Creating Positive Relationships

I choose to have peace of mind as my only goal.

With many of us even when we have said to ourselves that we want peace of mind, there was a part of ourselves that really didn't want it. We seem to confuse pleasure and pain because there are lots of times we welcome stress and pain. We think it makes us feel more alive. Our personality self tricks us into making us believe that worrying makes us feel better.

I recognize that deciding to want peace of mind is a decision to be happy. It has nothing to do with my performance at work or at home. it is my natural state of being which I now choose to accept.

Today I am willing to put all the energy in myself into wanting peace of mind and really totally meaning it. I will not be afraid of peace or feel that it will make me passive. I will recognize that by experiencing peace of mind the power of unconditional love going through me will be compassionate, dynamic and expansive.

Today each hour I will start the day anew and will not let any of the shadow of the last hour impose on the present moment.

To experience peace of mind throughout this day I will make every effort to be kind, gentle, patient, open minded generous and tolerant to all those I meet.

I will remind myself to start the day wanting peace of mind as my only goal. On the way to work and at work and during all interactions with other people at social recreational activities that I may be involved in, I will remind myself over and over again that I choose to have peace of mind as my only goal.

At home at night and before going to sleep I will repeat the same message, peace of mind is everything that I want, peace of mind is my only goal.

Today and each day let peace be the only goal for my life let me remind myself that for there to be peace in the world, inner peace must begin with me. And for there to be peace in my family, in my place of work, in my country or in any organization I might be involved in or in the world, first I must create an absence of conflict within my own mind and allow my inner peace to be extended to the world.

Diane Cirincione and Gerald Jampolsky