Finding your inner peace...

All living creatures look for happiness and try to avoid suffer or discomfort. But what is happiness? What makes you happy after all? If you are honest with yourself, it is a hard question to answer.

We are tied up by our past and worried about our future, and this way we forget to be present. However we can only solve our problems, find answers to our questions "here and now". Our past is gone, it is not ours anymore. We can take pictures or videos of it, but we cannot get it back. Our future is not ours either: we might have an idea about it, but as it is still to come, it may turn out to be different from the one we had imagined. Our only treasure is the present. This very moment is all you have! Why don't you enjoy it?

It is only in the present moment, how we can find happiness! In my opinion happiness comes when you get closer to your true self. When you can be really yourself. (What does it mean to be yourself? Well, this is another difficult question to answer... and I am sure that it is more than just your personality!)

Being present is not difficult (though some people try to overmistify it): it is the most natural and the simplest state we can exist in. We all experinced it in our childhood, but as we grow older we tend to melt into this hectic world that surrounds us. Each moment we are exposed to an enormous amount of stimuli that can distract us.

So why don't you try focusing a little bit?

Start by focusing on your breathing. Take a deep breath in and imagine that your body is filled with energy, then exhale and imagine that the negative thoughts and feelings leave. Problems, obstacles, pains, worries, conflicts all leave your body and soul with your exhalation and they dissolve in the space around you. Don't try to grab them or hold them back, let them leave freely.

Repeat breathing like this. Should anything come to your mind, let it go as it came. Your only focus is the breathing: in and out. Gaining energy and loosing what is bad.

And there you arrived in the present! This is the clear, simple and infinite moment when you can experience your true self. It might happen that you will only experience it for moments or seconds for the first time, but with practice you can make it longer!

Enjoy the journey!