My Deepest Depths...

Unique Perspectives: My Deepest Depths...

By Kim Stevens

My Deepest Depths is Where Peace Resides…

This week, I took a breath workshop, and one of the exercises led us through a visualization—sinking to the ocean floor, looking up, completely submerged yet able to breathe or not needing to. Being underwater—quiet, weightless, enveloped by the ocean—it was pure peace. I was floating, supported, slow, buoyant, and bathed in light from above. I loved it.

Later, I was reading one of my meditation books about living from our true center, the place where God resides in the deepest part of our being. That deep, calm, supported, floating sensation—the same feeling I had in the ocean visualization—that’s what it feels like to live from my center.

Have you ever heard that a single drop of the ocean contains the essence of the entire ocean? That’s how I feel. I am the drop, but I am also the whole ocean. The same applies to the universe. We are made of stardust, after all. A collection of particles from the cosmos, and at the same time, part of something vast and infinite. A yoga teacher of mine always said, inside and outside, all at the same time. I love that.

I’ve learned that my true peace isn’t something I need to chase—it already exists within me. Allowing the external world to dictate my inner world did not work. How could I ever find lasting peace “out there” when everything outside is in a constant state of flux? The book I was reading described an inner goldmine of peace, always available, just waiting to be tapped. Tapped. I love that. Peace is never gone—it’s just a matter of whether I choose to tap it. I am not chasing it…merely choosing it.

At our Mastermind Group yesterday, we talked about Mindset and Mindfulness. Each of the Masters shared their best practices for staying centered—remaining rooted in peace, even in the midst of chaos, confusion, or emotional storms. This, I can tell you, is one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever cultivated. It’s called self-regulation. I remember the moment I first learned the term and thought, Yes. That’s it.

There are endless ways to cultivate this, and our group shared many. But here’s the most important part: we have to make it our own. It has to work for me or you. It has to feel like our own sacred, magical point of connection.

And so, this is where I choose to live. In that place where peace is no longer fleeting. Grounding myself in a serenity that is slow and constant, not conditional. Because the world is shaped by my presence in it. Peace, then, is not something I find; but rather it is something I am. Inside and outside all at the same time…