Why People Don’t Have Inner Peace.

Inner peace is essential for health and well-being, thriving relationships, happiness, and success. So m why don’t most people have it?

There are roadblocks people bump up against that limits inner peace in their lives.

Do you see yourself in any of these?

Underlying Angst. Within every human being is underlying angst. It’s nervous energy, that is not tied to stress, though it amplifies the uneasy feeling. As a baby, you are born into inner peace but at an early age, the developing ego pulls us away from our natural state of inner peace. Conditioning from our parents, teachers, friends, T.V., and media feed our insecurities. Feeling that you’re not good enough or unworthy, fear of not being loved. Even basic survival instincts all feed into underlying angst. How much underlying angst do you experience?

Distractions, while we can not pretend underlying angst isn’t there, it drives our behavior unconsciously. Do not distract yourself by overlooking, watching T.V., or medicating yourself with food, smoking, alcohol, or drugs. Do you keep yourself nearly none-stop with hobbies, exercising, or mundane conversations with friends and family? There are multiple ways to distract ourselves, squeezing out time to expand one’s inner peace.

I often keep myself busy by volunteering and it becomes a distraction for me. I get caught up in volunteer work and do not think about my inner peace.

Have you ever heard the quote; I want to sleep so my brain will shut off. That’s me, My brain doesn’t stop. Until I can fall asleep. I have to make a point of a period of meditating every day. Or I lose my peace.

Thinking about success or your goal for the day brings inner peace. We can believe that we can achieve a certain amount of success, find their ideal relationship, lose a certain amount of weight, or declutter there house then they can find inner peace. These elements can contribute to one’s quality of life. But, ask anyone who has achieved these goals and they will tell you it doesn’t necessarily give you inner peace.

Fear of Reflection. Many people are simply afraid to stop and reflect on their lives. The quiet stillness threatens their current state of being so they feel their lives with noise. So people are afraid of what they’d find. Or afraid they would remain helpless and unable to change.

Disconnecting from power. There are a lot of ways to unplug from your sense of power and choice. It’s a lot like unplugging an electoral cord from the wall socket. Without power, it’s easy to feel like a victim, stay confused, or react unconsciously. You disconnect from power anytime you minimize yourself, neglect self-care, get caught in negative self-talk, attach to stressful thoughts or forget you have a choice.

Without powerits difficult to access your inner guidance, take inspired action or experience inner peace.

Living unconsciously. Our brains are set up to navigate the world without being consciously engage engaged in every moment. Living unconsciously interferes with our ability to transcend dysfunctional habits, make higher choices, and enjoy inner peace.

Thinking- that fights reality. Our thinking fights reality anytime we think something should or shouldn’t be happening, but it is. We fight reality when we fixate on the past we cannot change or a reality that hasn’t happened yet in the future. Spending time in the past or future or arguing with what is happening now is a sure path to inner turmoil. It occupies precious to that could be allowing greater inner peace to enter our lives. How many thoughts in your mind are you arguing with reality in some way?

Lacking tools and knowledge about inner peace. There is little to no training in school or college to help you expand inner peace in our lives. How do you transcend the programming of the brain and unlearn the effects of the ego? Most people don’t seek out the tools a d knowledge to have greater inner peace in their lives.

Missing pieces of the puzzle. Even though there is more information available today to help you expand inner peace in your life, almost every teaching just focuses on one facet. Without a focus on all elements of inner peace, it’s no wonder most people don’t have it.

People aren’t focusing on it. You receive in life, what you focus on. Look at the news, eavesdrop on family dinner conversations or ask strangers and you will discover most people are not fususing on inner peace. How can you have inner peace if your not paying attention to it.

People believe stress is just a natural part of life. There are times when stress is a useful emotion. But it has become a huge predominant part of our lives. For some people, they are nervous when they don’t have stress.

Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rob You Of Your Joy.

I have to be healed from feelings associated with childhood trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and pain attacks.

To cope, I initially avoided dealing with the aftermath until years later. Because fear makes us run until you have to face the problem.

My life wasn’t a happy one when I was ready to find the answers because I lacked peace. At first, I sought external resources like self-help books. Then I realized my problems came from inside me.

There are no quick fixes.

Maybe there’s something you need to heal from that you aren’t fully aware of? Consider looking inward for productive answers so you don’t have to carry your emotional wounds your entire life.

Sometimes current news or situation can bring all those feelings back.

If you have emotional outbursts and aren’t sure why, you could be holding onto traumatic past baggage. A panic attack or being attacked by endless fear can rock you the core. Because whatever you went through, the current attack marked that your still dealing with that incident.

