Keeping your peace, or giving it away? It’s your choice!
Are you in the School of Peace, or maybe Peace and Love? If you are, this is especially for you.
School of Peace folks are grounding, nourishing, present, and centered—so wonderful to be with when they are on the “Master Path!”
But if they are on the “Student Path,” they are chaos magnets…
If there is something awful happening, it’s happening to them. Their lives look like a series of disasters: relationship break-ups, health crisis, getting laid off at work, money problems of all kinds, and so on. As long as they are unconscious about the fact that this is their pattern, they tend to try to draw people around them in to their panic or paralysis, looking for relief, sympathy, help, or just company in feeling like crap.
All of us are capable of getting caught up in patterns like these: School of Peace people are just more prone to this particular one. Like any pattern, once we actually see it and our responsibility for it, we actually have a choice about it. And once we understand our role, our tolerance for putting up with these walking disasters in our own lives or in the lives of others, drops away. It no longer evokes sympathy. In fact it starts to regularly evoke impatience.
In the end, we only get to make our own choices. Whether the chaos you are around is your own or that of someone you care about, use these 8 Ways to Keep Your Peace:
(Yes, you’ve heard them before, but are you using them???)
8 Ways to Keep Your Peace
- Exercise. Something full out to burn off energy, even better when it’s fun for you. (Why I love NIA—it’s both!)
- Get some negative ions: Out in Nature—at the beach, after a thunderstorm, around a campfire, etc. Negative ions are said to have a relaxing effect; they’ve been reported to normalize your breathing rate, decrease blood pressure and relieve tension. Supposedly they normalize serotonin production in the brain. What I know: taking a walk in the woods or on the beach is one of the most calming things I know to do.
- Start meditating again: ‘Nuff said. Time to pray, or your way of conversing with the Universe. After you ask, be sure to make space to listen.
- Journal: It’s a way to dump the chaos out of your brain and onto the page. Don’t try to work out the answers, just dump it.
- Lie belly-down on the ground: a really effective way to let your negative energy drain into the earth.
- Hang out with animals. Having pets has been shown to boost wellbeing in SO many ways! Can’t have pets? Hang out with a friend’s for an hour.
- Above all: Keep your focus on YOU and the positive things you can do for YOU. Self care habits, including using your creative Super-Powers regularly, help keep your “Line to the Universe” clear, open and untainted by the chaos “noise.”
- Set boundaries: There comes a time when you have to draw the line, choosing who and what you will be around, so you can stay well. You can say: “I love you, I feel for you, but I can’t help you with this one. “
In the end, Peace is yours. You choose whether you hold on to it or whether you let it get whisked away. Make the choice, today. You’ll be much happier, not to mention healthier, for keeping your peace!
Coach’s Challenge: Take an honest look at yourself and those around you. Are you a chaos-magnet right now? Is someone else? Take steps to change the things you can, and keep your peace!
**I use Scientific Hand Analysis as a way to do a deep dive with my clients, providing clarity on Who they are here to BE, What they are here to DO, and which bottom-line habits and behaviors they need to adopt to best support their lives. (This last part has to do with Life Schools.) If you don’t yet have this information about yourself, perhaps it’s time to get it. Click here to check it out.
