Five Simple Things You Can Do to Clear Your Mind || Embrace Your Life || Guest Post

Today I have Cassie back from Embrace Your Life with some simple tips to clear your mind.  If you haven't heard of Embrace Your Life, you need to check it out.  

Hey yall! I'm Cassie the owner and writer of Embrace Your Life.

"Life is not a matter of milestones...but of moments" -- Unknown

Here at Embrace YOUR Life is all about embracing the beauty of this amazing journey through life. We all struggle; we all have pain & hurt. We all have joy & triumph. It’s part of living. But here at Embrace YOUR life we want you to live life with a passion. 

We hope to give you a brighter outlook on the journey in front of you. Here we will laugh & we will cry together! We will embrace life with a passion for every goal reached, every step taken, every set back, every fear. At Embrace Your Life, we want you to be able to look at life through new eyes! Here, we try to find the brighter outlook in a world of dark.

While I write for embrace your life, we have a wonderful group of women who write for EYL as well. Digger, Sarah & Mandy. I am so thankful to have them apart of EYL! Today I am going to share five simple things you can do to clear your mind. 

1. Write your thoughts down. This is one way to make the mind a little less chaotic. Write down your thoughts. In a journal, as a story, in list format. It really doesn't matter. Just get them out of your head and onto paper.

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2. Go for a run. There is nothing like a good run to help clear your mind. Just feeling the wind on your face, the beads of sweat forming on your forehead, the sound of the music coming through your ear phones and the smell and sights of the world that is surrounding you. It's refreshing and freeing.

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3. Meditate. I haven't personally done this but I want to bad. I heard it is so relaxing and a great way to clear your mind!

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4. Layout by the pool. Oh if this isn't one of the most relaxing things ever. But here is the catch don't focus on everything running through your mind. Focus on the moment. The way the sun feels beating down on you. The beauty from the sun. The sounds around you. Just be in the moment.

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5. Soak in the bath. Pour some bubbles in there. Turn on soft music. Light some candles and just let your mind empty and your body relax.

{Via}

Do you have any tips you'd like to share that help you to clear your mind?  We'd love to hear them!

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Guest Post:: To Inspire - Embrace Your Life

Have you heard of Embrace Your Life blog?  If you have not, you're missing out and need to go check it out.  If you have, you know what I'm talking about.  I have guest posted over there twice and both times were so encouraging and helped me to be more aware of myself.  Digger is here today to inspire you.
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Hello. Thank you sooo much to Salena for having me over as a guest. :)

My name is Digger. I blog over at Digging Deeper full-time but my new passion is sharing my inspirations and thoughts with the readers of Embrace Your Life. We have such a wonderful varieties of writers that it's impossible not to find something to connect with that touches your heart and soul. These women, Cassie, Skye, and Sarah, are incredible! I seriously could not have dreamed of a more well-rounded and versatile group to be included in. 

Our goal this month: To inspire. 

So, as I was thinking and searching for inspiration I came across this film called "Send It Sistah" by film maker Sebastien Montaz-Rosset If you have a minute or two, you should really check it out. It's incredible!

I've watched it myself a few times already, and each time I get sucked into the feeling and the emotion of their passion. There's this one line, about half way through that gets me every time: "It makes me face myself. It's always scary. I want to see how far I can go."

I have been playing life too safe the last few weeks. I have been keeping everything close to the belt and making sure I don't get uneasy. This film has inspired me to be afraid again. To shake the bounds of monotony and push myself to fight for my passions.  I want to be those two girls and do something, just because I love to do it. Just because I want to feel the rush and satisfaction of pulling the boundaries and proving to myself that "I can". 

I'm not necessarily looking for a giant monster to terrify me into submission. Just the butterflies in my stomach to let me know I'm really alive and I'm actually living. 

"I want to see how far I can go."

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Go check it out...  How are you living.?  Go... Embrace Your Life.

xoxo, Salena

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Guest Post:: The Lovely Ladies of Embrace Your Life

I am honored to have the beautiful inspirational ladies of  Embrace Your Life here today.  I was so happy they asked to swap blogs with me.  After you read their lovely words, head on over to their blog to see how I Embrace My Life.

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Hey all you A Little Piece Of Me readers! We are so honored to be apart of Salena's blog this month & take it over for the day! :) Thanks for letting us Salena!

{Cassie, Skye, Digger & Sarah}

We are the writers of Embrace Your Life. 

Embrace your life is a place where we encourage & inspire others. A place where we hope to help other's Embrace the life they live. We embrace the beauty of this amazing journey through life. We hope to give you a brighter outlook on the journey in front of you. Here we will laugh & we will cry together! We will embrace life with a passion for every goal reached, every step taken, every set back, every fear. At Embrace Your Life, we want you to be able to look at life through new eyes! Here, we try to find the brighter outlook in a world of dark.

Today we are going to share with you why we Embrace Life.

{Cassie}

This is me. After a busy day - grass is still on my leggings, the yard is scattered with toys. My husband is sitting next to me and the boys are to the left of this picture running around. This right here is one of the reason I embrace life. The pure simplicity of this beautiful life. God gives me a chance to live everyday that he wakes me up. Did you read that - he gives me a chance. How can I not embrace every part of life when he is giving me the opportunity too? I embrace life because God wants me to embrace it, I embrace life because you only get this one life to live - so I believe in living it.

{Skye}

Every morning I wake up. God allows me to wake up every morning. He has a purpose for me every single day. Whatever it might be, and typically I have no clue what His purpose is, I try to remember that every day that God wakes me up in the morning is another day I get to live for Him. I try to embrace life for that day according to what I think He has planned for me. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes I'm waaaaay off and it doesn't. But that is why I embrace life! :)

{Digger}

Why do I embrace life? Because it's the only way to live. I believe in always looking at the sunny side of everything and making my version of how life should be, how life is. It's important to forget the mistakes of the past and move on to a brighter future with lessons learned. I'm not perfect, I know this, so working on improving myself and becoming who I want to be is far greater than tearing others down to make myself "feel" better. I live in faith that as long as I'm true to who I am, and I am embracing my life to the best of my ability, everything else will fall into place.

{Sarah}

Embracing life is something I've been accustomed to for a while now.  In over 11 years of marriage, my husband and I have walked the journey of stillbirth and miscarriage.  We've been through three separate events which nearly cost me my life.  We've had two daughters, the youngest of whom {age 5} has multiple special needs and is medically fragile.  My faith has been shaken and I spent a lot of time focusing on the negative rather than the positive.   In 2010, when we were facing repeated illnesses with my daughter, we came to a point where her very life was at stake each and every time.  I came to lean on my husband, church family and friends like never before.  I began to accept that God wasn't angry at me for something and He wasn't punishing me for anything by putting us through all these trials.  Once I stopped blaming God and being angry with Him, I began to learn how important it is to embrace this very life that we have been given.  He has given each and every one of us but one life to live.  He desires that we embrace this opportunity to make the most of our lives with what He has given us and in the circumstances He has placed us in.  Our pastor has often said that God has created each of us for a purpose and we are all uniquely placed where we are, in the time we are in, for a purpose.  Our very existence is fragile.  We have no idea how long or short it might be.  We must live our lives to the full - not with wild, reckless abandon, but according to His will and plan for us - through whatever situation we may be in.  It is a mission of mine to blog about the places where I find the joys and blessings in my life in the hopes that they might help others to see that there is joy and there is blessing to be found, even in the midst of struggle.  That is how I embrace my life. Thanks so much Salena for having us here today! It was a pleasure! :)

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xoxo, Salena