Give Inner Peace a Chance

I’ve been wearing a John Lennon t-shirt all month.

Why?  I need him.  I need his spirit, his energy, his creativity, his beliefs.  I need his strength.  With all the Beatles activity in the past few weeks, I’ve gotten a chance to peak into John as a man, in a way that I never fully witnessed before.  What I saw was a man whose playfulness matched his conviction – and both qualities were steeped in his personality.

“Do you really think we’ll have peace, Mr. Lennon?” a news reporter asked him, half-mockingly.

“Yes!” replied John.  “Yes!” he said with a look in his eye that could convince you of anything.  This sense of optimism had to stand poised in the face of constant doubt and mockery.  Mellow, chewing gum, deadly serious, pointedly focused – he was decided and no one is going to change his mind.  We’re having peace.  Next question.

I teach folks about relationships and coach them to change their lives.  My work involves taking a look at what’s frustrating and using that as a starting point towards a total transformation of one’s inner world. Frustration is a signal that your Higher Self is knocking at the door – waiting for you to grow.  For me, it’s not about being some expert who speaks down from on high and let’s you in on the “truth.”  I’m a product of the process.  I’m working on changing myself as much as the next person.  And I am needing you, John Lennon, more than ever.

Let me put this out to the universe: Thank you for all this “Rockband 9-9-09″ marketing!  You’ve brought John back to me.  You’ve given me the chance to model that look I saw in his eyes – to speak form that “it’s-going-to-happen-no-doubt-about-it” place.  You’ve given me a real person who had a real life for me to follow humbly in his wake.  I don’t have the platform of the Beatles – but anyone can read these words I have just written and spread them around the world.  I’m stating it from my heart right now – and I want you all to read it:  It’s time that we GIVE INNER PEACE A CHANCE.

I’m claiming John’s energy and spirit, but I’m adding my little twist.  It starts within.  It starts in our mindset, our attitude, and our mood.  And in my belief – we’ve all got a tremendous gift to help teach us if we’ve truly given inner peace a chance:  Our relationships.  The level of peace we have in connection with the others in our lives is an immediate and always accurate barometer of how much peace we truly feel within.  Again, I’m not here trying to preach from on high.  I’m a product of this process.  I’m lacking peace in many areas.  With my wife. With my family. With my body.  I’ve done much growing, but I’m hanging on to some mental habits that keep me from the inner peace I know is possible for me. Somehow the universe has given me a kind of insight that understands a concept, a system, a way of knowing about inner peace that it is my job to master and share with the world.   I’m a teacher of relationships, and I need to take my own class.

So John, I call on you.  Carry me through.  Let me stand in your wake and help teach peace in a new way.  Help me to show people how to read the signals of frustration as catalysts of change and transformation.  Help me to teach them to find power, to give their gifts, to receive lots of money, and to discover a place of allowing that helps them swim and glide and fly through life with playfulness and conviction.  Help me to be your shining example, John.

Give Inner Peace a Chance.

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