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Some time ago, I received an email from a reader, saying that she doesn’t want inner peace, because she wants to be active and alive. 

She was afraid that calmness might make her passive and take all the fun from her life. She also said that she preferred to keep her mind restless and continually active, not calm. 

Well, this only shows lack of understanding what inner peace is and how it can improve your life in many ways. 

It will make life more interesting, and it will make you more alive. 

Inner peace is not a state of passivity, and certainly does not make life dull. On the contrary, it makes you more conscious, alive and happy. It helps you live life more fully. 

Here’s how Wikipedia defines it: 

Inner peace (or peace of mind) refers to a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Being ‘at peace’ is considered by many to be healthy and the opposite of being stressed or anxious. 

The Mind Is Like a Room Crammed with a Lot of Stuff 

Suppose your room is crammed with furniture, books, papers, and a lot of junk. There is no free space, and you can hardly move in the room. 

After living in this room for some time, you get used to it, no matter how uncomfortable and unpleasant it is. You might dislike it sometimes, but you do nothing to clean or rearrange your room. 

This is exactly the state of your mind. It’s crammed with thoughts, fears, worries, and endless thinking. There is no room for new, different thoughts. It is in a state of tension and stress, always jumping from one thought to another, like a butterfly hopping from one flower to another. 

Imagine that one day you decide to clean your room. 

You take everything out of your room, emptying it completely. Now the room seems excessively big without all the stuff in it. 

You clean and wash it, and then put back only the essential stuff. How do you feel now when you are in your room? Isn’t there an exhilarating feeling of joy? There is a lot of space, you can move freely and find everything easily. 

Suddenly, you realize that you live in an expansive room, and this gives you a great feeling of joy and power. You realize that you were living in a limited and crammed environment. Now, there is more air, more space, and you can move and walk freely in the room. 

Did you lose anything of importance in this process? 

No, you lost absolutely nothing. You only gained a lot. 

It is the same with your mind. When you empty it of unnecessary thoughts, fears and worries, it becomes free, and you enjoy a sense of inner peace. Your mind would not be crammed with unnecessary thoughts, which limit you and waste your time and energy. 

Inner Peace Appears when You Empty Your Mind

Inner peace is like a clean and spacious room, empty of unnecessary, old, or broken stuff.

After emptying your mind of unnecessary and negative thoughts, it will be filled with happiness and inner peace, with nothing to disturb it. You can get these results through meditation practices.

Do you realize now what is inner peace and how important it is?

When you remove all the unnecessary and useless stuff from your mind, you become more alive. The negative and meaningless thoughts would be gone, and you see everything more clearly, like you never did before. It is like taking away a curtain that distorted your vision.

I hope that these words cleared, at least a little, what inner peace is.