Recap of Key Points from this series of articles:
- Inner peace is your inner power. It can be experienced here and now.
- Silence meditation offers a direct connection to inner peace.
- The Peace Practice is a powerful way to cultivate inner peace and unleash your inner power for life transformation.
- Silence meditation and The Peace Practice are unique within the broad landscape of meditation, supporting continuous self transformation and preparing the ground for Self Realization.
- In moments of stress and worry, Don’t Peace Out of life, Peace In to life.
- We spoke about the power of Attention and the Cure for The Monkey Mind.
- We showed how it all ties together with Success, Fulfillment, and Inner Peace.
- We explained How to Live from The Center.
- And lastly, we touched on the fact that learning about this stuff is not the same as Actually Doing It!
- This is the last article of the series…
You cannot overcome a problem from the same mindset that helped create it.
You cannot experience wellness from a mindset that focuses on sickness.
You cannot experience abundance from a mindset that focuses on lack.
You cannot experience love from a mindset that focuses on self criticism.
Energy Follows Thought
Where thought goes, energy follows.
Thoughts emerge from your mindset.
The quality of your mindset defines the quality of your thoughts, and consequently, the energy you experience in your life.
Like attracts like, in the mind and in life experiences.
Misery attracts misery.
Sadness attracts sadness.
So, you want love, peace, happiness, wellness, and abundance?
What is your mindset? Is it conducive to attracting what you want?
To be free of anger, your mindset should emphasize freedom from anger.
To be free of fear, sadness, or lack, your mindset must focus on freedom from these limitations.
Cultivating the Right Mindset
How to cultivate a mindset that is the polar opposite of what you’ve been consistently feeling, like anger, fear, sadness, or lack?
Artful affirmations and creative visualizations can help to some extent.
However, for most people, most of the time, these efforts are like putting lipstick on a pig.
The pig remains intact.
What is the pig?
The runaway mind, rolling and roiling in its misery.
So, how can you truly cultivate a mindset that is the polar opposite of what you’ve been consistently feeling?
There is a powerful way to alter your mindset.
Cultivate Silence
Rest the runaway mind by withdrawing attention from it and placing attention in silence.
Silence is the seat of a power within you that is greater than the unsettled mind.
By cultivating silence, you experience your inner power, where peace, love, happiness, freedom, and abundance exist, ever present.
As the experience of silence becomes steadier, even if only in short bursts, the mind’s nature begins to change, little by little.
As calmness becomes your experience, clarity, wisdom, courage, strength, creativity, and compassion also emerge.
You make wiser decisions and take more powerful actions.
With this, the seeds of a more empowering mindset are planted.
Now, arrive in silence, and then apply those artful affirmations and creative visualizations.
Witness the magic of a transforming mindset unfold before you.
The mindset that kept you feeling stuck is no more.
Continued investment in a practice of silence meditation roots you in your inner power.
A deepening practice of silence opens the door to realizing that your true self, your real nature, is the source of this inner power.
It is the same source underlying all existence.
Silence and the Process of Continuous Self Transformation
As you encounter life’s challenges, they can weaken your mindset, making you feel stressed, anxious, worried, angry, or down.
However, your mindset can either serve your healing and transformation or keep you captive in a weakened state, potentially worsening your condition.
Fortunately, there’s a great power within you, residing in silence.
When you practice silence meditation, you unleash that inner power into your life in the form of calmness, mindfulness, clarity, wisdom, courage, strength, creativity, and compassion.
This inner power helps you rise above challenges and transform into a better version of yourself.
Furthermore, in the calmness that arises from silence, when you place your artful intentions and perform creative visualizations, they become more effective.
Typically, affirmations and visualizations are done in a noisy, busy mind, causing their energies to become diffuse.
When applied in silence, their energies are potent and focused, making them much more effective.
In addition to unleashing your inner power, can you now see how silence meditation provides a powerful foundation for continuous self transformation?
It allows you to become a better and stronger form of yourself today than you were yesterday.
Effective Alternatives to Cultivating Silence
Are there alternatives to cultivating silence that help in the journey of continuous self transformation?
Yes, there is a potent alternative: cultivating an attitude of gratitude.
Feel gratitude for everything in your life.
When you practice gratitude, you naturally shift your mindset away from lack and dissatisfaction, and toward contentment and abundance.
Here’s the beauty, silence and gratitude complement each other.
When undertaken together, they accelerate your connection to your inner power and help you become the best form of yourself.
If you like to start a Peace Practice in your daily life and find your true power, you can learn more about that here.
Thank you for reading these series.
About the Author
Sundar Kadayam is an author, spiritual teacher, mentor, and healer. Midway through his 34 year career as a technologist and entrepreneur, life circumstances pushed him into an unlikely journey toward healing and awakening. His offerings provide guidance on self care and healing, self transformation, and self realization.
Sundar’s Website: Being YOU with Sundar Kadayam – Resources for self-care and healing, continuous self-transformation, and Self-Realization
Sundar’s Bio: About Sundar Kadayam
Sundar’s Writings: Articles and Pointers to Being YOU – with Sundar Kadayam
The Peace Practice: The Peace Practice – Simple Meditation to Cultivate Inner Peace (sundar.com)
Life Coach Code Interview: Find Life Coach | Meet Sundar Kadayam: How to Go from Weakness to True Power and Limitless Potential? (lifecoachcode.com)
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- The Sacred Silence – II (sundar.com)
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- Unusual Gratitude (sundar.com)
- The Eternal Fire (sundar.com)
- The Power of Small (sundar.com)
- Be Careful What You Let In (sundar.com)
- Just What Is (sundar.com)
- Get Rid of Thoughts? (sundar.com)
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