Peace in a stressful world

Question from the Internet:

“Is peace available in this stressful world?”

Yes, peace is available, and that is the only remedy for stress.

We could equate “peace” with homeostasis in nature.

There is homeostasis, harmony, and a sense of contentment in nature when all comprising elements are “at peace” and in harmony with one another.

This means that each and every comprising element in nature’s integrated and living systems finds and fulfills its unique, irreplaceable, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing place while, in return, receiving everything that element needs and deserves for maintaining that crucially important mutual contribution for the sake of the whole.

In nature’s integral living system, the individual elements have fulfillment and a sense of contentment only when the whole system s in balance, in its most optimal state. And as long as the system is out of balance, each individual element is also out of balance and in a state of stress.

Then, this state of stress or imbalance forces each comprising element to do everything it can from its part to help the system to return to a state of balance and homeostasis.

It is this automatic balancing act, the sense, and maintenance of homeostasis, that is totally missing from human consciousness and perception.

Although we are born from nature, we still exist in and are integral parts of nature; we are born without the automatic sense of belonging to the system. By default, we do not feel the system’s mutual guarantee; we do not have the instinctive understanding and the visceral feeling that we exist in a system that is based on the principle of “one for all, all for one.”

In order to stop the reckless and destructive conflicts, wars, and excessive consumption human beings exist by, we need to consciously and purposefully learn and practice how to restore our sense of mutual belonging and mutual responsibility that is the foundation of existence, peace, relative equality and survival in nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system.

The constantly increasing internal and external stress we feel in our lives should be our driver to understand and accept the need to reorganize and rebuild human society based on nature’s “peaceful” — mutually responsible and mutually complementing — system.