Finding peace through pausing
The lovely and gifted Oprah Winfrey inspired this post. Oprah says:
"My prayer for myself, my friends and the world is that we become ever more conscious–aware of our meaning and purpose. I pray for peaceful pauses within ourselves to acknowledge our gratitude for life and all its complexities."
Pausing, whether peaceful or not, is always a good idea. Our world is on a headlong rush into, if nothing else, hurriedness. A pause can be the beginning of peace.
Consider using a timer to practice pausing. Let it go off once per hour.
Now the first pause won’t have but a speck of peace in it particularly if you’re one of those headlong rushers.
The second pause might have a little more peace in it.
The third might have a speck of annoyance; it could come at the wrong moment.
But persevere in pausing, dear one.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Máiread Corrigan Maguire, upon receiving the prize, said, "In 1891, Alfred Nobel wrote to a friend that in many critical situations success in achieving a pause in violence would prove decisive. That’s what happened in Ireland. A pause."
Hours four, five and six. Pause again. In that pause-ful moment, just remember peace.
Just before bed, hour sixteen? Pause again in peace and gratitude for the day gone by.
Set your timer as a wake-up call for peace and begin the day, like Oprah and her friends, with a peaceful pause.
And who knows, maybe some day when enough of us are taking peace pauses, all those pauses will add up to a minute, the minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months, and months–it should only be so–to years of peace on earth, goodwill to all.
For spiritual nourishment, visit Dr. Susan Corso’s website and blog, Seeds for Sanctuary. Follow her on Twitter @PeaceCorso and decipher the divinity in your language using God’s Dictionary.
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
Peace is a very important level to be at and stay at. Peace is an automatic
part of my being. Peace is important for a healthy body, spirit, and soul.
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