My husband sometimes says things that trigger me. I have to remember he just says something and doesn’t remember it’s a trigger for me. Even simple things like, that was stupid, why did you do it that way. Being called stupid triggers me right back from childhood. I have to tell myself silently to not get upset.

Choosing to change and start a new day will take over.

Store in your mind a helpful regimen handy for those anxious moments.

Emotions are the wag the body reacts to stress. But, if you can work on managing those emotions. After we release emotions, that ongoing stress can lead to worse health ailments.

When I had to get over my past traumas, I had to imagine myself as whole and healed. I had to talk to my younger me like she is fine now. And she is loved.

Because my fear of abandonment was crowding out the love I so desperately needed and wanted. I had to distance myself from what happened and tell my mind that I turned out okay despite my turmoil.

The complex mind to lump everything together unless you purposefully separate, isolate and connect the dots.

Being vulnerable and sharing all of us, men, women, children, or polka-dotted. To beat this thing that’d robbing us of joy and love.

What does it mean to be born again!

Jesus tells us that we must be born again. How do we do that?

Jesus is pretty clear when he says that we must be born again to see the kingdom of God.

Jesus said Most assuredly I say to you unless one is born again you cannot see the kingdom of God unless one is born of water and the Spirit. That which is born of flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:3-6).

It is obvious that Jesus is not talking about being born a second time physically. He is talking about a new desire- a spiritual transformation,

Why do we need to be born again?

Before being born again I am led by my own human inclinations, namely the desires of the flesh. Generally, this is what guides my thought processes and decisions. But the desires of the flesh do not lead to the life of Christ, which is what I’m called to do. To give in to pride, laziness, greed, envy, selfishness, and many other forms of evil that leads to sin. Jesus describes the pre-born again mind like this. Because you say I’m rich have become wealthy, and need nothing- and do not know you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked (Revelation 3:17).

It is when I acknowledge that I am described in the verse that I am at the point where I am really to be born again of water and the Spirit. Nothing that I have as a result of being born of the flesh, as a natural person, is capable of serving God. When I acknowledge that I am not able to the good, then God can take over. I need to surrender absolutely everything to be born of the Spirit, it is a rebirth of the mind and heart. I become dead to the desires of the flesh and alive to the prompting of the Spirit.

I have need crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Relations 2:20

Of course I still do have flesh which craves fulfilment of it’s desires, but now these desires are overcome and no longer influence me. Instead, I am alive to what the Spirit guiding me to, which is the truth. Paul calls my pre-born again mindset must remain crucified with Christ and new life I have been born to the life of Christ. The life of Jesus is to be manifested in my mortal flesh ( 2 Corinthians 4:11). It is because I have been born of the Spirit, and the Spirit lives in me, that I have the power to resist temptation, to remain crucified to the flesh, and to live for Christ (Romans 15:13).

A New Desire

All of Colossians 3 is a very good description of being born-again, starting with. If then you were raised with Christ, seem those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on earth. For your old life has died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in Glory (Colossians 3:1-4).

I chose to be born-again because my life was in chaos without God. I knew there had to be something else out there. I admit when I was baptized in water and Spirit. I accepted Christ into my life and at first I didn’t feel very different but I trusted my life would be different. And sure enough soon I knew I had made the right choice. Things starting changing, I knew I was forgiven, I knew God loved me completely. My life began changing in a positive way. It has only went up from there.

I chose to let God control my life because I wasn’t great at controlling it. The desire to live for eternity rather than for anything in this world. A desire that Jesus Not my will but yours be done (Luke: 22-42).

It is when I am willing to let go of my own strength, pride, stubbornness, and human ability and follow the Spirit’s leading so that God’s will can be done. Then I find that by the power of the Spirit, everything is possible. I have moved mountains in my life. That I thought we’re impossible, victory over sin, is accomplished. I have become a transformed person; a new creation. I let God bend and mold me into the person that He want me to be.

My eyes have been opened to see beyond the things of this earth, to see what has true value. With Gods kingdom comes everything that is good. Seeking God’s kingdom is the most rewarding thing a person can do.

You Are not For Everyone and Thats Okay

One of the most freeing things I learned in life is that I don’t have to be like everyone, everyone doesn’t have to like me, and it’s perfectly okay.

I live for years trying to be that someone that everyone liked, I grew up a people pleaser. It was drilled into me as a child. I felt I could be perfect by doing things for everyone, always waiting to hear if my parents needed something. I thought that was how I could get attention from them. It just carried over to the next 45 years.

I was taught to be polite and to put others before myself. Before I made a decision, I carefully weighed how it would affect others and their thoughts of me. Then I learned to followed the crowd I was more likely to get thing I wanted and I thought I was happier. Before but I wasn’t some people didn’t have my value system and that upset me.

