Life In The Balance

 

 

With so much instability in our lives and in the world, it is sometimes difficult to believe that our hopes and dreams are still possible and probable. As the Hopis point out, we are a world out of balance.  The primary hope for humanity in this new decade and this new millennium is for BALANCE.  We seek a balance of power in our government, a balance of equality among races and cultures, a balance between masculine and feminine, between conservative and liberal. However, the change we want to see in our world can only be made possible by balancing ourselves as individuals, making ourselves whole through a balance of our body, mind, emotions & spirit.  This is the healing we need.  But are we willing to heal ourselves if   we aren’t yet willing to admit that we are the problem? Most Americans know and say that “we have problems in America” that need to be fixed.  Yet most of us continue to see these problems as someone else’s problem that “they” should hurry up and fix so “we” can get on with our lives. It is time to wake up and realize that there is no “they;” there is only “us”. We are the problem, and we are the only ones who can fix the problem by bringing ourselves back into balance.

 

To live a life in balance requires all of us to develop ourselves from the inside out, and to shift from our personal extreme viewpoints and radical opinions.  It’s time to grow up.  It is time to develop our knowledge into wisdom. It’s time to wake up from our apathy and self-centeredness to conscious awareness of others. The foundation of conscious, holistic living is a life lived in balance, in which we release extremes (of any kind).  That is not what we need.  Balance is.

 

Yet we all, as individuals and as a society, have been out of balance for so long, how do we even know what balance looks and feels like? Are we picturing perfection when we think of what a life in balance and a world in balance would be like? If so, that’s an extreme thought, because “perfection” as most of us define it, is yet another extreme. Indeed, a life in balance is not a life of “human perfection” but rather an attunement to the perfection of the natural world and the natural universal laws. Nature teaches us a kind of balanced, whole perfection and will be our master-teacher if only we can humble ourselves.  Humble ourselves to admit that our ideas of perfection are inferior to the ageless perfection of the forest, the seed, and the ocean.

 

Bringing our lives into balance starts from within with the choices we make.  Start balancing yourself today by deeply reflecting on the words of Mahatma Gandhi: “Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words.  Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”

Comments

[Sarah Chambers]

What a great article, thank you for sharing. There is a great need at this time to "wake up" and we are! Unfortunately in our western society have been conditioned away from our natural good health, away from who we really are. Our experiences, from a very early age, our parental conditioning have a major part of who we think we are.

Our beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. These programs become deeply ingrained in our unconscious mind. We then take them forward into our life and they become part of our personal belief system, creating our living reality, which is an illusion.

Our parents views, values and beliefs, and later the views, values and beliefs of others, such has as teachers and close family members become deeply ingrained in our psyche, and we take them on as our own beliefs and values. We are victims of victims. This is our programming, our conditioning that we have to break. The question is do any of us know who we really are? In order to balance your bodymind system you have to clear the emotional luggage from the past. It is very difficult to balance body, mind and spirit if you are holding onto negative emotions such as, fear, hurt, sadness or guilt.

No one can "fix you" healing starts from within, the decision to become more aware that your life is not flowing in the direction you want it to, to become aware of old patterns of behaviour that repeat, to make the choice to change. It can be a little scary, but once on that path of self discovery there are no stop signs! Love and light...
(I love your photo of the stones, may I ask where you get it from?)