The essence of this quote speaks to the idea that our beliefs create our reality. It represents a different outlook on life, but not so different that would compromise your life in any way. Given our present worldwide dilemmas and the need for peace, I would invite you to participate in a personal and peaceful practice that has the potential to cast a peaceful energy across human consciousness. An energy that would influence a peaceful outcome to what the human world is currently facing.
The focus of this article
is the reason we need to meditate on peace.
What we give our conscious or unconscious attention to, creates our reality. By placing out conscious attention on creating peace in our own life, we are effectively contributing peace into the bigger picture of humanity by way of our presence here on Earth.
Many people are finding that meditating on peace is a challenge. The continuing media coverage of life threatening world events is currently consuming news networks around the world. This is putting human consciousness on high alert and therefore adding undue stress to public perception. If this is your challenge, then the first step you can take is to limit what you are giving your attention to. Absorb enough media coverage to be aware of the circumstances as you see them, and then intentionally switch off from the media and switch on to peace.
Meditating on peace brings our attention to creating peace …
In your meditation, breathe out the tension, and allow peaceful thought to occupy your consciousness. Be creative, visualise peace in your life and in the world - it really doesn’t matter which. Imagine peace as a cloud of love descending on yourself and Planet Earth. See situations being resolved and people returning to personal happiness and contentment.
In your meditation ‘be still’ within your physical self and your thoughts will equally remain still within your consciousness. After a week or so, you will notice a real peacefulness within your outlook. The effect of this will balance the stress being absorbed through media coverage, with a positive belief in the possibility of a peaceful outcome.
Bringing peace into our consciousness while we meditate is both a subtle and powerful exercise. The reason for this is because the practice of meditation requires a quiet atmosphere where there are little or no distractions. In that environment, whatever we think or give our attention to is easier to hold and continue holding within our meditative awareness. As a result, after only a couple of weeks we will begin to feel more peaceful within ourselves.
How does our personal contribution of peace become a worldly peace?
As individual human beings, we naturally have a compartmentalised consciousness. That is not to say it will always be this way … like all things in the physical universe we are evolving. The evolution of human consciousness involves our bracketed version of consciousness expanding to become an awareness that we are part of a greater, “Universal Consciousness”.
When we meditate on peace, we create peace in our individual lives. But at the level of universal consciousness, the collective energy of every person’s peaceful life, contributes to a greater peace manifesting in the world. Because of the holistic nature of the universe, it is believed that the energetic effect of each person’s single peaceful input, is multiplied exponentially.
As a positive thought, perhaps what is happening in the world right now, is happening to bring us to this realisation?
We don’t have to all be meditating together, or at the same time to create this peace. Whenever we meditate on peace we are contributing to the whole. When the timing of our meditations is spread across the hours of a day, the peace that is created collectively, becomes more evenly continuous.
I invite you to participate in meditating on peace in your own time, in your own way. Know that you are not only creating peace in your own life, you are also bringing that peace to our current world circumstances.
… You make a difference!
If you do not meditate and you would like to contribute to world peace in this way; the new edition of my book, “In the key of peace” featured below, includes a simple approach to a stillness meditation that you can teach yourself.
If you are finding difficulty in settling into your meditation, I offer you the meditation music I have written and recorded over the past forty years — it really works. All music is available on my website - check it out while you are here ... and also at most online digital stores. If you would like to use your existing digital music-store account, please message me with your favoured store and I will send you a link to where my music is on that platform. Other than that, look for Jeffree Music or Jeffree Clarkson. (Note the spelling of Jeffree)
I have also created a Simply Stillness Audio Guide for learning meditation with music included - this is also on my website under "meditation". Check it our while you are here!
The following are links to my book, “In the Key of Peace”
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