Creating Your Reality - Two Powerful Steps to a Beautiful Life

Do you ever find yourself planning and preparing for the future which quickly becomes your past only to find you are not living in the present? As difficult as it may be for many of us to accept we create our own realities through the power of our beautiful minds. Has your mind taken over your life?

Our minds are an incredible processing center which stores and produces our greatest achievements, foremost failures and images of what we could have or should have done. Our analytical mind is busy filtering similarities and forming patterns providing an instant resource of choices to be made at our disposal.

On the flip side is experience. Like our analytical mind, our senses feed our minds on a very different level. Our ability to actually experience life is through our five senses. In fact, when our senses are fully engaged, our thinking often immobilizes. This is what allows us to savor the moment of our experiences.

It is when our mind and physical senses converge that we often struggle with living for today. Our minds minimize sensory input and process information outside of the moment. We can become so engrossed with our thoughts and how to conjure up a solution that thinking it through consumes us and we lose our sense of here and now. Sometimes this intense focus benefits us, but it can also take away from life’s bountiful experiences. To enjoy the experience of living in the moment, we must learn to control our perpetual thought processes and allow our senses to share in the nurturing of our lives.

The transformation of living a truly balanced life, an enlightened way of living, cannot be achieved without looking inward at ourselves and beyond the confines of our daily lives. We can reshape our lives creating a beautiful life by taking two powerful steps in the right direction.

Step 1 It begins by embarking on a personal journey, taking an account of where you are today and asking yourself where you would like to be. Ask yourself…

- Are you completely happy with where you are at right now in your life?

- Are you experiencing life through the being you essentially are or who you are to everyone else?

- What stands in the way of accomplishing what you desire to be, to do, to achieve?

- How does this fit with your plans, goals and personal values?

- When you are ninety-five years old, what will you want to say about your life?

- If your life depended on taking action, what would be your first step?

Step 2 Create balance in your life by allowing the power of your analytical mind to take a rest while you allow your senses to help you feel more fully engaged in the moment. This can be accomplished in two very different ways.

1) Intensify sensory stimulation - Engage in activities that create a heightened level of sensory stimulation overriding the analytical mind, requiring you to be in the moment such as physical activity or intense exercise (e.g., hiking, aerobics, circuit training, or an invigorating massage).

2) Quiet your mind - Engage in activities that influence your analytical mind into a state of peace and calm (e.g., meditation, controlled breathing, listening to the sounds of soothing music or nature).

Imbalance breeds distressing thoughts. A life full of experiences and wisdom is one that has achieved balance between experiencing the moment and thinking. Our potential for a beautiful life begins with the contributions each make. It is when we take time for both that we become enlightened opening our eyes to our full potential and all possibilities that lie ahead - to experience our beautiful life.

This article was written by Guest Writer Christie Clipper.  As a health and wellness coach, Christie empowers people to harness and breakthrough barriers that get in the way of taking care of themselves. Are you ready to take Step 1 in creating your beautiful life? If answers are what you seek, if change is what you need, your personal journey starts here. Receive a free 3 step program that will take you down a path of self discovery, realization and change. To learn more and get started, click on http://healthyedge-llc.com/Challenge.html.