Do You Live In Your Thoughts ?

When you stop and think about what actually happened in your day, and what only happened in your mind, you would be amazed. It is incredible when you realise that the majority of your life is lived in your thoughts, and not actually happening in experience.

Look back on your day when you were alone and nothing was happening externally. How did you spend that time? Did you acknowledge the peace or fill it with worries and stress? Did you relax and make the most of the present moment or did you project your worries on to it?

All those things happened in your mind, and they also have a very physical effect on your wellbeing. Any time you worry or stress about something, the body experiences it as if it is happening. Even although nothing happened externally in the moment, only in your thoughts. It's the same in sleep. When we dream all night and wake exhausted because we feel like the dream was real - our body and mind experienced it as real, and we are left to experience the consequences throughout the coming day.

Everything is happening in our minds. When we are unable to switch off from our minds we are constantly stressed and exhausted. It's no wonder we look for other ways to cope. All we are coping with is our thoughts, not actual events. Yes the event may have happened at some point, though the incessant revisiting it keeps it alive and happening and perpetually experienced in our mind. This can then lead to stress and physical symptoms.

Life is the perfect present moment, it is the space that holds our thoughts and the situations we act out. All we act out is based on all that is inside - whatever our thoughts are will reflect our behaviours and then we demonstrate that through our actions. None of it is based on reality - only on our thoughts, beliefs and perpetuation of the same thinking patterns.

When we are mindful and present in each moment, we are more aware of our thoughts and less reactionary to them. We find peace of mind and a happier more enjoyable life, and realise that most of the stress, anxiety and fear that we carry is happening in our head, and not in our outer experience.