are afraid, we fail to self nurture, or protect. For example, creative visualisation is a powerful tool for handling stress. When I feel threatened I can breath, pause my thoughts, still my mind, and imagine in that moment that I have everything I need to take care of myself, that I am capable, that I am enough and that everything is exactly as it is supposed to be.

Acceptance of whatever is occurring is key to Self-Mastery. Every challenging situation presents an opportunity to apply a self empowering technique. Projecting into the future a worse case scenario script maybe your first choice, creating a positive intention means a re-write, often going against what you wish to happen. Timeline therapy aids the process of retrieving unresolved issues. Revisiting the past allows us to process the art of self-forgiveness, to forgive ourselves when we failed to be our best, do our best or follow through positive intentions.

A sense of inner peace is realised when we process fully all our emotions. Blocking this blocks the ability to have empathy. When there is an absence of empathy in how we engage with others, selfishness is unbridled.

Seva, doing service is consciously taking responsibility for how our actions can be of benefit to others. The antidote to selflessness is thinking about ways to make someone happy, feel nurtured, regarded and valued as a vital, essential human being. Peace of mind is a happy state of being.

Peace is perfected activity; that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects, balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will.

The following Commentary is by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
It is useless to discuss the peace of the world. What is necessary just now is to create peace in ourselves that we, ourselves, become examples of love, harmony and peace. That is the only way of saving the world and ourselves.

Peace is independently felt within oneself. It is not dependent upon the outer sensation. It is something that belongs to one, something that is one's own self. ... Peace is not a knowledge, peace is not a power, peace is not a happiness, but peace is all these. And besides, peace is productive of happiness. Peace inspires one with knowledge of the seen and unseen, and in peace is to be found the divine Presence. It is not the excited one who conquers in this continual battle of life. It is the peaceful one who tolerates all, who forgives all, who understands all, who assimilates all things. The one who lacks peace, with all his possessions, the property of this earth or quality of mind, is poor even with both. He has not got that wealth which may be called divine and without which man's life is useless. For true life is in peace, a life which will not be robbed by death.

The secret of mysticism, the mystery of philosophy, all is to be attained after the attainment of peace. You cannot refuse to recognize the divine in a person who is a person of peace. It is not the talkative, it is not the argumentative one, who proves to be wise. He may have intellect, worldly wisdom, and yet may not have pure intelligence, which is real wisdom. True wisdom is to be found in the peaceful, for peacefulness is the sign of wisdom. It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

And now the question is what makes one lack peace? The answer is, love of sensation. A person who is always seeking to experience life in movement, in activity, in whatever form, wants more and more of that experience. In the end he becomes dependent upon the life which is outside, and so he loses in the end his peace, the peace which is his real self. ... the first thing is to seek the kingdom of God within ourselves, in which there is our peace. As soon as we have found that, we have found our support, we have found our self. And in spite of all the activity and movement on the surface, we shall be able to keep that peace undisturbed if only we hold it fast by becoming conscious of it.