REFLECTION PAPER

Cultivating Inner Peace

Once one journeys into the heart, realization comes that not only the self has
suffered, but all beings have suffered in their lifetime some sort of loss, sorrow, or
despair. We must all experience sickness, death and other daunting facets of human life
at some stage beyond this. I believe that as we relate to the universality of suffering an
inner transformation is starting to take place. We continue to reawaken compassion for
ourselves. In our darkest hours, self-compassion is a systematic practice of cultivating
and giving ourselves goodness, friendliness, and affection over and over again, and
most importantly. Again, it's a very challenging activity which takes a lot of courage and
perseverance. It's an enormous challenge to be kind because the many messages we
get every day indicate that we're all but OK-you don't have to look too far to see an
airbrushed supermodel posing on a billboard or the swank-looking people wearing fancy
clothes on television driving luxury cars-these kinds of messages are everywhere in our
community. Inner-peace is then about reclaiming our real core heritage. This human
experience is about lifting the veils of isolation and spending time with our own hearts
every day. We can only function in ways that put us into harmony with all of nature as
we reharmonize the inner landscape. It goes to others, and includes Mother Nature
itself as a whole. When we learn to embrace ourselves completely and love ourselves,
there is no need to fight any fights against anyone or anything. We know that the
constraints of being human limit the time that we all have together here on this planet
and we spend the time best wisely.
Love Language
The Bible states that love is God. He is the creator of this admirable trait. Human
beings have this beautiful transferable attribute provided by God, as creation of God.
He mentions this short but powerful word in His Word which can do wonders when you
use it in the right way. To learn to use LOVE the right way one must obey the teachings
of the Bible of which Loving God is the most important because he is the one who can
give you true love. As we said before, God is the source of love, the second is enjoying
yourself, that doesn't mean you're behaving in an egotistical manner. It means that if
you know who God is, and who you are in Him, you will love others in the same way
that God does.
There are also other approaches that experts have for you to learn how to create good
love-based relationships. This is Dr. Gary Chapman's case, who poses a simple truth:
-When we understand each other, the relationships grow stronger.
-Everyone gives and receives love differently but we can be comfortably prepared to
express love well with a little insight into these differences.
Forgiving, healing, facing adversities and dealing with anger issues (to bring
inner peace)
The truth is that frustration needs to be accepted and handled even though most
people are not at initial glance satisfied with their frustration. Recognizing visions of
vengeance within oneself or with trusted others is central to the cycle of liberating
oneself from the fetters of rage. Having common ground between yourself and the
offender / aggressor helps pave the path to forgiveness. At the same time, seeing how
special you are in that you're not going to behave in the same way always keeps you
apart, which is vital to maintain emotional wellness. Forgiving yourself is crucial to
recovery. For order to forgive yourself, you have to accept that you were / are weak and
let yourself be human. It means acknowledging that you would have made mistakes if
you had really made any mistakes about your health or welfare. To fully heal yourself,
you must be able to transfer and accept your own pain from our "pleasure world" of
collective consciousness and remain in it with inner pride. The mainstream world in
which we live fills us with media which portray easy living without pain. Freeing yourself
means you have to abandon the dreams of the fairy dust about what you would have in
life and take on the harsh truths that have come your way. Staying in the darkness of
your misery will bring about true learning and a deeper sense of personal significance.