Mindset and Well-Being

Did you know that the future we’re imagining and planning is a chief contributing author of the story we’re writing about our well-being and lives in the present? Whether that future is 7 minutes or 75 years from now, we have the amazing ability to imagine and respond now to something that we’re not actually experiencing in the present.

Take a second to think about what you want to do once we’re free from quarantine. What’s on your bucket list? Are you excited by the prospect of it? What you’re doing is reacting now to a future that you’re only imagining. As far as I know the ability to do what you just did is unique to humans (but please correct me if I’ve gotten this wrong).

The truth is that our experience now is always influenced by our minds’ active looking down the road and around the corner at a future that it’s creating, one that actually doesn’t even exist. Every action we take in the present draws its rationale from what we envision will be.

This is why mindset matters so much to our well-being in that mindset shapes the way the mind works. The mindset’s boundaries, terms and conditions determine the mind’s ability to act, imagine and envision.

Therefore consider this: the quality of the mindset and whatever it allows directs the mind’s activities and what it consciously conceives, from which both the life lived and how it’s experienced (well-being) is created and can be uplifted.

A change in mindset results in a different lived experience. It originates from how the mindset shifts and causes the mind to work in a new way.