I grew up thinking that peace was quiet, calm, undisturbed time, and I valued it highly, living as I did in a home run by a rageaholic. For all my single life, I sought peace in nature and avoided noise and conflict as much as I could. My search for peace led me to write, play, sing, and perform original music; it taught me to be a healer and helped me find God within myself. For my childhood non-peace, I am grateful because it led me to seek peace in my life.
Then came marriage and motherhood, and I discovered that maintaining the fragile peace I had learned in my early life was impossible as a working mother. I had to build a peace that was strong enough to handle the stresses of adult life in all its forms. Over the subsequent years, I have been gaining the strength to hold my center and protect the integrity of my inner peace while contending with the chaos of life. For all this, I am also grateful because it taught me that peace isn’t dependent on the environment around you but is something you can create within your own heart, mind, and soul.
As the journey of change in our world has heated up in recent years, and as my body has aged, I have been learning to deepen and strengthen this personal choice to live from a place of peace. I have learned to trust and to work through judgments, fears, and physical discomfort as a teacher of a high degree. Where I have still been holding out, withdrawing from life, or carrying emotional blocks to wholeness, this phase of life has made me commit to unconditional love, forgiveness, and perseverance in the face of radical change. Peace at this phase in my life is a choice I make each moment of each day. Sometimes it is hard to do. When I fail, I think of it as an opportunity to go deeper into unity with the One Source within me, which is my birthright and all of ours in this world. I am grateful for this challenge.
Peace is a choice that I commit to daily, and I invite you to do the same. Where the world prods you to react, judge, be afraid…these are teachers of peace if you choose to let them teach you! Within each of us is the unity with Source that can be missed when we focus our attention on the separateness that is expressed in the world around us. Seek that unity within to find your core of peace and stand firmly within it. Let it grow until it fills your whole self.
Then, greet your days and nights from that place. Where you miss the mark, give thanks for a greater opportunity to deepen the unity with your true self within. This period in our world is the time we are awakening more fully to that unity, and the outer stressors are helping us to seek it.
There are infinite ways to center and focus on the true self in order to build peace within. I teach tools for this during Individual Healing Sessions and in the Healing & Ascension Monthlies Series, which starts again on February 29, 2024. I have taught some of them in articles in this magazine and many in my Weekly Word for Healing & Ascension Blog. Those are available on my website, www.spiritualhealers.com, and Self-Healing Tools in my website store.
I hope this article will remind you that peace is not only something we can feel when the world around us is at peace but something we can nurture and grow within our own hearts, minds, bodies, and souls so it becomes strong even in the face of challenging times.
Blessings for peaceful holidays within you and around you as well!
Love, Eve