The Archangels Tell Us it is a Choice
Years ago, long before I channeled the Archangels, I was asked to come up with and post a personal motto at work. After careful thought, mine became “Peace of Mind is Priceless.” I’ve long tried to live my life in such a way that I’m at peace with whatever choices I make. In order to do that, I have to be true to myself and to what I believe in and want to represent. When you can do that, it’s been my experience that it doesn’t matter what others think of you or whether or not they approve of what you do, because you have the peace of mind of knowing you upheld your integrity.
To this day, I guard my peace of mind carefully. These days that means I don’t watch, read, or listen to the news, although I try to remain aware of what’s going on around me. I just forego the details and speculation. When I choose my words and actions, I try to be careful and act according to my beliefs and values, so I don’t experience remorse or regret. I’m certainly not perfect in this endeavor, but I’ve become much better over the years at maintaining my peace of mind.
There’s a lot going on right now, and so much of it is challenging to our peace of mind, isn’t it? I learned years ago that I can choose what emotions to embrace, even if I can’t always avoid feeling them. For example, sometimes people or events anger me. I’ve learned to embrace those feelings, then release them, in favor of something more positive. I asked the Archangels for guidance on how we can best do this in order to protect our peace of mind, and their response follows.
Question: Peace of mind, in my view, is priceless. I protect it. So many are struggling to regain and maintain their peace of mind, and some have never really had it for any length of time. Can you please offer some guidance on how to find and keep it?
Answer:
This is such an important and timely topic to explore. It is critical, always, but especially during times of turmoil, and many are struggling with this during these chaotic, unsure times. We will begin by telling you that peace of mind does not and should not have anything to do with what is happening around you. Peace of mind is not a product that comes from any outside source. It comes from within you, and you can only lose it if you choose to relinquish it.
We know this sounds idealistic and philosophical, ala “guru” style, but it is the truth. While outside sources can enhance or threaten one’s peace of mind, it is exclusively yours to claim, maintain, or misplace. The choice of whether or not to use it is always yours and yours alone. While there are many outside influences and challenges that besiege you, often daily, whether or not you allow them to strengthen or threaten your peace of mind is a choice you make, whether you realize it or not.
Chances are you have seen, met, or known someone who rarely or never seems upset about anything, at least to the extent that it affects them in an obvious way. Whether they face everyday aggravations or are severely threatened, they maintain and defend their peace of mind and stay calm. When catastrophe strikes, they are able to assess, address, and overcome virtually any set of circumstances.
More than likely, you have also seen, met, or known someone who is nearly always upset about something, who falls apart easily, and seemingly overreacts to many situations that arise. They feel as though they are a victim of multiple circumstances, they feel powerless, and they are often unable to face their reality, whether they have support from others or not. Granted, nobody is always above and beyond stress or hardship, and nobody is forever hopeless and helpless, but you can easily see at which end of the spectrum a person spends most of their time. While everyone has a limit to what they are able to endure, some have a far greater limit than others, and even after they reach that limit, they are able to rebound relatively quickly, while others tend to stay within their misery.
How a person reacts to and recovers from any challenging situation has nothing to do with the situation itself and everything to do with choice. You can choose to succumb, or you can choose to overcome, and while neither of these choices is easy to always manage, they are a choice you make. It is not easy to be miserable, and neither is it easy to experience peace, but while you cannot often control the people, circumstances, or events around you, you can control your reaction to them.
Emotions are neither good nor bad, they are energetic and vibrational. All emotions fall along a spectrum of energy. Hatred is the absence of love, and love is the absence of hatred. Fear is the absence of hope, and hope is the absence of fear. Anger is the absence of compassion, and compassion is the absence of anger. You can train yourself or be trained to choose which energy to embrace. It is not automatic or without challenge, but you can choose to embrace either end of any emotional spectrum, and when you choose to embrace the higher vibrational end, it has a positive, strengthening effect on your peace of mind.
Hatred, fear, anger, and the like do not make a person feel good, but when someone embraces these emotions, uses them, and allows them to steer their consciousness, they become comfortable, a habit, although they are no longer compatible with peace of mind. So, when someone who is used to these emotions is subjected to love, hope, and compassion, there is a clash of energy, and it is not comfortable. It can challenge them, give them a glimpse of a better way to be, but it is decidedly uncomfortable.
However, if they are exposed to such vibrational energy over an extended amount of time, their own vibration will eventually begin to rise, especially if they embrace these emotions, which is initially difficult in most cases, although the current 5D energy balance helps people to do this much more so than 3D energy ever did. Similarly, if someone who usually embraces love, hope, and compassion is exposed to hatred, fear, and anger consistently and embraces it, it can have a lowering effect on their vibration.
