In a world where chaos seems to reign, is there any hope of finding peace? Here are a few tips to reclaim the peace and sense of safety missing in your life today.

1. Look Within

Instead of trying to fix things outside, let us begin by fixing what is wrong inside – within ourselves. Examine our values, beliefs and the principles we uphold. Take a good and honest look at our motivations. Are our actions motivated by fear or by love?

We are now experiencing the effects of actions that were motivated by greed (financial collapse) and hatred (terrorism). We should know by now that if our motivation is not pure, the end result cannot be good, even if it may look good in the short term.

2. Eliminate Fear and Selfishness

The more we feed fear, the stronger fear grows. We need to recognize and acknowledge the fear within us, and face our fear. Only when we do that can we learn to overcome our own fear. It is possible to live a life without fear. Indeed, that is what ultimately freedom means – the freedom from fear.

Again, when we look at the world outside, we are seeing repressive regimes that promote fear and exploit their people are now having to deal with the backlash of such repressions. Fear cannot sustain itself. Eventually, it will fail.

The same is true for us as well. If we let fear becomes the motivating force in our life – in our behaviors and actions – it will eventually fail us too. If we look closely, we will realize that selfishness is a form of fear. Therefore, we need to eliminate selfishness.

3. Seek Peace within You

Peace is our birthright. It is our true nature, our essence. If we look within and eliminate fear, we will find peace within us. It has been there all the time. Only our fear and selfishness have blinded us and obscure our sight.

If you have been living fearfully all your life, it can be difficult to believe that peace is within you. Yet, you must have faith that this is true. Only then will you begin to seek it within.

Once again, we can look at the world outside to learn that all who seek peace outside have not found it. Only those who seek peace within have found it. Ask the sages and the saints. They will tell you this simple truth.

Put these three simple tips into practice in your life and you will reap the benefits.

I wish for you peace and joy in life.

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Right at the very beginning of my meditation practice I was introduced to both mindfulness of breathing and the development of lovingkindness meditation. It was explained to me that both of these practices were equally important, that they were complementary, and that alternating these practices prevented imbalance in our approach. It was stressed, in fact, that sometimes lovingkindness practice is more important than mindfulness practice — especially for people who have a tendency toward being angry or over-critical.

I’ve never had cause to doubt any of that advice.

There are many meditators, however, who only practice mindfulness meditation, and often lovingkindness practice is seen as second-best. Generally in western Buddhist practice, there is a heavy emphasis on particular forms of mindfulness meditation. And no doubt because of this arguably narrow emphasis, that’s the form of Buddhist meditation that’s been most commonly studied in the burgeoning research on the effects of meditative practice.

But beside mindfulness there are traditionally many forms of meditation practice, with one common list — the kammaṭṭhānas (literally “places of work”) including no less than forty forms of meditation. And in the Buddhist scriptures generally, there is a heavy emphasis on lovingkindness (mettā) meditation, especially as part of the four brahmavihāras, or sublime abodes.

Lovingkindness, fortunately, is becoming better known, and researchers are now studying the effects of practicing that form of meditation, showing that they positively affect health and well-being.

Here are a few highlights:

• A study done at Stanford University used a brief lovingkindness meditation exercise to examine whether social connection could be created toward strangers in a controlled laboratory context. Compared with a closely matched control task, even just a few minutes of lovingkindness meditation increased feelings of social connection and positivity toward strangers on both conscious and unconscious levels.
• A Duke University Medical Center pilot study tested an eight-week lovingkindness program for chronic low back pain patients. Patients were randomly assigned to practice lovingkindness or were given standard care. Standardized measures assessed patients’ pain, anger, and psychological distress. There were significant improvements in pain and psychological distress in the lovingkindness group — even after the study had ended. There were no improvements in the usual care group. An analysis of patients’ diaries showed that more lovingkindness practice on a given day was related to lower pain that day and lower anger the next day.
• Researcher Barbara Fredrickson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took working adults and assigned them randomly to a lovingkindness meditation group or to a control group. Her studyfound that lovingkindness practice increased daily experiences of positive emotions, which in turn produced increases in a wide range of personal resources, including increased mindfulness, a sense of purpose in life, social support, and decreased illness symptoms. These increments in personal resources predict increased life satisfaction and reduced depressive symptoms.
• In a study by Richard Davidson, scans revealed significant activity in the insula – a region near the frontal portion of the brain that plays a key role in bodily representations of emotion – when long-term meditators were generating compassion and were exposed to emotional vocalizations. The insula is extremely important in detecting emotions in general and specifically in mapping bodily responses to emotion – such as heart rate and blood pressure – and making that information available to other parts of the brain.
• The same study showed increased activity in the temporal parietal juncture, particularly in the right hemisphere. Studies have implicated this area as important in processing empathy, especially in perceiving the mental and emotional state of others.
• Compassion meditation has been shown to reduce reactions to inflammation and distress. An Emory University study showed a strong relationship between the time spent practicing meditation and reductions in inflammation and emotional distress in response to stress. Those who practiced the most meditation showed reductions in inflammation and distress in response to stressors when compared to the low practice group and the control group. As one of the researchers noted, “If practicing compassion meditation does reduce inflammatory responses to stress it might offer real promise as a means of preventing many conditions associated with stress and with inflammation including major depression, heart disease and diabetes.”
• A review by researchers in the US and Germany suggested that Lovingkindness and compassion meditation “may provide potentially useful strategies for targeting a variety of different psychological problems that involve interpersonal processes, such as depression, social anxiety, marital conflict, anger, and coping with the strains of long-term caregiving.”

