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The act of meditation for at least 15 minutes in the early morning will have a positive effect on your mind during the entire day.
Upon waking have these positive thoughts
I am a peaceful soul, my aim today is to have a peaceful mind and radiate peace to every person that I come into contact with.
Try to experience the stillness of mind of being a peaceful soul.
as other thoughts emerge in the mind do not judge or focus on them but repeat …………
I am a peaceful soul ………….I am a peaceful soul …………
My mind is filled with peace ………….. I radiate peace to the world ……………
I feel the gentle waves of peace flowing across my mind ……….
As these peaceful thoughts emerge in my mind I feel the stillness and silence envelopes my mind ……………..
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about the importance of a calm mind during his teachings in Delhi on March 19th, 2010.
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An important stress management teaching is the idea that if you calm your mind your body will also be calmer and that if you relax your body your mind will be more peaceful. The concept is referred to as calm mind calm body and calm body calm mind. If you calm your mind your body will be more relaxed and stress free and that will improve your health and mood. If you relax your body you’ll be calmer. So you should try some calming exercises or techniques for stress management. Calming exercises could include affirmations, breathing exercises, meditation, Pilates, stretching, walking and yoga.
A helpful calming stress management technique that could help you to calm quickly is mindfulness meditation. In mindfulness meditation you try to pay attention to how you feel, what’s happening and any sensations you have including sounds. You try to live in the present moment (which is sometimes called be here now) and feel what is happening in the time period. Try to be very attentive, alert and conscious of what is happening in the present moment. Pay attention to what you’re doing and how it feels. This technique should help you to be more centered and peaceful.
From time to time throughout the day pause and do some kind of calming or mindfulness exercise. You can try the calming techniques in this article or make up your own. You could stretch and look around the room. You could massage your hands or neck and shoulders. You could count to ten, do things more slowly or carefully or try to be more calm and peaceful.
One simple way to do this is to breathe deeply. Slow breathing can help you relax. Exhaling more slowly than you usually do can also help to [...]
From Shri Gyan Rajhans
Peace of mind is the most sought after ‘commodity’ in human life. It appears that most of us are in a state of perpetual restlessness. On analyzing the causes of this restlessness, I have ventured to find for myself ten solutions that need to be followed religiously if we are serious about achieving perfect peace of mind.
1. Do not interfere in others’ business
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others’ affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic, and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction.
This kind of attitude on our part denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God, for God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because they are prompted to do so by the Divine within them. There is God to look after everything. Why are you bothered? Mind your own business and you will have your peace.
2. Forget and forgive
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often nurture ill feeling inside our heart for the person who insults or harms us. We forget that the insult or injury was done to us once but by nourishing the grievance we go on excavating the wound forever. Therefore it is essential that we cultivate the art of forgiving and forgetting. Believe in the justice of God [...]
