Heaven Begins With Peace

By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

1. It keeps you mentally fit and spiritually sound.
2. It prevents anxieties, worries, fears and stress.
3. It awakens the inner strength in us.
4. It ensures calm in the midst of troubles and challenges.
5. It helps you grow spiritually, by setting your free from the bondage of the world.
6. It maintains emotional and mental equilibrium.
7. It enables and strengthens the ability to concentrate.
8. It ensures that you are not easily swayed by events, fashion and trends.
9. It leads you to self-mastery, self-control and self-discipline.
10. It makes your spirit self to remain untainted (undefiled).
11. It is the path to spiritual awakening (being born again).
12. It enables and ennobles your faith everyday.
13. It is refreshing.
14. It gives better and higher productivity.
15. It makes you to be in control of situation.
16. It gives joy, peace, harmony and bliss.
17. It ensures regular communication with God; you do not necessarily have to live as a hermit in order to experience God.
18. It ensures purity of mind, a prerequisite to seeing God.
19. It gives rest to the soul, spirit and mind.
20. It enables you focus your mind.
21. It ensures that better and sensible decisions and judgments are made. You think more clearly and responsively.
22. You are able to enjoy your life and wealth.
23. It enables us to concentrate and remain focused.
24. It enables a person to, efficiently, handle the daily affairs of life.
25. It ensures inner strength and inner power.
26. It helps us develop patience, tolerance and tact.
27. It eliminates stress, anxieties and worries.
28. It brings relaxation and freedom.
29. It prevents negative, frantic and restless thoughts.
30. It makes you fall asleep, easily. It ensures that you have a good night sleep.
31. It improves the ability to meditate.
32. It is the foundation for spiritual awakening and enlightenment.
33. It is the gateway to the heavens.

1. Understand that your life does not depend on worldly possessions and honours. Yourself is part and parcel of life. You are life manifest.
2. Learn to be actively calm, and calmly active.
3. Do not always feel that all is lost when mistakes or failures occur. When a mistake is made, do not spend your time complaining or nagging. A polite correction is far better than all the criticisms. Have you not observed a mistake that was a master stroke to success?
4. Learn to be patient and tolerant with people and events. Many delays work to your own advantage. God teaches us this by answering our prayers one after the other, in ways we never expect.
5. Learn to practice meditation. A few minutes of meditation a day makes a great difference in our life.
6. Practise detachment, become less attached to money, wealth, people or places.
7. Let bygones be gone. Forget the past, and concentrate on the moment. Do not evoke unpleasant memories and confuse your mind with them. Do not bear grudges.
8. Avoiding dismissing people with angry words. The sharpest sword is the word spoken in anger.
9. Instead of rebuking and complaining, find easy ways to settle or solve minor provocations.
10. Avoid incessant complains, nagging, criticisms, outbursts, etc. Those who exhibit these behaviours think that they are being wise and bold. Unknown to them, they not only speed up their entrance into hell fire, but also bind themselves to it.
11. Reduce the amount of time you read, hear or receive bad news or watch the same on TV.
12. Stay away from negative conversations and from negative people.
13. Do not hold grudges. Learn to forgive and forget. Keeping ill feelings and grievances hurts you and causes lack of sleep. Besides, they keep you bound to the regions of darkness (hell), such that you cannot ascend to the bright regions of heaven. Forgiveness sets your mind and heart free.
14. Do not be jealous of others. Jealousy lowers your self-esteem and self-confidence. It not only leads to lack of inner peace, it also breeds evil thoughts and makes you a witch.
15. Accept whatever that cannot be changed. This attitude saves a lot of time and energy.
16. Keep away from unnecessary noise, disturbances etc.
17. Always relax yourself.
18. Do not allow yourself to become worried, anxious, etc. Commit your concern into the hands of God.
19. Do not be easily offended. Avoid anger.
20. Write persistent problems or needs on a paper and keep the paper away. Soon, cares and worries about them fade out.
21. Stay in a cool, quiet place, for rest. Do so sometimes, or as often as you can.
22. Do relax in an open place where there is breeze. Air is a very good purifier of thought, self and body.
23. Do not sleep in a room without good ventilation.
24. Take time to look at the sky, clouds, serene or quiet environment.
25. Consider a glass full of water. Consider how quiet and motionless the water inside it is.
26. Read about God or heavenly life.
27. Refresh yourself by walking about in the neighbourhood.
28. Go to bed on time, and wake up on time.
29. Do not allow midnights call to become a nuisance.
30. Do not make yourself a slave to the handset. Regulate the use of handsets.
31. Do exercise, which helps to calm the mind and body.
32. Forget troubles, problem and worries.
33. Reduce the number of imes you see corpse or ugly things.