How We Can Achieve Inner Peace Of Mind?

Are you know the happiest person of the world? If i ask this question to you,what is your answer? Possibly "NO".If not,Why? You will reel off your current
worries.That may be about job,kids,home,spouse,inflation etc..etc..I don't ask you to sweep these aside.Problems need to be solved,if you can or wait until they disappeared with time.If you think,you will live happily after all your problem solved,I bet,you will never.Because when today's problems are gone
and forgotten,other will take their place.So,living happily is just impossible? Again answer is "NO".You have to know,how to live happily in spite of all the
problems.

Happiness never depends on external circumstances rather it depends on your thoughts,beliefs,emotions,desires,dreams.You may call it as Inner Life.Happiness is about how you react inwardly to events,what you think and believe,how you feel,how problems affect you.It may sound obvious,but like
many obvious things it is the same thing that is often forgotten when it matters most.We focus almost exclusively on our external lives,on getting and
spending and having fun,and then wonder why we are not happy.But it is when our inner lives are tranquil that we are happiest and we call this inner peace.

So,How we can achieve inner peace? By "Meditation" or "Yoga"? These can certainly help but only if they have a positive effect on our inner life.The
difficulty is that inner life is based on patterns and habits.Some you born with,most you have acquired.You don't choose,occasion by occasion,how you respond inside when something happens.This happens and you feel angry;that happens and you feel sad;or smell a certain scent and it reminds you of a particular person? Things produce a response without you thinking about it or choosing how you feel.So,the trick is to break the pattern.You can't completely avoid the problems,but you can change how you react to them by acquiring new habits.Training your inner life into different habits requires learning skills of thinking,feeling,and managing your belief and desires.Instead of "I must become a better person" you can think "I would live more happily if i worked on my skills",so the change in attitude becomes a choice,not a duty.And to these remedial skills i have added an extra set of enjoyment skills.

This process is not something you can do overnight,it is a whole new way of life,but the reward is what we all want most---Happiness.There are five main
skills you need to cultivate.

01)Sympathy:-
Most religions rightly stress sympathy.As well as being avirtue in its own right it is a practical skill that counteracts negative emotions like anger,which are
terrible destruction of happiness.Try it the next time someone annoys you:put yourself in their place and ask yourself what might they be thinking or feeling to behave like that.Wars are started and atrocities committed,for example,because someone decides that this is what their god wants.It doesn't mean they should get away with their action,in fact it may be necessary to take strong action to defend yourself.

02)Mindfulness:-
This involves developing your ability to focus your thoughts in the present.Mindfulness is a key inner skill because,as it gets stronger,it lets you focus on your
own inner life and catch your habits in the act.Once you can see how you are ruled by them,the change you are seeking often happens of its own accord.

03)Letting-go Techniques:-
These are particularly helpful when we are unhappy not getting what we want.Generally,we are encouraged to keep wanting and to think that more will make us happier,whether it's clothes,food,cars or even love.But wanting is a treadmill;as long as you are unsatisfied wants and desires you won't be at peace,so to be happy you either have to satisfy all your desires,or let go of some of them.Letting-go skills also include forgiveness,which helps hugely if one of the things you think you want it revenge.

04)Story Skills:-
These are very useful for problems with your inner belief system,as they let you stand back and explore alternative versions of reality.belief have great
power over your life because a belief is something you take as fact.Start to think of your beliefs as stories,and it is easier to accept that other things might be true as well,or even instead.From different point of view we see would see a different story,sometimes a whole different world.This is not about make believe,it is about re-framing situations to look at them from a different perspective.

05)Enjoyment Skills:-
This includes such as patience,humour and gratitude.You don't have to be grateful to someone,it is enough to cultivate gratitude for things.Our minds
naturally scan the environment for dangers and resources,a useful mechanism when we were hunter-gatherers.But it can make us unnecessarily
pessimistic--focusing on the 10% we lack rather than the 90% we have.Cultivating enjoyment skills will help redress the balance.

Acquiring all these skills takes time and effort.The important thing is to practise them until they operate without your thinking.Your practise routine will be
very individual,because everyone need to priorities different skills depending on the specific issue that are holding them back from being happy,but keep
the skill in mind and you will constantly find new ways to try them out.

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