Inner Peace

By Christina Fanelli

Do you feel like no matter what you do, it's always wrong? Like you'll never be successful? Do you watch your friends or classmates on social media and think, How did they do it? Do you read articles about depression, anxiety, or being bullied and think, Yeah, that fits me, but why? Do you wonder if you can stop it?

 

Today's world revolves around the internet, social media, and cell phones. What you see on the internet is personalized from information collected about you. Just about everything encountered affects who we are. You decide if something has a big impact, little impact, or no impact, and how.

 

Are you looking for a way to break from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and chasing that social media status? Do you want to get out of the rut and stop being told by the internet and social media who you are? 

 

Inner Peace will help you face fears, learn who you are, and remember what you wanted to be versus where you are now. The important thing to remember is that you're going to be the one looking at you, the one deciding in the end, and the one pursuing the goal. This is all for you.

 

Cover design by Sarah Congdon

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christina Fanelli
• Release date: Oct 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798224420063

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Inner Peace

Inner Peace

By Christina Fanelli

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DEDICATIONS

To you, my reader, for acknowledging yourself and moving forward.

To my kids, Miranda Green and William Green III, and Scott Congdon for helping me see what is within each of us, enhancing it, and sharing how to make it grow.

INSPIRATIONS

When thinking for yourself, regarding others: Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

– Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Be what you want, not what you see.

– Unknown

Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body healthily. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.

– Steve Maraboli

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 – THE REASON FOR THIS

CHAPTER 2 – WHO AM I?

CHAPTER 3 – WHY AM I LIKE THIS?

CHAPTER 4 – WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT TO ME?

CHAPTER 5 – FROM WHAT WAS FORCED, WHAT DID I LEARN?

CHAPTER 6 – IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY

CHAPTER 7 – IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE, DON’T BE FORCED

CHAPTER 8 – MAYBE YOU JUST DON’T KNOW

CHAPTER 9 – COVID-19 IMPACT AND RESULTS

CHAPTER 10 – FIND YOURSELF

CHAPTER 11 – THE POSITIVES OF FEAR

CHAPTER 12 – MEDIA IS THE ENEMY

CHAPTER 13 – TIME FOR SUGGESTIONS

CHAPTER 14 – RECAP/REFERENCE

CHAPTER 15 – HOW TO START

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 1 – THE REASON FOR THIS

The intention of this book is to show you inner peace is for you. You may not need all the content in this book; you may just need reassurance or a couple of pointers. The goal is for you to achieve something for yourself with some facts and a few directions. The purpose is to give to others what I have found to be helpful and share that information. Throughout this book, you will see interesting examples, and I’ve added some humor to keep the content fun and easy to remember. A boring read is hard to pursue, let alone remember, but laughter and real-time examples do wonders for understanding and relating. Therefore, the plan is to share some stories with you with the hope that you will relate to them and not feel alone in these circumstances.

What is inner peace, and how do you get it? There really isn’t any one final definition. It is the individualized mental and spiritual peace that each person has within themselves. It enhances the ability to be strong in times of stress and to not become anxious and overwhelmed. With inner peace comes the benefits of happiness, serenity, calmness, and freedom.

And how do you learn about yourself? It’s common to think that you know yourself because you know the types of food you like, the style of clothes you like to wear, and what your dreams are for the future, but do you know what you missed as a child? Have you enjoyed the different types of love? When you think back to what you wanted as a child, do you have it now? If not, do you still want it? Why did you change your mind? There are no wrong answers for any of the questions about these thoughts or changes, but consider, would you want to do it again? Do you know why you changed your mind?

Do I love myself? Some of you I’m sure already do and may find it hard to believe that some people don’t. It may be because of the life you have lived; it may be because of the way you were brought up; it may just be a belief that was understood. For some people, even just the word love is difficult to say. However, to those of us who have to learn to love ourselves or do not even know if we do, here is your chance. Yes, I said to us. I had to learn by myself.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you how you should answer any of those questions. Just like I mentioned, there is no right or wrong answer, and there are definitely no universal answers because there are no two perspectives that are the same. By the end of this book, you will be able to answer the questions for yourself. I’ll give you some examples that worked for me to instigate some thoughts for you, but you will find your own answers.

Many of today’s lifestyles and day-to-day encounters can cause distress, anger, confusion, and much more. Each of us has a past that can cause different reactions, thus making us handle situations differently and, of course, giving us different results. These results then impact the future, and if the decision has a negative impact, it can feel like a downward spiral with nothing but a negative future and a feeling of failing yourself.

That feeling of failing yourself leads to different results in individuals. Those results, of course, have different effects for each of us, and if they are not handled properly, results can start that negative spiral. Stopping what feels like a downward spiral requires making a change in the direction of your thoughts. But the question is how do we change our embedded thought process?

We will look at some interesting people that have shared their experiences. These experiences will be relevant to each chapter’s topic and explain how they overcame or stopped the downward spiral, then we will look at other examples or simple facts about how to overcome our own spirals.

We are going to look at ourselves and what it is that makes us do what we do and what we need to do to better handle any of the negatives that will eventually happen. The first example of this is Albert Einstein:

Albert Einstein felt like he didn’t belong in the Prussian education system and one teacher even told him that he would never amount to anything. Shortly after that, he ran away from a boardinghouse to find his parents who thought with Albert dropping out of school dropout and hiding from being drafted into the military made his future bleak. However, due to his youth interests, math and physics grades, fascinations, and Zurich schooling he became a success. He is known for the: Quantum Theory of Light, General