Create Peace in Your Heart and Mind

To be at peace in your heart and mind is a blessing.

One of the primary ways that meditation can influence and enhance your life is by helping you reach a state of peace. The fruits of meditation are a calm mind and inner peace.

The human mind is a busy and very active place. The non-stop chatter of your mind is a powerful factor that impacts your life in a variety of ways. Learning to master the power of your mind affects your life in dynamic and dramatic ways.

Perhaps one of the most tangible benefits of learning to meditate is to begin to develop mastery of the undisciplined chatter of what ancient teachers of meditation have long called the “monkey mind.”

Buddha described the human mind as being filled with drunken monkeys, jumping around, screeching, chattering, and carrying on endlessly. The unfocused mind rambles and chatters. This constant “thought noise” is called (Chitta). It is with the content of your Chitta that many of your life problems are created.

The positive results of learning to quiet and calm the mind of its ceaseless chatter relate to a number of different aspects that impact your life. The ability to reach a state of peace and calm in your mind and with your emotions has significant health implications. This is inner peace.

Inner Peace Creates Peace
– Genevieve Gerard

Just to achieve a calm and peaceful state of mind is formidable. By learning to discipline your mind and your thoughts, you open your life to a mastery that has a far-reaching influence on being successful and achieving your dreams.

Issues as far reaching as how well you cope with and manage your life stress have profound implications for your success in life. How well you can sleep is also related to your ability to gain mastery over the chatter that seems to run continuously in the backdrop of your mind. Achieving peace of mind is a significant factor that relates to how much you enjoy your life. Therefore gaining mastery over your mind and emotions to achieve peace of mind and calmness is important.

One of the most amazing parts of the human mind and one of the most effective results that can be life changing involves an understanding of the creative power and potential of your mind. A basic principle of thought that can either serve you or destroy your wellbeing is that “energy follows thought.”

The principle of energy follows thought is what makes the “Law of Attraction” work to create miraculous results. What it is easy to miss or fail to understand is that thought is a powerful form of energy. When that thought is in the mind of a human being, thought is a primary creative force.

Part of the miracle of humanities creation is that the creator created you to create. As a human being, you are endowed with a spark of Divine Light. That spark of Divinity places you in a cooperative role with God as a co-creator of your life.

Your life has both meaning and a purpose. You as a human being are a beloved child of God. That imbues you with a creative or co-creative power with God. The creative tool that directs the creation of your life is the energy that is generated by your thoughts. You can create peace within you!

That makes what you think important. It is certainly much too important than to be ignored and allowed to run amok creating what you fear and worry about. This is a danger as the undisciplined chatter of your thoughts creates problems and disasters in your life especially when you worry, focusing on what you fear.

Controlling your thoughts and, releasing your fear are the primary components that fuel the wisdom “Change your mind, and you can change your life” – GG

Focusing upon what you fear, what might happen and the tireless self-recriminations that I call the “should have, could have and ought’s” works against you. Because of the powerful emotional charge that is generated by fear, fear can be not only the most limiting thought but also one of the most harmful.

Learning to harness the power of your mind and then to convert your thoughts into a powerful force that works for your benefit and success is one of the most significant advantages of meditation. Ponder on what you can do to still your mind. What I have always found to be amazing is that the reality explored by great spiritual leaders and great business leaders reveal the same truth about the power of thought.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (Chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled super consciousness of the soul.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

Your thought need not be mindless chatter that instructs the universe to create what you fear and worry about. You can choose to use the miraculous power of your mind to create the life of your most amazing dreams.

The choice is yours. You can live a life of unlimited possibilities with the potential to achieve as much as you dare to dream, or you can create the disasters you fear through worrying. Of course, that choice is influenced by what you choose to think. It is manipulated by the content of your thoughts and impelled by the energy of those thoughts.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
– Napoleon Hill

Thought Management is so potent and can be so transforming that it can appear to be magic. However, it is grounded in universal principles. This principle that “energy follows thought” and be the most useful instrument you can ever be given to impact your life. Or conversely, can create terrifying limitations and anxiety as you create with your thoughts the disasters and failures that you fear.

I can think of no more practical reason to learn to gain mastery over your Chitta and your fears than the magnetic influence of thought. Throughout the history of thought management, thought leaders and spiritual teachers are amazingly congruent on this point.

I find it both relevant and significant that the business world and the spiritual world are in agreement about how your mind impacts your life.

Of course, as a spiritual teacher, I advocate meditation as the tool to help you gain mastery of your thoughts. However, one of the most effective explanations of this principle was written by a business leader Napoleon Hill in the 1920’s. His book “Think and Grow Rich” explains the principles I am discussing from a business and success model.

In today’s post, I would like to offer you a gift of his book “Think and Grow Rich.” This is a free Adobe PDF of the full book that you can download and ponder on. Although this book is a business tome, I have found it to be a very spiritual guidebook to help you fulfill your Soul or Life purpose.

Making your life as joyous and successful as possible is spiritual work. You can gain wisdom and mastery of your mind through meditation or the tools of success offered by business leaders. Where and how you receive these concepts is unimportant. That you learn and, more importantly, use these principles to empower and enhance your life is a blessing.

I leave you today with this final affirmation quote by the thought leader Louise Hays:

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.
– Louise L. Hay

Namaste,

Genevieve

The Blessing of Love on All That You Do!

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