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The Book on Inner Peace

Remez Sasson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:46:09 +0000

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.

More Information about the book Peace of Mind in Daily Life.

Pleasure and Happiness

Remez Sasson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:51 +0000

Pleasure is a state in which you feel good and enjoy what you are doing. It usually does not last long, because life is such that you have always other things to do, like work, cleaning the house, driving somewhere, interacting with other people, etc. you cannot stay in the feeling of pleasure for long.

When you eat some delicious food you derive pleasure from it, but the pleasure cannot last for long, since you cannot go on eating indefinitely, you finish eating the food on your late and the sensation of pleasure wears off after a while. You may enjoy watching a movie, but the movie lasts for a certain amount of minutes. When you read a book you enjoy reading, ultimately you reach the last page.

As you see, all pleasure is time limited.

Pleasure is usually awakened by external stimuli, and is largely physical, involving the five senses, like the smell of good food or its taste, or of the sight and physical contact of a certain person, a story you read in a book, etc.

Though happiness is similar to pleasure in some respects, yet it is different.

Pleasure is emotional in nature, while happiness is a state beyond the emotions and even beyond the mind. In pleasure the emotion are active. While in a state of happiness there is calmness and peace.

Happiness does not depend on external stimuli, since it comes from within, though quite often, it seems as if the source is external.

When do you feel happy? When a problem has been solved, when you receive good news, when a goal has been accomplished, when you earn a great sum of money or when you are deeply in love. For a few moments you feel happy, but what do you feel? It is a state of exhilaration and peace. For a few moments, you feel as if a burden has been lifted, and you feel no fears or doubts, and don’t think about the next thing you are going to do. For a moment there are no thoughts and there is no time. A moment of just peace and happiness You just experience a deep feeling of relief, without any thinking, doubts or expectations. For a moment your mind is empty.

In this “empty state” happiness arises. It usually does not stay for long, since you cannot stay in this state for long. Your mind is not trained to be peaceful, and all the thoughts, desires, doubts, fears or expectations rise back again, hiding the calmness you experienced just a moment ago.

As you see, happiness is a state of inner peace and inner calmness. Everyone seeks happiness, when actually the search is also for inner peace and freedom from thoughts.

Happiness and inner peace come from the same source, from within. Through training one can reach a state when happiness and peace are experienced more and more often. The more one is able to free his or her mind from the compulsion to think all the time, the more one is able to enjoy inner peace and happiness.

How can you enjoy more happy moments in your life? Instead of waiting for external events to trigger happiness, you can bring it from inside you. Since inner peace has much to do with a state of happiness, the more peaceful your mind is, the more happiness you can enjoy. When you are able to make your mind peaceful, through various techniques, and through mediation, you enjoy more happiness.

For more information, and practical techniques and exercises visit:

Tips for Happiness in Daily Life
Peace of Mind Tips and Advice
Peace of Mind in Daily Life

Do You Need All Your Thoughts?

Remez Sasson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:12:22 +0000

- Are you aware of the thoughts that pass through your mind?

- Do you remember what you thought a few minutes ago?

- Do you know how many thoughts pass through your mind in 24 hours?

- Do all your thoughts originate in your mind? Are they your own thoughts or other people’s thoughts that you think are your own thoughts?

Thinking is very useful in every area of life, but people go too far with it. It has turned into some sort of slavery. Instead of thinking on what you want, when you want, you think all the time, every hour of the day. Every word you hear, everything you see brings thoughts to your mind. The mind is always busy, most of the time thinking meaningless thoughts as a reaction to external stimulus.

People have lost the ability to stop thinking when they don’t need to. Thoughts come and go whenever they want, distracting the attention, spoiling concentration, and keeping the mind in a state of endless mental activity. It is like a machine that is never switched off.

Many of these thoughts are negative, causing anxiety and worries, wasting one’s time and energy.

Instead of using thoughts to help in your affairs, you are being used by thoughts. They take your time and they take your energy, without giving you anything in return. They constantly produce noise in your mind, preventing you from experiencing real inner peace.

Are you able to stop thinking negative thoughts? Are you able to stop all those thoughts that keep moving your attention from one thing to another? Do you keep worrying, and do you expect the worst? Does your mind keep busy with what someone said about you, and do you keep thinking how life is bad for you, because someone at work got promoted, and you were not?

Do you keep thinking about other matters while studying, talking with someone, driving your car or travelling by bus or train?

You deserve to give your mind some rest, at least for some moments during the day. You can learn to resist the temptation to be always thinking. When thoughts stop for a little while you don’t lose consciousness! You become more conscious and more aware. You become more alive. The mind is afraid to stop thinking, afraid of what will happen if it becomes quiet. There is great peace and happiness inside, but constant thinking hides it, like the clouds hide the sun.

When the number of thoughts go down, there is no vacuum, instead of the mind’s activity, there will be inner peace and inner happiness, which can be experienced even in the midst of activity, at work, at home and everywhere else.

Here is a basic exercise that will help you learn about the process of thinking:

Stop what you are doing, and for ten minutes watch your thoughts. You don’t have to be alone in practice this exercise. you can practice it at your work, in a park, at home, or wherever you happen to be, but not while driving.

