This Is NOT The Way To Protect Your Peace

Have you ever thought you needed to protect your peace by avoiding difficult people or situations? This mindset might actually be creating more anxiety than tranquility in your life.

I share a thought-provoking insight about an ironic social media post claiming we should "protect the peace we've worked hard to create." While this advice seems well-intentioned, it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about genuine inner peace. When we believe our tranquility needs protection, we immediately position it as something fragile and vulnerable—creating the very anxiety we're trying to avoid.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Let it Be Easy with Susie Moore.
I've got to share with yousomething funny that I saw
online the other day.
And look, I don't think it'smeant to be funny, but I could
just see the irony in it, canyou?
So there's this account that Ifollow.

(00:23):
I can't remember what they'recalled, but it's like happy
quotes or something like that,or wisdom quotes, something,
yeah, something along thoselines.
And there was a post thatseemed to have a lot of
engagement, that said somethingalong these lines.
Okay, I'm paraphrasing here, butyou'll get it.
It says it says something like.
It says something like don'tyou dare let anyone upset that

(00:46):
piece that you've created inyour life, something like that,
right?
Don't you dare let anyone upsetthe piece, oh, that you've
worked so hard to create?
Right, surface level seems fine, but do you spot the irony
Right?
Don't let anyone, don't youdare let anyone upset the piece
that you've worked so hard tocreate.

(01:09):
Again, paraphrasing, but youget the gist here.
It's saying don't let anyoneupset your little, the world
that you've created inside ofyou.
Don't let anyone outside upsetit.
Right, protect it, make surethat your feeling of well-being
is safeguarded at all times.
I would like to offer adifferent point of view here,

(01:32):
because we can't really protectanything.
I mean, and if I think I've gotto protect something, it makes
me quite nervous around thatthing.
It feels vulnerable, it feelslike it needs my protection.
It feels vulnerable, it feelslike it needs my protection.
The reality of living in peaceis knowing that whatever happens

(01:52):
can happen and you're going tobe okay.
You know, there's an old storyabout a man who's trying to be a
monk or learning to become amonk, and he has to meditate
like five times a day.
But on his travels he's on thisvery, very noisy train.
So he keeps getting off thetrain in order to meditate,
because the train is very, verynoisy.
Right, it's very loud, thereare people and just the sound of

(02:14):
the transportation itself it'svery, very loud.
So he had to keep getting offthe train at certain spots to
meditate.
Do you see the irony there too?
Meditation, fostering peacewithin yourself.
It's so that you can withstandanything, any noise, any upset,
any surprises, anydisappointments, any unwanted

(02:35):
events that come your way.
It's not finding the time to bepeaceful and the space and
shielding yourself from lots ofpeople or particular people.
It's also not getting off thetrain to meditate.
It's meditating throughwhatever is happening.
It's meditating through life.
It's enjoying and gettingdeeper and deeper into your
peace, not only when you reallyneed it, when people are being

(03:00):
annoying, but especially then.
There is nothing, I swear, thereis nothing quite like the
satisfaction of being aroundsomebody who used to make you
crazy.
He used to make you crazy.
Maybe they're even, maybethey're narcissistic, maybe they
just could never see your pointof view, maybe they don't want
to agree with you.

(03:20):
Whoever this person or peoplemay be, I swear there's nothing
more satisfying than being in aroom with them or being even in
a text exchange with them, beingin their company, letting them
be exactly who they are, withtheir thoughts and opinions that
might be completely offensive,or even just completely opposite

(03:41):
to you and you remaining atpeace.
Peace doesn't come from shuttingeverybody out and you know it's
a bit like.
You know this friend of mine.
She has a real sweet tooth,kind of like me.
When she doesn't want to eatthings, she'll like really hide
them and put them away, likebehind the birdseed in the
pantry she'll put the cookiesand it's like you know what.

(04:03):
Wouldn't it be an amazing thingif the cookies could be there
and they weren't just calling toyou or bothering you.
Wouldn't it be amazing if thosepeople could just be who they
are and it was okay?
Wouldn't it be amazing if youneeded to meditate but it was
noisy and you go?
Okay, aha, I'm going to sitthrough.
This Noise is part of life.
People who bother us are partof life.

(04:24):
Sit through this Noise is partof life.
People who bother us are partof life.
This is, I mean, this isreality.
So what if we weren'tprotecting anything like
protecting, feeling nervousaround it but allowing no matter
what To me?
Oof my friends.
That's real peace.
Until tomorrow, my friends.
That's real peace.

(04:44):
Until tomorrow.
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