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these conditions of upheaval shifting our personal balance. Facing conflict, abuse, hardship, disappointment and challenges without it taking away our peace of mind is a gift — and it is one worth fighting for. While we can take proactive steps to ensure we experience restor- ative and healing sleep, maintain a well functioning parasympathetic nervous system, and expose ourselves to frequency modulating tech- niques through meditation, biofield adjustments such as Solfeggio sounds, chakra alignment, and vibrational corrections; the bigger power comes in practicing peaceful dialogue as a part of our inner narration. This can influence our perception of the experiences we en - counter. The goal is to maintain bliss regardless of insult, adversity, fear and uncertainty. Within our physiological body, homeostasis is not achieved with the absence of what threatens it; instead, it is achieved when the body can withstand the toxic load that comes with living, interacting, and aging. It is all about resilience in maintaining balance even when that balance is under attack. Safeguarding this homeostasis becomes more challenging when the body sustains hits without remediation or inter- vention. As the Global Peace Index teaches us, positive peace comes when we invest in frameworks, attitudes, and infrastructures of peace. These are the so-called “Pillars of Peace”, eight complex and interconnect- ed external factors that include “Acceptance of the Rights of Others”, “Good Relations with Neighbors”, and “Well Functioning Govern- ment”, just to name a few. Our internal frameworks are our paradigms on how we see the world. Are we victims of our childhood, relation- ships, hardships, economic status, societal limitations and cultural re- strictions? Or are we in fact sovereign beings responsible for the story we tell about our lives despite or rather in spite of the judgment, blame and expectations of others and life’s limitations? Waiting for the ab - sence of challenges, adversity, grief, judgment and loss to find peace is not a sustainable model. It is negative peace. The process of finding sustainable and positive peace within us begins with the intention and the commitment to embody it. It be- gins one experience at a time. One awareness at a time. One choice at a time. Going into past experiences by looking back at a big impact event that robbed us of our peace and created stress instead is a great way for us to understand this opportunity. With hindsight, we under- stand we are able to look back because we are still here . We survived that event. Appreciating that stressful thoughts or reactive responses didn’t actually help the situation or lift our vibrational frequencies, and instead perhaps worsened the experience, is a teachable moment. How could this experience have been different in our personal story if we were capable of maintaining a peaceful outlook while handling the situation? How would that have kept our relationships safer, our health and wellness less stressed, our choices more aligned toward our highest self? How would that memory now sit in the memoir of our life? Peace is an intangible quality with very tangible outcomes. Prac- ticing the maintenance of Peace, and investing in keeping that pace of grace within our responses, language, perceptions, aspirations, and self-awareness, are powerful steps toward enlightenment and living a life filled with big love, magical moments and meaningful impact. It is a compelling legacy that offers a collective impact toward creating communities that foster safe environments within which we can all thrive. The Rumi quote speaks to the ideation that we are not the sum of what we have or don’t have, who we are or are not — for those prior-
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ities are destabilizing and ever-changing. Instead, when we embrace our success and failures, and our joyful celebrations and heartbreaking grief with the same reverence, detachment, and tenderness, our lives are not filled with destabilizing impact, but instead with sustained and unwavering peace. The Latin word Invictus doesn’t mean victorious; it actually trans- lates as “undefeated”. There is immense peace in this translation. We are only defeated when we allow ourselves to believe we are. We can also choose to embrace the truth that our adversities cannot take from us what we will not give them. We can choose never to surrender our peace, remaining always Invictus — always undefeated — our peace intact. And this peace now becomes our story of bliss. Pramela Thiagesan is a personal development/business coach specializing in Biofield Correction and Manifesting Techniques. Her clients find her through word of mouth and she has successfully prac - ticed in this field with a constantly full client roster for almost a de - cade. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her 2 children. To learn more, contact Pramela at 828.777.6787.
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