How to achieve a peaceful mind? Practical approach.
A calm, integrated, and creative mind is an outcome of being sincerely engaged in one’s healing and spiritual growth. It all starts with a sincere intention and commitment to the entire process. If you feel stuck in your healing or you sense a lack of progress, I encourage you to ask for help. It can be expressed in the form of a prayer, or it can be written. The most important thing is that it is sincere and comes from your heart. You can express it to god, the universe, or any other form of higher intelligence and higher power closest to your heart. Spiritual intention is one of the most powerful and effective ways to start or deepen our healing, as it offers a chance for the sense of separation to be dissolved and to feel that we do not have to be alone in the process. My ongoing experience since I asked for help many years ago is that I feel continuously supported with all the necessary resources. When one phase of my efforts is completed, another resource shows up. Sometimes in the form of a book, a person with experience, knowledge, and heart I need at this stage of my growth, a movie, or a methodology suited to my current needs. Resources come and go, but that feeling of being supported by life remains.
How does this have to do with a calm mind? As we mentioned at the beginning, a calm mind is an outcome of an effective healing process. When we heal our past and learn to process those emotions, we release their energy from our body, mind, nervous system, and energetic system. An overactive mind is a result of emotional energy that generates tension in our being, specifically in our nervous system and mind. When we learn to regularly notice, feel, and let go of our “negative” emotions, our mind becomes much calmer.
One of the most effective ways to start is to introduce the habit of stopping for yourself a few times each day and bring your attention inwards. Whenever you feel some emotional discomfort, fatigue, or a chaotic mind, please create a space where no one will interrupt you. Start noticing what you feel in a nonjudgmental manner. You can name these feelings, but please do not overthink them; rather, focus on feeling and putting attention on their energy. As soon as you do that, they will start to loosen their grip, and you will sense it in your body and nervous system. Stay in that quality time with yourself as long as you need, and come back to the day. With practice, commitment, and preservation, your mind will become much more tranquil, creative, and instead of draining energy, it will become a beautiful tool for practical aspects of life, planning, contemplation, and creativity.
