Your Present Life

What caused your life to be the way it is today? Do you really have any say in how your life turns out? What if you have the power, but don’t know how to use it? And if you have the power, how would you use that power to change your life?

How you created your present situation is a result of the decisions that you have made over the years. And the decisions you made over the years are a result of your experiences that you’ve had, be it in terms of education, friends or the type of environment you lived in.

Most of us grow up being influenced by our external environment, but very few people are able to reach the point where they can exercise control and deliberately “re-create” their internal environment. But being able to “re-create” your internal environment is vital to creating the life you want.

How Your External Environment Created Your Internal Environment

Whatever you experienced growing up created mental images, beliefs, concepts and practices in your memory bank. Your external environment imprinted itself onto your mind, and your mind (left to its own devices) will continue to replay existing data over and over again. So whatever you see in your mind will cause you to think about life in a certain way, feel a certain way, talk and take action in a certain way.

You’re constantly “re-creating” your inner world again and again into physical, tangible reality.

Without “You” (your Conscious Awareness) present, you will continue to experience the same storyline over and again in your life. Unless you are able to change what goes on inside your mind to what it is that you want, you’ll be stuck in the perpetual cycle of re-creating your life and living your story… (sounds a lot like karma and “fate”, doesn’t it?)

Let’s take a look at this illustration of how your external environment can affect you:

A child from Africa, if he or she were born in USA, the UK, Singapore, or any other country in the world and given the access to better education, facilities and family environment would grow up differently. Without having to explain in detail, you know that this is true.

Without the presence of your conscious awareness, the person you are is shaped through the information that you receive through your five basic senses of:

1. Sight
2. Sound
3. Taste
4. Touch
5. Smell

Here’s a test for you to try out:

Go watch an action-packed movie, with lots of explosions, kung-fu moves and a central action figure. Maybe a Bruce Lee martial arts movie or Rambo. Something that most guys would love watching for the action.

After the movie, look around. You might realize the guys coming out of the movie walk with a certain swagger, reenacting the moves and scenes from the movie. Sometimes, it’s the women who are doing it!

If not, you see a whole bunch of zombie-like creatures walking around in their own world.

The emotional high that you get from watching the movie, coupled together with the images from the movie, create a corresponding image in your mind. And if it hits a chord with you, you naturally want to experience those emotions again.

Your Life Is Influenced By The People You Meet and the Books You Read

In the same way, the books that you read and the people that you meet influence your thoughts, and thus influence the life that you live.

If something that you don’t believe is real could influence your life, what about information that you believe IS real?

Deliberately Changing Your Thoughts

While there are a few ways in which you can change your thoughts, these are some of the easiest and simplest ways:

• Reading Good Books
• TV programs that are educational and mind-expanding
  (not all programs are bad…)
• Meeting New People

By reading good books, watching good programs, and meeting a different group of people you change the type of information and ideas that you get. But while you read good books, memorizing and being able to spew out facts and figures won’t make a difference in your life if you don’t understand what they really mean. Understand the idea behind those words, distill the essence of the principles and understand how they apply to you and your life.

In most cases, the best place to start is by reading good books that help influence your mind the way you want to create your life.

Why Start With Reading?

While you could begin with any method, in most cases it’s easier to start by reading a good book. Or good articles (like this one ). If you already know some people you could learn from, then meet up with them on a regular basis instead. To be brief, productive people are usually busy doing their things and time is a premium resource for them.

Re-Creating Your Life

Your life is the way it is because of your thoughts. And your thoughts are influenced by the information you receive and accept to be real. The things that you take to be important to you are usually dictated by your environment and the values of the people you mix with. And all these things influence the creation of the world that exists inside your mind.

Yet, you can change your life by changing what goes on inside your mind. You can re-create your inner world, and in the process re-create your external world. That’s a power that everybody has, yet very few exercise this god-given power.

However, now that you’ve read this article, you know that you can change your life by changing your pre-existing beliefs and concepts about life. And one way you can change your existing beliefs and concepts is by changing the type of information you receive.

But remember, changing your thoughts is only the starting point in changing your life. Thoughts eventually have to be followed by congruent actions.