My inner peace is not negotiable

That morning he got up like any other but, when he went to wash his face, something had to be different. He was in front of the mirror and something from within, like a deep force, had a message for her: I am your inner peace and you have to start taking care of me.

He had had some really bad months from a mental point of view and had lost the desire for any gift or pleasant gesture that the days could offer him. However, he knew that that inner voice was beginning to be right: It was time to establish priorities, to re-define a hierarchy: the one I was driving until that morning had been erased a long time ago.

It is possible that there were millions of obstacles around you preventing you from developing the art of taking care of yourself, but She had finally understood that looking for her and for her, at least once a day, would make her feel better.. Furthermore, it would be a “posit” in his memory in which he would write: “It is the time of day when you have to leave the area of ​​the forest where you are, go up in the balloon and see it from above”.

For all brakes, wings

Throughout the day he reflected little by little. She first began to be aware of how complicated it was to follow the purpose that had been set: we live in a society that forces us to relate and that keeps us continually busy, making our minds not contemplate our interests in an explicit way. As if looking out for them, consciously and intentionally, was a sin: the best indicator that we are selfish.

Although it wasn’t just that. He had fought with the most terrible monsters that existed and that had made fear, anxiety and sadness take control of his life.. They had caused tears, nostalgia and internal ruptures.

He had also had to face wrong decisions, delicate circumstances, hard moments that escaped from his hands through his fingers, as if they were water. She also couldn’t forget the times he had walked with his eyes covered because of people who wanted to live two lives, one of them his.

However, the best purposes in life are not easy, so this one did not have to be either: the pain had been inevitable and even courageous, but it was time for suffering to stop making him waste time that would not return. never.

Choose what you want to be

At that moment he remembered something he had read a while ago: that We are what we pretend to be and, therefore, we have to choose it very well. It was precisely what he needed to be able to establish priorities: doing so would mean acting in accordance with them and removing the dissonance that causes the mind and actions to be “out of tune.”

It began with a decision: to leave behind what tied her to the ground, for telling herself a little more that she was special and for keeping with her the light that she had stopped seeing. At the end of the day, she was the defender of her dreams, the best ally of her self-esteem, and she had people with her who never stopped enlightening her with her love.

I wanted to be someone who understood that Her inner peace involved finding her place in the world and staying connected to it.: smiling at the baker who lived two blocks away when she went shopping, thanking the small details, sharing love with her loved ones. Only then would balance return and the monsters would no longer make so much noise.

Inner peace is not a possibility, it is a right

In the following days he realized what that deep voice he had heard really meant: I had the right to be well and that was not a possibility to negotiate. She had to fight for her serenity, for her calm and inner peace, since only then would she be able to find a little happiness among so much leftovers.

He remembered the words of Master Thich Nhat Hanh in which he stated that “Inner silence is essential to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it.. If there is no silence inside us – if our mind, our body, are full of noise – we will not hear the call of beauty.” So he set out to achieve inner silence to be able to appreciate life in its entirety. He decided to put mindfulness into practice to achieve serenity and happiness.

It was worth finding a way to achieve this, especially since the welfare state would allow him to see that Inner peace is “dwelling in oneself”, knowing that you are happy with what you have, with what you do and with what you share. From then on, he promised to never stop looking in the mirror every morning, so he would never forget it.

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