Creating World Peace
The basic premise of meditation is to withdraw our senses and focus the mind on simple things with little distraction from it. This allows our parasympathetic (rest & digest) nervous system to activate and the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system to subside. How we meditate is a choice. We can choose to meditate on external things (like TV, phone screens, people watching, etc.) or we can choose to mediate on our internal experience (like the breath, the body, sensations, etc.). This is a critical choice though, because believe it or not…
the health of our inner world is the key to world peace.
You see, we cannot have a peaceful collective outer world without a peaceful collective inner world. This is because we project onto our shared world that which is within our own minds. A simple example of this might be whenever we focus our minds on fear, we may choose to add to the collective by doom-scrolling fear-based content and giving greater attention to these sources. Conversely, when we focus our minds on love, we may choose to be kind to a stranger, spend more time with a friend in need, or really listen.
If we work to bring the mind to its natural loving state, then forgiveness, acceptance, and selfless service become attributes we express in our world.
Yet, if we allow the mind to run away into fearfulness, we will see, seek, believe and even create things to be fearful of. Our mental focus and inner wellbeing enters our daily lives through simple choices – a choice to give a warm smile to a stranger or to contract and look away; a choice to express in words of empowerment or disempowerment. Yet, the mind is even more powerful than that! Beyond what we can see, we also contribute our mentality to the collective consciousness. If we are mostly fearful, we contribute fearfulness and desires for retaliation to our collective consciousness.
If we are instead mostly peaceful, we bring peacefulness to our collective consciousness and it creates a ripple effect.
Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt better for no reason or realized that you always just feel good after being around a certain someone and it wasn’t anything they said or did? That’s because there is a positive energy beyond what we can see. Radiating peacefulness, garnered through meditation practice, ripples through our collective environment on the eternal and energetic level in ways we cannot know with our small view of reality. So, in both the material world and beyond, the peace of one individual radiates out into the lives of many. It truly matters how we choose to exercise the mind! If you want peace in the world, please don’t wait for it to come from some new world order organized by political leaders.
Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
