10 Insanely Simple (But Not Easy) Steps to Serenity
Serenity is possible at any moment and no matter the circumstances – and this post outlines 10 simple steps to get you there faster. Stop buying “peace at any price” and instead practice “peace at any point.” It doesn’t require becoming a monk …
Serenity Tip of the Day: Stop Gossiping
If you want serenity, stop gossiping. Do you gossip? Do you talk about people who aren’t in the room with you? For any reason other than working through your own thoughts, feelings, or issues with …
Use Your OBSESSION to Find Peace
If you have an obsession, and are aware of this obsession, you can use it to find peace. Obsession and peace are normally contradictory concepts. Obsession is continual and intense focus on someone or something that …
Use Your Integrity to Find Inner Peace
Integrity is crucial to inner peace and fulfillment in life. Integrity means aligning your values with your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Do you know your values? It took me many years to fully understand my …
For Real Serenity, STOP, and Find the True You
If your anxiety drives you to seek serenity “out there,” STOP, and instead look inside for the true you. I’ve been anxious most of my life. That means I have rarely felt at ease inside my …
10 Steps for Turning Off the Panic Button
When something trips your panic button – the fight/flight/freeze response from your amygdala – don’t get stuck. Here are 10 steps for hitting the off switch. A few years ago, an event tripped my amygdala response, …
How Hypervigilance Can Help You Relax
It sounds contradictory, but hypervigilance can help you relax. When you go through a health crisis, like cancer, you become hypervigilant. In the beginning, you focus on how it happened, how it’s growing and affecting your body, how …
4 Steps to Let Go of Regret and Embrace Acceptance
I made a big mistake today. I did something out of anxiety. I took action without fully thinking it through. And I almost immediately regretted it. Because I made a problem for myself that had …
Are You a Seeker? Five Tips to Get to Your Goal
Are you a seeker? A seeker is someone who is driven, motivated, and passionate to solve a problem, achieve a goal, or find something more. I am a seeker and my single-minded goal is more …
Peace Starts with Knowing Yourself
Peace starts with knowing yourself. Knowing yourself and accepting yourself, warts and all, is the foundation for self-love. Self-love inoculates us from outside influences. When you come from a core of self-knowledge and self-love, you …