Some people have asked me to summarize in a few words, what the book Peace of Mind in Daily Life is about. It is difficult to write just a few words about a book with 200 pages, but I will try.

Peace of Mind in Daily Life delivers greater understanding, harmony, and enlightenment for all who journey through life. It is a book that teaches, step by step, how to create inner peace and inner harmony in a world of hectic activity, problems, anxiety, stress and strain.

It is a book that teaches how to free yourself from negative thinking, anxiety and worry, and transforms your mind into a peaceful and powerful tool. It also teaches how to attain a state of inner peace and happiness, and experience it at home, at work and everywhere else, in everyday situations, in quiet times and in busy times, and in times of turmoil and problems.

There are helpful exercises, useful meditations, and inspiring lessons leading to inner peace and harmony, happiness and mental mastery, all written in a clear and easy to understand language.

Peace of Mind in Daily Life was written in the form of a conversation between a teacher and a pupil, which made it possible to ask questions the reader might ask, and answer them in a simple and easy to understand language. This format has also made it possible to clarify, advise and instruct in a more personal way, as if the reader is actually in the presence of a teacher.

It is a book intended for everyone, for complete beginners or for advanced practitioners, and is a complete course for inner peace.

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Paramahansa Yogananda on Overcoming Worry

“Everyone needs to let go of his worries and enter into absolute silence every morning and night. At such times, try to persist for one minute at a time without thinking about your problems. Concentrate for several minutes at a time on this inner peace. Next think of some happy incident; dwell on it, and visualize it; mentally relive the pleasant experience over and over again until you have discarded your worries entirely.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

Everything has a beginning and an end.

Every mountain has a peak and every valley has a low point.

Every story has a beginning and end.

There are streets that go down, but then they go up.

A plant grows up and then whither, and then from it seeds another plant grows.

Seasons change, from autumn to winter, and then to spring and summer.

Storms are followed by sunshine.

Life has its ups and downs. One day looks bad, but the other day is great.

In the same way, problems don’t last forever. They get resolved sooner or later.

Every problem has a limited life span.

If you have a problem don’t keep dwelling on it. Cheer up! Sooner or later the problem will either disappear, become irrelevant or get resolved.

And even if the problem is difficult to solve, dwelling on it won’t help.

Do you use affirmations, and do you use them effectively?

People use affirmations to inspire, motivate and energize themselves, and to keep their minds thinking positively. The process of repeating affirmations is similar to creative visualization, but words are used, instead of mental images.

Here are a few lines from a short post in the forum on how to use affirmations effectively:

How to Use Affirmations Effectively

“Affirmations can be very useful to counteract negative attitude, to motivate and inspire, to change your attitude toward situations, and consequently change and improve them.

In order to use affirmations effectively you need to:

1. Identify what attitude you wish to change, or where you need motivation.

2. Choose affirmations appropriate for the attitude or situation you wish to change.

3. Use the present tense in the affirmations.”

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Some people report that they experince headaches when meditating or after meditation sessions. There are several reasons for these headaches.

The mind needs some time to adjust to meditation. It is usually restless and unfocused, and meditation requires a focused mind, and as few thoughts as possible. Since the mind is not accustomed to a state of calmness and focus, it resists this new situation. This resistance, together with the pressure on the mind, caused by the focus and meditation, cause headaches.

This is the same situation when you feel your muscles and body aching after working out or walking, when you are not accustomed to do so.

In addition to the above, there is another factor contributing to headaches. Do you tense and contract your body when you focus your mind? Many do so instinctively, as if this will help them concentrate. This is a mistake. Tensing the body doesn’t aid concentration. It just wastes energy and can cause exhaustion and headaches.

How to avoid headaches in meditation?

Here are a few suggestions:

1) When meditating, sit comfortably with your back straight.

2) Take a few deep breaths before starting to meditate.

3) Be aware of any tension in your body and relax it.

4) Remember, keeping your body tense, and tensing your lips and forehead do not asisst concentration and meditation, but they can cause headaches.

5) When you feel that your head is starting to ache, stop meditating. Don’t tense your mind and brain too much. In time, your mind would get accustomed to meditating and the headaches will leave you.

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