Nourish Yourself with PEACE

Peace…searching for it, feeling it, understanding it and embodying it like a cozy, cashmere blanket takes time, practice and attentiveness. Peace can feel distant, unfamiliar and elusive in today’s world. Life hasn’t been resonating peace on many outward levels, yet our response -even in these times of uncertain ground- can be one of harmony, centering and calm. Creating our own internal ‘vision board’ of what you are desiring for, even if it isn’t what you are feeling in fullness. Resetting ourselves within, shifting our lenses out, possessing our authority of power adorned like a warrior charging forth with a shield that we are holding hovering our heart.

In this sense, peace can become protection.

Peace-filled feelings can be evasive or overwhelming when we are yearning for more than we are sincerely owning in worth. In offering ourselves a space to nourish, perhaps peace can be exemplified as an acronym that opens our doorways so that we can become more familiar to it and more relational with it as we attempt new entry steps, in subtle yet profound ways, to excavate a relationship with peace.

Nourishing ourselves wholly, connecting to our own energy, offers us internal PEACE.

Partnership: A partnership of you to you, (healing occurs within), for you, about you well before extending to the outside world. Trust that if you ground to your own connection…you are navigating a path of purpose. Our heart, mind and soul are always talking to us…listen with tenderness to what makes your heart feel, what repeats itself in minds-thought and what genuinely makes your soul sing. When offering yourself quiet and stillness to nourish within self-solitude, you can adjust the volume to the running chatter in your conversational head, beating heart and knowing soul. Tune to a channel of compassion, non-judgement and deep listening (just like you do a best friend). Connecting to self is a like bathing a newborn… a careful cleansing that can feel sacred as we tenderly lean in with presence developing a gentle-handled partnership that is whole.

Energy: I’m going to speak from a place of how I tangibly discern energy. Everything alive in life is filled with energy. It’s imprinted in our creation and seeded in our well of design. This is what is termed life force energy…the energy that is well within me, the energy that is well within you, and all that surrounds us inbetween. This is a scientifically proven entity. It is this life force energy that maintains vitality, health and aliveness. Weather you understand this or not, your energy is an intricate part of you and your energy is always in flow with the world. Energy is even more than that, all things not only manifest energy and energy is essential for its livelihood. Our earth’s mantle, ground's floor, grasslands and soil houses abundant energy as well as our radiant sun and heavens above. Our oceans, forests, pastures, creatures with two, four, multiple or no legs are energy. All that surrounds us, enters us, absorbs in us and is felt by us does so as active energy. All emotional, mental, psychological / spiritual energy produces a biological resignation that than becomes 'read' and stored in our cellular memory. Learning to listen to our intuition is leaning in to interpret the language of energy. Reiki is a modality of connecting to ones tangible energy by touch to unblock, lower, drain, direct the negative powers of life. Transversely, your natural energy ‘wheels’ and traveling ‘waterways’ can expand and open to the positive energy established by birthright.

Attitude: What fills our conscious and unconscious being. The choice is ours and it takes active intention to hold steady to absorb the positive winds against our skin. Living in presence to compassion, gratitude and love guides this active art. This starts within the primary of your magnificence. We cannot love out until we know what loving IN feels like, similarly we cannot hold appreciation outside of our physical essence until we hold the sincere thankfulness to ourselves in meaningful and specific ways. Lastly. We cannot hold a candle of compassion until we light the fire and embers meeting ourselves with grace, understanding, forgiveness and full acceptance. True shifts of our attitude of emotional self, awakens in the fueling of thought, belief, manifestations and intentions.

Let all these pathways aliven your conscious attributes as energy interplays and the whole-body joins in unison.

Claim your center: Listen to your body through touch, focus your mind, healing energy teaches us where to lay hands for peace. Hold this attention inward through your personal style of nourishment for stillness and quiet. This practice can be small in duration and as unstructured as you desire. If feeling lost or distracted on how to even connect to center (let alone claim it) find your breath by sound, feel your heart’s beat by touch. Your natural breath and pulsating heart are how they need to be. Canter to meet this. Some call this experience ‘home’. Following along to the breath, not holding it to draw deeper or suppressing it for a certain count but to just follow the rhythm of who you are, right here, right now. Claiming one’s epicenter is rooted in this moment. You are connecting all complexities of self in the declaration of centering.

Empowering freedoms to connections: Securing your own destiny, insulating your sovereignty and connecting to your authentic knowing of inner truths. Tools that practice holding engagement with ourselves inwardly (on a visceral level) and ourselves to the outside world (this can be uncertain and downright scary in today’s time). Reflect back to your happiest moments in childhood, retell these memories like images in a scrapbook, recall lyrics from a song that bookmarks meaning in your unfolding, cook favorite family recipes as you taste the flavors you are tasting your own history, sit in nature and connect through your senses...what smells offer a rekindling to your past. What was the last thing that made you laugh or heart leap for JOY? Keeping fluid and dynamic alongside relationships that offer real significance, are necessary, to endowing our personal independence for peace.