Inner Peace = World Peace

You know I’ve always felt like many people who believe in and want world peace yet there’s a couple things that we aren’t aware of. That in which I’ve come to have discovered the two missing pieces to make some successful progress towards world peace.

And so I’d like to start off with: is the fact being that we are so emotional and respond with more emotion rather than logic, intelligence, knowledge or wisdom towards problems that we create more problems and war than we do solve them and bring any small amount of peace in our own individual lives. We all say that we want world peace but don’t realize what is needed for us to realize, to notice in order to get started with on the journey towards world peace. If we want world peace, we gotta know how to express that in a way where we know what it is supposed to look and sound like.

And so I’m here to declare that it’s to start off by working on our own issues and problems (insecurities, self confidence issues, mental health issues: anxiety, stress, depression; mental illnesses, eating disorders, addictions) and work towards little achievements with gaining progress and inner peace. As we continue to make progress, more things become clear to us of what we have been missing all along.

There’s a movie that I’d like to mention. It’s called: “Coffee Shop” and it quotes some great things. And here’s one I wanna talk about next!

They base too many decisions on emotions and not on realities.

Now, what are you thinking? What has this quote made you think differently about moments, problems, issues, etc in your life and in our society? What insights, knowledge, education, knowledge and wisdom have you gained from this and other examples?

Now what can you take from that to put out into your world? What can you do to help inspire the change you want to see in the world? And that means leading by example, be the change you wish to see in the world. We all expect others to follow the words we walk on yet we don’t realize nor are mindfully aware that we aren’t setting the examples of what we are inspiring yet expecting others to follow.

So in any world, do we really have any right to expect anyone to follow our demands or inspirational words if we aren’t even setting the example ourself?

So what I’m saying here is that we need to get a reality check. And I don’t mean this in any negative or harsh way possible. I just mean it on the level that involves taking steps to being more mature and responsible for our actions and our lives. We are only in control of our own life and that only. No one else’s life nor anyone for the matter! And a lot of the times we try to be in control of more than we are actually in control of. We can’t control or change the circumstances in our lives nor how other people react. Just like this quote basically proves:

You cannot control how other people react, you can only control your own behaviour.” ~ Rosa, Date My Dad

In reality, we have been making it harder for ourselves to accept because of how embarrassing it will be when we do because it makes us feel shameful for our own wrongdoings and all that we were mentally blind to for so long. This is what you call: self stigma. It can be hard to understand but give it time, you’ll have a better understanding with time.

It took me enough time at my own pace to fully understand it once I heard or read about someone talking about “self stigma” online. Overall, it’s about focusing on ourselves but the challenge is also more along not getting into the “self-absorbed” part of that. It can be hard yet more understood as almost impossible to not think too much for yourself but in time you’ll get better!

It’s just important for each of us to understand the importance of recovery and the real reality of it. Recovery with addiction, eating disorders, mental illnesses, bad habits come with their fair share of ups, downs, slip ups and even relapse. For me with my experiences with depression, I’ve come to acceptance that “relapse isn’t exactly what society believes to be something you can prevent like suicide”! It’s more of something even though it may seem to you and others as a failure for staying strong and staying in track, but deep down, that’s not the reality at all!

The reality is life isn’t perfect, nor are humans and every living thing in our world. And that includes life with its moments. As per what is quoted from The Arrangement, by The Institute Of The Higher Mind:

Life is a living thing! What it means is life is constantly changing, moment to moment.

So keep this in mind and be mindful of all that’s around you! And so bringing it down more in depth, I’d like to add another quote about life:

Don’t lose yourself in the temporary. No one has ever seen, no one has ever heard, and no one has ever imagined what God has prepared.

Just because things aren’t going the way you plan, doesn’t mean they aren’t going the way they should! ~ Max, Coffee Shop

Its important to have a healthy perception of things. To focus more on what you can gain from experiences and moments and even viewing failed attempts through the view of constructive criticism. I’m sure many of us struggle to respond and understand the purpose of constructive criticism.

But in the end, it’s a great thing to take advantage of. To work on not feeling so shameful of your mistakes. We are all human, we aren’t perfect so we shouldn’t expect anyone or any living thing to be perfect. In fact I’d like to encourage and inspire you to strive more for imperfect and progress over perfection!

If w just do basic things such as little acts of kindness, try to understand other people’s perspective like we’d want them to do for us, we will be on our way towards world peace, the right way! And remember:

No war and anger has ever won!