You could be dancing, Yeah!

Here's a path to Peace: Eliminate "should" from your thoughts and speaking today!

When you "should" yourself, others, the world, you operate inside a context of entitlement - entitled to things being a certain way, your way (imagine that)! From this place it is impossible to appreciate how you are already blessed. Focus instead on what you are grateful for right now, for air to breathe, for your ability to love, for the Peace that already exists.

Said another way: Always wear your dancing shoes! Then dance with abandon to the music that is being played. Hey, hey, hey! That's what I say! Yip, yip! Boogie on!

Wild flowers for Peace!

My neighbors planted a hill surrounding their property with native wild flowers. Now the rest of the neighbors and visitors have the great gift of turning a corner to be surprised and breathless at the sight of a hill vibrating with color: poppies, larkspur, lupine, tidy tips, brodiaea, clarkia and purple owls clover! Creating, nurturing and sharing beauty, inviting gratitude: That's Peace.

Don't leave your room without being grateful today. If you can't find anything to be deeply grateful for, be grateful for wild flowers!

A Powerful Commitment to Peace

Feeling at Peace or inspired by Peace is an amazing and deeply satisfying experience. And for us humans these feelings are TRANSITORY! They go away. Sometimes very quickly.

So, what might be more powerful and sustainable?

Commitment!

When I am committed to Peace, when I declare my commitment to it each day, each moment, I am likely to move in Peace toward Peace, even when I am uninspired or challenged. I do it anyway, whether I feel like it in the moment or not.

Pssssst! You can substitute love, kindness, generosity, mindfulness, spirit and many other qualities of Essence for Peace in my assertion above AND IT STILL WORKS. Huzzah, Ta Da, and Woo Ha!

Completely at Peace

Are you burdened by guilt or thoughts of work or relationships that seem unfinished?
You aren't neurotic, abnormal or ready for the looney bin! You are merely incomplete!

I heartily recommend the practice of getting complete as a path to Peace. Being complete means that everything that needs to, has been said, accepted, acknowledged, let go of or forgiven.

Here's a way to do it. Make a list of everything that seems incomplete for you. Then look to see what you need to say or do to be complete. Take one item at a time and say, do, accept, acknowledge, let go of or forgive. The key is that you are willing to be complete.

Voila! Peace!