What Gives You Peace?

Music.

 

-When you finish a project and submit/post it
-The feeling after a really really great nap
-The satisfied fullness after a great meal
-Drinking tea
-The return trip home (regardless if done by train, plane or walking - it's always good coming home :3)
-Ice cream~ Actually, any delicious desserts that compliment a meal
-Great chats with family or friends
-finishing a novel
-listening to the rain

&&& so much more ^_^

 

Knowing we're all Human and we make mistakes and that it would be more productive to learn from your mistakes and apply your knowledge then to just be hard on yourself or wallow in self pity.

 

Being alone, silence with only a nice tune playing on background, cat's purring, my mother's snoring/loud breathing while sleeping... yeah that one is strange but since my dad passed away when I was 10 I had that unsettling feeling I would loose my mother just like him... when you wake up morning find her gone.

 

Really not much other than my faith but only sometimes.

 

Music, being with animals, being out in nature, meditation, cuddling with my boyfriend and gazing at the night sky :3

 

Nature!

 

Being alone, being in nature (alone), being around animals, sleeping in freshly cleaned sheets

 

Doing the washing up :--D once my kitchen is clean, I'm calm too.

 

Hmm good question, I don't know if I've ever thought about this!

Thinking about 'unnecessary' things (like this), walking, snow/rain, clear nights, campfires, making art (playing music, drawing, writing), being/talking with family (sometimes), reflecting on my journey, tall trees, the beach...

Yeah I could go on.

 

My faith in Jesus, my loving family, and music.

 

For me, it is similar to this...working on something in such a way that there is no "me" and no "it", that state some have called "flow", where subject and object are one and the same.

 

Just to name a few...

Simplicity
Nature
Absence of internal/external conflict
Freedom
Compassion

 

Talking to Leah gives me peace. She is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time! And I am so proud to call her mine ♥ x

 

Sleeping. Just deep, dreamless sleep. The comfort of oblivion.

 

Reading a book mountainside with no commitments looming in the near future.

 

Music is definitely something that helps me, depending on my exact mood. The stars are calming in a weird way, by reminding me how insignificant I am, especially under properly dark skies with binoculars. Being intimate with someone helps a lot too, but talking isn't something that brings me peace. Just being there is kinda the key.

The one I still don't fully understand is soft things. The right blanket, or fuzzy huggable plush thing can wash away a lot of things and let my brain just shut off.

 

I just take a walk. Just don't talk at all, walk around and observe, preferably somewhere quieter than my normal environment (especially since I live in the city). When I go and observe in places that's not my usual scene, I kind of reaffirm myself that there's more to life than the way i'm living now whenever I'm upset or just feeling out of place.

 

When I'm alone and I know I won't have to meet someone soon