Let Your Heart Be at Peace

Let your heart be at peace. We may come across this phrase countless times in our spiritual pursuits; from ancient scriptures and texts, to modern books and teachings. It beckons us to experience the very peace we are seeking. Simply reading or hearing the words can, in fact, inspire peacefulness to rise within us.

Consider for a moment what that phrase says to you. Just how do you "let your heart be at peace"? If it were easy, we wouldn't find ourselves without peace so much of the time, right?

Do you think there is something you can eventually do that would enable you to let your heart be at peace? Does it seem like you should find peace and bring it to the heart? Should someone else be able to do something so you could let your heart be at peace?

Or could it be as pure as this...let yourself experience your heart as it always is; at peace. Allow your awareness to view your heart in its continuous condition of peacefulness. 

Hold your awareness here. You are joining the peace that is in you at all times. Choose not to follow any thought that would draw you away from this awareness. For it is only the layers of distracting thoughts we entertain that cloak our awareness of the peace that is within us. And even that cloaking is nothing more than the shadows of those thoughts. They have no real power to interrupt our experience with the perpetual peacefulness of the heart center. A shadow only needs to be brought to the light of truth for its disintegration.

Lean not on the understanding that brought you to the place of anxiety, fear, anger, or other dis-ease. That "understanding" is no more than shadows cast by thoughts that did not come from the ever peaceful heart of you. Those thoughts that disturb come from misconceptions of your half-sighted mind. Half-sighted, in that it does not see the truth for what it is, but through the lens of its own projected fear-filled illusions. 

The time to ask for solutions to your dis-ease is not when you believe yourself deafened by the voices of the chaotic half-sighted mind. To believe you are deafened is to experience deafness, even though it be completely untrue.

Instead, bring your awareness to your heart. It is only peaceful there. It is not possible for it to be anything else. And once you begin to experience the peace that is there, bask in it a while. But let yourself do something else before getting up from this peaceful state, and continuing on with your day. Once you have joined with the peace of your heart, stay long enough to ask for your solutions here; for here is where you will hear the Voice of God clearly.

​It is clear in this place always, and we can meet it always. We are never required to experience ourselves any other way.  

We were created to witness the perspective of our Creator. When we ask to experience that perspective, we will never be denied, for we are only asking for that which is already within us. But, we can do ourselves the loving favor of asking for our help while joined with the peace-filled heart center. This is where we can better hear the sure, and clear Voice of Spirit.

Accustom yourself to this realm of peacefulness, and it need not feel so new and ephemeral. Dwell within this realm and experience what you have always been...at peace, and fully connected with That Which created you.

You are under no enchantment, other than your own. Do not give shadows of thoughts power they do not possess. Nothing stands in the way...your heart is at peace. Join it.

                                                                                                                         - Cathy Enoch

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* As best as I can give credit for the phrase, "You are under no enchantment other than your own": to a wise wizard in what I believe was one of the Lord of the Rings movies. (You need not comment on this. I feel no urgency to know the correct details)