Building a Sanctuary of Peace

Take 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour, and 4 cups of milk. Stir it all together and anything that is that sweet should give you some sense of peace, right? LOL. Oh, I forgot the fattening butter. 2 sticks should be enough to put you over the top. 

The truth is, many of us try to find peace in a piece of cake or some ice cream. Some find peace in gambling, drugs, smoking, running, weight lifting, or sex. As you can see, some of these are healthy habits and some aren't. 

Building peace doesn't come from finding external ways of satiating your angst, though, whether healthy or not. It takes building a bridge over your life to a permanent sanctuary where you feel completely safe and connected with Spirit God. 

We have a connection to a part of our brain that is called the Reptillian brain that is our "fight or flight side" that responds and reacts to fear and hunger and sexual desire like an animal. Then we have a deductive part of our brain that we can use to logically coerce ourselves into many forms of avoidant behavior. 

But the only safe way to find peace is to sit in the watcher side of the mind, the neocortex of the brain and begin to compassionately look at your life as a parent would a child, without guilt, without remorse. 

This is your sanctuary. From this vantage point of meditation, your mind will automatically lead you to the path of peace and alternative roads to clear your life of anxiety and stress. 

My own life had been filled with Post Traumatic Stress and Anxiety for many years. By learning to live outside the parameters of my negative human triggers, I've learned to teach myself a new path--this time to a peaceful walk toward loving myself and others authentically. 

Our prayer: "In the light of the future, I want to live a healthier, more productive, more peaceful, loving life. Teach me the ways of meditation, of peace, so that I may find you in the delicate flower, in the calm of the ocean, even in the rush of the pouring rain. Your peace is everywhere. Show me the path to it, and I will follow."