Creating Peace by Being Peace

World Peace—the healing of the world—is achieved through a very simple principle: We Create Peace By Being Peace. It is this universal truth that has inspired the Peace Every Day Initiative, a global, collective, daily, meditation of peace. The purpose is to unite a minimum of 8,000 people, while holding the vision of 144,000 or more people, to meditate/pray by becoming the vibration of peace for 40 minutes or more each day, individually and especially in groups. Any time of day is effective, though sunrise or sunset are powerful nodal times. This powerful thought-form of peace is enough to shift the global consciousness so that we may fully celebrate peace on earth! (Introduction, Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path.)

On Saturday afternoon, November 15, 2008, at Toronto City Hall, Gabriel Cousins’ overviewed a way to create sevenfold peace. Synthesizing decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality, Dr. Cousins described a comprehensive plan for peace with the body, mind, family, community, culture, ecology, and God as a pervasive experience in life—moment to moment, day by day.

Cousens transfers a unique Essene insight into peace to modern Canadian seekers as a blueprint for realizing this reality as we walk in our lives; work according to our gifts, joys, and sacred design; and live the path of spiritual awakening—the sevenfold peace. The afternoon ended in mediation during which Dr. Cousins shared Shaktipat and an outdoor incense, candle and prayer ritual.

Gabriel Cousens, Director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, is a world-recognized peace worker since 1967, physician of the soul, M.D., M.D.(H), Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, Diplomate in Ayurveda, psychiatrist, family therapist, meditation teacher, teacher in the U.S., India, Europe, Israel, Lebannon, and Morocco, and founder of the Peace Every Day Initiative.