Visualize a water globe or snow globe. Imagine that each piece of glitter or snow floating in the water represents one of your thoughts. When you shake up the globe trying to make something happen, the glitter or snow moves about rapidly in a chaotic manor; however if you sit the water globe down and just let it be, just observe it without intent, it becomes calm and still.
Peace is a natural state, and when the mind is settled, peace exists. So, what causes the mind to become unsettled? Many forms of negative thinking and selftalk, irrational thoughts, worry, fear, obsessive guilt and shame, envy and jealously—simply put, it is our own internal struggle that kidnaps our minds from the awareness of peace. So, the question is not how doesone find peace, but instead how does one reduce struggle. Come to understand why we struggle, and the struggle will cease.
Every moment of this day we have the choice to keep our hearts and souls open and aware of the peace that exists in the here and now, or to allow our minds to ignore this truth and get lost in the powerful negative energy that fuels anxiety and struggle. How you choose to spend your emotional energy from now until you go to sleep tonight will go far in determining the amount of peace in your life.