Feeling Joy

I got up this morning at my usual 4 a.m. Yes, that is quite early but it's become a routine fueled by age, sleep patterns and a desire for my husband and I to ease into our day leaving time for coffee and chat. Our chat most days is a dual attempt that serves two purposes. One is to keep us connected so that the busyness of life does not end up being friendly strangers in our own house and two is to give us time to work on what we're grateful for or some topic that will end up leaving us feeling grateful and ready to face our day in a positive way.

So today my day is just the usual - straighten house, shower, handle phone appointments, answer emails, exercise, work on my new course videos, work on my blog. All of this is quite usual. Some days I have clients. Some not. Some days I attend 12-Step meetings. Some not.

I guess our morning get-together worked because I am feeling free floating joy. I'm learning that if I allow the Universe it's timing, I need not fret or worry about anything. It all will come. I just have to do my part. And, hallelujah, that is very rarely hard any more.  There was a time that that was not true but all the trudging has really put me on the road to happy destiny.

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Finding Inner Peace Through Understanding

Forgiveness and Inner Peace

To embrace inner peace you must release any need to be forgiven. Many people hold onto resentment and anger and refuse to change until the person(s) who harmed them seeks their forgiveness. This attitude keeps them locked in fear and causes them to deny their own inner peace, their own soul, and Source.

If we look at the big picture, we are all souls exploring this Universe. Whatever we experience with others is what we have chosen - at least on a soul level. Usually, the people that cause us the most heartache have the greatest attachment for us on a soul level. We have a powerful bond of love with them and choose to go through our great human dramas with them.  Sometimes finding inner peace when we are in a powerful relationship is hard.  Fear can set in and hold us back from finding our true selves.

Fear is the opposite of love and inner peace.  We cannot experience fear  when we come from a place of love and awareness. In order for us to take control of where we are, we have to accept that what we are experiencing was created by our own actions and learn from them.   We come to realize we don't need to seek forgiveness but to embrace gratitude about what we have experienced - so that we can understand more about creating with the energies of love not of fear.

When you allow yourself to embrace gratitude towards those you have co-created your experiences with, you will open to the truth of your inner peace. When you finally understand that whole paradigm from a place of learning and understanding, your creations will no longer control you, the creator. It is only then that you will be free to be who you really are - a powerful, unlimited source of inner peace.

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Leaders Can Teach Us to Forgive But Most Likely We Will Teach Them

I recently ran across this headline:
An Open Letter to Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari from A Saudi Friend

Our world leaders can teach us all how to forgive. As a matter of fact, if they don't start learning how to do it and find inner peace, they will likely blow us all up!

When asked if he held anger for those who imprisoned him, Nelson Mandela responded "that South Africa was too important for him to feel anger. Imagine what would have happened if Mandela had taken the road of personal revenge".

We must find inner peace if we want to spread it to our leaders.  It truly is up to each one of us.

The Path to Inner Peace Is Paved in Forgiveness

There are many tools and techniques that some coaches can teach you to learn how to forgive. There are many more on the internet and in the zillion self-help books that abound everywhere. You can go to a therapist for help.

But I firmly believe that we will have to be the leaders and teach our leaders how to do it. Mandela is a man amongst many with a vision that realizes forgiveness is for yourself. It is you who have anger and hurt living in you and hurting you emotionally, physically and spiritually. And if you realize the consequences to your life in light of Law of Attraction which states like attracts like, you will understand that when you don't forgive, you attract more into your life at the low vibration of those feelings. When you forgive, you attract love and inner peace.

Now that you're done, I have one thing left I'd like you to do.

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