How do you create your own willpower/courage?
"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Source Unknown
Everybody needs encouragement especially during hard time. Isn't it good to have someone who understands you by your side? Isn't it great to get the power from your heart when you really need it?
It's strange that some people can always live on their own.
They can undertake the difficulties fearlessly and energetically. Surprisingly
the courage they have is still left to be shared with people they love
endlessly too. How do they do that?
Where the courage comes from then?
- Somebody gives it to you.
- You give it to somebody.
- You give it to yourself.
Of course, normally people try to think of the first way to get the courage. That's why we are online seeking for something to fill our heart so that we don't feel alone fighting with problems in our lives. However, courage can come from ourselves too. Whenever we are trying to encourage the others, this means we must have the courage within us first because to cheer up other people isn't easy. Strangely the courage we give to other people fills our heart with positive energy too. Courage itself is surprisingly strange. The more you give it to others, the more you have it for your own too. So, why don't we give ourselves courage sometimes?
After you have FAITH in yourself, you need perseverance.
It's the key to make sure that you will be on the right path and reach the
destination. A man will reach the top of Everest Mt because of this, don't you
think so?
What else do we need here? To have FAITH and Perseverance, you need to know how to control your mind to focus on what you are doing. Always have your mind controlled and you will know what you are currently doing and why you are doing it for.
To control your mind, you need MEDITATION. In my opinion,
while there are many ways to train your body, meditation the only way to
effectively train the mind using a short amount of time.
And the last thing, always fight the problem intellectually. Don't let your emotions take control. Use your head not your tears to fight the problem. Don't lose your faith, don't feel depressed or you will lose courage. And you will know that the best way to fix depressing is simply not to think about it.
What about your tips? Share with us here.
I would say there's multiple sources of courage (family and friends, mnyself), but most of the times, it comes from inside... If I want to encourage someone, I have to believe in what I´m saying. There´s a phrase that always comes to mind: "This too, shall pass". No matter the obstacle or problem, it will pass, it will end.
"Courage itself is surprisingly strange. The more you give it to others, the more you have it for your own too."
I always can see my own problems as trivial things and easy to solve especially when I help and encourage others to be brave and to solve their problems well.
It's only by giving, we will get.
To be a peace rebel means to be courageous. Oftentimes the most courageous thing we can do is to change ourselves. We will most likely be met with obstacles, but instead of hiding away from our obstacles, we can face them courageously and overcome them
In 1966, Robert Kennedy said,“…Few men are willing to courageously brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rare commodity in battle… Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world…”
Peace Rebels, YOU are those few people with the courage to change yourself to change the world. You are the people who have moral courage, because of YOU the world is changing. That is why you are the HEROES in the culture of peace, the HEROES in the Peace Revolution.
Many of you are now completing your self development program, and even though you do not have any more daily entries, have the courage to keep on practicing inner peace time every day, and continue observing the 5 acts of self discipline. Stay in peace, think, act and speak from the place of peace within you so that everyone you come into contact with may share in your peace.
Inner Peace is just such an amazing miracle, because the more peace you share, the more peace you have yourself.
thanks Anita for such wisdom words we appreciate you so much and good coach as well.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDITATION:
ROGERS BAKKA: Meditation, spending time every day in the practice of “stop, look, and listen.” Basically that’s what meditation is about. You stop, you look, you listen. You sit down, and whatever thoughts, whatever physical sensations arise, you allow them to arise and you let them go.
Meditation is the practice of letting go. In other words, you don’t get up and do something about it. For just a few minutes every day. And this may sound contradictory to my passion about activism; but without taking the time every day to let things come and let things go without acting upon it, you won’t have the clarity of mind. You won’t have the calmness that is needed. You won’t be able to come from a place of joy and respect for the other person that you’re going to come into contact with during the day – the many other beings.
The need for meditation is similar to our need for sleep every day. We’re going to be more effective in our waking hours if we have a good night’s sleep. Well we’ll be more effective in our interactions with others if we take some time everyday to meditate, and not thinking that; we’re so habituated to if the phone rings, we answer it. Someone knocks on the door, we get up and see who it is. We’re so habituated to reacting to every stimulus.
So mediation is just when you don’t do that for a few minutes. You just don’t do it. You just don’t react.
Thank you all for this post! :D