The 5 Keys to Inner Peace: A Step by Step Path to Inner Peace and Purpose

~ Introduction ~

WHY INNER PEACE IS ESSENTIAL TO HAVING AN ABUNDANT LIFE?

Abundance is your state of being. ~ Sargam Mishra

I have met many people, over the years, who have a yearning to manifest and be productive with their lives and to experience great profits in the meantime.

With many of the people I have coached, when I ask them my first question, What is the one thing you would love to have as a result of the coaching? Many will reply, I want to manifest and be abundant. For some others, I just want to find my purpose in life.

No matter what they told me, I knew I had to teach them inner peace because I felt that I had stumbled onto a universal blueprint for manifesting effortlessly or what many people would call ‘Flow’ or being ‘in the zone’.

I will have to rewind seven or eight years to describe how I came to the realisation of this universal law.

Eight years ago, I was a full-time teacher and it was an unwritten expectation that for the school to be productive and profitable, we needed to be getting results to make the school an attractive place for parents to enrol their children. The logical solution for me was to focus on the performance of the students, particularly in exams.

It was here that I began to teach students simple ways to get organised, study smarter strategies for learning more in less time and an exam game plan for zero stress which would allow them to perform when it mattered most: in exams.

All of the system is outlined in my book Teenage Zen and I thought all of those strategies would be enough to have every student I taught improving their results.

However, it didn’t take me long to see that some students were improving and others were not. I soon realised that there was a prerequisite to performing well: purpose, because students wouldn’t study unless they had a strong reason or motivation to do so. Consequently, this became my focus.

I knew I had to motivate or inspire young people to want to do the weekly study if I was going to get more students to improve their results.

I researched into motivation and trialled various techniques. I developed a two-minute process for motivating any child to study. (You can download the free eBook, which explains the technique at www.infloweducation.com.au)

I was confident all my students would improve their results from here yet again, many students had indeed improved but not all of them. I soon realised there was a prerequisite to purpose: inner peace.

The students who had their ‘buttons’ easily pushed or were not confident enough in themselves didn’t seem to have the energy or focus to study regularly.

When young people are looking for ways to feel better about life, they don’t tend to think of study. After some soul-searching in my own life, the Five Keys to Inner Peace was born.

Now I had students performing at their best without struggling and straining. They still had their social life and some even worked part-time.

It wasn’t until the past year that I realised it is a universal blueprint: Peace comes first, purpose then becomes clear, leading to high performance results in productivity and profits.

A quote from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein, had me baffled for years, I want to know the mind of God, the rest is details.

That was until earlier this year when I had several people close to me, including my speaking agent and consultant, suggesting I teach businesses.

I looked around for examples of people who are high performers and productive, who seemed to be operating from a place of flow. Warren Buffet, Oprah and Roger Federer were some that came to mind. However, I had overlooked the greatest producer we know: life itself.

I suddenly saw the planets, stars and other heavenly bodies as the productivity and the profits.

I saw the high performance and the willingness to continually evolve, not just creating but running live updates to adapt to what was required. Why would the universe go to all that trouble for billions of years unless it had a strong purpose?

It became clear to me that the purpose was to create a playground, a way for invisible energy to know itself through form. The universe is here to serve, asking for nothing in return.

Where did the universe originate? It started with silence: inner peace. In space, there is no sound. There was the clear order again. Peace came first before purpose, which leads to high performance and productivity and profits.

The blueprint is there in nature. Observe a mango tree for example: It produces mangoes which can be sold for profits. It performs if it is planted in the right environment. Why does it go to the trouble of growing from a tiny seed into a large mango tree? Its purpose is to serve life with its fruit for any living creature in need of food. Where did the tree start from? As a tiny seed in the ground where there is no sound: inner peace.

The Five Keys to Inner Peace is a simple science, which will allow purpose and vision to become crystal clear. From there, you will naturally be a high performer, which will lead to productivity and profit.

Most importantly, you will be able to ‘hold the space’ for people to feel that they can just be themselves in your company.

Take time to observe the universal blueprint of peace, purpose and performance in universal creation, in nature on earth and in high performers who operate from a place of Flow.

It’s time to sow the seeds.

~ Chapter One ~

WHAT IS INNER PEACE?

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event control your emotions. ~ Ra Ramsey

When I found inner peace, the first question I got asked was, What exactly is inner peace? I don’t understand it! My answer was always this, It’s pretty hard to define inner peace because it’s not any thing on its own.

Similarly when I ask people What is silence? They generally reply that silence is simply the removal or the absence of sound.

