Practice Peace–Step One: Efficacy

In your quest for inner peace, perhaps you assume peaceful conditions are a prerequisite. Not so. In fact, the best peace practitioners are those who walk into the chaos and the clamor able to summon a sense of balance, calm and perspective that transcends the environment. Building that sense of stable support that grows from a peaceful center has four elements: efficacy, sufficiency, resilience and flexibility. Today, take time to think about efficacy.

The ability to produce a desired or intended result is the dictionary’s definition. Mimi’s definition is simply waking up and showing up.

Remembering your sense of efficacy isn’t the same as determining the success of the outcome, it’s remembering that you have the basic skills you need to survive…to create an outcome. Don’t muddle the celebration of your own efficacy deciding whether what you achieve is bad or good. Begin by reminding yourself how good it is to have the ability to produce even the smallest of results. You can move, breathe, think, listen…maybe you have the bonus gifts of walking, talking and the mastery of motor skills that allow you to get out of bed on your own in the morning—woo hoo!! Good for you!

We are effective. When we build our peace practice by offering up gratitude for the simple gifts of life, movement, function…then we start from a place that recognizes how amazing and abundantly we are each created. Today, don’t limit your thinking by dwelling on what you lack. Instead, look at every little gift of your existence. Think of the things you can do you that you forget to acknowledge. Breathe. And make it a prayer breath* of thank you.

*prayer breaths are two-word prayers—one word on the inhale and one on the exhale that use each breath to focus on a specific thought.

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