Late summer, as the crispness of autumn air begins to energize us, we find the cosmic forces supporting our souls in the organization of our lives. This is the time of year to contemplate balance.
How balanced is your life? How balanced would you like it to be? What is a balanced life anyway?
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
Thomas Merton
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton
Balance is a mystery. Is it about feeling harmony (such a sweet word, but a word that has little reality beyond a wish in today’s crazy demanding times)? Is it about maintaining emotional equanimity - not getting too high or too low? Or is it about not falling off the tightrope of life? Is it about having a keystone that holds everything together and upright? Maybe it is about symmetry or equality. What is balance?
Balance and Babies
We might learn about balance if we look at how we develop physical balance in our first year of life.
Balance begins with our eyes. Both eyes need to work together for proper vision. We learn to focus. Balanced vision!
Our next miracle of balance is the ability to balance our heavy little heads on top of our spines. Here we gain the ability to look up to the heavens, down to the earth and straight ahead without having our skull waver and shake. We learn to move our head from side to side, look around and come back to center. A balanced head!
Then we learn to balance on our sitz bones and sit up. This balance makes it possible to use our arms and hands. We reach out to what we want. We can push away what we don’t want. Balanced desires and the ability to accept and reject!
Finally, we stand upright on our heels balancing our body so that we can move about the world, follow a path, reach our destination. A core sense of self and the ability to stand in the vertiginous world!
Balance is about focus, observation and midpoint. Balance is about being clear about what we want and don’t want. Balance is about walking our path.
Do you have trouble focusing? Can you observe your life with compassion and integrity? Do you have a strong sense of your own center?
How much stuff clutters your life because you can’t say no or let go? How much have you missed because you couldn’t grasp the truth of your desires?
What would make it easier to stay committed to your path? Your path of joy? of contribution? of health?
Establishing and maintaining balance is an endless exercise of grace. You need to have deep even breathing, a focal point, a center of gravity, and a straight spine that keeps you upright as you speed through the constantly changing and landscape of your life.
Join the Mysteries and Questions of Balance Teleseminar - four 90 minute sessions that will bring new meaning and new capacity to balance in your life.
7:30 PM - 9:00PM Eastern
Mondays
August 31, September 14, 21, 28 (skips Labor Day!)
Only 12 spaces available.
$120
Register for the Balance Teleseminar here.
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