20 Ways You Can Find Inner Peace (Yes, It’s Really Possible)
Peace begins with you, but you’ve got to work at it.
How often do you feel at peace with yourself?
I was in a yoga class one day and the teacher-led us in a guided meditation.
“Imagine a time you were at peace with yourself,” she began. “Remember how you felt then, what it was like to be at peace.”
And I thought, “Huh? At peace with myself? When was I at peace with myself?”
And I thought some more. The meditation ended.
I thought some more. Class ended and I kept on pondering.
I couldn’t think of a time when I had been at peace with myself. I thought some more, days went by, and the instructor’s question kept popping into my head.
And I had to conclude that I’ve never been at peace with myself. It really bothered me.
“Is anyone ever at peace with themselves?” my best friend asked when I told her about this. Good question.
I started to reframe the meditation in my head. Maybe the key was to ask yourself to think of a time you felt at peace for even a few moments and draw on that, I told myself. But even those moments seemed few and far between.
