Daily Question, December 20 Is there a special place that makes you feel peaceful and calm, and that you can “visit” in your mind when in need of peace? Where is that place? 25 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. Zenith3 months agoZenithAn ocean beach, Cannon Beach, Oregon. A mountain top in winter on a ski lift. Nothing but quiet. On top of Mt. Rainier looking down on everything else. Or stepping inside the ‘world as it could be’ when meditating. 1 Reply Papilio3 months agoPapilioI visit in my mind again and again the mountain range in my old hometown thousands miles away. When I was a child, it was covered with snow in winter and looked very close to us on a clear day. I always talked to the mountain when my mind was troubled. By somehow I always knew what I should do next after talking to the mountain. 2 Reply Malag3 months agoMalagAwareness through meditation 2 Reply Melissa4 months agoMelissaWhen I was going to Mills College in Oakland. A group of us seven girls hiked the Hawaiian coast as a class led by our PE teacher. As part of the program we actually camped solo maybe a couple of football fields apart for three days. In this little bay where no one was around for miles. I laid in the sand and let the waves lap my feet. I felt so impowered and totally at peace. I was young and had no fears. I go back to that time and meditate on that image whenever I get anxious or worried. It ca...When I was going to Mills College in Oakland. A group of us seven girls hiked the Hawaiian coast as a class led by our PE teacher. As part of the program we actually camped solo maybe a couple of football fields apart for three days. In this little bay where no one was around for miles. I laid in the sand and let the waves lap my feet. I felt so impowered and totally at peace. I was young and had no fears. I go back to that time and meditate on that image whenever I get anxious or worried. It calms me and gives me comfort. Read More2 Reply Hot Sauce4 months agoHot SauceThis may seem weird, but the college I went to for undergraduate school was a place where I felt a lot of peace and calm. Doane University had a really beautiful campus, and I often feel nostalgia for that time in my life. Maybe I could think about Doane and remember that there may be a time when I feel that peace again soon, God-willing. 3 Reply Cheryle4 months agoCheryleIt is not really in my mind.. it is when I sit at my easel and draw. I always ask God to let my drawing be some how a prayer… I find this soothing, comforting and a form of deep joy. However, oh yes there is a place I can go to in my mind, and, that is by reciting parts of Psalm 23 whilst imagining myself as a lamb being carried very tenderly! 3 Reply Anna4 months agoAnnaWonderful Cheryl, it would be a pleasure if we could have a look at your drawings! 2 Reply Don Jones4 months agoDon JonesIt’s coming home from my appearance to my reality. The inward turn to the eternal silence, stillness – the knowing that comes from the unknowingness. 4 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaI can go out on my balcony! 3 Reply TofuLove4 months agoTofuLoveI don’t typically look to feel peaceful which maybe is an issue? To me all this stuff is just a means of keeping me energized enough to help people and be part of the fight for people society would easily toss and demonize. Like “bad energy” could literally just be working around toxic fumes and having a really bad diet due to poverty constraining what you can eat. Or just the recurrent stress of trying to survive and having difficulties, all that is valid to me. Sometimes people want thes...I don’t typically look to feel peaceful which maybe is an issue? To me all this stuff is just a means of keeping me energized enough to help people and be part of the fight for people society would easily toss and demonize. Like “bad energy” could literally just be working around toxic fumes and having a really bad diet due to poverty constraining what you can eat. Or just the recurrent stress of trying to survive and having difficulties, all that is valid to me. Sometimes people want these places to find peace because they don’t realize that the people around them aren’t purposefully trying to make their life cruddy, they just have legit issues. Basically, sometimes I can push back against my own thinking in terms of being upset over various things by labeling what it is as trivial in the larger context of what is happening around me and in the world so I don’t typically think about trying to up my peace levels. I think a lot about how to help others feel better. Read More3 Reply Butterfly4 months agoButterflyMy special place is deep inside me where I feel I am in the eternal everything-there-is. It is light, love and peace. The kingdom of God within you. Wishing you all that light, love and peace today 💖 4 Reply Pilgrim4 months agoPilgrimLake Michigan in Holland/West Michigan. The lake itself is not always peaceful – quite riled up this past summer – but it holds my heart in any season. 4 Reply devy4 months agodevyI don’t have any specific place where to go in my mind. When I do require peace I actually need to go into nature or use meditation videos or tapes. Perhaps it’s because of my inability to concentrate , something that I have due to my years of anxiety and or my ADHD. Having auditory cues help or actually doing something like playing my piano or guitar helps with my inner peace. 