How to Find Your Inner Peace and Happiness
Like many other concepts, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to finding inner peace. However, all of the points provided here would prove effective in your journey to finding it. Use these steps to find inner peace:
1. Declutter Your “Room”
As mentioned earlier, your mind can be likened to a room. When that room is occupied with thoughts of “what if” and “how not” plus work issues and family matters, there is no way you’d have enough space to do other things.
This would take lots of practice and patience with oneself because you can’t just tell yourself, “Hey, stop thinking” and boom! You just stop. You have to consciously remind yourself to not overthink things and only take what you can handle.
Even the bravest people break down, so take some time to clear your mind of unimportant matters. You need that space.
2. Take Responsibility for Your Actions
It takes a whole level of maturity to take responsibility for your actions, especially when it’s something you’re not proud of but to find your inner peace, you have to accept your faults and all.
3. Accept the Fact That You Are Human
Alongside taking responsibility for your actions, realize that you do not have control over everything. You’re human and there’s only so much you can do about anything.
When you finally come to terms with this, you would stop blaming yourself for stuff that you did not cause and could not prevent.
4. Your Issues Don’t Define You
When facing a long term illness or disability or going through a series of tragic experiences, many are tempted to look at themselves through the eyes of their experiences (which is no surprise when others do the same). You are NOT your issues.
Yes, you may have anemia or have lost someone but that is only a minute part of your life. It doesn’t entail your whole life and it certainly doesn’t describe you.
Constantly remind yourself of this and watch people change their perception about you as well.
5. Set Boundaries for Yourself
We all like to be free and do whatever it is that we dream of, so boundaries may sometimes look like our enemies but they aren’t. Instead, boundaries help us stay in check and be in charge. Therefore, the sooner you start setting boundaries, the better.
Some of the boundaries you should set include social media time, talk time, TV time and work time.
6. Take a Break
If you struggle to take breaks, then you are the one person who needs it the most. Even phones and laptops begin to overheat and lag when they are used for long periods at a stretch.
It’s okay to put your life on hold for the world. Go on a vacation. Travel the world. Visit a park.
7. Be Early
This may not sound like an “inner peace hack” (because there’s no hack to this thing) but it does help with keeping your inner peace.
Have you noticed how confused and disorganized you get when you’re running late for an event? You just get tensed and worked up trying to figure out things if any goes wrong.
So, when you have to be at an event try to get there at least fifteen minutes before the time. You would notice how calm you’d be even if anything goes wrong because there would be a few minutes to sort it out.
Final Thoughts
Once again, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to finding your inner peace, so these steps may not be exactly what you expect.
The good news, though, is that these steps provide the basic foundation you need to find it. As you work on these, you will begin to find out other things you need to start or get rid of to hit that climax of inner peace and lasting happiness.
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