In some of these studies, the benefits were revealed after only twelve hours of meditation. Hopefully future studies will reveal yet more about the power of lovingkindness and compassion meditation.

If you’re interested in exploring lovingkindness practice in more depth, we have an extensive, free, self-paced guide, which includes audio guided meditations.

If only they truly understand the universal law of polarity, they will realize that whatever goes up must
come down eventually. Such state of sensual stimulation, no matter how high, can only be sustained for
a limited period of time. Eventually, it will have to end. Then, in order to re-gain that happiness, they
will need to seek even greater sense stimulation. The end result, however, will always be the same –
crashing down to earth.

True lasting happiness is not really this type of happiness at all. Real everlasting happiness can only be
achieved through inner peace. Inner peace is a state of mind and heart that is right in the middle of the
pendulum of polarity. It is neither the peak of sensual pleasures nor the depth of pain, but rightly
balanced in the middle of both. It is a state of imperturbability, like a mountain that is immovable by
rain or sun. It is not shaken by the winds of change – good or bad, rich or poor, health or sickness, fame
or blame.

The way to this inner peace is through introspection. It is an inner knowledge, a self knowledge. The tools you will need to find this inner peace, your true nature, are mindfulness and letting go.

Mindfulness is simply a constant, non-judgmental awareness of your own thoughts and feelings. It is
important to be aware of two facts. The first is that your mind is the creator of your reality and second
is that this universe is truly impersonal. Knowing the first means that you create your own heaven and
hell. You cannot be unhappy unless you co-operated with your mind to make it so. And this is true
because of the second fact, that this universe is neutral and impersonal. Unhappiness is created only
when you identify or personalize your experience, and own it as yours. It arises only when you are not
able to accept reality as it is, and instead want to change it into something else it is not.

We all have this mental habit of wanting things to be other than what it is, and we therefore want to
control, manipulate or change it – whether it is a person, a circumstance or an event.

That is why I like the Serenity Prayer, which says “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”. Wisdom is
the key to finding inner peace, dwelling in inner peace and be totally anchored in it. With wisdom, we
are then able to let go of our needs or mental tendency to change, manipulate or control anything at all.
Only then can we see that inner peace has been in us all along.

The principle of mutuality is based on the recognition that life is precious to all living beings and that
every being has the equal right to life, liberty and self expression, provided that in expressing yourself
you do not trample on another being’s similar rights. For this principle to work effectively, there is a
need for openness, honesty and courage, and the realization that we are all subjected to the universal
law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow.

In practical terms, what this means is that you have the same universal rights as everyone else. You do
not have more rights than another. Neither do you have less rights than others. This is irregardless of
whether you are rich or poor; a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or Jew; a European, Asian, African
or Aborigine; a male or female; or whether you are smarter or dumber than others. Likewise, in
corporations and governments, you have these same rights to demand for equal justice, regardless of
whether you are the governed or the governor.

In our relationships with others, this principle is particularly important in bringing about an equal and
enriching partnership. When adhered to, it brings about respect for each other, fair play and sharing of
roles and responsibilities. It encourages personal and mutual growth, as well as spiritual development.
However, putting this principle into practice is not easy as it requires a high degree of self awareness, a
non-judgmental attitude and especially the taming of the ego.

The ego has this attitude that “I am more important than you”. Thus we often see how it tries to
manipulate every relationship to its own advantage at the expense of others. In a position of power, it
will abuse its power. We see this in government and institutional leaders as well as in homes and
families. We see this in teacher-student relationships as well. Even among friends, we need to be aware of this dynamics.

