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# You're not going to get peace of mind
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/youre-not-going-to-get-peace-of-mind/
- Published: 2025-01-20T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-19T16:07:28.000Z
- Description: It's impossible. Here's why 😘
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Quick insight, Acceptance, Anxiety, Comics, IMPLICATIONS, Meditation, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Presence, Psychology, Real stories

Not long ago, a client I was working with had a great little insight. They said,

> *“The mind can't understand peace of mind, can it?”* 

And no, I don’t think it can.

It *thinks* it knows what peace of mind is—yearns for it, even—but since the not-peace is linked to mind activity, then for ‘peace’ it would have to be non-existent… and then what even would be yearning for, and realising the peace of mind in the first place and oooooh, it all gets very complicated after that!

(I’m reminded of this funny meme.)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/12/2025-01-20-No-ego-ego-boost-600w-584h-1.jpg)

Maybe it’s easier to conceptualise it like this:

💡

****The nature of the mind = Not-peace.**

…and since your mind is not going anywhere any time soon, it’s more like peace *with* mind. 

Maybe the two (‘peace’ and ‘mind’) aren’t really connected at all?

And it’s the mind making this spurious, technically *impossible* connection in the first place, that has us all het up and looking for answers in all the wrong places.

Maybe.

💟

Giles

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