INNER PEACE

Tips For Freedom Through Inner Peace

• Set Your Vision

• Long Term Vision
• Mid Term Vision
• Short Term Vision

• Set Your Immediate Goals

• Live in the present

• Understand your values. Realizing who you are and what you value most can give
you the wisdom and insight to face any situation. When you are clear on your
values, you will be better able to lead a balanced life.
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• Choose a time of the day to think about your concerns. Keep it far enough away
from bedtime, so that it will not keep you up at night. Focus on your concerns for
a set time, and then try to let it go the rest of the day.

• Write down your worries as the thought enters your mind. Save your list for your
time you have allotted to think about these issues.

• Keep a daily journal. Write three pages a day or set a timer for an allotted amount
of time. Write down whatever comes into your mind. Keep the pen moving while
you are on the clock.
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• Take a walk. Use this time to enjoy nature. Ideas, solutions, and calming inner
peace may come your way.

• Have compassion for other people. When you set aside time for others and what is
going on in their life, it gives you a break from thinking about yourself and about
your worries.

• Focus on the positive. Make a conscious effort to look for positive things during
the day. You can appreciate those positive moments. Write them down in your
journal.
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• Keep a gratitude list. Write down three or even ten things that you are grateful for
each day. It will make you feel better. You will remember that some things are
going right in your life.

• Find a time during the day to reflect and be alone with your thoughts. It’s helpful
to carve out time for reflection.

• Volunteer. By helping others, you not only support someone else, but you fill
yourself up with good feelings.
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• Take one day at a time. Focus on getting through today and leave the future for
tomorrow. Change begins with baby steps.

• Count your blessings. No matter how stressed you feel at the moment, remind
yourself about all that you do have.

• Do something fun and treat yourself well. Love yourself as you want others to
love you. You deserve it. Bring new things into your life. It will make you feel
better.
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• Trust your instincts. You will hear many opinions and thoughts about what you
should do to help yourself and your surroundings change. Listen to what your
body is telling you. The answers are inside if you listen.

• Reach out to others in the similar situation. Find someone who has walked in your
shoes or a group who you can talk to. Don’t isolate. It isn’t healthy.

• Take some time during the day to meditate while you focus on your breathing.
Breathe in. Breathe out. You will feel more calm and centered.
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• Embrace an uncertain future. Accept the fact that the future is unsure, and it is out
of your control. It does not help to obsess about it.

• Repeat your concerns out loud over and over in the mirror. Let your emotions run
their course until you are ready to move on.

• Remember, most of the things that you worry about the most never happen. The
“what ifs” that cycle through your mind are usually far worse than reality. Let
those go and focus on something positive.
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• Be generous with your smiles. When you are laughing or smiling, it makes you
feel better. Even if you have to fake it, make an effort to smile. Reach out to
others in loving kindness.

• Exercise daily. Walk, run, take a class or practice yoga. Find something that you
enjoy. It will help you feel calmer and find inner peace.

• Know that you are not alone. There are many suffering from the same issues that
you have. Just knowing that there are others with the same issues helps you not
feel so isolated.
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• Find your strength. When faced with adversity, you need to dig deep and find your
strength. Most likely, you have more strength than you ever imagined. Knowing
how much strength you have will help you have the self-confidence to handle
whatever comes your way.

• Educate yourself. You may feel weak and powerless because you are not
informed. There are many resources available around you for instant use. When
you educate yourself, you will have more knowledge, which will help you feel
more in control.
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• Let go of trying to control the lives of others. When someone is things not
appealing to you; do not get involved uninvited. It may not make sense to you, but
doer has more knowledge of its outcomes. Accept that you don’t have all the
answers and cannot always control others.

• Be comfortable with not knowing. You cannot predict the outcome of every
situation; allow life to unfold as it may.
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• Let go of expectations. You may have ideas and thoughts about how you thought
life for your child would unfold. When things take a major detour, to maintain
your inner peace, you need to accept what is.

• Don’t let your misery retard your motion. Let go of your story. Things may not be
going how you planned. Don’t add more to the situation by submerging yourself
in how miserable you feel. It does not make the pain go away. Your mind remains
imprisoned in the negativity.
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•Know that there is hope. Every situation is temporary. Peaks and valleys fill our lives.
You may be in the valley right now, but the peak may be just ahead. Hang on to hope
for better future.
•Don’t take anything personally. Each person’s opinion is solely the product of their own
life and reality.
•Embrace each and every thing that happens as an opportunity. When something “bad”
happens ask, “What is universe trying to tell me?” Accept situations as signs or
opportunities, and remember that there is a purpose; a greater good to each. Look for
lesson rather than getting stuck in victim mode
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• Don’t be a victim. It’s easy to think that the world is against you. Have you ever had
one of those days where everything goes wrong? It happens. There are things in our
control and out of our control. You can’t control the world around you, but you can
control how you react to things. Don’t fall into the downward spiral of the victim trap.

• Practice forgiveness. Forgiving is releasing the power that a certain event has on you.
By not forgiving you are keeping your mind in the past, thinking and wishing that
things could have been different. This traps you and makes you feel powerless and
unhappy.
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• True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had
completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at the moment.