If I ask you to examine your own key relationships, such as husband-wife, parent-child, and employeremployee
relationships, are you able to honestly say that these relationships are equal and fair for all
concern, or are they heavily leaning to one side? One simple way to know whether our relationship is
balanced is to see how happy the two persons in the relationship are. If it is well balanced, then both are
equally happy. If either one is unhappy or both are, then an unequal dynamic exists.The more it diverts
from the center, the more unhealthy the relationship is, and the more important it is for you to do
something about it. Leaving such one-sided relationships in status quo only serves to perpetuate this
inequality in your relationships as well as in society. In addition, inaction on your part breeds contempt
for yourself and squashes your personal and spiritual growth.

Now is as good a time as any to re-examine all your relationships.

Great rewards await those who can simplify their lives. A simple life can be more fulfilling, more
peaceful and more beneficial to you. It can be more conducive to a happier and healthier life, and it can
improve your relationships tremendously.

Here are 5 steps to simplify your life:

1. Prioritize
The first thing to do is to spend some time to decide what is truly important to you. Is it your
health, time with loved ones or service to community? It might interest you to know that people
in their death beds do not worry about how much money or properties they have accumulated.
Rather, they are concern about the quality of the relationships they have, and they are
particularly worried about any unfinished business or unresolved conflicts with their loved
ones. Rather than repairing damaged relationships when we are dying, is it not wiser to cultivate
quality relationships while we are still healthy and alive?

2. Slow Down
Do not measure your life by the number of tasks you do each day. Many people squeeze as
many tasks as they can into their day, thinking that the more they do, the more they achieve. In
doing so, they are able to accomplish more tasks but at the expense of truly living and enjoying
the tasks they do. They sacrifice quality for the number. The way to truly live is to slow down
and enjoy each moment and task that you do. Make each task meaningful. Be present in the
moment instead of rushing through the task. When you have worked out your priorities (in #1),
you will be able to know what is important and what is not, and you can then reduce the
unnecessary tasks, leaving you with more time for the more important tasks.

3. Discard the Unnecessary
Take time to unclutter your life. Begin by uncluttering your possessions. Look at your table.
Check out the storerooms. Are there anything there that you can discard? Are you hoarding too
many things in your life? The habit of hoarding is a sign of insecurity, a manifestation of fear.
The more things you need to feel safe indicates the more fear in you. Material possessiveness is
just one sign of this insecurity. Look within your mind and you will probably see that there are
many more sense of insecurity in your thoughts. Learn to let go of those fear too. The more you
let go, the lighter you will feel, and paradoxically the less you fear. Remember that there are
many people who have been able to live with far less than what you have. Note also that the
more you feed this hoarding habit, the stronger it gets and the more insecure you will feel.

4. Reduce Information Overload
Our modern life is bombarded by information from all directions. We are reachable every
minute with our mobile phones, and we are constantly connected to news via the internet,
emails, social networks and the traditional newspapers, televisions and radios. If we want to
find some peace of mind, we need to reduce all these bombardments. We need to be able to
switch off our phones, computers, televisions and radios, and reward ourselves with some time
free from all these intrusions. We need to spend some quiet and uninterrupted time with
ourselves and our loved ones.

5. Learn Gratitude
Rather than cultivating a habit of feeding our wants and needs, which is like a bottomless blackhole
that can never be filled, it is more fruitful to cultivate a habit of reducing our wants and
needs. Learn instead to be grateful for whatever we have. We can be grateful for all the things
that went right in our life, such as the party we planned for our child’s birthday, a wonderful
weekend trip with the family or simply spending a restful evening with our loved ones. We can
also be grateful for the things that did not go wrong in our life. Many of the things we take for
granted can go wrong. For example, our daily trip to work can be met with an accident or a flat
tyre or unexpected natural disaster can take just about everything away from us. The fact that
they did not go wrong is something to be grateful for. Finally, even if something did go wrong,
we can still be grateful for the lesson it has taught us.

When we slow down our life, we get to listen to our heart. We learn to appreciate every moment and
every interaction with others more deeply. Our senses can become more acute and sharp, and life is
more likely to unfold beautifully before our eyes. Try it and you will find that it is easy to fall in love
with the simple life.

Unfortunately, the inner life does not show itself. It does not come to you. You have to go to it. You have to earnestly seek it. You have to be courageous and persistent in your search. You have to have the wisdom to see it. Therefore, the inner life is not for everyone. It is only for the wise.

