Is balance an act? An event? A myth?
I call balance a moving target. We find balance. For a moment. Then we grow. Our capacity to handle what is on our plate, or what is in our mind, changes. And life keeps moving around us. And voila! We are now out of balance. What is important about learning about this thing called "balance," is that we start to become more aware of what it feels like to be in balance, instead of looking at a bunch of external cues. i.e. - just because I'm not falling over, doesn't necessarily mean I am balanced. I may not be falling over, but how do I feel when I'm not falling over?
When we practice this thing called balance, tune into the feeling. What do you feel like when you are balanced. What qualities are present? Not present? Again, this is something that only you can determine. Not your mother, your boss, your best friend, your spouse. Not from a book, not from a to-do list that has everything or nothing crossed off. Not from the amount of sleep you get or don't get. Not from the amount of free time you have or don't have.
It comes from that internal state of whatever "balance" feels like to you. And that is a moving target. So we keep moving in and out of balance, just as the waves of life ebb and flow.
A balanced state is constantly moving.
A balanced state is an act, an event. We hit it or we myth.
I call balance a moving target. We find balance. For a moment. Then we grow. Our capacity to handle what is on our plate, or what is in our mind, changes. And life keeps moving around us. And voila! We are now out of balance. What is important about learning about this thing called "balance," is that we start to become more aware of what it feels like to be in balance, instead of looking at a bunch of external cues. i.e. - just because I'm not falling over, doesn't necessarily mean I am balanced. I may not be falling over, but how do I feel when I'm not falling over?
When we practice this thing called balance, tune into the feeling. What do you feel like when you are balanced. What qualities are present? Not present? Again, this is something that only you can determine. Not your mother, your boss, your best friend, your spouse. Not from a book, not from a to-do list that has everything or nothing crossed off. Not from the amount of sleep you get or don't get. Not from the amount of free time you have or don't have.
It comes from that internal state of whatever "balance" feels like to you. And that is a moving target. So we keep moving in and out of balance, just as the waves of life ebb and flow.
A balanced state is constantly moving.
A balanced state is an act, an event. We hit it or we myth.
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