Why do we seem to lose our peacefulness?

 Why do we seem to lose our peacefulness?

Peace is our baseline condition -- but it doesn't seem that way, does it?

Instead, it seems we must either struggle for our peace or suffer lives of disturbance!

Why is that?

We exist in a vast realm of possibility that shows up as our unexpected lives.  We have a sense of how things are and of how they should be -- so often contradicted by our experience.

That contradiction by life of our values and expectations creates our sense of disturbance -- and yet we seem unable to resolve that contradiction, in ourselves.  Peace seems lost and inaccessible.

Instead, we experience a state of imbalance triggered by our attention to the unbalances of the world -- imbalances that change our sense of reality to a state of imbalance.

Our memories of experience color our sense of the present moment.  Our stored memories overpower our sense of the potential of our imagination and the power of our intention -- and there seems to be little we can do, other than struggle to make the world conform to our sense of rightness or suffer our failure to do so.

The imbalances of life unbalance our intelligence.

If we are to recover our sense of peace, we need a way to recover our own balance -- and struggle is not the way.  Struggle is a state of imbalance.  We've already seen that.

There's another way.  It's the way of releasing, recovering our balance despite the imbalances of the world.  Releasing is a state of less effort.  It's a kind of grooming that removes the aftereffects of life, leaving us in our natural state of intelligence -- the sense of peace that surpasses worldly understanding.

It's a way of less effort, not more effort.

How do we do that?

Stay tuned.