Mindful Monday: Protect Your Peace
Last week, I was under the weather, so I moved slower. Everything slowed down: walking, showering, working, eating. But in that slowness, there was a gift.
I noticed I was more aware, more present, and could feel each moment more deeply—there was more texture, stillness, and life in the seemingly ordinary. I wasn't focused on what was next or what I "should" be doing. I was just… here.
And in the "here," there was more peace.
As we all know, it can be easy to get sucked into what's happening around us, outside of us.
There's no shortage of external noise and strife to focus on, but as I moved slowly through the world last week, I remembered something a teacher once said to me years ago:
"Protect your peace."
Those words kept echoing through my mind as I went through my days. And for me, last week, protecting my peace meant this:
To stay rooted in presence
To feel the ground under my feet and the breath in my body
To not let the swirling energy of the outside world take over the calm I had found within.
Then, as if the Universe was gently nudging me, I came across a post on Instagram echoing the same reminder: protect your peace.
It was the words "observe, not absorb" that really caught my attention—simple, yet powerful.
Our peace is precious and sacred. It's not loud or dramatic—it's subtle, tender, and deeply nourishing.
Peace isn't something we chase; it's something we return to. Something we remember. It lives in the now, in the softness of this moment.
And so, I offer this to you, as it was offered to me:
Protect your peace.
We deserve to dwell in that quiet power.
Not just when we're unwell or forced to slow down—
but every day, in our own way.
We feel a deeper level of peace when we intentionally live in the now, feeling our breath and experiencing each moment just as it is.
For many years, I had a goal or an idea that one day, I would always be at peace. Well, that fell away naturally when I experienced the truth that I was not in control of what emotions would come and go at any moment. And an attachment to feeling a certain way is the ego's desire – my true self does not have a preference.
I'm not saying I don't have preferences because I do. I'm also aware that feelings are natural, and allowing myself to feel them without judgment brings forth and creates space for peace.
Protecting our peace means taking care of ourselves.
Honouring our truth.
Being here now, aware. Not looking for a future moment.
And perhaps that's what Adyashanti meant when he said:
"The quality of awareness is at peace. It doesn't come to peace. It is at peace all the time."
Peace isn't somewhere else. It's here, in this breath, in noticing, in the now.
Take good care.
With love,
Diane