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Your Higher Self already is the essence of peace, so that peace resides within you. A constant radiation of peace is also around us at all times. Why we don't experience peace most of the time is because we simply are not vibrating at the same level of that peace. Many times our hearts remain troubled simply because we do not become quiet for a moment and permit the infinite peace of God to penetrate the levels of human thought and feeling. At times it is difficult even for infinite peace to occupy the space within when it is filled almost to the point of saturation with the disturbances of outer conditions. In order to open the door to peace, you must first connect with the peace already within - the peace of your True Self.

The Place of the Sun - the Solar Plexus

The Masters teach that the solar plexus is the opening for the release of peace and that there is a

"body of peace" which surrounds the solar plexus, which they call "the Place of the Sun". The power of that energy is sufficient to dispel and transmute other energies that hold you back from experiencing peace. In order to maintain that peace, you must determine you will have absolutely no compromise in your feeling/emotional world.

To experience the energy of peace within your solar plexus, get still and center your consciousness in the area of your solar plexus. Breathe deeply in and out of this area. With each breath, silently say "Peace" while picturing a golden radiance in your solar plexus. Continue to do this until you are completely at peace. This is the energy of Peace.

A Simple Meditation to Become Peace

This simple, but effective meditation will help you become Peace and can be used anytime something disturbs you. To do it, you have to find the place within where peace resides. To do so, you first have to release all judgment, so that the judgment of anything is totally absent. Having no judgment means no worries, no fear, no concerns of any kind. With no judgment, there is nothing to hold onto those kinds of thoughts and energy. That of course, can take some practice!

As described above, center your consciousness in your solar plexus and breathe deeply, visualizing the golden radiance of Peace. Then expand and radiate it through your entire being, feeling all tension melting away. You can do this anytime, anywhere - at traffic lights, standing in lines and when faced with confrontation. Centering in peace before speaking to someone will keep conflict at bay and protect your own energies. You especially need to do this when your mind is churning away with thoughts that are pulling you away from experiencing peace. Doing it before going to sleep while in bed will help with sleeping more soundly.

After you have a momentum on doing the above, you can then expand peace out to the world. As you center in peace and radiate it out more and more often, it will become an automatic habit and you become Peace! Doing this will automatically strengthen your bond to your Real Self and the radiance of Peace that is the essence of your Higher Self will dissolve more layers of your onion!

The Great Sun Disc

One of the most powerful ways you can protect your solar plexus from the discord of others and thus protect the peace of your feeling world, is to daily place the "Great Sun Disc" over the solar-plexus chakra. It is a shield of dazzling white fire that will deflect discord. Visualize the Great Sun Disc as

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a large round shield of heavy armour reflecting dazzling Light in all directions. Call for this Disc to be placed over your solar plexus first thing every morning and maintain its presence by visualizing it throughout the day.

Meditate on the Flame of Peace

Meditating on the Flame of Peace will also help you to establish peace in your solar plexus and connect with the essence of the peace within your True Self. It is helpful to do this at times when you are feeling non-peace. You first need to become aware of what is causing you to feel that way.

Then go within the Heart, connecting with the Higher Self, and visualize the Temple of Peace as a purple and gold heart, with a magnetic forcefield of alternating purple and gold concentric heart-shaped rings The flame in the center of the heart is the flame of Cosmic Peace. The energy of Peace can then be extended through your entire being and out to the world.

The Masters tells us that if we would keep the peace on the planet, we first must keep the peace in our hearts, in our minds and in our beings.

A Powerful Mantra

The Masters have given us a powerful mantra “Peace, be still and know that I AM God!” "I AM"

refers to the Presence of God that is within you - your Real Self. This can be done in conjunction with meditating on the Flame of Peace for a more potent release of the energy of peace.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet further explains this mantra: "Who are you talking to when you say that?

You’re talking to your feeling world. You’re talking to something that’s in your carnal mind. You’re talking to something in yourself that is not whole, that is not at peace. And you are commanding your atoms, cells and electrons, the organs of your body and your four lower bodies to be still and stop complaining and stop constantly nagging and saying, “Give me this. Give me that. I want this. I want that.” You are in the peace-commanding presence of your Higher Self and you are the authority over all elements of your lower self..."

