Now that you know what inner peace is, let’s explain how to find inner peace and happiness with practical techniques to achieve it.
Why? Because happiness and sadness are emotions at the level of the mind. It’s like we are identifying with the waves of the ocean instead of the ocean itself.
Many of the most common and practical methods used to obtain inner peace (and thus happiness) are listed here, you may also look at the section on concentration as they are similar techniques.
Through meditation we learn not to listen to the mind, we learn not to feed it with more negative energy which empowers it. We learn to surrender and ignore. If someone is angry and you are also angry, then there will be fire. If one person is calm, stays calm and shows it. The other angry person will eventually calm down because they are not getting a reaction. The mind is like that, it wants us to react to believe it is real. If we do not react it fears that we will know the truth; that the mind is not real; it is just a tool of separation to keep us from knowing who we really are.
When we know the truth of who we really are (deeply know) then we are at peace.