Life is a High Wire...Are you Out of Balance?
Published: Sun, 08/14/11
August 14, 2011
In this message:
Look at the balance of your life.
Look at the balance of your life.
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The Link to the upcoming Inner Year program: INNER BALANCE
Are you confused? Are you having difficulty making a choice? Does your life look like you want it to? Is there too much or too little of something or everything?
Are you floating away with your fantasies or collapsing under the weight of your daily drudgery?
Do you lean towards things, people, activities or pull back? Are your relationships too intense or too distant? Do you work too hard or not enough or love too hard or not enough? There are lots and lots of out-of-balance questions. You probably ask your self these questions all the time or just declare and bemoan your lack of balance.
Your life is out of balance!
Don't go negative around this statement.
- Almost everyone is out of balance in some way.
- What were you ever taught about balance?
- It is very advanced work to learn what feels balanced to you (it is not about what looks balanced to everyone, its about what feels balanced to YOU.)
- Balance is a true mystery and life is a high wire.
What needs to be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided to get you to that equal sign?
I want you to worry about balance so that you pay attention to it,
question it, discover it, define it, maintain it, challenge it. Get an
education in balance. Grasp and wrestle with the essential elements of
creative balance. Balance is not tame, easy, or compliant. It takes
focus, core confidence and practice, practice, practice. And lots of
tipping over, spinning around and course correcting. Just ask Phillipe Petit, the high wire dancer who has balance on the wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Notre Dame in Paris, over Niagara Falls and other high empty spaces.
THE HIGH WIRE
To walk or dance on the High Wire
of Life, you need to be knowledgeable about the wire, choose your
balancing pole, know your body, be confident, feel your strong feet and
align your head with your heart. You can discover your inner balance
needs by taking the Inner Year Balance program beginning next weekend. I
urge you to watch, at least a hundred times, the brilliant documentary
on Philllipe Petit, MAN ON A WIRE. Here is the wikipedia link to this master of the mysteries of balance on so many levels.
HOW OUT OF BALANCE ARE YOU?
Are your balance points where you want them to be to be content and creative?
Balance of tension and relaxation?
Balance of activity and rest?
Balance of attention and diversion?
Balance of self and other?
Balance of work and play?
Balance of spirit and matter?
Balance of moving toward and moving away?
The balance I am exploring in these questions is the balance of
proportion. Is your life in the right proportion for you? Right
proportion provides you with a core sense of self and an ability to
stand strongly in the world without falling into confusion, doubt,
anxiety or exhaustion. In the course I explore all the definitions of balance which really opens up the possibilities and challenges.
Only you can determine and maintain your balance.
Once you find balance, you find yourself. Life nourishes, restores,
creates, takes off, makes meaning, feels good when you have your sense
of balance. Best of all, you laugh a lot more at yourself, the world and
the gods.
At the same time, I want you to consider the mysteries of being off balance. Being consciously off balance will not create dizziness or other disturbing feelings because you know how to restore balance. Its an art and requires knowledge, skill and practice. It is a science that requires research, experimentation and proof. And it is the sense of the divine majesty of your selfhood which requires imagination, inspiration and intuition.
To move we go off balance consciously, moving our weight from one foot to the other.
We leave the security and stability of balance when we take risk and do, think or feel differently. Having the wisdom of choosing to be off center, also brings more laughter.
At the same time, I want you to consider the mysteries of being off balance. Being consciously off balance will not create dizziness or other disturbing feelings because you know how to restore balance. Its an art and requires knowledge, skill and practice. It is a science that requires research, experimentation and proof. And it is the sense of the divine majesty of your selfhood which requires imagination, inspiration and intuition.
To move we go off balance consciously, moving our weight from one foot to the other.
We leave the security and stability of balance when we take risk and do, think or feel differently. Having the wisdom of choosing to be off center, also brings more laughter.
I feel it is so important to understand the concept and perception of
balance. With attention, balance becomes a personal art form providing
the firm standpoint for inner truth, beauty and goodness. For you, the
true sense of self, that allows you to stand strongly in the world.
TAKE THE INNER YEAR COURSE ON BALANCE
The SATURDAY sessions begin next weekend, AUGUST 20. The THURSDAY
evening sessions begin the following week, AUGUST 25. The course is
recorded and you can download any session you need to miss. Learn more
here.
This course will not balance your life. It will give you a way to work with the mysteries of balance. It is a schooling of the meaning, purpose and possibilities of creative personal balance. It will empower you to create balance in your inner life and outer life - not a magic wand, but a clearing of the way. And enjoy the blessing and fun found in the confidence of standing at the edge of startling cliffs and feeling off balance before you start to fly.
You will arrive at the Autumn Equinox with a new sense of creative equanimity - an inner Equinox.
This course will not balance your life. It will give you a way to work with the mysteries of balance. It is a schooling of the meaning, purpose and possibilities of creative personal balance. It will empower you to create balance in your inner life and outer life - not a magic wand, but a clearing of the way. And enjoy the blessing and fun found in the confidence of standing at the edge of startling cliffs and feeling off balance before you start to fly.
You will arrive at the Autumn Equinox with a new sense of creative equanimity - an inner Equinox.
Please let me here from you. Share your questions, your process, your surprises. Please post your comments on the blog. http://www.theinneryear.blogspot.com
Can I Listen ?
Are you living with questions about who you are and
what you should be doing? Do you seek to find what meaning lives in
your sorrows, struggles and suffering? Do you wonder how to develop a
new relationship to your life so far that opens up desirable
possibilities for your life to come?
You may want to
give yourself the gift of personal coaching or counseling. A good
counselor will provide the elements of warmth, containment,
encouragement and creative review and reflection. Each of us needs a
rhythm of sacred conversation centered on our own path of
self-development. If you would like to have sacred conversation with me, please email. Contact me.
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