Do you struggle to create a balanced life? Or maybe you wonder if there’s even such a thing as life balance? In this post, I am sharing a different way of looking at what it really means to live a balanced life.
First when you think about it, everything in life and our world is about balance!
On a really macro level, the very rotation of our planet Earth is based on balance.
Think about the seasons . . . within the cycle of the four seasons, there’s a balance between light and dark, inward and outward energy, stillness and action, growth and decline, birth and death.
Our ecosystems require a beautifully intricate and miraculous balance to survive.
Even our own bodies maintain a marvelous balancing act in order to stay healthy and thrive.
Second, I think we’d all agree that our life can get OUT of balance, and we’ve probably all experienced what that feels like.
The most difficult thing, the almost impossible thing for the mind, is to remain in the middle, to remain balanced. And to move from one thing to its opposite is the easiest. To move from one polarity to another is the nature of the mind.
It is difficult for the mind to come to the right diet, difficult for the mind to stay in the middle. It is just like a clock's pendulum. The pendulum goes to the right, then it moves to the left, then again to the right, and again to the left; the clock's working depends on this movement.
If the pendulum stays in the middle, the clock stops. And when the pendulum moves to the right, you think it is only going to the right, but at the same time it is gathering momentum to go to the left. The more it moves to the right, the more energy it gathers to move to the left, and vice versa.
Thinking means momentum. The mind starts arranging for the opposite. When you love a person you are gathering momentum to hate him. That's why only friends can become enemies. You cannot suddenly become an enemy unless you have first become a friend.
Easy way to create a balance~
THE PATH OF CHOICELESS AWARENESS
Don't avoid extreme and don't choose anyone extreme, remain available to both the polarity that's art, the secret of balancing. The mind is choser, that's why the problem arises. Remain choiceless. Whatever happens, and where your are right or left, in the middle or not in the middle, enjoy the moment in its totality. While happy play music, dance, sing- be happy. When sadness comes- which is bound to come, which is coming, which has to come, which is inevitable, you cannot avoid it, if you try to avoid it, you will have to destroy the very possibility of happiness. The day cannot be without the night, and the summer cannot be without the winter. Life cannot be without death. Let this polarity sink deep in your being.
Vivek
Infinite love
Infinite wisdom
