INTRODUCTION
How can we become peaceful and how can we become calm from our mind. Now we know that we are living in a world where we are constantly bombarded and constantly overloaded with information, with distractions and all of the chaos, so what happens when we live in such an environment is we become so reactive and we tend to lose our peacefulness. We tend to lose our calmness in our mind. And then what happens is our frustration, stress and depression builds in. So how can we deal with this and what can we do to eliminate these distractions and this constant chatter in our mind and have a peaceful mind in the middle of chaos. So in this article I'm going to share a few tips where you can practice in your daily life and then you can, if you practice this, it will be a great help to find peacefulness and calm in the middle of all the chaos.
The first thing that you have to understand is calmness and peacefulness is not an outer source. It doesn't come from outer world. It can be found within. So no matter where you live, no matter what the place you live, no matter what you do, if you really focus on this calmness and if you're clever enough to find that, then you will be able to find the calmness and peacefulness in the middle of all the chaos. So always remember, calmness and peacefulness should be built and should be developed within and also, you have to remember one thing that calmness and peacefulness is not about emptying your mind. When you become calm and peaceful, it doesn't say that there's nothing in your mind, no thoughts in your mind. Thoughts may appear in your mind. There will be lots of thoughts and train of thoughts will appear in your mind. But when you become really calm and when you become serene from your mind, you will tend to not to react to all those stimulations. That is what the real calmness and peacefulness means.
Normally when the thoughts appear, when all these kind of trains of thoughts appear in our mind, what happens to us is we openly react to them. We become panicked and we tend to react to them. So the reason why this happens is because. We think that thoughts as us. And we tend to think that I am what I think and I am my thought. But in reality, thoughts are not you. You are not your thoughts.
Thoughts are just like, they're coming and going. It's like clouds, There's the sky and there's the clouds, So what is the nature of a cloud? It comes and it swarms around and it goes off, Sometimes the sky is cloudy. Sometimes the sky is moody. Sometimes the clouds are scattered here and there. And sometimes the sky is empty. So you are like the sky and your thoughts are like the clouds. So there's a huge distance between the sky and the clouds. But we openly think that the clouds as the sky, sometimes when it is raining, sometimes when it is moody, we blame to the sky. We tend to say that, oh, this weather is not okay. The sky is always raining and raining and it's moody. But sky is not raining.
Clouds are what forms the rain, Clouds forms the rain. Same as that, when the thoughts appear in your mind, you can take a little step back and think, should I react to this? Should I react upon these thoughts? For an example, if an angry thought came to your mind, what should you do? Just a pause a little bit and think, should I react to this?
You can have a little bit of a time and think about it. Oh, this is anger. I should not react to this. This is jealousy. I should not react to this. It's OK to have thoughts in your mind. But if you want to be peaceful, you should not. And you should you should choose to not to react to those thoughts. So there are a few practices where we can do in our daily life to bring and to make a little bit of a help to this peacefulness and calmness. One thing that you can do is that you can slow down your body movement for a little time period of the day. Maybe like when you have time and when you're working by yourself, maybe like you're walking, maybe like you're writing something or maybe like you're studying, try to maintain slow body movements. Now why I say this, because our body and our mind is highly interconnected. When our thoughts become panicked, our body become panicked. So in the other way, if we calm down and if we slow down our bodily movements, It will be a great help for us to slow down the thought process. Then you can take a little time and think about what comes to your mind.
That is one thing that you can do. And also there's another great practice that Buddha told us to do that is called breathing meditation. When you do the breathing meditation, you reduce these heavy loads of thoughts into two thoughts, in-breath and out-breath. in breathing meditation, all what we are doing is we are constantly becoming aware of in-breath and out-breath. When you do that, it's sort of like condensing your mind. It's sort of like making your mind soft and peaceful and non -reactive. That is what you can do. And also there's another thing that you can do is to not to judge your thoughts and to be aware of your thoughts.
I will give you an example. It's like you're watching a traffic pass by, by the side of the road, right? You can see cars and bikes and vans and buses are going, but you're not going to judge them. You're not going to stop them. You're not going to chase behind them. You sit by the road and you just watch them. Let the vehicles be the vehicles and you be you. In the same way, let the thoughts be the thoughts and you be you. When you become less reactive to your thoughts, you can find that peacefulness and calmness in your mind.
So I hope you got some light to about the calmness and peacefulness from this article So I hope you all, may all of you be well and happy and may all of you be calm and peaceful forever.
