How to relax your mind and have more inner peace

Relaxing the mind and achieving peace is not a matter of sitting down and closing your eyes, but rather a slow learning process. However, it is worth trying.

Having inner peace implies having harmony and emotional well-being, feeling satisfied with yourself despite the day-to-day struggles. But it is not easy to free the mind when we are always busy in a hectic, sometimes overwhelming environment.

Achieving inner peace is for many a hopeless desire. But this does not have to be like this. Small changes and strategies can help you relax your mind and achieve that peace that you need so much and that is so beneficial for both you and yours.

However, the path to inner peace is not easy. Achieving inner peace is a process that requires being willing to let go of what is useless. and accept all our emotions. Achieving inner peace involves being willing to discover who you really are and realizing that only you are capable of controlling your emotional responses and reactions.

Set limits

If your life is too saturated you are going to have to set limits. You may have to stop doing some of the less important things. Be honest with yourself and eliminate what you don’t really need. Simplify your life.

“Simplifying life is one of the steps towards inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an interior and exterior of well-being that will bring us harmony.”

-Peace Pilgrim-

On many occasions we insist on carrying out more tasks than we really can. One of the first steps to achieve inner peace is to make our life a simple path. The amount of demands and obligations we impose on ourselves is usually proportional to the amount of stress and anxiety. So analyzing and establishing a real hierarchy of what is really important will help us establish healthy limits. In this way, by eliminating the most unnecessary tasks, our mind will be more relaxed and will have an impact on our well-being.

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Find a relaxation technique that works for you

There are multiple effective ways to relax, some of them quite quick. Find the ones that work for you and apply them. From listening to music to going for a walk or running, to doing yoga or practicing meditation, practicing deep breathing, coloring, etc.

Lama Yeshe (1935-1984), told us about the meditation that “The goal is not to suppress thoughts and desires; that’s impossible. The only sensible approach is train ourselves to observe thoughts without following them. When we stop following our thoughts once we become aware of them,we deprive you of your compulsive energy“.

The important thing is that you have a wide repertoire of forms of relaxation so that you can apply the one that best interests you at all times. Besides, Establishing a time in the day to do some activity to relax will help you maintain balance.

Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill

Turning small complications into big problems only gives you an unnecessary amount of stress. Every day you will encounter problems, some more important than others. But not everyone should be treated the same. You have to learn to select and not get carried away by the stress generated by everything else.

One of the best ways to make daily life easier, lighter, more positive and less stressful is to learn how to avoid creating problems where there are none. But when we are stressed or very busy, it is easy to dramatize problems and extrapolate the feeling of urgency.

To relax your mind about everything that seems like a problem, ask yourself if it really matters and to whom, whether it is so relevant that it will still be a problem in 5 weeks, 5 months or 5 years. Look around you and notice others. Surely you will find that there are people who objectively face a more complicated situation and who are capable of finding peace despite the wall they face.

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Speed down

Living fast makes our emotions skyrocket and get confused.. If you slow down your physical actions when moving, talking, or doing things (including driving, eating, or working at your desk) your stress level will automatically reduce.

“To see the world in a grain of sand and the sky in a wild flower, unfold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

-William Blake-

By slowing down, fewer things will accumulate in your mind. and you will be able to perceive the details better. The reduction in mental and physical fatigue that comes with slowing down will allow you to stay in tune with yourself.

As stated Jack Kornfieldmaster of vipassana meditation, “The art of living consists of be in the eternal present, open yourself to what is. “It only takes a moment to break the spell of time, get out of our thoughts and see the sun reflected in the window.”. The author continues, “modern life forces us to hurry. But, in general, living thinking about other moments causes us stress and anxiety. Focusing excessively on the past and the future detracts from the vitality of the present.”.

What Kornfield wants to convey to us in his text is that modern life introduces us into a spiral of haste, demands and chaos that make us live at an accelerated pace. So to counteract this harmful and unnecessary speed, it is best to open ourselves to the present. The past has already passed and the future has not arrived, so the present is the only thing that exists.

Order your world and eliminate what is left over

Tidying up your environment will help you keep your mind organized. A clean, placed and simple space brings clarity and order to your mind. Spending a few minutes daily tidying and cleaning your home and workspace is very beneficial for relaxing your mind.

While you organize and clean, don’t forget to eliminate everything that is expendable, especially anything that evokes bad memories or generates thoughts that overload your mind. Don’t forget that the simpler your environment is, the less likely you are to get distracted and end up turning into chaos.

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Accept and let go

What happened happened. Accept it and let it go. It doesn’t matter whose fault it was or what could have happened under other circumstances. You have to let those feelings go away by stopping thinking about them. To relax your mind you have to banish all those negative thoughts and unpleasant memories that disturb you.

“Never set a limit for what you can achieve… no matter what your life has been like so far.”

-Lama Yeshe-

Focus on the present, in the opportunities you have now. Face the future free of guilt and resentment. Holding on to a negative experience from the past is leaving our happiness in the hands of something that has already happened. If we are aware that the past is the past and the important thing is the present, we learn to let go.. As the Beatles sang, “Let it be”that is to say, “Let it be”.

Solve your problems now

If you have a problem, solve it. Don’t let time decide for you or pass sentence. Solving a problem relieves you of stress and allows you to let it go. You must face your problems, even when you don’t like the solution or find it difficult to accept.

The more time passes, the more complicated everything will be. and the more it will weigh on you when you make decisions or accept the consequences.