Achieving Peace of Mind and Joy about a
Challenging Situation

This activity has been extracted from p. 154 of You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey from Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy by James Blanchard Cisneros.

Knowledge, peace of mind and joy are available in every situation. You can recognize this and obtain them through forgiveness or you can focus on judgment, their opposite, and obtain its result. The choice of which road you take and experience is yours. If you have obtained peace of mind and joy in a situation, congratulations - no further instruction is necessary. If you have not obtained peace of mind and joy in a situation, then the following 10 steps may be helpful to you in changing directions:

• Accept responsibility. Acknowledge to yourself that it is your perception at this moment in time that is resulting in your lack of peace.

• Acknowledge that your lack of peace is not due to the external environment but to your internal reaction to it.

• Acknowledge that thinking with the ego, and judging the situation, has brought about a lack of peace.

• Do not condemn yourself or your ego for feeling the way you do.

• Acknowledge to yourself that there is another way, a more peaceful way that you can perceive this situation.

• Choose to see it as a learning experience, an opportunity to once again better understand how to choose peace.

• Offer gratitude for the experience and your inner shift.

• Forgive yourself and everyone else involved in the situation.

• Send love to yourself, your ego and everyone else involved in the situation.

• Be grateful for the opportunity that you have offered yourself to once again choose peace.

Read the entire section of the book that this activity comes from:  Forgiveness: The Key to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy
 

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