You may feel challenged and provoked in your discussions with others today. You may feel the need to take a stand to defend your principles or feel drawn into arguments about your beliefs. Rather than allowing the negative comments of others to unsettle you, you can choose to develop a strong conviction about your beliefs and allow negativity to bounce off you. You can accomplish this by spending some time in quiet meditation today and infusing yourself with thoughts of empowerment and self-acceptance. At the same time, you can also focus on fostering an attitude of acceptance and peace toward others and their beliefs, which will help you be more open-minded and encourage more productive exchanges with others.

Adopting a mind-set of acceptance and peace toward people with differing beliefs allows us to create more harmonious interactions with others. Because our beliefs are important to us, we might feel the need to defend them when others express differing ones. If we can instead choose to recognize that there are many truths in life, we will understand the validity of all viewpoints. Simply by choosing to adopt a peaceful, accepting mind-set in our interactions with others, we can create a harmonious atmosphere for sharing our beliefs and encourage others to do the same. Doing this allows us to learn from each other and grow together in love and respect. By strengthening your own beliefs and practicing acceptance for the beliefs of others today, you can contribute to more harmonious interactions.