Shea Vaughn's Breakthrough: The 5 Living Principles to Defeat Stress, Look Great & Find Total Well-Being - Softcover

Shea Vaughn is a fitness expert, professional trainer, and wellness coach with a lifetime of mind-body experience. Shea has gained national recognition as an inspirational speaker and media personality and is admired by a devoted group of students and clients including athletes and celebrities, helping them all to build strength and flexibility, prevent injuries, "stay in the game," and live more fulfilling lives. Visit www.sheanetics.com.

Introduction

If you are holding this book in your hands, you are probably looking for some type of change in your life that brings clarity, meaning, and enrichment. Before I share with you how you can achieve valuable transformation by experiencing personal Breakthroughs, I'd like to tell you about my journey.

I am a fitness expert, professional trainer, and wellness coach with a lifetime of mind-body experience and a passion for health and well-being. This passion inspired me to create SheaNetics®, a revolutionary wellness-awakening lifestyle practice that blends Eastern and Western values and movements to unite the mind and body as one.  SheaNetics brings you a fresh new approach to excercise with a self-styled combination of yoga, Pilates, tai chi, martial arts, GYROKINESIS®, dance, and more. It features the body-enhancing benefits of Tri-Core Power Training, a highly effective technique for developing all three regions of your core to improve balance and boost physical performance.

In addition to exercising your body, it is critical to engage both your mind and heart in the process. For this reason, the grounding philosophy of a SheaNetics lifestyle centers on the practice of The 5 Living Principles of Well-Being as its inspirational answer to living the life you have always wanted: Commitment, Perseverance, Self-Control, Integrity, and Love. These Principles are the keys to creating and maintaining a personal state of well-being. With SheaNetics, you get in shape, feel great about yourself, and naturally come to embrace ongoing life-healthy choices.

Although many of us seek the health and balance that comes through creating harmony within our minds, bodies, and hearts, finding well-being can seem as challenging as climbing Mount Everest. It's really more like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who clicked her heels and realized the answers she had been searching for were there all along―just as SheaNetics is there for you.

This book is an extension of my classroom and training, where I share and listen to stories about how The 5 Living Principles of Well-Being have opened doors for so many of my students and friends. I hope that this book will wake up your heart. My wish is to encourage you to look inside yourself and ask, 'Am I ready for my Breakthroughs? Am I ready to admit the things I need to do in order to have the health and peace of mind I am looking for? Am I ready to put a plan together and to start living it? Am I ready to Embrace It, Own It, Live It®?'

What is a Breakthrough? Have you ever had a moment or a period in your life when you just seemed to 'get it'? That is, at first you saw something in a certain way and were not open to considering alternate views, then all of a sudden for some reason it took on a new importance or your perspective changed, opening a doorway to understanding. It is like flipping a switch. A Breakthrough can happen any day, week, month, or year. The bulb goes on, and with it comes enlightenment.

In this book, I'll explain how Breakthroughs do one of two things: they either confirm that we are on the right track or confirm that we are on the wrong track. It is usually easier to keep our heads down and just keep doing what we've always done―until we have no choice but to look up, and there it is: smack! It's right in our faces, and we have no option but to address what we have tried to avoid. Breakthroughs are a proactive and positive way to take more control of your life; to confront your challenges and pursue your desires and dreams; and to finally reach out for the truth, help, and fulfillment you have been longing to find.

The process of self-discovery and finding well-being is very personal, and the road traveled is different for each of us. In this book I share my journey, but what I hope will be of greatest benefit to the reader are the powerful tools I have found that work for me and the others who have embraced them. Are you ready? Let's begin.