Finding Your Inner Peace

    For so long, I wanted peace. I longed for peace. I dreamt about peace. I searched high and low for the answer on how to have peace in my life. Thinking it was unobtainable, at least for my own chaotic life. Until one day, I learned the secret to peace. The ability to quiet myself in the middle of the storm. It was so subtle at first, I didn't even know I had stumbled upon the answer I had been searching for for so many years. With practice, the peace in my heart and in my mind got stronger, as a muscle would when you exercise it. Yet, at the same time it got more quiet. A quiet strength that I could feel through out my body. It felt so peaceful and safe. I had never felt safe within myself before. I always needed someone to help me handle situations and help me figure out problems. It felt so good to be able to rely on myself and my own thoughts and decisions. As the days went by, it seemed I could handle life's ups and downs more and more. I was able to step back and get the answers to solve the problems in a peaceful manner. I was able to stand outside the storm and figure out my next step.


When you are caught up in the storm you react in a way you regret. You react in fear, guilt, anger and hatred. That only fuels the storm and you spiral down into a dark hole of desperation. You end up beaten down and worn out once the storm passes. Only to be caught up in the next storm that blows in.
But when you learn how to have inner peace in any situation you react slower and give yourself more time to respond. It is okay to take some time to ponder over what you need answers for. It is okay to walk away and gather yourself. To have peace in your life, you must learn to breathe, to be truly thankful for all you have {running through your mind all day, every day little thank yous for life's blessings and even life's lessons}, you must be able to put yourself first at times and care for yourself the way you would your loved ones {and do it without guilt and in a non-selfish way.}, and you MUST let go of guilt and the mistakes you have made.

Guilt is a big part of the blockage to your inner peace. You have to be able to let go of guilt completely. You do that by taking the responsibility of what you feel guilty about. By acknowledging why you feel guilty and taking responsibility for it, you are breaking the cycle of your habitual guilt patterns. You only need to see your pattern to understand that this guilt you carry around is not serving your life and the lives around you well. It is like a cancer eating away at you and stopping you from living the life you dream about. By acknowledging the guilt pattern, completely owning and accepting the responsibility of it, learning from it {so that you can get out of the cycle of habitual guilt} and then letting that guilt go, so you can finally have the inner peace you seek. As you are letting it go you say to yourself, "I am human and I will make mistakes. But I will not have guilt over them. I will only learn from them." You need to really learn from your mistakes and remember them as you journey through your life. In life it is not the lessons and mistakes that we make that break our spirits and weigh us down. It is not that you messed up and blew it that hurts the most, it is that you messed up and blew it again and again on the same mistake. Learn from your mistakes, use them as building blocks to create the life you truly know you deserve. It is possible and it is never too late to start.

 I want all of you to have peace and to feel worthy of it. Without peace in your life, you are destined to struggle and stumble through this gift that we call life. But when you obtain peace, own it in your own heart and mind, you are able to see the world differently, more brilliantly. Use this life as though you would a treasured gift, because that is what life truly is. Life is a gift, use your gift to better yourself and shine that gift onto the world. We could all use the Peace...

Xo, Meme