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Finding Inner Peace: Calming the Busy Mind Through Awareness and Creativity
When I ask clients what they want to achieve, change, or seek, a common answer is peace. What’s interesting is that what peace looks like is different for each person—deeply personal, shaped by their own experiences and circumstances. The word peace gets bandied about in many contexts: the classic wish for world peace, the association with peace and quiet, the 1970s hippy expression “peace, man”… and so on.
For many clients, though, the peace they’re talking about is an inner quiet. It’s the ability to let go of busy thoughts, to soften the sense of overwhelm that comes from juggling too many perceived balls in the air, and from holding long mental lists of things they’re trying to remember. In this context, peace is really about being able to guide your thoughts—focusing on what genuinely needs your attention, while allowing the rest to gently slide away. Peace means calming the brain.
Over the past week or so, I’ve been sharing short clips on Instagram that invite the viewer to pause for a moment. Stopping to observe something in your everyday surroundings—stepping outside to notice the wind moving through the grass, a rabbit nibbling on a leaf, or ants busily scurrying about—can help clear the mind, create a sense of peace, and allow you to breathe out. I encourage you to test it out. Find something you can observe, even for just 20 seconds, and notice how becoming absorbed in a small detail can begin to clear the busyness of your mind. (I can also confirm that wandering outside to capture these moments on film is delightfully soothing!)
The prompt for this week’s creative practice, as part of the #navigatingcreativity series, is Peace. Whether you use it as inspiration to draw, paint, compose, write, dream, or photograph, I invite you to enjoy using your brain creatively—supporting neuroplasticity, taking time for yourself, and finding your own version of peace.
About the Author
Theresa is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Strategic Psychotherapist based in Canberra, working with clients both in person and online through her practice, Navigating Calm. She helps people create lasting positive change by breaking free from unhelpful patterns and reconnecting with calm, clarity, and confidence.
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