The same goes for What is space? Space is not a thing in itself. It is merely the absence of any object; the absence of matter.

So the best way I can describe inner peace is the removal of the drama you create in your life with your own mind.

However, before I discuss what inner peace is, let me explain the importance of it. The reason why inner peace is so crucial is because anything beautiful, useful or productive in the universe has been created from a calm, peaceful place.

This means that if you want to create anything of value in your life, something of real beauty that means a lot to you, then it’s essential to find that place, to be in the state of inner peace.

Without balance and inner peace, life takes us on an endless emotional rollercoaster. We hit massive highs and lows. At some point, if you are like me, you have probably grown quite tired of riding on that rollercoaster and being constantly at the mercy of your emotions.

What you most likely want is simply a calm and balanced state of being, in which you don’t fluctuate too much mentally or emotionally—where the gap between your worst days and your best days, the highs and the lows, starts to shrink.

Until you reach that balanced state, you are always going to feel like something is missing. When you find that balance in your life and have inner peace, you will be able to create whatever it is that you want in your life.

You will have the ability to create the abundance you want, have a business that you are proud of, make the money that you need, be able to be an awesome role model for your children and so on.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that they’re going to find inner peace by chasing something out there. You know how it goes, If I get the right job, or I find the perfect partner, or I have enough money… But I’m here to tell you that it actually happens the other way around.

Once you have inner peace and your purpose becomes clear, you will realise that all these other things will come surprisingly easily and you won’t feel like you are struggling anymore.

When I felt inner peace for myself and experienced that permanent shift, how did things change for me? I was still a teacher but how I was teaching changed forever.

I developed specific strategies and a simple method, which I incorporated into my teaching. Essentially, I removed all the excuses that children have for not doing well at school.

From there, my tutoring business grew and I began receiving requests from adults to coach them as well. That was when I decided to expand my business by becoming a motivational speaker in high schools and a life coach for adults.

Initially, I would speak and informally tutor in my role as a casual teacher, trying to motivate children and teenagers, then I realised I heard this a lot, Have you thought of being a motivational speaker because that was really good! And since I kept hearing this, I realised that the universe was giving me signs and pointing me in a certain direction.

This is what happens when you find that place of peace. The same thing happened with the start of my tutoring business about eight years ago.

I was teaching full-time in a high school and towards the end of the year, the boys in my class began asking me, Are we going to have you next year? I really hope you’re our Maths teacher next year. My reply was always, We don’t get to choose who we teach. We’re just told at the start of the year, ‘Here you go, these are your classes.’

However, because I kept hearing these remarks over and over again, I realised that they were signs pushing me to start a tutoring business and that was how it eventuated.

Further down the track, about four years ago, I kept hearing, You should write a book! All this stuff you are teaching about—how to get motivated and how to study—you should write a book on it, and like before, I realised that I was being guided.

So I finally put it all together in a book for teenagers and their parents, called Teenager Zen: A Simple Path to Academic Success and Inner Peace.

My point here is that it’s mandatory to get to that place of peace because once you are there, you no longer need to struggle. Others may take notice of you and suggest how you can utilise your gifts and talents.

Since you won’t be caught up in your mind anymore, you will be able to hear these people and notice the signs guiding you in a certain direction.

There will be no more drama; the noise and buzz will have stopped and because of that, it will become very clear what it is you should do with your life and how you can best serve people on this planet.

You can stop chasing money, the perfect career or the perfect relationship. Once you find that place of inner peace, all those areas of your life will naturally flourish.

You will be able to see and think more clearly and be better able to make decisions that positively affect you and those around you.

The source of abundance is inner peace. Abundance doesn’t come from chasing things; it comes from allowing and the best way to allow, is to know that you already have it and that all you need to do is be in a state of peace and gratitude to unlock your full potential.

In the animated family film, Kung Fu Panda 2, there is a scene where the Dojo Master, Shifu, explains to his apprentice, Po, what inner peace is. Po was really impressed by how calm Master Shifu was and how things always seemed to be happening very easily for him so he wanted to know how he did it. The Master’s reply was simply, Inner peace. He explained how some people find inner peace through meditating in a cave for fifty years without food or water while others find it through suffering.

Now while my own journey evolved from a place of suffering, what I outline in the Five Keys to Inner Peace involves no suffering whatsoever; only very simple action steps.

If you take these action steps just as I have outlined them, you will find that your whole world will change.

Gone will be the turbulence of the massive highs and lows. A calm, centred human being who knows exactly what they need to do and allows life to live through them will replace all that.

If you take the action steps in every part of your life, you are going to feel calmer; you are going to