While the outer life is all about materiality, the inner life is intangible. The outer life is about pleasuring the senses. The inner life cannot even by detected by the physical senses. The outer life is about diversity, differences and divergence. The inner life is about sameness, oneness and singularity. The outer life is about me. The inner life is about all. The outer life is about extremes. The inner life is about balance. The outer life is about change. The inner life remains unchanged.

The outer life is a futile attempt to satisfy the senses, hoping to find happiness in that attempt. The only problem with this approach for lasting happiness is that it is never lasting. Trying to satisfy the senses is like trying to fill up a black hole. The more you feed it, the more it sucks. It can never be filled. Therefore, permanent happiness cannot be achieved.

The inner life requires nothing from outside. It is complete in itself. It lacks nothing, needs nothing and wants nothing. It is contentment. It is peace. It is whole. It is abundance.

Life is created by the mind. It is experienced by the mind. Therefore, it is essential to understand the mind, to cultivate it and to master it. The inner life is only about this.

In this book, Dr. Ryce took a look at a very prevalent pattern of repeated behavior common to all of us, and especially so to some of us. It is our habit of getting into trouble with the same type of people over and over again in our lives, or the pattern of getting ourselves entangled with the same situation over and over again. It is as though we cannot learn from our mistakes. In fact, very often we do not consider ourselves as the problem. Rather, we put the blame on that person or that situation.

According to Dr. Ryce, there is one thing that is consistently present in all of these situation – YOU! Even if you were to relocate yourself to another place or country, chances are that the problem will continue to haunt you even in that new country. This is because even after you have relocated somewhere else, YOU are still there. You bring the problem with you. You ARE the problem. Rather, it is your mental habit that is giving you this problem.

As long as you cannot see it in you, or you refuse to see it, you will continue to be plagued by the same problem. After all, whatever it is that you deny or suppress will eventually find expression into your outer experiences through a process called projection. Since this blockage of personal error is mostly unconscious, this proves to be a great challenge if you want to change your mental habit.

Fortunately, Dr. Ryce introduced a very simple and elegant tool to identify the erroneous thinking process within us. It is a 12-step worksheet called a Reality Management Worksheet. Using this worksheet, you will be able to first identify the person or situation that triggers a negative emotion in you, recognize and name this emotion, and also identify the thought that leads to this negative feeling. You will also be guided to identify the specific expectation that you wanted out of that person or situation which was not met.

It then leads you into a process of seeing that what you perceived about that person or situation is merely something you projected and not reality itself. Once you are able to recognize this, you can then let go of this projection through the process of forgiveness, cancelling or letting loose. In this way, as we work on each trigger that leads to negative feelings in us, we can gradually correct our distorted view of the world and begin to see things as they really are.

I find Dr. Michael Ryce’s work to be extremely refreshing and effective in identifying our erroneous thinking, and I highly recommend that you read his book. Dr. Ryce is generous enough to give away the ebook version of “Why is This Happening to me… AGAIN?” for free. You can visit his website to read all about his work and writings, and to download the free ebook and worksheets at WhyAgain.com

“Analysis of brain function normally focuses on where brain activity happens and when,” says Eric C. Leuthardt, MD. “What we’ve found is that the wavelength of the activity provides a third major branch of understanding brain physiology.”

Researchers used electrocorticography, a technique for monitoring the brain with a grid of electrodes temporarily implanted directly on the brain’s surface. Clinically, Leuthardt and other neurosurgeons use this approach to identify the source of persistent, medication-resistant seizures in patients and to map those regions for surgical removal. With the patient’s permission, scientists can also use the electrode grid to experimentally monitor a much larger spectrum of brain activity than they can via conventional brainwave monitoring.

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The 16 Guidelines for Life are values that, when put into practice and internalized in our life, lead to a happier and more meaningful life. They are simple to understand, practical and straightforward, yet it is precisely because of their simplicity that we run the danger of ignoring them. While it is beneficial to learn and understand them, their real value lies in applying them in our daily lives.

The 16 Guidelines are grouped into 4 themes – how we think, how we act, how we relate and how we find meanings in life. Understanding how we think provides us with a choice to discard our negative and unskilful thoughts, and to embrace positive and skilful thoughts that lead to positive outcomes for all concern.

Through some very simple yet powerful exercises, the facilitator led the participants into realizing for themselves the judgmental habits of their mind. Thus, by paying attention and being aware of our thoughts, we are empowered with a choice we did not know we had before – the choice of changing our thoughts or mental habits.

At this point, I was reminded of the definition of insanity that a friend had given me. He said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting the outcome to be different. So we have been living insanely with the same pattern of thoughts for years, and then we wonder why our lives stay the same.

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