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The Importance Of Inner Peace

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"Peace begins with smile". Same as with the beauty of this quotation from the famous missionary, Mother Teresa, reveals that a smile can change someone's negative feelings towards you. Hence, smiling is infectious as once you cast a smile at someone, the other person is forced to smile as well. This is how the journey to maintain peace around the world begins. In today's contemporary world where we find people, countries and whole nation fighting with each other for power and resources; if only there was love and compassion then there would be no room for hatred and violence. Also, people have forgotten what it means to live in peace nowadays, as the only news that we get on the mass media is that there has been an attack in Syria resulting in the death of many …show more content…

Inner peace is characterised as a state when someone remains calm despite the presence the presence of stress and hurdles in one's life. The peace of mind brings to someone the feeling of bliss, happiness and contentment. In today's modern age, where people are struggling with the hurdles of life, inner peace acts as a way for them to cut off from the world. Some ways to find inner peace are through meditation, relaxation, yoga and so on. Inner peace can be used as a weapon to combat mental illnesses like body dsymorphic disorder, anxiety and even social anxiety. Due to our modern lifestyle where people do not have the time to relax, inner peace is necessary for them to fight against stressful situations which seriously are harming their life. Also people cannot find inner peace because of an increase in violence. Violence is omnipresent it may be found in their households or outside their homes. Violence can also destroy a jolly family in just minutes. Then peace ceases to exist. Thus, people live in dire conditions and cannot find happiness and fail in all their endeavours and witness failure rather than

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