Relax. Chill. Breathe. Although these commands can often make us more angry when we hear them from others, they are possibly some of the best pieces of advice ever. When we get angry, our heartbeat gets faster, our blood pressure gets higher, our mouth gets louder. If we simply just take a minute to stop and think and breathe, we can enter the realm of calmness, and perhaps avoid saying things we cannot take back, or doing things we will later regret.
"Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle."
Jackee Harry
This quote describes perfectly my daily struggle, the struggle between Crazy and Calm. I know I have definitely found myself victim to Crazy's silly antics, causing me to rant on and on about things I thought were going to shatter my world, making me angry at the people I care the most about. But when I stopped and let Calm hold me in his gentle arms, I felt all my worries slowly melting away, my grievances suddenly didn't seem so great.
Calm enables me to keep on living, to put all my hurt, my anger, my pain, my resentment in a tiny box, even if only for a day. The struggle starts over daily, for Crazy is never more than two steps behind Calm, trailing and wreaking havoc in Calm's peaceful wake. But, when I successfully stay away from Crazy for at least one day, I feel so much more alive. I can function. I can breathe. I can laugh. I can enjoy my day. I can smile at the simple things in life. I can really start to live again.
Summertime Sadness always settles in quicker than I remember it to, and mixing it with Crazy only makes an open invitation for Depression, Stress, and Anger. But Calm can overcome all of these demons, and make way for Happiness, Love, and Sweet Relief. We only have one life to live, so why waste our time and energy being angry? Why give in to the mind torture that Crazy brings, when we can escape the replaying cycle of distressing thoughts, regretful words, unacceptable actions, missed moments?
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner
peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."
Saint Francis de Sales
This is the key to allowing Calm to overcome Crazy. We need to keep our cool, stay grounded, not allow others to steal our inner peace, our mental sanity, our deepest calm. People are always in a rush, which allows Crazy to take root. If we just take a moment to slow down, to stop and smell the proverbial roses, we could achieve a state of tranquility.
In this state of tranquility, is where we can be the most productive versions of ourselves, where we can unlock our full potential, overcome challenges we never thought we could face, help our deepest doubts fade away. So I leave you today with the following series of quotes on Peace and Calm, in the hopes that you too can win the daily battle between Calm and Crazy, and reach heights you never even dreamed you could touch.
Carpe Diem,
Marian
Quotes:
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."
"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."
"Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things."
"When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on."
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
"In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart."
"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
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