This mantra can be spoken out loud or said silently when you encounter chaos and upset - on tv, in a crowd, or in your own household. There are times when the energy of others may be impacting you, and this wonderful mantra will help dispel that energy. To make this even more powerful, you can raise your hands over your head and visualize pure white light shooting out from your hands, dispersing all negative and Anti-Peace energy.

Increasing Oneness with Peace - Never Take Offense

If you allow yourself to become offended at little things and become angry when someone else steps on your toes, you cannot experience peace at those times. There really never is a reason in any situation to take offense at what someone might say or do to you. If you don’t take offense, you don’t have to fight back and there is no upset. Instead, you can say something very quieting and calming and simply not be engaged. If you are determined to become Peace, you will find that never taking offense is a very liberating state of consciousness that will increase your oneness with Peace.

Why don't we experience more peace?

The Masters warn us when we are not in control and radiating peace, the forces of Anti-Peace can overtake us and drag us into all kinds of unfortunate situations. Many get tripped up in their quest for peace by tolerating their "Dweller on the Threshold" (see previous discussion), which is sometimes called the "Not Self". By allowing the "Dweller" to roam freely, it effectively cuts off the connection with your Higher Self. It is important to continually analyze yourself and to realize when

your Dweller is in control. Centering in peace will automatically dispel its presence.

Additional tips to help you cultivate the energy of peace (condensed and rewritten from a lecture by Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

1. Make the best of things. Always try to keep a very upbeat attitude. When working with others, make the best of each situation. Do not lament another’s shortcomings, but by the flame of peace supply the difference! Supply the difference that someone you are working with may not have a talent for, an energy for, a desire for. Make up the difference. Make the best of things. Give of your heart and you will experience peace within your being.

2. Write down the situations of nonresolution in your journal. As you are working on your various negative momentums, it helps to keep a list of them in your journal. Everyday make a commitment to cross each entry off one by one until they are all eliminated! You cannot find peace when engaging in negative habits.

3. Forgive and ask to be forgiven. Forgive and ask to be forgiven even when you think you are not in the wrong. Do this because you live by the Master’s code of forgiveness. Do it to give another the opportunity to do the same. Perhaps you know that someone else may need to be forgiven or to forgive. By bringing up the subject and being the first to express it, you make it very easy for another to apologize or to be forgiven.

4. Determination and Vow. Make a strong determination and even a vow, that you will not be moved from the centeredness of love and peace, come what may, even in trifling matters.

5. Seek daily resolution by giving the violet flame. Seek daily resolution. Put everything into the violet flame! (See Section 4)...Examine the rightness of your heart daily to be certain that you have not left frayed edges in any relationship, that you have not abruptly parted from someone without resolution, that you have not left any matter hanging, such as a simple disagreement or discourtesy.

Examine your heart. Sometimes people have the idea that the heart is perfect. The heart needs perfecting just as every other chakra needs perfecting. We have to purify all of our being, including our heart. The heart is very burdened with its envy, with its jealousy, with its anger. All kinds of vibrations are in people’s hearts, as well as sluggishness from a lifetime of wrong eating. And the fat that covers over the heart is also a block to the flow. Radiating love and peace from your heart will help to purify it.

6. Be humble. This is a wonderful state of being, the state of being humble and of having humility.

Don’t be a know-it-all but...have a sense of holiness in the presence of one another’s Higher/True Self and a sense of the holiness of the flame that burns in the heart of the one that sits next to you.

When saying, “Be humble,” the corollary is “Judge not.” When we judge others, we are engaging in pride.

7. Forsake harshness. Forsake the jagged ways, the abrupt motions, the absence of grace and the harshness and the cruelty of the word idly spoken, for all of these are an offense and will keep you from peace.

8. Do not chatter or criticize. Take some moments each day to celebrate the vibration of soundlessness. Take a vow of silence from senseless chattering. Do not engage in criticism and backbiting.

9. Make your body a chalice for Light--every cell, every organ, the etheric, mental, desire and physical bodies - make every molecule of your body a chalice for Light. Visualize Light radiating in

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every part of your being.

10. Keep the peace with one another.