The way to get back to peace is to become conscious of your thoughts and thinking-patterns.

Next time you feel worried about something, instead of getting consumed by it and letting it determine and dictate your emotional state, see it as the perfect opportunity for you to observe your ego-mind.

Observe how it’s always ‘not here’, but always in the future or the past.

Whatever the mind comes up with you don’t have to believe. The stories the mind makes up have no validity in your present life experience unless you choose to believe them.

Peace is always available to us at all times, it’s just our thoughts that pull us away from it; we ‘feel’ what we ‘think’, and if you can just stay aware in the present moment, being neutral, there is peace.

We can’t know what will happen even five minutes from now. We don’t know what will happen five days from now either, we can only ever be here and now, or lost in the narratives of the mind – it’s either-or.

Close your eyes right now, and feel the power of the present moment. Feel it, and even touch something, to anchor yourself ‘here’. Stay in the moment even if your mind wants to wander or wants to get your attention.

There’s nothing else going on but this, this moment right now.

The one who is worried is not ‘you’, it’s your ego, and when you grow in self-awareness, you’ll see this very clearly and that’s when you can become free from its influence on your emotional state and well-being.

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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” — Michel de Montaigne

The next time your mind begins telling you fear-inducing stories, remember that you have the power to just be aware of the story without entering into it. You can stay neutral, and choose not to believe the thoughts.

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Photo by Cheng Shi Song on Unsplash (text added by me).

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