There’s always a way to know peace. 

It may not seem like it when you’re gripped by frustration.

But there is a way, even in those moments, to know peace. 

It does requires understanding how perception and consciousness work. 

This understanding is what creates self-awareness – the key to changing how we experience any situation. 

Typically what happens when we don’t understand our power to change how we experience a situation is…

…we experience an unmet expectation (something doesn’t go our way or someone doesn’t do what we would have had them do, etc.) and we react from immediately feeling frustrated and disappointed.

There’s no space between the expectation we’re holding and it not being met. So we react from being offended by the unmet expectation.

This compounds when the other person reacts against our frustration. Then, in an instant, we’re in an ego headlock, unwilling to give an inch on either side. 

When we believe our peace hinges on our expectations being met, we create new, fear-based patterns of controlling and micromanaging situations in order to ensure our expectations are met (and our peace is achieved).

But how is this peaceful when you’re now in a …

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