Meditation Mondays: Peace begins with me

Step 1: The mantra for this week's meditation is PEACE BEGINS WITH ME.  Read this mantra out loud to yourself.  PEACE BEGINS WITH ME.  Reflect on one thing that is not peaceful currently in your life.  Think about how you can bring more peace to the situation.  Or if there is nothing you can actively do, think of how you could respond to the situation peacefully.  We always have our agency in how we are going to react to a situation or to somebody.  Write one tiny goal of action down in your journal or on a sticky note or scrap piece of paper of what you are going to do to bring more peace or respond with more peace.  ALSO write the mantra down PEACE BEGINS WITH ME on a piece of paper and carry it with you wherever you are to remind yourself of your intention for the week.  If you have sticky notes write it down 5-10 times and put it where you can see it in the places you are most in during your day.  This will help you remember.

Step 2:  Read John 14:27.  How can we access the Savior, the Atonement, to help us bring more peace into our life, and respond with more peace in situations where our natural response may not be peace?

Step 3:  Watch and listen to this song entitled "Prince of Peace," by Hillsong United.  First watch it and read the lyrics and then if you can, replay it, but this time, close your eyes and think of the mantra PEACE BEGINS WITH ME, and think of the goal you wrote down and tune into your spirit and let the Holy Spirit direct you and reveal to you what you must do.

Step 4:  Pray.  Close your meditation with a prayer and talk it out with our Father asking for access to His Son, Jesus Christ for help in your intention this week.

Namaste.  Have a beautiful Monday.