Inner Peace

How Inner Peace Actually Works

It can’t be forced.

Photo by Ryan Bruce from Burst

When I grasp at inner peace, it slips farther away.

It’s like trying to pull a flower out of a seed. For obvious reasons, that won’t work. The seed needs to be planted and cared for so the flower can grow and bloom by itself.

In the same way, forcing inner peace doesn’t work. Instead, it arises on its own when the conditions are right.

So, for inner peace to find us, we have to make ourselves a place it can take root and grow.

The splendor of surrender

The most straightforward way to manifesting inner peace is through surrender. But surrendering in this sense means nothing bad. It just means giving up being resistant to life. This is good because resistance causes stress.

Now the ego never likes to drop a good fight, but surrendering removes the tension caused by resistance. With that gone, inner peace can grow.

Putting surrender into practice

This last week has been a drag. I haven’t gotten up early, worked out, or written anything. Wasting all this time had me feeling pretty upset.