by Sophia Tesch

Created on: February 23, 2009

When life becomes difficult it provides the opportunity to find out more about the breadth and width of our spirit. Spirit is a state of being that can be unaffected by material troubles like divorce, lay-offs, a tough economy. These are all things that may affect who we are as material beings. Self worth through status and external approval from others, when life strips a person of these external compasses to who they think they are they are forced to look internally for these answers often finding the true definition of self and spirit.

Spirit has the ability to be anything at any time. Emotions once controlled by the mind have the ability to feel anything at anytime. When Spirit an all being essence is integrated into the emotions through mindful practice, meditation and thought choice. One gains the ability to maintain peace in any given situation or material state.

We live in a society that embraces pain and misfortune. The TV news and reality show programs highlight those who have experienced great misfortune or embrace highly dramatic lifestyles. In turn this encourages some people to embrace their pain, their negative situations, they talk about it over and over. They crave the attention that being miserable gives them. They surround themselves in a crowd of people that edify their misfortune instead of supporters to focus on positives and solutions. In order to live peacefully one must not embrace the temptation to have a sad story to tell. By focusing on the negative one will not feel the positive light of peace. Let go and allow your sprit to be at peace. This requires emotional and mindful control of one's thoughts.

Gaining emotional control is simple in steps but difficult in practice at times of high stress. Like a muscle emotional control must be exercised until strong. When stress begins to fill ones spirit because of financial difficulties take a moment to stop, take a deep breath and assess ones situation in the moment. What needs does your physical being have? Are you hungry, tired, too cold or too hot? Do you crave companionship or a diversion? Many times you will find that as you go through this checklist you are fine, your loved ones are fine, everything is as good as it can be and in that moment peace is achieved. It may be that this checklist must be run through several times in a day and eventually it is needed less often. One is able to obtain a peaceful state more automatically.

Obtaining spiritual peace takes self reflection and mindful

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