About Us
Beyond Imaginings caters to those who need a respite from the day, or the week's aggravations and chaos, offering positive deliberations for the psyche, focusing on a number of currently popular topics - creativity, alternative health therapies and fitness, personal growth, or just stepping out into the great outdoors, fostering avenues of self-renewal.
Through the more personal activities and hobbies, to the more global activity of supporting a cause, Beyond Imagining's© Mission is to enlighten its visitors on subject matter well known to many, but not visited upon enough to make a great enough difference in our world. Beyond Imaginings© makes great effort in researching and providing information on those aspects of everyday life that can be enhanced and renewed, to bring about positive change in individual experiences. For that is how it will happen - arming just one individual at a time with that intrinsic difference in his/her world that will calm life, not stress it. 
It is a beautiful world, but we forget to really see it – and there are so many exquisite and creative ways to see it. Its inhabitants are a beautiful people, but we’ve stopped connecting, touching – simply taking a moment to exchange a few sincere words. Our life expectancy has brought us further into the last “season” of our lives, yet the number of illnesses and diseases, and the aggressiveness in which they take the lives of both young and old alike, has grown exponentially. The emergence of the largest segment of our population in the history of this planet - the baby boomers - absolutely requires that we completely “turn the tables” on these critical humanitarian, health, and aging issues. It is time to “slow it all down” and come to the realization that being materialistic is not the key. Inner peace and knowing oneself… is. There really is no need to mollify the ego with an abundance of “things.” Less can actually be better. Live simply, yet richly. It is time to discover those natural methods to physical and spiritual health that mother nature so amply provides – bringing about a renewal of mother earth, saturated with respect and awe. The time is now…
Beyond Imaginings© is based in Tempe, Arizona, home of Arizona State University and the Insight Bowl. Life here still maintains a slightly slower pace compared to many other large urban areas, in spite of the influx of new residents from all over the world. The Metro Phoenix area is rapidly becoming the next melting pot. It may have already achieved that stature. If you can survive the summer's 3-digit temperatures, you will discover that Arizona has a natural beauty in its desert life, and a societal and cultural diversity found no where else.
The benchmark which Beyond Imaginings© is built upon is indeed a deep-rooted and principal theme of this website, and is also built into the subtitle of it's logo -
Life Lived With Purpose©.We are not here for long. So... no matter where you are on the planet, or in what lifestyle you have found yourself ....
... take a few moments out of each day to look inside your own psyche. Nobody else needs to... just you. Find out what makes you 'tick.'
Do some 'you' stuff... ...like one new thing that you've never done before, and most preferably something fun, and oh... what's that word? Oh yeah - wholesome!And don't think ' Nahhh, don't think so,' until you've tried it.
Even more importantly, find the time. We really don't run out of time. And we really don't run out of energy. We just spend too much of both precious 'commodities' on convincing ourselves we do.
Find your creative niche, or an outlet for pent-up energies, and act on it. Or just sit somewhere, preferably with a great scenic vantage, and watch the sun set. There's no better therapeutic treatment for what ails ya!!
Lou Mingua (author/editor of Beyond Imaginings©/Earthen Blog©) - was raised in rural Vermont until the age of 19 when she and her 7-month old daughter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Mrs. Mingua lived there for 23 years. She raised 2 more children - a daughter, now a lieutenant in the Navy, and a son who continues to live in the Phoenix area . She now lives in Tempe, Arizona. Having experienced life from one end of the socio-economic spectrum to the other, and a baby boomer herself, she saturates this website with that experience, with thoughts about life, and inspiration to enlighten life in others.