Find Your Peace

Peace? Is it the same for everyone? In one sense of the word it is. You can feel peaceful when you are surrounded or engaged in things you love and when all is going great in your life.

But being peace is something more. To be peace you must have full acceptance of what is and live in the present moment where the worries about your past and future do not exist.

Some may have had fleeting moments of pure peace through meditation and other varying forms of stillness, but with this lies the attachment for us to do a certain thing to be a certain way. When we awaken, we realize that being peace is sustainable in our everyday human lives. In certain places such as being out in nature, doing something you love or during meditation it is easier for us to tap into this state but know that even in the hardest and stressful times in our lives that same peace is still available to us. Let go of having to do anything and simply BE. Peace is a natural state of being for us. It is buried deep within.

Peace is not always to be found by sitting or lying down for long amounts of time but can be found by living mindfully every day, with full awareness, acceptance, forgiveness and love of all things.

Know at any stage and anywhere in your life you will always find the peace you seek within you.

Today take a moment no matter where you are or what you’re doing to let go of any thoughts or attachments you have relating to your past and future. Listen to your breath. Slow it down as much as you can and be present in this moment. Observe how you feel after you have taken a moment to breathe mindfully. Keep on tapping into your breath throughout your day. When you lay down to sleep tonight take a moment to give gratitude for the day that was with full acceptance. Wake up tomorrow feeling rested, restored and relaxed. Live Peace. Be Peace.

With love,

Ourania

Book Review: Awakening Spirits by Tom Brown Jnr

A Native American path to inner peace, healing and spiritual growth

One of my beautiful friends Sue leant me a book she thought I may love… and she was right!!!

Tom Brown Jnr is a bestselling author of many books based on tracking and unique methods of meditation and self-discovery through nature.

He manages and teaches one of the largest wilderness and survival schools in the U.S and is pure to the teachings of the Native American methods working directly under an Apache Indian “grandfather”. For many years (since the age of 8) he went out into the wilderness and placed himself at the hands of Mother Nature to survive.

He shares the methods that he learnt on relaxation, meditation, insight, healing and communication with nature and spirits in this book.

Read with an open heart and open mind. Practice the teachings that reach out to you.

I have always had a strong draw to Native American culture and teachings and as you can imagine this book resonated deeply within me. I have taken a lot of inspiration and guidance from this book which not only am I applying to my everyday life but to my practice and teaching within yoga and holistic health.

This book is written in an easy to understand way and the methods are explained thoroughly.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking deeper into their connection with nature and spirit and for those wanting to explore the true oneness that every living being shares.

With love,

Ourania