2-2-26 Day 10 Peace Challenge, Gratitude, Financial Freedom Affirmations and Visualization
It’s time for our 2-2-26 Day 10 Peace Challenge, Gratitude, Financial Freedom Affirmations and Visualization!!!
What is the 64 Day Peace Challenge?
Follow along as we do Day #10 of our Peace Challenge, inspired by the Walk For Peace from Fort Worth Texas to Washington DC by the Venerable Monks. They are on Day 100 of their walk today and are continuing their walk in very cold Virginia!
I’ve been watching their talks and I’m practicing the actions to take to create peace of mind. I include an explanation of the peace practice in this post.
Watch this talk given by Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, the leader and organizer of the walk from Day 100 to a crowd at Richmond, Virginia.
This is the full video of their televised welcome and the talk given by Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara. If you want, you can forward it to the talk.
When the monks first started their journey, no one except their support team was with them. No one really knew about it and there were very few people on the roads. Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara said he thought it would be great if they met and helped 1,000 people on the walk. He said in the beginning they only brought with them 1,000 peace bracelets.
Usually they give out peace bracelets at the end of their talk. This time they don’t show them giving out bracelets, probably because of the size of the crowd.
In this video someone needed medical attention. Luckily, now that the monks are so popular, there are always police officers and medics with them. While the person is getting treated, Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara has the crowd put their left hand on their hearts and listen to their heart beat.
He did this on Day 99 as well. People are gathering in very cold weather, sometimes waiting for hours to hear the monk’s speach and to see them. It so happens that sometimes someone needs medical attention. He says the best thing we can do while waiting for them to get care is to focus on our heart beat.
Here are the steps he recommends for mindfulness, peace, compassion and loving kindness.
First, everyday in the morning write “Today is going to be my peaceful day. ”Then read the sentence a few times in your mind, and then say it out loud. Decide for yourself that today is going to be your peaceful day. Then no one can take that away from you. No matter what anyone else does or says, if we don’t take it in, then it isn’t ours.
Then we practice the breathing exercise. Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Count “1” when you breathe in and count “1” when you breathe out. Then count “2” when you breathe in and count “2” when you breathe out. Keep doing this until you get to “5”. Then start over and go the “6”, then start over and go to “7” and so on until you get to “10”.
If you get distracted while breathing, start over and breathe again from “1” to “5”.
When thoughts come up to distract us from our breathing, just say “thought, thought” and then return to our breathing. We acknowledge the thought but we then leave it alone. The same is true for feelings. If you feel numb, or tired or pain – acknowledge the feeling by saying “feeling, feeling”, and then go back to your breathing.
The Venerable Monk suggests we practice this everyday for 64 days to create the habit, and then keep doing it after to stay peaceful.
We can do it for 1 minute out of every hour that we are working. He also suggests we do this for 1 hour before we go to bed at night. In this 64 day challenge I will be taking time out for us to do the breathing exercise together!
Do it without your cell phone so that you don’t get distracted.
The Venerable Monk suggests doing only one thing at a time, since the mind can only focus on one thing at a time. He says to put away our cell phones when we are studying, cooking and doing other things.
He also says not to talk, listen to music or watch anything when eating!!!
After doing our Peace Practice, we did our minute of Thank Yous, Financial Freedom affirmations and visualization.
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