Achieving Tranquility Between The Lakes

Living in peace is about living harmoniously with yourself, and all other beings around you. While your definition of a tranquil life might vary from someone else’s, there are things we can do to promote peace in our lives, strive for better relationships, create a calm environment for yourself, and seek to encourage it in your community. With persistence and patience, we each can enjoy the peaceful life that we’re mutually seeking.

1. Eliminate toxic people from your life. If you have someone in your life who criticizes you, starts arguments for no reason, or blames you for their problems, this can interfere with your sense of inner peace. Distancing yourself from them may be necessary, especially if the person is someone you see often. We all know that life can be difficult, but the recipe for tranquility is really at our fingertips.
2. Don’t worry about your self-image. We all have an image of ourselves, how we think we appear to others. It’s usually wrong because we just don’t know what other people think about us, don’t worry about it. You are you!
3. Give up trying to find yourself. A lot of people say, ‘I need time to find myself.”This is one way to give yourself a neurosis because there’s nothing to find. You have your capabilities; you may be a cook or a chemist or a charity worker and nothing can take that away. Rest on that.
4. Celebrate your uniqueness. Nobody has quite the same take on things as you do. This is a marvellous feeling to enjoy. At the same time we have to understand that others have a different take too. It means we’re not necessarily right, and it makes us more tolerant.
5. Create an environment of peace in your life. People can be happy even though their life is hard and uncomfortable, but most of us need a calm environment to come to.
6. Live now! Don’t put it off until tomorrow. We don’t know what tomorrow will be like. Now is all we have.
7. Be aware of this moment in your life. What’s happening? What are you doing? Are you enjoying it? Not every moment is a big moment like graduation. Life is mostly small moments like having coffee with a friend. Be there and feel alive! Put your phone down. Life is too precious to be wasted drifting along half-awake.
8. Go slowly. Sure, life can be fast and furious, but not all the time. Put the brakes on. Think and feel what you’re doing.
9. Be ready to cope with change and unpredictability. Nobody knows what’s going to happen tomorrow. Life is a very uncertain business. That’s the way it is. We have to build this into our thinking, whether it’s missing the train or even being let down by a friend. It’s not personal, you haven’t been singled out. It’s just bad luck.
10. Get engaged in life in a meaningful way. So what’s meaningful? I can’t tell you that. You have to decide that for yourself.

I have found that inner peace is not reserved only for yogis, hermits or monks.
It can also be attained by people living an ordinary life.