Finding Your Calm: Why Inner Peace Is Important

A man asks a monk if attaining inner peace was possible.  The monk smiles, and asks him to get him water to drink first from a nearby river. The man obeys but when he reaches the river he notices that carts have passed through it which has made the water muddy and undrinkable. He goes back to the monk empty-handed. The monk asks him to wait for some time before going back and checking if the mud has settled. The man does the same. He goes back after an hour and is surprised to see that the water’s turbulence has settled and its surface can be seen clearly. He takes some of it back for the monk to drink. The monk smiles and shares the learning – when you let it be; the disturbance settles on its own!

Your mind is just like that. When it gets anxious, let it be. Don’t interfere or reason with it. Just give it time to calm down on its own while you harvest the peace that it comes with. When there is peace inside you, it spreads to the outside.  Your vibrations start filling the atmosphere with tranquility of your presence. Inner peace throws out negative emotions from the body by eliminating thoughts that create anxiety, unhappiness, stress and worries. 

Why Do You Need Inner Peace?

Your mind is a culture of what’s happening around you. Inner peace gives a control on your own intelligence, actions and reactions. It is important to have that kind of control over self to bring your mind to a state of harmony and body to calm down. When the internal body mechanism is peaceful; your glands (Thyroid, Pituitary, Hypothalamus and Adrenal) work much well. With the effect of this inner synchronisation, the outer skin also starts to radiate peacefulness.

1. Inner peace improves your ability to focus, allowing you to concentrate on important things.
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3. Calmness gives you a control over emotions.
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5. You become better equipped to handle your day to day affairs of work and personal life.
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7. Inner peace improves metabolism by reducing the disturbances of the body that disharmonise internal functions.
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9. Inner peace gives you resilience to stand by the matters most dear to you while reducing the temptation of setting in a routine.
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11. It makes your mind enhance its creative powers. You become better colour-coordinated, happy and radiant. 
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13. Inner peace enables you to shed a lot of mental weights that aren’t yours to carry. It makes you light.
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15. Calmness encourages you to shift from the constant state of worry to love, which in itself is a miracle.
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17. You become full with joy and a source of happiness for others too.
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19. Resetting inner peace is a beautiful way to detox the body of harmful emotions like anger, jealousy and hatred.
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21. Inner peace gives you the power to deal with criticism. I have written an entire post on how criticism is not a reflection of who you are, but an opinion of someone who might have his or her own way of looking at things. It is a 2-minute read.  
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23. Inner peace helps you to bring patience, tolerance and tactfulness in your character. 
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25. When the body is mentally and emotionally calm, you can sleep better.
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27. Calmness helps you relax your body and nerves while building a positive attitude towards everything that happens in your life.  
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29. The healing energies of the body show unmatchable, surprising results.

In short, inner peace makes life look brighter!

So good luck in finding your peace and when you do, don’t forget to write to me at sood(dot)nitima(attherate)gmail(dot)com. I’l love to become part of your journey in any small way I can. Till then, be good!
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Nitima — Bio: An avid coffee drinker, Nitima can get high just on the perspective of writing. Though she hasn’t taken any formal training in it but takes pride in the quality of work she produces. She’s one lunatic who grew-up dreaming about Ogilvy and now living to understand his style in much detail. Offbeat Spirituality is all about her passion towards life which she chases like it’s the last bus of the night.

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