For this exercise you don’t need to relax your body, sit in a certain pose or breath in a special way.

All you have to do is try to be aware of your thoughts, and find out where they came and how. Don’t analyze them, just watch the process, how they arise in your mind, and how they change or are being replaced by other thoughts. You will be surprised to discover that many of them arise as a reaction to events, environment or other people’s words or thoughts. Some of these thoughts that arise automatically in certain circumstances, triggered by certain people, events or other external stimuli.

After going through this exercise, I want to ask you, are you free? Is your mind free? Do you experience inner peace or a state of endless thinking, often unaware of what you think? Do you choose your thoughts?

I invite you to comment and write what you think, here at the blog, or at the forum.

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How to Clear the Mind of Thoughts

Remez Sasson — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:19:40 +0000

A visitor to the website has asked the following question:
“So you are saying once our mind is cleared, we start experienceing inner peace, but what is the most important thing to do to clear your mind? I have read a lot at many websites, but still can’t understand the subject.”

Here is the reply:

Concentration, meditation and the development of inner detachment help clear the mind of thoughts, making room for inner peace.

There is no instant inner peace. In order to attain and enjoy inner peace, work and effort are required, but not everyone is willing to invest the necessary time and energy into this project.

Concentration
The practice of special concentration exercise improve the ability to focus the mind on one single thought or subject and reject unrelated thoughts. This ability helps you gain the skill of opening or closing the mind at will to the constant flow of thoughts.
Information on Concentration
Concentration exercises

Meditation
In meditation you use the skills gained through the development of the power of concentration, in order to free your mind of thoughts. There are may forms of meditation, which all help clear the mind of thoughts, and which ultimately lead to the ability to meditate without thoughts.
More on Meditation

Detachment
Without some inner detachment there is no inner peace. You need to learn not to be affected easily by what people say or do, and not let your emotions rule your life. I am not talking about being indifferent and uncaring. It might seem a paradox, but you can be compassionate, helpful and full of love, and at the same time display inner detachment. It is a mental attitude which leads to common sense, better judgement, more understanding and inner peace.
More on Detachment

You can find in-depth information, instructions and exercises for developing the skills leading to inner peace in my book Peace of Mind in Daily Life.

How to Calm Your Mind

Remez Sasson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:35:18 +0000

Why should you want to calm your mind?

- Do you get easily nervous and irritated?

- Do you have fears and doubts that cause you to suffer?

- Do you have difficulties falling asleep at night?

- Do certain thoughts keep obsessing your mind, giving you no rest?

- Do you get agitated in every situation?

- Do you have difficulties focusing your mind?

If you experience any of the above situations, then you certainly need to learn how to calm your mind.

Frantic thinking, restless thoughts, impatience, fears and worries cause lack of inner peace, lack of concentration and the inability to think clearly. This leads to making errors, confusion, the inability to make decisions and to failure.

If you want to achieve more in life, you must know how to calm your mind, so that you stay focused and think clearly.

How to calm your mind:

Spend time doing something you love
Find some time each day to do something you love doing, such as a hobby, reading, listening your favorite music, etc.

Spend quiet time alone
Find the time to be alone, to relax your body and mind, even only for a few minutes if you cannot afford more. Give yourself some time for reflection, meditation or any activity that relaxes, such as yoga, Tai Chi, or walking on the beach or in the forest.

Use positive words or language
Your words affect your subconscious mind, your behavior and how think and feel. Develop the habit of using positive words and positive language both externally, when talking to others, and internally, in your inner talks. Using positive words and language would help your get rid of feelings of discontent, unhappiness and negative attitude, which lead to lack of inner peace. Positive words and language would increase your self confidence, self esteem, and decisiveness, and drive away thoughts and attitude that lead to lack of inner peace.

Try to be more aware of the words you say, and work at replacing negative words and language with positive words and language.

Change the DVD in your mind
What kind of pictures and images occupy your mind? Are they pictures and images of problems, difficulties, failure or disaster? Such pictures and images deprive you of inner peace, but you can change them with a little effort. It is like ejecting the DVD that runs in your mind and putting there a new one. Every time negative pictures and mental images appear in your mind, replace them with pictures and images of success, happiness and joy. Be patient, as this might take some time and effort.

Avoid mental pictures and images that are upsetting, and which cause apprehensiveness, worry fear and negative feelings.

Breathe deeply
Breathe deeply a few times when in stress.

Exercise your body
Exercising your body improves your health and mental attitude, making you more positive, focused and relaxed.

Meditation
One of the best ways to calm your mind is meditation. Even a few minutes a day would help, if you meditate regularly. Any sort of meditation would do. You can try the watching thoughts meditation.

Enjoy nature
Being out in nature has a great relaxing effect. Trees, lakes, streams, the sea, sunrise and sunset are naturally relaxing and calming. Watching them can make you feel calm, happy and serene.

For a complete program teaching how to calm the mind and enjoy inner peace in your everyday life, read Peace of Mind in Daily Life.