The constant need to have everyone like me came back to kick me in the butt, again and again. Before to along I had made a habit on only thinking about their actions an thoughts.

I built myself completely around others’ expectations from the way I looked to my friends, my relationships, passions personality, and more. The problem was I wasn’t being who I really was. I had no true self, but instead many different versions of myself made to please everyone and anyone.

I never revealed my true self to anyone because I didn’t want to drive away anyone. I ended up feeling like a shell of a person. I did not have an identity. I felt like I was living for them not for me.

The journey to my own self-discovery and wanting to please me most of all came in something unexpected in the last few years I have had some people who I thought we’re friends but pulled away from me after I had unset them.

In the past, I had pulled away from everyone that I had an argument with or upset them never the other way around.

It hit me in healing time that I was not upset because of how close we had become or because I valued them deeply as a person.

It turned out, what upset me the most was knowing that there was someone who didn’t like me and was harboring bad feelings toward me. The thought tore me apart.

It wasn’t until I was talking to another friend and she pointed out that there were almost likely a great deal of people who didn’t like me, I had a revelation.

There are always going to be people who don’t like me. By trying to cater my and decisions to everyone else besides the only person whose feelings mattered (me), I drove myself into an unhappy place in an impossible attempt to make everyone happy. I’d never be able to make everyone happy, and it turned out that’s fine.

I spend a lot of my life trying to get everyone to like me that I never figured out that’s not what best for me.

You are not for everyone and that’s okay. The world is full of who, no matter what you do, will point blank not like you. But it is filled with people who will love you strongly. You are not for everyone and that’s okay.

Rebecca Campbell

Talk to the people who can hear you. Don’t waste your precious time and gifts trying to convince them of your value, they won’t ever what your selling. Don’t convince them to walk beside you. You’ll be wasting both your time and theirs and will inflict unnecessary wounds, which take precious time to heal.

As you drive people away, you only get closer to your ideal people. Those who love you, who want to be close to you, who truly value you, are one step closer.

Each person who criticizes your ideas and passions draw you closer to your ideal friends, partner. Each person that walks away draws closer to the people who share your beliefs and passions.

Being disliked by some is simply a byproduct of being authentic who you truly are.

You will be too much from some people. These aren’t your people,

Unknown

Words, Without Action, Are Meaningless

It is simple to make a promise. Or tell someone you will do something then never do it. It’s easy to say but hard to do. It is one of the core principles of life. Words are essentially meaningless unless you have the determination, the intent and the resolve to abide in them.

It’s easy to promise yourself you’re going to work on a relationship unless you make some concrete efforts to make a difference. Even little things can go a long way. The little things we do show that you’re taking your word seriously.

Say you told someone you’re going to laundry today but at the end of the day, nothings done. Would if that person needed clean clothes for the next day because of an interview. Now they need to waste time doing the laundry because of something you said you’d do.

We are in the year of an election and very few of their words you can trust. When you’re voting for a candidate, their speeches aren’t as important (to me at all ) as their accomplishments or their track record. Do they put their money where their mouth is? If they have been in politics before what did they accomplish. Did they make accomplishments that helped the citizens or hurt them? Did they keep promises made when they made a speech? Their personality makes no difference. Do their policies go along with my values?

Eventually, in any relationship, there will come a time where words don’t matter anymore. The track record of you keeping your word will become clear. Politicians will be voted out and relationships with end.

Actions are needed to put meaning behind your words. Like saying to a friend, you’re my best friend and then talking about them behind their back. If you were really their best friend is you had something to say you would say it to their face.

If your working in sales and you tell a customer that a product you are selling them, that it works great, but you know it’s junk and you sell it to them anyway. Your words are meaningless.

I have had many people tell me they were going to do something and they wouldn’t do it. It only shows me I can not trust them again. Not until their words meet with their actions. Don’t tell me and show something different from your actions.

Learning To Let Things Be

I’m learning to let things align with my life when the time is right, to let the universe bring them to me without having to run after them because if you have to run after something it means that it doesn’t want to stay still, it doesn’t want to be caught, it doesn’t want to stop at your door. I’m trusting God that what’s meant for me will find me no matter where I am. I’m not passive but I also won’t fight a losing battle.

I’m learning to stop decoding Messi and mixed signals a wait for the clear message, the message that is so obvious and easy to understand, the message that doesn’t make you question or second guess anything, and the message that you’re waiting for.

I’m learning to let those who don’t want to be in their lives go. I might even hold the door open for then because I don’t want a temporary visit anymore. I don’t want to share my life who doesn’t want someone who does want to share theirs. If people don’t want to spend time with me, they obviously don’t want to know who I am as a friend.

