WTF is "Inner Peace" anyway?

[@Lorazengarden]

All of your videos speak to my soul and I couldn’t agree more with your wisdom. For me, inner peace is synonymous with pure and unconditional self love and acceptance. Letting go of the narrative and simply being ourselves without the need to always search for the answer is true peace. 💜🙏🏼

[@waynesmiling]

I too was at a wellness fair this weekend. Lots of venders offering expensive solutions. A couple of things did peek my interest, ionized alkaline water and a therapy service which I will research a bit more. I came away with the thought " if I want to change my situation change and action needs to come from me". What is it that I can do today that will improve my situation. I find inner peace happens most often for me when I have no or limited thoughts, when I am just being in this moment accepting what is. Thank you for all you do.

[@thomashawkins9949]

Your words are very thought "provoking," and I hesitate to use that word. Maybe "thought inspiring" would be a better descriptor. I have been to expos as you describe, and they are a cauldron of false exchange. I wonder around trying to understand the motivation of the "sellers" and can only come to one conclusion: "inner peace" is being made into a commodity that can be sold as if you were buying toilet paper at a store. That belief/view is a symptom of a capitalistic society and culture that permeates every aspect and thought of most people's lives. So now I am "at war," again, with my thoughts. I have never believed that the gift of a person's psychic knowledge, energy, Reiki, intuition, or inner/psychic wisdom should be sold. That knowledge is to be given freely, without transaction, without strings of money or barter involved in it being given to someone else. In Marx's words, and I paraphrase,: Most every human being has been co-opted to one degree or another. (I include myself in that.) And by "co-opted," I mean selling your time, energy, and creativity for money; and by "creative energy," I mean all forms of work that businesses need, as in jobs or employment, to produce consumable goods, and here is the kicker, I also include, Reiki. Selling light work and psychic knowledge and technique or practice, or any form of spiritual enhancement is as much a form of prostitution as selling any other goods or services. "End of war with myself."
I am fortunate to be in a position of living off my pension (almost a lifetime of prostitution) and government assistance (the benefit of mass prostitution). Part of my "inner peace" comes from no longer having to sell my time, energy, creativity, or SELF for monetary survival. I do wonder what I have lost in that process, and even though I can do nothing all day long, I know my time now is a delusion, maybe illusion, based on my previous transactional life. I know being human involves the barter or exchange of something of value as a means to survival, but some knowledge or wisdom, call them "sacred" if you will, should never be sold. I am sure the Alternative Knowledge" market brings in millions, if not billions, of dollars all over the world. "I would really like to buy some inner peace on that situation or issue." Maybe, just maybe, inner peace can be defined as "non transactional thinking."
Whatever, thanks Elaine for making me think.