Peace of mind is not an emotion, it is a product of vibration. It is of a high vibration and one you can attain by rejecting such emotions as fear, anger, and hatred, and replacing them with emotions like hope, compassion, and love. When you encounter low vibrational emotions, whether they are due to internal or external stimuli, you can choose to embrace or reject them. To do so genuinely and successfully takes determination, effort, and practice, but it can be done.
Initially, it is an internal struggle as you encounter and deal with external factors. For example, when you encounter someone who says or does something that angers you, take a moment to assess, evaluate, and choose a response. Let us use a common source of aggravation such as politics to explain what we mean.
Many people are still angry about the US elections. Instead of being angry and bitter at those who voted for the candidate you opposed, whether the candidate won or lost, stop for a moment and think. Obviously, they had their reasons for voting as they did. Whether or not you can agree with or validate those reasons, you can acknowledge they exist for those people and they had as much right to vote as you did. If you believe they made a mistake, reach for compassion for them and hope they learn from that mistake. Do not assume there is malice on their part. Consider that your failure to understand them is your failure, not theirs.
If hard times follow, vow to help however you can, including helping those whose choices led to putting their candidate in a position of power. For those who cause, condone, or add to harm against others, find compassion for them, also, because those who knowingly cause harm, either for the sake of causing harm or for personal gain, will never find peace of mind. The more harm they cause, the less peace they will know, even when things turn out the way they intended.
You do not have to agree with or approve of someone to grant them compassion or to offer them love and acknowledge their worth as a fellow human being. Everyone is worthy of love and compassion, and whether or not they receive these offerings graciously, offering them will increase your own peace of mind, as your vibration rises. Love and compassion are gifts, not rewards, to be given freely, not necessarily earned.
Many people fear the future, and that is a useless endeavor, as most of what happens is not within your control, and much of what you fear will never come to pass. When you feel fear, reject it and replace it with hope. If bad things happen, you will find ways to overcome them, as you always have in the past. Help yourselves and each other. Focus on what you can control and use your gifts to overcome whatever hardships you encounter. Choosing hope or choosing fear is exactly that, a choice.
Self-evaluation, self-awareness, and self-care are crucial at this time. Analyze your emotions and your peace of mind often, and adjust your choices and your actions accordingly. You must learn to rely on yourself over others. This may seem contradictory to our call for unity, but it is not. You must realize your own power, stand in it, before you can add it to the collective power of unity. You must accept control over your reactions to all things.
You must realize that you have a choice to succumb to fear or choose hope instead. You must learn how to replace anger with compassion. You must know that, while you cannot control outside factors most of the time, you can control internal thoughts and actions. While you cannot always initially choose the emotions you feel, you can choose which emotional reactions you will embrace and which you will reject, and you can choose to be true to yourself, even when external factors do not reflect who you are or what you want. In other words, just because others act or react badly does not mean you have to do the same.
Outside forces need have no effect over internal choices. You may choose to maintain your peace of mind, regardless of what happens around you, or you can relinquish it and your power to others. The choice is always yours, whether your reactions automatically work in your favor, or whether you make the time and expend the effort to make it so. The longer you practice positive choices and actions, the easier and more automatic they become.
Initially, it takes conscious effort to make automatic reactions, but if you persist in choosing high vibrational emotions over low vibrational ones, eventually, your energy will be so consistently high, it will be difficult for low vibrational emotions and reactions to intrude, and your peace of mind will remain intact, no matter what happens around you.
Final Thoughts
Sometimes, we can’t help but feel low vibe emotions, but feeling them and embracing them are two different things. Acknowledging them and indulging them are two different things. By all means, allow yourself to feel fear, anger, and other such things. You’re going to feel them anyway, so you might as well acknowledge them, but don’t get stuck there. Don’t indulge or embrace them, lengthening the time they affect you. Feel them, then make an active choice to get rid of them. Replace them with high vibe emotions as soon as you can, because those lower emotions don’t feel good, and they’re not helpful, even if they’re sometimes justified.
The energy of the fifth dimension currently surrounding and infusing us clashes with low vibe energies, even before we do, and adds to the negativity and discomfort they invoke. That’s why people who choose to embrace these feelings have no peace of mind. It is no longer possible to have peace while entertaining things like hatred and fear. People who indulge in these things will never feel comfortable again. That’s why the Angels always encourage us to bring more joy into our lives and resist the lure of emotions like fear and anger. It doesn’t help that so many people try to entice us with them. We have to get rid of old habits like automatically reacting to change with fear, not because it’s harmful to others, but because it’s not good for us, our own peace of mind.
Happy Friday to all of you. I hope your weekend feeds your peace of mind and casts out fear, anger, and the like. Call on gratitude and hope instead. Don’t forget the invitation to Friday night meditation with the Archangels, from wherever you are and whenever you’re available. The intention for November is balance of masculine and feminine energies as well as emotional balance, which ties in nicely with this article. This intention is for the benefit of ourselves and all others. The Angels will be open to joining their energy with anyone and everyone who participates.
Blessings, all.
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