The Muse # 64 inner peace, part three

Step One: see the fog
give your fog a place to settle
see Muse # 61

Step Two: find your rhythm
be the source of your rhythm
see Muse # 62

Step Three: trust your inner teacher
stop, listen, know what you stand for

You don’t have to be at peace to hear your inner teacher. A moment of silence, prayer, or a personal time-out will connect you to your inner voice – no need to text or dial anybody, just listen to the sound of your true self. Keep a charm or amulet with you at all times to help you stay in touch with what you stand for, what you most value. Little props help to support you and keep you focused on what matters and act accordingly.

Stress is like the spokes on a crooked wheel: it creeks and makes it hard to keep the going smooth or the tires rolling. Your inner teacher has a whole crew of coaches at his or her disposal to keep life in perspective and straighten things out. The coaches include your inner nurse, your inner trooper, and the angles on your shoulders. They represent three ways of processing your stress pragmatically.

Inner Peace Plan A
Whether your inner trooper is a warrior or a peacekeeper, he or she needs relief because this is your coping mechanism, your crisis manager. Your trooper is tired, most likely from digging out trenches and shooting from the hips; he or she is suffering from overload and lack of direction. Your trooper wants to act with integrity, but you keep throwing things at her (or him). With friends like you, who needs enemies? Give your trooper a hug, a cot, a blanket and a rest, then take walk; find a way to get outside and in touch with nature.

Inner Peace Plan B
Hurt and pain can get right in your face and will cause you to abandon what you truly treasure. In times of pain, find your inner nurse. H/she is the one with the Band-aids and the hot coco who will listen to your grief. Take a break and talk to your inner nurse. But, watch out: don’t think s/he’ll let you off the hook; before you think you are ready, s/he’ll drag you up and out of your self-pity, place and angel or two on your shoulders, and make you walk your talk. Tell your story all out, then move on.

Inner Peace Plan Z
Just like when you were a child, you still have angles on your shoulders that look out for you, but now they are usually embodied in real people or events. Be open to kindness and miracles. Peace comes in many sizes, and rarely in a clean, straight shot. Sleep on it. If you don’t make it through the night, turn on the light write out your troubles and your treasures.

Keeping your eye on what you treasure and your ear to your inner teacher will shift your focus from the battlefields, the scars and the broken wheel and turn it back to the destination and the journey. Keeping your eye on what you truly value is the centering, the place of peace that surrounds your true character; there is a blue print of it out there somewhere and your inner teacher has it. Inner peace is about integrity. This is where your inspiration meets your judgment. If you are out of touch or out of sync with this equation, look in the places, activities or people that inspire you the most and dig into why.

Don’t waste your energy on resisting a reality you don’t like or want, use what you treasure as your source of energy and focus on what to work for: Let that set your boundaries and stake out your ground.

Your inner teacher is wise, tough, brave and gentle to the world and to yourself.

~ Marit.

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©Marit Solheim-Witt, 2009

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