4 Reply Ed Schulte4 months agoEd SchulteIt is not a “place” in the sense of place or time, it is a specific vibration of conscious awareness, which in Ancient Greek and Aramaic language it was named “Nous”. As a description within concepts it is said to be “between the Souls and the Spirit” therefore out of any concepts of Time or Space. Some current day Spiritual teachers like to refer to it as the “Now”. So “Merry Christ-nous ALL” 6 Reply Pollyanna Gladwell4 months agoPollyanna GladwellWhile I have experienced feeling peaceful and calm in many places of natural beauty, in front of wonderful visual and performing art, and during periods of companionable time with others, I have never revisited them in my mind when in need of peace. As others have commented, the place I find peace is within – the same place I experienced the peace and calm I have described. Your definition of “Nous” is a perfect description of the “special place”. Merry Christ-nous to you too, Ed. 4 Reply Ed Schulte4 months agoEd SchulteTy and Play safe Pollyanna, knowing that there is a "new version" of the virus awakening in your chosen home I send a glowing globe of radient white light for added protection. And a Nous item. this is the location for developing /activation / of telepathy...that ability so sought after by spiritual seekers, magicians etc etc ......but for ancient cultures and current ( so-called ) "primitive cultures ...it;s an every day common knowledge ...most don't even consider it as special. The Korean...Ty and Play safe Pollyanna, knowing that there is a “new version” of the virus awakening in your chosen home I send a glowing globe of radient white light for added protection. And a Nous item. this is the location for developing /activation / of telepathy…that ability so sought after by spiritual seekers, magicians etc etc ……but for ancient cultures and current ( so-called ) “primitive cultures …it;s an every day common knowledge …most don’t even consider it as special. The Koreans for example use it as key indicator of management ability …..they call it “Nunshi” Read More1 Reply Michele4 months agoMicheleI have multiple special places that make me feel peaceful and calm that I can visit in my mind: Hills Creek State Park, the beach (Clearwater Beach, Fl), various ASMR guided meditations, Bok Tower, Lotus Pond Center for Yoga beautiful cabin, spa massage rooms. Great question today, made me smile reflecting, thank you. Have a peaceful and calm Sunday everyone. 2 Reply Pam4 months agoPamThere is a special place I go in my mind when I am in need of peace and that is in Sedona Arizona . I have been there in person twice and it is a special place . I use my photos to assist me in remembering specific places sometimes. The memories of the majestic place are engrained in my mind . The other is Georges island park in montrose ny . I visit there in person almost every day . Nature soothe me in my mind and in person . And Rockefeller state park preserve in Pleasantville Ny . I voluntee...There is a special place I go in my mind when I am in need of peace and that is in Sedona Arizona . I have been there in person twice and it is a special place . I use my photos to assist me in remembering specific places sometimes. The memories of the majestic place are engrained in my mind . The other is Georges island park in montrose ny . I visit there in person almost every day . Nature soothe me in my mind and in person . And Rockefeller state park preserve in Pleasantville Ny . I volunteer there on Tuesdays to help irradiate multi flora rose vines to the water fowl have a place to thrive and we are going to plant native plants there . It’s a huge undertaking . Little by little . It’s a place 1700 sq acres that brings me such peace . They were letting people park for free from March to June 2020 when usually they they charge . During the week if you are 65 plus it’s normally free but during the first few months of the pandemic they were not charging . October -March it’s free now . Read More5 Reply EJP4 months agoEJPThe ocean which fills all the senses yet brings such inner peace and tranquility. 6 Reply Mike S4 months agoMike SThat special place is in the silence of my own mind. Thoughts that come and go but I do not attached to them. As the space between thoughts when things I fall into a deeper peace. 4 Reply Kevin4 months agoKevinFortunately, I have a few such places. One is inside our Quaker meetinghouse in Westport, MA, first built in 1713. There’s just something soothing about sitting and watching the day’s first light come streaming through the large old pane glass windows and bouncing off the wide horsehair-plastered walls. Another “place” is simply sitting in one of our rowing club’s 28-foot whaleboats. As my team’s coxswain, I set up the boat before dawn and enjoy sitting, waiting for the other five...Fortunately, I have a few such places. One is inside our Quaker meetinghouse in Westport, MA, first built in 1713. There’s just something soothing about sitting and watching the day’s first light come streaming through the large old pane glass windows and bouncing off the wide horsehair-plastered walls. Another “place” is simply sitting in one of our rowing club’s 28-foot whaleboats. As my team’s coxswain, I set up the boat before dawn and enjoy sitting, waiting for the other five rowers to arrive, listening to the lines creaking and tugging, and as seagulls hover and swoop overhead. Read More7 Reply Cheryle4 months agoCheryleThat sounds beautiful… 2 Reply Antoinette4 months agoAntoinetteThe special place I like to visit is the present moment because it’s the only place where we can truly live and respond to whatever is occurring. When I am present awareness helps me to make virtuous choices. With awareness I can watch thoughts, feelings, like a spy and pick what I want to see more of like joy and gratefulness. 5 Reply sunnypatti4 months agosunnypattiThe beach. Almost any beach I’ve ever been to! My local beach is easy to access in my mind, and sometimes I see myself on the black sand beach I visited several years ago in Costa Rica. I grew up on the beach, and it’s calming effects are some of my favorite! 5 Reply 1 2 Next » My Private Gratitude Journal Write an entry in your private gratefulness journal Get Started This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A. 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