How to Live a Peaceful and Inspired Life
Inner peace is a state of being that places us in an aura of ease and flow. From this place we’re able to put more trust to our intuitive insights and desires when we are operating in this vibration.
To feel at peace affects every cell of our entire human essence.
Our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health completely align together, leading us into our most authentic and creative selves.
We’re able to truly tap into the deepest part of our gifts and live life from an expansive and abundant state of mind.
In a world where there can innately feel like there’s a ton of noise to decipher through, here are three ways to live both a peaceful and inspiring life.
1. Spend More Time Doing What You Love
I want you to imagine something.
Visualize yourself waking up from an exceptionally pristine night of sleep. One where you feel fully energized, to the point of having a huge smile on your face before even stepping out of bed.
On your way to the kitchen to rehydrate yourself with some water, you repeat a few mantras out loud that create a sense of happiness throughout the cells of your body.
“I am a powerful creator.”
“I am loved, I am loving, I am lovable forever.”
“I love myself.”
“I am excited about the start of a new beautiful day.”
You then drink a nice large glass of water with lemon, to replenish your organs with a nice inner bath and energetically activate the trillions of cells in your body.
You then proceed to quiet your mind and meditate for30-minutes after spending a few minutes looking at inspiring images or paintings that bring you a deep sense of joy.
Once done with your meditation you then practice the physical art of yoga to create more awakening of the body, alignment with the mind, and opening of the heart.
Afterwards you feel more flexible, relaxed, and vibrant.
You then decide to listen to uplifting music that you notice expands your heart even more. You have an emotional experience while listening, to the point where tears begin to float down your face.
You love writing, so you then decide to journal your thoughts and creative visions.
After journaling you now feel inspired to write a blog post.Your intention is to share different aspects that you personally love or have discovered, with the hope that the words can be useful to someone else on their journey.
You proceed to do it and afterwards you feel at even more peace than you did when you started your day.
Now it’s time to prepare a delicious homemade meal. You take your time and only choose foods that your body energetically agrees with, and finds easy to absorb and digest.
Afterwards you have three online client sessions where you get to coach and provide one-on-one support to other growth minded, purpose-driven, and creative leaders who aspire to fully design their lives to one of which they do what they absolutely love from a pure place of inner peace and happiness.
Does that sound pretty peaceful and relaxing to you?
Regardless of whether or not that rings true for you, I’ll let you in on a little secret.
It does for me, because this is exactly how I spend most of my days throughout the week.
Do I mention this to brag?
No, I mention it to describe in exact detail what I love.
Everything that I mentioned above are aspects in which I absolutely love.
Even as I’m typing this right now, I almost feel overcome by a wave of emotions for creating a life in which I get the privilege of doing things each and everyday that brings me absolute joy.
Right now is your day spent doing things you love
If not, then take some time after reading this to create the vision of exactly how that would look for you in this moment.
Be gentle with yourself during it though, and remember to focus only on what you love and how that appears for you.
2. Practice the Art of Self Forgiveness
When most think of forgiveness, they think of it needing to involve another person.
The image of saying, “I’m sorry” to a spouse, friend, or relative is one that we all have experience with.
However, what if the most important person for you to apologize to is actually yourself?
Anytime we judge ourselves for “not” being something, we create inner tension in the body.
“I’m not smart enough”
“I’m not attractive enough”
“I’m not doing enough”
These can also show up as stories we’ve been telling ourselves for so long throughout our lives that we don’t even recognize the disharmony they create inside of our being (if not connected to our most authentic and loving state).
“I can’t do _________ because of (insert family story).”
“I’ll never be successful at _____________ because of what happened to me in my teenager years.”
“If only my mom/dad/spouse would be more ____________, then things would be different and I’d be more content and happy.”
These are just a few examples but can you relate to any of them?
When we keep rehearsing to ourselves the same non-serving stories (rather internally or verbally), we create the opposite of what each and everyone of us desire at an interconnected level, peace and happiness.
So how do we neutralize or reverse these patterns?
We do so by choosing to forgive ourselves.
By not only choosing to do so, but also making it a life commitment to openly observe, notice, and feel when we allow judgments of self to appear.
However, rather than condemning ourselves for it, we can choose to create a new pattern of self-forgiveness.
“I’m sorry for truly believing that I wasn’t enough, just the way that I am”
“I’m sorry for creating a story from my early childhood that being sensitive is bad and unacceptable.”
“I’m sorry for creating the story that my self worth is dictated by the amount of money in my bank account.
From here you can create a whole new and more energetically serving story.
“I am truly enough, just the way I am, and I love every aspect of my entire being.”
“I am grateful for being highly sensitive, and consider it an honor to feel and express emotions deeply as a man.”
“I am 100% in love with myself and worthy of love, regardless of the amount of money in my bank account.”
Hopefully this all makes sense, but regardless of where you’re at on your journey, make it a practice to always remember and choose self-forgiveness at the times when judgment appears.
As by doing so we actively create newer stories that are authentically aligned with our hearts, which continue to guide us on our purpose and expands us into higher energetic states.
3. Always Choose Gratitude
This may seem minuscule or as a no-brainer on the surface, but the key underlining word is “always.”
It can be easy to feel grateful when you perceive things are going amazing.
Maybe you just had your best month in sales revenue, just attended or watched live sporting event where your team came out victorious, or you just made love with your intimate partner.
These are the times when gratitude comes without even bringing any conscious attention forward.
You may utter the words “I am so grateful or thankful for________.”
Usually the blank is a result or outcome that instantly elicits peace and happiness in the body.
However a key and what I consider the final ingredient to living in a state of consistent inner peace is when one can express appreciation and gratitude at ALL times (no matter if where they’re at is truly not where they desire to be).
Maybe you just got in argument with your spouse
Or you’re in a perceived rut at work where you just had your lowest revenue month of the year.
Or last but not least, maybe your favorite team just lost a game to an opponent who was huge underdog.
Can you express genuine appreciation during those scenarios too?
If you can find the positive in everything, and treat life as an occurrence of neutral events that are neither right nor wrong, then you my friend have the secret potion to creating a state of being that is truly grounded in peace.
Now will there be times that you may fall out of alignment in into a lower vibrational state of fear, anger, or sadness? Of course.
We’re all humans, and in this human experiment of life, we’re meant to experience all emotions.
However the more in tune and authentically aligned we are with ourselves, the quicker we’re able to mindfully decipher the “what” and“why” behind the reason of our incongruent state.
And that’s just a part of the beautiful journey of life.
To create, observe, feel, forgive, and love. Rinse and repeat.
As from here, we’re able to truly connect to whatever the present moment brings us, and make decisions not from past repetitive non-serving patterns, but from a place of deeply tapping into our visions and taking actions in the now.
With Love,
Brandon