Find Inner Peace In Chaotic Times

Inner peace is inside you — it is your human birthright. Not in a woo-woo, hippie, or weird way. In a grounded, centered, connected-to-yourself way.
Peace is quiet though, not loud like emotions and thoughts, and all of the distractions and pulls that take us away from our center. And more than that, there is an inbuilt faulty mechanism in human beings where we constantly look outside of ourselves for the very thing that is already there in the core of our own being.
Recently, I have had some big events happen in my family home that rocked me. Well, honestly, it has been going on for a year now. Being rocked to my core, yet needing to show up for those I love and for myself, has taken me deeper into my practice than ever before.
It is when the shit hits the fan — as Australians say, meaning when everything gets difficult — that you know whether the work you have been doing on yourself has actually transformed you and created real pathways of peace inside, or not.
I have found, over 26 years of spiritual practice, that doing the work gets real and can be deepened in these times of chaos: when a loved one is ill, when employment is under threat, when there is conflict around me, when I have moved states or countries, or occasionally when I simply watch the news!
Staying present and connected to the core of ourselves no matter what is happening around us is the work.
I am going to talk about how to make this really achievable. In my experience, we need real techniques — techniques that forge a pathway to this center in such a way that it becomes the fallback option when the going gets tough. So that peace and connection are there for you instead of the automatic emotional and thought patterns that are the normal default.