How do you find inner peace: a 15 minute ritual
We have forgotten how inner peace feels like. The world we live in promotes speed, high productivity and often this is what we see as valuable. However, what if there were emotional states that made you far happier internally and in contact with other people and the world? One of such paths is a peace of mind. So, how do you find inner peace then? Let’s start small.
Small gestures that help you open yourself to a new experience
We need to be doing the practical things, but what if I told you to do the opposite? Break free from the intelligent actions and choose something that takes you out of your head and into your body. There are situations or actions we can do that seem to be unnecessary, appear to have no greater meaning or connection with other things. Simply done for the pleasure of the moment. However, in reality they expand into something truly powerful in our lives.
Just a few days ago a colleague from a distant country sent me a message. We had not spoken for about a year, and he wanted to know what is happening in my life and how busy it is, whether I am doing some new exciting projects. This in fact is what we see in our surrounding very often. Adding new projects, making things complex. No, let’s stop this.
Simplify
A busy life can numb you and steal the true meaning of events. Moreover, it makes you slowly lose the meaning of life. Charlie Munger, a business partner of Warren Buffet, loved his quiet quarter, when he simply sat down in his chair doing nothing for 15 minutes, not even thinking. Charlie together with Warren, was one of greatest investors in history, having much on his mind… yet he valued that quarter profoundly. Read more about Charlie in our article: “Sit and do nothing”
The 15 minute ritual
Go outside. Take a piece of plant into your hands. It might be a leaf, flower, blade of grass. You may know that plant or not, it does not matter. Look on it closely. Feel the texture of it. See whether it has any special features, perhaps hairs on the leaf surface? Smooth or serrated edges, distinct veins that are lighter or darker than the surrounding surface.
how to find inner peace
Rub one hand against the other with the plant inside, bring your nose close to it and smell it. Close your eyes and inhale the scent. How does it smell? Does it remind you of something or is it new? Scents are the bridges to memories. Be there, feeling it in your hand, looking on it and memorizing it.
How to find inner peace: the moment when everything fades
What is the feeling you have when you look on the plant? Do you love being there and having this precious simple moment just for yourself, that experiencing nature gives you? If you do not know the plant, you may take it with you back home, to check what it is. However, it is not necessary. The key here is that everything in it is simple, sensual and slow. Just you and the plant.
This simple plant can be the first moment of tenderness you have experienced not only in contact with nature, but equally important… with yourself. Without thoughts, intellect. Simply being in the moment, with another living creature, a part of the living world, that surrounds us in peace, travelling from your busy mind into the feeling body. This is the time your give yourself. You may even draw it.
The beauty of nature by Martyna Bizdra
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