It’s time for our 2-4-26 Day 12 Peace Challenge, Gratitude, Financial Freedom Affirmations and Visualization!!!

What is the 64 Day Peace Challenge?

Follow along as we do Day #12 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 102 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 for peace.

There are many talks by the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, as he talks almost everyday, twice a day. This video is of better quality and explains the practice in detail.

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.

Now they have people lining the street for miles as they walk. They are greeted by people in the morning when they leave, in the afternoon talk and in their evening talks. At state capitols, they are given proclamations by the Governor and State and City Officials greet them, and put their pins on his robe.

Here are the steps Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara 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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