How to Find Your Inner Peace No Matter What

Kristin Craft
7 min readJul 25, 2020
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After nearly 5 months of quarantine and all the recent injustices around the world surfacing to our awareness, demanding change, you might be looking at the world differently now. The perception of peace and safety has now been colored with a contrasting awareness and it may seem hard to find your inner peace and calm amidst all this chaos.

We, as Humanity, have work to do, and we’re very much in the middle of it right now; that is for sure, and the transition is definitely an adjustment from the ways we used to be.

What I’m saying is, while that’s going on, working itself out, and it IS, your job is to focus on the parts you can control; for one, your state of being, specifically, your state of inner peace.

Regardless of what’s going on in the world around you and beyond, it is possible for you to learn how to find your inner peace and remain unshaken by the energies of the world around you.

Do you identify with being “sensitive”, “empathic”, or “highly aware”? Chances are, you do, if you’re here with me reading this. You’re probably so tired of the world swaying your moods, emotions, values, decisions, and maybe even your own self-image to some degree!

But enough is enough.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to be among the world without being SO affected by it in negative ways, without taking on the world’s problems as your own? What if the world could inspire you once again and become the abundant playground your Soul knows it to be?

That is what finding and maintaining your inner peace can do for your life — bring you back to a feeling of belonging, of “I am here, and I am meant to be.”

Does that sound good? Awesome! Let’s walk through a few steps to get you there. :)

How to Find Your Inner Peace No Matter What

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First off, I recommend reading this process all the way through before practicing right along with me. Also, there’s a recap waiting for you at end with the process in simplified steps that you can refer to anytime. Onto the walk-through.

Stage One: The Release

Finding your inner peace begins by going within. This may seem incredibly obvious, but with any anxiety or fear one may be experiencing or holding onto, it can be difficult to go within and sit with that. But, nevertheless, this is the way, as you will soon see.

Close your eyes.

Direct your attention inward, in your heart or wherever you are feeling that feeling. Sit with yourself and the emotion you are feeling, for as long as you need, and breathe, calmly, in and out.

It might seem weird at first to consciously be present with a feeling, because not long after you begin, the feeling might weaken, you may start to detached from it, and you may begin to see it from another perspective.

You might start to think you’re going crazy because you’re releasing an emotional attachment to something that hasn’t changed; but your perspective of it has.

It might feel natural and unnatural at the same time; like, you want to release it because it no longer serves you — it only makes you feel bad — and yet on the same hand, maybe it’s so familiar, it almost feels right to be with it and “unknown” (scary) to be without it.

It might even feel so much a part of your identity, but let me let you in on a secret. Your emotions are not you. In fact, they are not really “your” emotions at all, so you don’t have to take ownership of them like they are yours to keep forever. They are not.

So What Are Emotions?

Emotions are simply energy in motion. That’s all; energy passing through your field to be experienced and expressed. In the simplest terms, positive emotions, backed by positive thoughts and beliefs about your world, create the perfect environment for inner peace.

While negative emotions, especially those that collect rather than pass through, create a breeding ground for more fear and more of the undesirable and unwanted to grow.

The more you resist letting go and try hard to hold onto the feeling in order to “feel it”, the more intense it may become until you get tired and burn out; let’s not go there.

I highly discourage resistance, because it makes the journey a lot harder for yourself, and consequently everyone else, and it just doesn’t need to be. Focus on feeling the emotion pass through you and be released for The Universe and Mother Earth to take care of.

The possible ways to experience this stage of release is endless and unique to everyone. You can’t do it “wrong”, and in fact, all you need to be is willing — willing to allow the emotion to pass through you instead of hang around. As you shed more and more awareness on this emotional energy making its way through you, without judgment, it becomes easier to release.

After a while, you may just be able to go within, collect the emotional energy, and blow it out with one big, deliberate exhale. Now there’s a pro tip for ya! ;)

Stage Two: The Peace

After you have cleared out your inner space of lower vibrations and negativity that disrupt peace, you can begin to feel the peace that is left. There is always peace left. No matter the amount, enjoy this feeling of relief and surrender, and of being without the heavy, painful emotion. This is a great starting point to call in more peace.

Coming from this newly cleansed space, with your eyes still closed, imagine the most peaceful experience you can see yourself in.

Are you at the beach, in a forest or the mountains? Are you with a loved one, human or animal? Find an experience in your life that feels peaceful, or imagine one. If you need, you can also go pull up a video online and watch a peaceful nature scene and put yourself there, now.

Peace is everywhere.

As you actively call in more peace, even with the mere intention, you may begin to feel waves of peace rushing in and coming over you. It may be buzzing, tingly, warm, lighter, or you just feel more spacious and expansive within, like the inner turbulence has subsided and now you are floating above the clouds.

Take a deep breath and enjoy this feeling for a while as it builds.

You might recognize how much this new feeling of inner peace feels much more natural and “normal” than the emotions you experienced charging through you before.

With more practice of applying this technique when you are feeling a strong negative emotion, the easier it will be to recognize the “negative intruder” and peacefully send it on its way or personally deal with it in a more peaceful manner.

Many times, the negative emotion came to you for resolution. Ask yourself, “How can I resolve this, or see it differently, so that it no longer tries to get my attention through negative emotion?” If insights come through right away, wonderful, but even if they don’t, your ‘ah-ha’ will arrive in due time so you can be free from that emotion too.

Once you hold this peaceful feeling for a while, you can being to anchor it into your being. Accept THAT as your new norm. As you make new decisions, check in with yourself to make sure the choice supports you newfound inner peace or if it disrupts it.

See how well you can hold onto it, no matter what craziness is happening around you. This is when you will get to master you inner peace and become a beacon of peace for others.

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Let’s do a quick recap of how to find your inner peace so you can see the shortened version:

Stage One: The Release

1. Feel the emotion coming on.

2. Close your eyes and go within.

3. Place your attention on the feeling and whatever part of your body you feel it in.

4. Sit with that feeling and breathe calmly, in and out.

5. Watch for it to begin dissolving.

6. Allow the process to happen without judgment.

7. As the emotion dissolves, it is passing though you.

8. Resistance makes things worse so just be willing to release, surrender, and let go.

PRO TIP: Consciously collect the emotional energy on your inhale, blow it out on your exhale.

Stage Two: The Peace

1. Feel the peace that is left within you after the negative emotion has passed.

2. With your eyes still closed, imagine a peaceful experience and put yourself fully into the scene.

3. Allow the peace you are imagining to fill your physical body and inner world.

4. Actively call upon more peace, take deep breaths, and enjoy the feeling while it builds and strengthens.

5. Accept this peaceful feeling within as your new norm to maintain.

Now you have Inner Peace!

Realize your new power. Play with it. Master it. Use it as a tool to banish fear and negativity while simultaneously cultivating awareness and harmony within and without. Use this Peace as your guiding Light and most importantly… HAVE FUN!

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Kristin Craft

Educate and inspire self-helpers who desire to live a conscious, healthy lifestyle, become their best self, and learn from the experiences that have changed me.