From Chronic Chaos to Sovereign Calm: The Spiritual Hygiene That Changes Everything

Your body flares, your inbox pings, and suddenly you are back in an old loop you thought you outgrew. Reading Karen Lee Cohen’s Let’s Be Peace: 20 Unique Paths to Healing Yourself and Spreading Peace in the World, I watched a friend shift that loop with something the book presents as simple and steady, spiritual hygiene. In this book, peace inside becomes peace outside, one person at a time .

What Spiritual Hygiene Really Means

In Karen’s conversation with authenticity coach Kellee Ratzlaff, spiritual hygiene is named as seven commitments that are your natural birthright. Owning your divinity, sovereignty, freedom, worthiness, and committing to harmlessness, honesty, and self responsibility with compassion. Kellee links these to her own healing from years of chronic Lyme, noticing that clearing energetic parasites allowed her body to heal, which is why inner commitments come first .

This is not theory. The book is full of tools you can use today, from gut check decisions to breath practices and forgiveness rituals that calm your system and support real changes in health and mood . As the author says, when you find peace inside, you radiate peace, calm, and a sense of well being that becomes infectious .

Seven Pillars, One Simple Behavior Each

The goal is not perfection, it is steadiness. Choose one pillar, try one behavior, and notice how your inner ecosystem settles.

1) Wholeness, remember who you are

Set a daily intention to be the expression of peace, even for five minutes. Get quiet, move attention to your heart, and let peace be expressed through you. If meditation is not your thing, pull weeds, do dishes, or love on your pet. The quiet space helps you tap what is already within you .

2) Sovereignty, you lead your healing

Build a small team of helpers, then make the final calls yourself. Breathe first, ask your own questions, and use your gut as a guide. If it feels good, proceed. If you are unsure, wait. If your gut feels off balance, move on. Be your own best doctor by taking responsibility for choices that affect your peace and body .

3) Freedom, release what is not peace

Use the book’s breath ritual morning and night. Breathe the word peace into your body, then breathe out what is not peace, judgment, anger, or resentment. Over time this simple practice builds confidence and helps you meet what is with steadiness. As one contributor writes, holding peace while breathing out fear became a powerful tool for meeting life as it is .

4) Worthiness, let self worth be your base

Begin your day with gratitude and words that respect your worth. The book invites you to choose thoughts and words carefully, to love and approve of yourself, and includes a deservability practice that starts with, “I deserve all good. Not some, not a little bit, but all good.” Self worth also shows up as central to health. If you do not love yourself, you will not take care of yourself .

5) Harmlessness, live as if we are one

Practice forgiveness daily. The book is clear, “Peace demands forgiveness.” Holding blame keeps you stuck in a painful cycle. Bless what you forgive and let it go, which stops harm at the source and returns you to unity in your practice .

6) Honesty, tell the truth kindly

Use discernment. When faced with a decision or fresh headline, check your heart. Ask, does this serve my highest good and the highest good of all, yes or no. If yes, explore. If not, move on. Pair this with the somatic gut check so you do not say yes from fear or habit .

7) Self responsibility, keep yourself on your path

Do a brief monthly or quarterly self audit. The author suggests checking what works and what to revise or discard. No one size fits all. Trust your intuition and move on when something stops feeling good. “Love and trust yourself,” the book reminds, and adjust as you grow .

Why This Calms Chronic Chaos

Let’s Be Peace is practical and human. It gives you breathing patterns like 4 4 4 4 and 4 7 8, gut centered decision steps, gratitude, and daily forgiveness. It also reminds you to find medical teammates you respect, while trusting your own inner authority. This is about presence, not escape .

Brenda Michaels writes that peace asks us to make peace with what is. She ties dis-ease to fighting reality and shows how breathing peace in and letting go of what is not peace shifts the body and mind into trust. “Peace demands forgiveness,” she writes, and with repeated practice, you return to neutrality and new options open .

The book also names a pattern many of us live. Overwork, overgiving, collapse, then a wake up. One contributor describes a full shutdown that led to deeper listening and a life built on truth and sovereignty, standing in the eye of the hurricane with compassion rather than judgment. Sovereignty honors each person’s path and helps you hold center when life swirls .

Hidden Gems That Change How You Move Through Your Day

• Peace lives in the body and speaks through the heart. A few minutes with intention can begin to shift chaos toward calm .
• Self worth is protective. Doing what you love, while asking for guidance, strengthens your field so you stop absorbing every storm around you .
• Forgiveness is daily hygiene. It clears residue that keeps you looping in pain, making room for the peace that heals .

Keep Going, One Person At A Time

Karen Lee Cohen writes as a trusted guide, offering tools you can use today. Breathe peace in, breathe out what is not peace. Count with “Let’s Be Peace” if it helps keep your focus. Use your gut check before you choose. Build a small team you lead with your intuition. The promise is simple, when you cultivate peace inside, you help heal yourself and the world, one person at a time .

Right now, take one breath. In, say the word peace. Out, release what is not peace. Which pillar is yours to practice today, and what is one small way you will honor it?