Acupuncture Reviewers » peace http://www.acupuncturereviewers.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Desire for Peace http://www.acupuncturereviewers.com/meditation/the-desire-for-peace http://www.acupuncturereviewers.com/meditation/the-desire-for-peace#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:22:27 +0000 admin http://www.acupuncturereviewers.com/?p=13 We would probably all agree that the world is noisier now than it has ever been, in certain places reaching nearly intolerable decibels.  War, bombs, and explosions have escalated around the world. The intense and angry shouts of conflicting political and religious extremists merge into inarticulate racket. Everything is faster, noisier, and more “extreme.” Not only our ears are being assaulted, but our eyes as well. Once merely unsightly billboards are now electronic and light the night with promotions. Uninvited gimmicks sail across our computer monitors like phantoms, and then stop, impeding our ability to read more valued words beneath them. In addition, what we see is horrifying. Acts of violence and catastrophic events that have caused pain and suffering are aired over and over again, in full color, on the news. Where can peace be found in these times? How can we get there from here? Peace can be found within each of us, at the still, quiet core of our being. And we can find it through meditation.

By closing our eyes and turning away from the world, we find what seemed impossible and elusive, but was always there…peace. As we slow the pace of our breathing and allow our body to let go of stress and anxiety… we find peace. Through the slowing of the crazy pace of our thoughts, until they gently drift, like falling leaves, and settle into quietness…we find peace.

Every cell, fiber, and tissue of our body is clarified by this type of meditation Therefore, it can be healing. The babble of our mind ceases with the type of meditation. In this way, it can be revealing.

The problems of body and mind evaporate when we meditate in this way, and they frequently do not come back when we open our eyes and face the world again. The peace that we have embodied within becomes the peace of our actions in the world.

Now, maybe more than ever before, we, the people, need to meditate — to heal ourselves and, in that way, to heal the world.

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