I’m learning to be patient with myself. Taking it easy on myself. Being kind to yourself if you mess up. Give yourself forgiveness and love take a few deep breaths and try again. Let your mistakes be memories instead of labels.

I’m learning to let my mistakes prove that I’ve tried for things there weren’t right for me.

I’m taking the wisdom I got from all those mistakes; the wisdom that taught me that mistakes happen because we are forcing something that is not meant for us and we are trying to get something we probably should have.

I’m learning to stop trying so hard to control my life. It’s okay if we don’t have all the answers or if we’re not where we want to be. I’m learning to let life talents course instead of trying to steer the wheel in another direction. We won’t always get what we want I want but life will give me what I need. I’m learning to treat life as a friend, trying to understand it, trying to love it when it’s being difficult, trying to accept it’s frustrating me, and trying to appreciate the experiences it has provided me with, the memories it gave me, the laughter it brought me and the sadness it put me through just to grow into who I am right now.

I’m learning to let things be and look at life as a person; a person who is also still trying to figure out, a person who is flawed, and a person who wants to be better on most days but falls short on other days like everyone else.

I’m learning to let the force of life move me instead of forcing it to stop.

The Power Of Being Rooted In Love

God’s love through us in Christ is amazing. His love is the root and ground of all we receive and experience in God. One of the greatest Bible verses on this subject is.

Ephesians 3. This prayer of Paul for us should greatly encourage us. Ephesians 3:16-19, I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home as you trust Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong, and may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how long, how high, and how deep His love it. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

If we do not have a foundation to stand on, we will fall. We all have God’s spirit in us, an inner strength but it’s where we choose to turn that gets us in trouble. I went too many years without a foundation to stand on, I chose to listen to believe satan’s lies. I chose to hate, I chose to lie, I chose to live a miserable life. Because I didn’t understand God’s love for me.

A Home In Our Heart

I pray that from His glorious unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow into the deep foundation that God has provided us.

Gods power strengthens us inwardly, then we are able to trust Him so that Christ is at home in our hearts. So what is a home!

Many of us have a legal relationship with Christ, but your heart is not home to Him. A house is not a home. A home is the place of close relationship. A home is where life is shared everything is seen. Where all rooms are accessible. The Lord is not merely a tenant in your house, He is head of the family. He is loved. The inner workings of the Holy Spirit will change your heart if you let Him. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25).

When He is at home in our hearts we can put deep roots into God’s love.

Root Issues

Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. A root is the part of the plant that draws life from the ground or foundation. Before faith in Christ, our natural lives we’re rooting in many things. Some of a were rooted in our own abilities and talents. We were self-made people or we needed constant affirmation. Some people of us have had traumatic experiences, and our hearts have been rooted in fear and pain, when you come to Christ with natural roots you never to a different level. Ask God to satisfy those root needs. The Lord has so much more for us.

The key root to healing. For example, some Christians spend years praying to be healed of some trauma, like surviving a painful from childhood, death, or of rape. But God’s love is deeper and wok, surpass all other roots. Perfect love casts out all fear. Healing comes. Putting your roots deep into God’s love cures fears, pain and trauma. It curses insecurities and the need for affirmation from the world. His love heals us, secures us, changes us. Whatever the roots of your life, put them down deeper into God’s love.

Understanding His Love-Its Bigger Than You Can Imagine

Many people wonder why I constantly talk about God’s love. It’s simple, I’ve experienced how Huge it really is. When you put your roots into His love, revelation power starts to work. God starts showing you how Big His love really is. Revelation about every possible direction His love flows.

I’ve heard people say I don’t want to let God into my heart, because then I will have to give up the things I enjoy. The fact is it’s so much more than what you have to give up. Or If you believe in God you have to forget about having fun anymore. I have to say I have more fun with my church family and friends than I’ve ever had in my life. And I know they honestly care about me and where my soul is going.

When my mind began to comprehend how huge His grace is. How His love for sinners and the world is more than we can imagine. I saw things differently in terms of his love. It’s a revelation by the Spirit that comes as we put our roots deep into His love.

Experience His love

May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.

It is one thing to understand His love but then we must experience it. Most believers experience Gods love for themselves at some point, but that it focused on just you. It is not wide, long high, and deep. The experience of God’s love is much, much bigger. He wants to share His own heart with us. So we can experience His love for others, for the world. I had many friends and family members who have idols, guns, money, vehicles, looks. I knew that no idol or devil, or man was going to separate them from the love of God. I have seen breakthroughs and healings and in very case it leads to the power of God.

Love Leads To Power

When you are made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Many times I have focused on the love of Christ for a person in need, I realize God sent me there to pray for them or just be there for support. When speaking about His love the anointing always comes in healings or deliverance. This is good news. God loves the world