Far From The Madding Crowd
To attain interior peace, staffer from the madding crowd. In crowded cities, towns, trains and uses, how to remain peaceful and lected? Create a mental distance om what is happening around us. This snot a denial of reality, but a response Nat helps us deal with a bothering tuition. Close physical proximity with mother in a crowded bus or train can lead to frayed nerves, arguments and anger. When we become accommodating without allowing others to infringe on ur rights, we can, in a way, play down negative emotions, replacing them with laming thoughts. Humour does help. Sometimes, i ave observed women in crowded trains, ugh, joke and pass off situations that could have rocked many others. If we are caught in a traffic snarl, we ok for alternate routes that would be less crowded. After a tiresome journey to work if we choose to loosen up in a noisy cafeteria or disco after work hours, we are leaving little space for ourselves. If instead we find a quiet spot to pray in, or settle down on a comfortable chair at home with a warm drink, we are unwinding and making room for peace and quiet. At high-level conferences, there is an ambience of peace. People speak, but there is no intruding noise. There may be a big audience, but the atmosphere is one of calm and quiet, where each one feels they can express their views and be respectfully heard by others. At theatre and musical performances too, the quiet around is palpable and people are engaged drinking deep from the peace and quiet that these forms of entertainment can create. But many television programmes depict people shouting, gesticulating, speaking together and competing with each other to be heard-all of this could create an inner dissonance so much so that we are left feeling even more exhausted and tired than before. Similarly, when we read about violence, rapes and crime, the news sucks us into a spiral and disturbs our inner peace and quiet. Once again we have to disengage ourselves emotionally from these bad happenings and mentally distance ourselves only in order to experience some peace and quiet. If not, we will be daily robbed of our peace the of mind. Peace of mind is not an end in itself. It is a method and technique of making our lives more bearable, so that we are not seared by what happens, so that we choose our response in such a way that it will better the situation. In this way, we will also be helping others more positively. The victims of hate crimes do not benefit in anyway, if we allow our angto develop into a reciprocal hate oftheoffender. I am not suggesting that we allow these people to get away with tithings they are doing, but rather that learn how to deal with them. We can put people in their places, without aggression of any sort. At prayer services, we witness larcrowds behaving with circumspectiobecause the focus is on a higher level consciousness. At such times, we can choose to remain proximate to those around us. We become part of a large entity and are united by prayer and fain a reality that is profound. If you want interior peace, stay aware the madding crowd. Hold fast to activities that promote peace and quiet and life will become more bearable, even if someone is actually breathing down your neck in an overcrowded bus or train
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The views expressed in the Article above are Janina Gomes views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Janina Gomes and Speaking Tree,Times of India
Far From The Madding Crowd
To attain interior peace, staffer from the madding crowd. In crowded cities, towns, trains and uses, how to remain peaceful and lected? Create a mental distance om what is happening around us. This snot a denial of reality, but a response Nat helps us deal with a bothering tuition. Close physical proximity with mother in a crowded bus or train can lead to frayed nerves, arguments and anger. When we become accommodating without allowing others to infringe on ur rights, we can, in a way, play down negative emotions, replacing them with laming thoughts. Humour does help. Sometimes, i ave observed women in crowded trains, ugh, joke and pass off situations that could have rocked many others. If we are caught in a traffic snarl, we ok for alternate routes that would be less crowded. After a tiresome journey to work if we choose to loosen up in a noisy cafeteria or disco after work hours, we are leaving little space for ourselves. If instead we find a quiet spot to pray in, or settle down on a comfortable chair at home with a warm drink, we are unwinding and making room for peace and quiet. At high-level conferences, there is an ambience of peace. People speak, but there is no intruding noise. There may be a big audience, but the atmosphere is one of calm and quiet, where each one feels they can express their views and be respectfully heard by others. At theatre and musical performances too, the quiet around is palpable and people are engaged drinking deep from the peace and quiet that these forms of entertainment can create. But many television programmes depict people shouting, gesticulating, speaking together and competing with each other to be heard-all of this could create an inner dissonance so much so that we are left feeling even more exhausted and tired than before. Similarly, when we read about violence, rapes and crime, the news sucks us into a spiral and disturbs our inner peace and quiet. Once again we have to disengage ourselves emotionally from these bad happenings and mentally distance ourselves only in order to experience some peace and quiet. If not, we will be daily robbed of our peace the of mind. Peace of mind is not an end in itself. It is a method and technique of making our lives more bearable, so that we are not seared by what happens, so that we choose our response in such a way that it will better the situation. In this way, we will also be helping others more positively. The victims of hate crimes do not benefit in anyway, if we allow our angto develop into a reciprocal hate oftheoffender. I am not suggesting that we allow these people to get away with tithings they are doing, but rather that learn how to deal with them. We can put people in their places, without aggression of any sort. At prayer services, we witness larcrowds behaving with circumspectiobecause the focus is on a higher level consciousness. At such times, we can choose to remain proximate to those around us. We become part of a large entity and are united by prayer and fain a reality that is profound. If you want interior peace, stay aware the madding crowd. Hold fast to activities that promote peace and quiet and life will become more bearable, even if someone is actually breathing down your neck in an overcrowded bus or train
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Janina Gomes views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Janina Gomes and Speaking Tree,Times of India