Giving and Receiving Peace

Do you long to feel more peace?
You can! Peace doesn’t come from outside, it’s a ray of your own heart.
You can learn how to radiate the energy of any feeling, to yourself, and to everyone and everything.

Here are some steps:

1. Sit in a place where you can relax and be undisturbed for 10-15 minutes. Sit in a balanced upright posture and take a few long slow breaths, just watching the breath, and relaxing and letting go more and more with each out breath.
   
   
2. Now, imagine you have an “element” in the heart region of your chest– perhaps like the element of an old fashioned radiant heater, some kind of “coil” that glows and give out energy.
   
   Imagine this as concretely as you can in any form that makes sense to you.
   
   
3. "Switch on" this energy coil and see the energy radiating from it and bathing every part of your body from the inside.
   
   What colour is the energy? How does it feel?
   
   
4. Play with changing the colours of the energy radiating from your energy radiator. Have fun!
   Breath evenly in to your heart region, where the coil is, as you do this.
   
   
5. Now hold the word PEACE in your awareness. You may hear the word, see it, feel the energy of peace. Feel this feeling in your heart region.
   
   
6. Now imagine switching a knob on your energy radiator to its PEACE setting. Start to radiate the feeling of peace with your energy radiator. Allow it to be any colour that appears when you hold the awareness of peace. Radiate that colour all around you body. Bathe your body in the energy and colour of peace. Relish it. Absorb it deeply.
   
   
7. Stay with giving and receiving the energy of peace, until you feel it is time to finish this practice.
   
   

Variations:

• Allow the radiation to go our further, when you are ready and it feels strong enough. As your power grows with this practice, as you radiate peace to yourself and receive it, you can radiate peace to everything and everyone in the room, the building, the area, the world, the universe.
  
  
• Change the quality that you want to radiate. You can cultivate sending to yourself, and beyond, any quality you choose. Try kindness, or gratitude. What quality do you want to experience more of?